Karl Friedrich Kretschmann
Karl Friedrich Kretschmann, also: the bard Rhingulph ; (* December 4, 1738 in Zittau ; † January 15 (or 16) 1809 ibid) was a German poet, comedy author and narrator.
Life
The son of the lawyer Johann Gottfried Kretschmann (born October 19, 1694 in Zittau ; † January 19, 1760 ) attended the reform high school in his hometown. On May 9, 1757 he began studying law at the University of Wittenberg , which he completed with a doctorate in 1762. In his hometown he became senior official advocate in 1764 and court actuary in 1774. Due to illness he was retired in 1797. In 1764 he married a daughter of the rector Gerlach in Zittau, who died a few months after the wedding. In 1774 he married again.
Act
He had already become a member of the German Society in Wittenberg in 1759 and published anonymous dramatic arrangements and translations. Comedy plays followed later. He has acquired literary fame as a poet of anachronistic poetry typical of the time and turned to historical, mystifying bard chants . Together with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , he worked on the subject of the Varus Battle , interpreting the conveyance of the specifically “German mythology” in an action-packed epic-lyrical hybrid form. He also wrote various individual publications in magazines and yearbooks.
Selection of works
- Five selected comedies from the Theater Italien des Gherardi, Berlin 1762
- The family of the antiquarian, Zittau 1767
- Collection of comic, lyrical and epigrammatic poems, Leipzig 1764
- The song Rhingulph des Bard, Leipzig 1769
- From the customs of the old Germans. From the Latin of Cornelius Tacitus, Leipzig 1779
- Small novels and stories, Leipzig 1799–1800, 2 vol.
- Complete works, Leipzig 1784–1805 7 vol., Reprint vol. 1–5 Karlsruhe 1785–90
literature
- Hermann F. Knothe: Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (the bard Rhingulph), Zittau 1858
- Walther Killy (ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Gütersloh, Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
- Erich Schmidt : Kretschmann, Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 131 f.
- Karl Heinrich Jördens : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers, Weidmannische Buchhandlung, Leipzig, 1808 ( online )
- Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Sect 2 Th 39 p. 342 ( online )
- Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or, Lexicon of the now living German writers. Lemgo, 1797, vol. 4 p. 366 ( online )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kretschmann, Karl Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kretschmann, Karl Friedrich (full name); Rhingulph, the bard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, comedian and storyteller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1738 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zittau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1809 or January 16, 1809 |
| Place of death | Zittau |