Karl Enslin
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Enslin (born September 21, 1819 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 14, 1875 there ) was a German school teacher and poet.
life and work
Enslin was trained at the teachers' seminar in Esslingen . In 1843 he returned to his hometown and became a teacher at the white women and at the model school , from 1860 at the Katharinenschule. He wrote many poems and stories for children and published a Frankfurt book of legends. Many of his poems were set to music by Philipp Friedrich Silcher , Carl Reinecke , Carl Loewe , Gustav Rochlich and Benedikt Widmann .
Works
His most famous works are children's poems and Christmas carols :
- Good moon, you walk so quietly (alternative text)
- Jingle Bells
- The grain of sand
- No way
- The swimmer
- Fonts
- Poems for the youth. Barrentrapp, Frankfurt 1846 ( digitized ).
- Conversations between parents and children in puzzle conversations. 2 volumes. Brönner, Frankfurt 1850.
- Spring of Life: Poems for the Young. Brandstetter, Leipzig 1851 ( digitized version of the 3rd edition 1859 , digital library of the Braunschweig University Library).
- Neck puzzle book. 1854, 2nd A. 1856 ( digitized version ).
- Songs of a child. Poems for the youth. Merseburger, Leipzig 1855.
- Photographs from childhood. Chelius, Stuttgart 1855
- Enslin, Karl (ed.). Frankfurt saga book. Legends and fabulous stories from Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt a. M., HL Brönner, 1856 ( archive.org ). New edition. Frankfurt a. M., HL Brönner, 1861 ( archive.org ).
- Pious and free. Poems. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856.
- Moss flowers. Poetic stories, parables and fables for the young. Auffarth, Frankfurt 1857.
- Funny stories for children from 7 to 10 years. Instructive u. exhilarating. Stuttgart, 1866, 2nd A. 1871
- Large riddle book. For the more mature youth. Emil Berndt-Verlag, Leipzig approx. 1870 ( digitized ).
- Settings
- Widmann, Benedikt (1820-1910): Spring of life. Children's songs by Karl Enslin for school and home, one and two-part with light piano accompaniment, Leipzig, C. Merseburger (oVNr.), (1854)
- Widmann, Benedict: song source. 100 poems for the youth by Karl Enslin. With 1, 2 and 3-part original compositions and folk tunes edited by Benedict Widmann. In four booklets. Erfurt, GW Körner's publishing bookstore; Erfurt & Lpz., Around 1857
literature
- Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 2. 6th edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1913, p. 152 ( digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 187 .
- Aiga Klotz: Children's and Young People's Literature in Germany 1840–1950. Volume 1: A-F. Metzler, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-476-00702-2 , Sp. 399-400.
- Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon. Third edition. Volume 4. Francke, Bern / Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-7720-0952-2 , Sp. 342 ( digitized version retrieved from De Gruyter online).
- Vinz de Rouet: The Frankfurt legend book after Karl Enslin (1856). ePubli, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-86931-733-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Enslin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Karl Enslin in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Karl Enslin in the International Music Score Library Project
- Author: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Enslin (1819–1875) , The LiederNet Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enslin, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Enslin, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand (full name); Ensfurt, Franklin von (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German school teacher and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1875 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |