Karl Gottfried Nadler

Karl Gottfried Nadler, with a view of the Neckar, bronze bust in front of the Marstall in Heidelberg's old town

Karl Christian Gottfried Nadler (born August 19, 1809 in Heidelberg ; † August 26, 1849 there ) was a lawyer and Palatinate dialect poet .

Life

Nadler studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1826 to 1831 and then worked as a lawyer in his hometown. Between 1838 and 1845 he was a member of the Great Citizens' Committee in Heidelberg.

Artistic creation

The Palatinate poet Karl Gottfried Nadler became known for his dialect poems and his mocking poems about the March Revolution of 1848. His best-known work is Das Puckkasten-Lied vom Große Hecker , a mock ballad about the Baden revolutionary leader, his former professional colleague Friedrich Hecker , who after the defeat of the Heckerzuges appeared at the end of April 1848.

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  Augustinergasse 7, birthplace of Karl Gottfried Nadler

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  Memorial plaque on the house where Karl Gottfried Nadler was born

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  Memorial plaque on the blade gate for Karl Gottfried Nadler

Two of Hecker's followers perpetrated this ballad, which began with the lines “Look, there is the great Hecker, / a feather on his hat, / look, there stands the people awakening, / panting for tyrant blood!” And was distributed as a pamphlet an assassination attempt on Nadler, which he only barely survived, and of the consequences of which he later died at the age of 40.

After Nadler's death, his work, the Fröhlich Pfalz, Gott erhalt’s collection , was given an expanded new edition in 1851, in which the ballad by Großer Hecker was also published in print.

Karl Gottfried Nadler died in Heidelberg. He was buried in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery. His final resting place in the (Dept. D). is located above the so-called professors row near the grave of Wilhelm Furtwängler .

Works

• Merry Palz; God gets it , collection of poems, 1847
  • 4th edition 1864 digitized
• Peep box song by the great Hecker , ridiculous ballad, 1848

Honors

• In his honor, a street in Heidelberg's old town was named Nadlerstraße.

literature

• Franz Brümmer :  Nadler, Karl Christian Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 209 f.

Individual proof

1. ↑ Landscape Office of the City of Heidelberg.

Web links

Commons : Karl Gottfried Nadler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Karl Gottfried Nadler  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Karl Gottfried Nadler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Original print of the peep box song by the great Hecker