Karl Aulenbach
Karl Aulenbach (born August 6, 1813 in Homburg ; † September 25, 1881 in Asherville , Indiana ) was a German poet of the Vormärz , he came from a family of poets. After the failure of the revolution, he emigrated to the United States of America .
Life
Born three years after his brother Friedrich , he also attended grammar school in Zweibrücken , where he was already fined for a foul article against the royal government in the Rheinbayrisches Anzeiger . He first studied Protestant theology in Erlangen in order to become a pastor , like his father Christian Aulenbach , but had to leave the city when it became known that he had been involved in and ended an attempt to free the editor Johann Georg August Wirth from the Kaiserslautern prison Studied in Göttingen .
Daniel Schenkel , later professor of theology in Heidelberg , gave him his first pastor in Schmieheim / Ortenau . In his homeland, the Palatinate, church service would not have been compatible with his past. From 1846 he was assigned a vicar position in Grünstadt , but three years later he emigrated to the USA together with many other participants in the Palatinate uprising .
Aulenbach initially took over the parish in Tuscarawas County , Ohio , which was considered the center of German emigrants. For the last fourteen years of his life he was a pastor in Zanesville , also Ohio.
Services
Compared to his father and brother, Karl Aulenbach is certainly the most radical in word and deed. But his oeuvre goes well beyond political content. A large number of topics occupy his home, which he has valued for its beauty all his life. And on questions as a Protestant pastor, he took sides in favor of an orthodox-Lutheran orientation, i.e. against the general synod of 1848 with its establishment of the union in the United Protestant-Evangelical-Christian Church of the Palatinate .
Trivia
While Aulenbach turned against the authorities and the princely state, his second cousin Julia Hauke became the ancestor of the houses of Battenberg and Mountbatten .
Works
- Free Word, devoted to the apostles of freedom and enlightenment and false prophets of the gloriously unirsty Palatinate Church. o. Place 1849 (reprint, presented and commented by Bernhard H. Bonkhoff, in: Blätter für Pfalzische Kirchengeschichte 45 (1978), pp. 108–112)
- The German pioneer. Memories from the pioneering life of Germans in America. Cincinnati Volume 11 (1879), pp. 496-500; 13th and 14th year
- A collection of poems by Ven. K. Aulenbach, organized to celebrate the twenty-five year anniversary of the “West-Bote”. Allentown, Pennsylvania (1879)
literature
- Ludwig Eid: Palatine as a poet in America. In: The literary Palatinate. Journal for the care of beautiful literature in the Palatinate 8 (1931), issue 5, pp. 148–151
- Fritz Braun: Emigrated Protestant clergy of the Palatinate in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. In: From the narrow to the wide. (Festschrift Georg Biundo ), Grünstadt 1952, pp. 140–149.
- Karl Fischer: The Homburg parish family Aulenbach and their sons Friedrich and Karl Aulenbach. In: Blätter für Palatine church history and religious folklore , 23 (1956), issue 1, pp. 9-15
- Reiner Marx: Article by Karl Aulenbach . In: Time brings fruit. Saarpfälzisches Authors Lexicon . Saarpfalz, special issue 2008, Homburg 2008, pp. 10–11, ISSN 0930-1011
- Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The Homburg pastor and poet family Aulenbach . Saarpfalz, sheets for history and folklore. Homburg 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf H. Böttcher: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution, A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution, in: PRFK (1999) 14 = 48, p. 303
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aulenbach, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Homburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1881 |
| Place of death | Asherville, Indiana |