Karl Ernst Knodt

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Karl Ernst Knodt: A sound from death, a song from life , first edition, 1905

Karl Ernst Knodt (born June 6, 1856 in Eppelsheim , † September 30, 1917 in Bensheim ) was a German poet . He was known to his contemporaries as a forest pastor or as the “ poet of longing ”.

Life

He was born in Eppelsheim (near Alzey) as the fourth of five sons of the pastor Adam Knodt and his wife Elise, née. Schmidt, born. Between 1875 and 1878 he studied theology in Strasbourg , Utrecht and Tübingen . In Strasbourg he became a member of the Wingolf Association Argentina to Strasbourg. This was followed in 1878 by the preacher's seminary , which he completed in Friedberg .

In 1880 he was ordained as a parish deacon and school deacon in the rectory in Gernsheim am Rhein . In the same year he married Käthe Christmann in Nordheim . With her he had two sons: Karl Adam and Theodor. From 1892 to 1904 he was a Protestant pastor in Ober-Klingen .

In 1904 he took a leave of absence from the parish office for health reasons. He moved to Bensheim in a house built by Heinrich Metzendorf . In 1910 he finally retired and died of a sudden death seven years later on September 30, 1917.

Karl Ernst Knodt cultivated lively relationships by letter, but also personally. He had various contacts with writers of his time, including Hermann Hesse , Wilhelm Raabe , Hans Thoma , Wilhelm Steinhausen , Agnes Miegel , Gustav Schüler and Prince Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath , who often visited him in his house in the Odenwald.

Works

  • From my corner of the forest . Concordia: Berlin 1900 (2nd edition with drawings by Gustav Kampmann, Stephan Geibel: Altenburg 1904)
  • We are longing. Song reading of modern yearning . Book decorations by Heinrich Vogeler, Greiner & Pfeiffer: Stuttgart 1902
  • From every moment of my life. New poems . K. Schimmelpfennig: Mülheim / Ruhr 1902 (2nd edition with book decorations by Franz Hein, Fritz Eckart: Leipzig 1914)
  • Fontes Melusinae. A fairy tale of humanity with pictures by Gustav Kampmann . Altenburg 1904
  • A sound of death and a song of life. New verses with 2 cover pictures by Gustav Kampmann . Emil Roth: Giessen 1905
  • Of longing, beauty, truth. A triad in verse . Book decoration by Franz Hein, Leipzig 1907
  • Allerleirauh. Contemporary seals and re-seals in proverbs , Leipzig 1907
  • Who seek God. A collection of religious German poetry from the beginning to the present . CH Beck: Munich 1912
  • From the brother's death . 80 poems, self-published: Bensheim 1913 (2nd, modified edition as field post edition Jansa: Leipzig 1915)
  • Building blocks for the new Germany . Leipzig 1915 (as field post Neudietendorf 1917)
  • Solutions and redemptions . Müller & Fröhlich: Munich 1916
  • We are little lights. A selection volume from all of Karl Ernst Knodt's poetry with a foreword by Karl Rheinfurth , Munich 1916
  • I had a comrade Requiem (for Paul Ernst Köhler) . Strecker & Schröder: Stuttgart 1916
  • Paul Ernst Köhler: From the tree of life , collected a. published by KEK, Munich 1916
  • My woods. Words by Karl Ernst Knodt with pictures by Otto Ubbelohde. Hermann A. Wiechmann: Munich 1918 (6th edition 1920)
  • The light gold tone , poems by KEK, selected and published by Karl Adam Knodt on the occasion of his 100th birthday, Hüneburg: Stuttgart 1956

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Barth (ed.): Chronicle of the Argentina Strasbourg student union 1907-1967 . Oberhausen 1969.
personal data
SURNAME Knodt, Karl Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forest pastor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and Protestant pastor from Ober-Klingen
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Eppelsheim
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1917
Place of death Bensheim