Julius Brede

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Ferdinand Julius Brede (* 1799 or 1800 in Stettin ; † December 15, 1849 in Altona ) was a German writer and chess composer .

Life

Brede worked as an accountant in GF Baur's shop in Altona. He was also active as an author who wrote under the pseudonym "de Fiber". His poems have appeared in various magazines.

Finally, in 1844, Brede published a collection of self-composed chess problems under his own name. The subject of a task in the book was named Brede-Kreuzschach by contemporaries . However, it has nothing in common with today's term cross chess .

In the theory of composition, Brede's suggestion was taken up that not every move in a task should check, but that the other side could receive several defenses through chessless moves. This view soon caught on. Herbert Grasemann praised Brede as “intellectual father” and “forefather of the variant problem”. Apart from that, however, it is "otherwise quite insignificant". Even John Kohtz and Carl Kockelkorn praised Brede for the idea. This gives "the name Brede a meaning that his compositions could not have given him".

Works

  • Germs, rhymes and none (along with instructions on how to play Kodrus) . Hamburg 1828
  • Almanac for friends of chess . Altona 1844
  • Magic squares and cubes. Contribution to the theory of numbers . Hamburg 1848

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Alberti : "Brede, Ferdinand Julius ", in: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 , First Department (AL), Kiel 1867, p. 81f. (No. 208)
  2. ↑ H. Schröder: "Ferdinand Julius Brede" , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 27.Jg., 1849, second part, Weimar 1851, p. 1010 (No. 295)
  3. ↑ Manfred Zucker : Great German Problem Master (2) . In: Schach , No. 5, 1993, p. 76
  4. ↑ Herbert Grasemann: A Reverends idea that made history . Self-published. P. 18
  5. ↑ Johannes Kohtz and Carl Kockelkorn: The Indian problem . Schachverlag Hans Hedewig's successor Curt Ronninger. Leipzig 1903. p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Brede, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brede, Ferdinand Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1799 or 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1849
Place of death Altona