Leberecht Dreves

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Leberecht Dreves

Leberecht Dreves (born September 12, 1816 in Hamburg , † December 19, 1870 in Feldkirch ( Vorarlberg )) was a German poet lawyer .

Life

Leberecht Blücher Dreves was born in 1816 as the son of the businessman and commissioner Johann Karl Dreves. His mother was Helene Margarete Dreves, b. Niemeier, the daughter of a merchant from Varel in Oldenburg ; his paternal grandfather was the superintendent Simon Peter in Boitzenburg . Dreve's godfather was Field Marshal Blücher , whose first and last name he received; he didn't use the latter in the course of his life.

Dreves attended the Hamburg School of Academics and began studying law at the University of Jena in 1836 . There he became a member of the fraternity society in the Burgkeller in 1836 . In 1838 he moved to Heidelberg, received his doctorate there for Dr. jur. and one year later he settled in Hamburg as a lawyer . From 1842 to 1848 he was editor of the Neue Hamburger Blätter .

On February 2, 1846 Dreves entered the Catholic Church in the chapel of the papal nuncio in Vienna , Cardinal Michele Viale-Prelà , on a trip to Austria . “With my parents and other relatives,” wrote Dreves in an autobiography published towards the end of his life, “my conversion did not find the slightest offense, indeed it had the influence on my father that he began to be very interested in the Catholic Church. “In the same year Dreves received a vacant notary position in Hamburg, which he held until 1861.

In 1853 he married Marie Salmin, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the upholsterer Gustav Alexander Salmin, baptized Catholic. In 1854 their son Guido Maria was born, who became a clergyman and also a well-known poet of hymns. The couple also had two daughters. Clara, born in 1862, married the city architect of Feldkirch, Seraphin Pümpel (1847–1930) in 1881.

In 1862 Dreves settled in Feldkirch in Vorarlberg, where he died in 1870 after a long illness.

Lyric poet

Under the influence of Freiherr Joseph von Eichendorff , with whom he was friends, Dreves began publishing poems in 1837. Also Adelbert von Chamisso and Friedrich Rueckert among his poetic models. In 1848 Dreves stayed in Dresden for a cure and lived with Eichendorff in the Linke'schen Bad . In the following year Eichendorff edited a selection of Dreves' poems.

In 1843 he began to write political songs in the spirit of the Vormärz , which he published anonymously under the title Songs of a Hanseatic and provided a poem dedicated to Ferdinand Freiligrath . Dreves also addressed a lyrical invocation to Holderlin .

After his conversion, numerous sacred songs and adaptations of Latin hymns were written. Several of his songs were translated into French by Achille Millien . For his part, he translated hymns and writings from church Latin, but also put rough translations of HC Andersen's poetry from the pen of Heinrich Zeise into poetic form.

His church history works mainly concern the Catholic parishes in northern Germany.

One of his best-known works is the song Freiheitsbüchlein (“Saw a prince a little book standing ...”) from the songs of a Hanseatic man , which was sung as a parody of the pre-March censorship after Heinrich Werner's melody to Goethe's Heidenröslein . Also, The Homecoming ( " Tired returns a wanderer back ...") from the Vigils (where p 93f), sung to the tune of an unknown composer, was as one of since 1880 widespread minstrels put forward ballad .

Leberecht Dreves' manuscripts are kept by the Vorarlberg State Library and the Bavarian State Library in Munich .

Works

  • Lyrical echoes. Pierer, Altenburg 1837
  • Vigils. Night songs. König, Bonn 1839 ( digitized version )
  • The lifesaver. A comedy. Barthel, Halle 1841
  • Dr. Size the columnist from No. 251 of the “Hamburger Neue Zeitung” and yours truly. A reply. Meyer's newspaper shop, Hamburg 1842
  • Songs of a Hanseatic. Prince, Wesel 1843
  • Simple songs. Bödecker, Hamburg 1843
  • Treatises from the Hamburg inheritance law. , Vol. 1: Today's law of hereditary property. Nobiling & Heidrich, Hamburg 1844
  • Church songs. German replicas of old Latin originals. Hurter, Schaffhausen 1846
  • The independence of the church from the state , Hamburg 1848
  • Poems. Edited by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. Duncker, Berlin 1849 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DPE8uAAAAYAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ); 3rd edition Barthel, Halle 1870
  • History of the Catholic parishes in Hamburg and Altona. A contribution to the history of the Nordic missions. Hurter, Schaffhausen 1850 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DyaYAAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D )
  • Carmen discessuri valedictorium. Scripsit amicisque catholicis Hamburgi relinquendis dedicavit. Bassek, Hamburg 1862
  • Life of St. Ansgar, for the 1000th anniversary of his death. From the Latin of St. Rembert translated and accompanied with explanatory notes and a hymnological appendix. Schöningh, Paderborn 1864
  • Of St. Bonaventura nightingale song, in German replica Benziger, Einsiedeln 1864 , added to the original Latin text
  • Annuae missionis Hamburgensis a. 1589 ad 1731. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1867
  • Autobiography in David August Rosenthal : Images of Converts from the 19th Century. Manz, Regensburg 1868, vol. 1, p. 626 ff.

Settings

  • The castles on the mountains. Composition: Wilhelm Stade , 1847
  • Before Jena. Composition: Wilhelm Friedrich Riem . For a voice with accompaniment from the pianoforte. Hampe, Bremen (approx. 1850)
  • Requiem ("Rest from painful toil ..."). Composition: Robert Schumann , op.90 (1850)
  • Forest worship. Composition: Eduard Walter in ders .: Short stories for the young world. For voice with piano accompaniment. Coppenrath, Regensburg (approx. 1910)
  • Forest worship. Composition: Franz Wilhelm Abt , 1873
  • Praise be to you, Lord Jesus Christ! Composition: Klaus Fischbach . Cantata song, 1970
  • If I were a bird Composition: Wunibald Briem

literature

Web links

Commons : Leberecht Dreves  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Leberecht Dreves  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 149–150.
  2. ↑ See the letter from Heinrich Zeise to HC Andersen of May 18, 1845, web resource .
  3. ↑ David Robb, Eckhard John: Saw a prince standing a little book (2010). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
  4. ↑ See the website of the folk music archive of the district of Upper Bavaria dedicated to the song . The text of the song is slightly changed compared to the poem, even in the most famous passages; thus the wanderer became a wanderer and the beautiful woman became a lovely gardener.
  5. ↑ Forest Devotion : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
personal data
SURNAME Dreves, Leberecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreves, Leberecht Blücher; Dreves, Lebrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1870
Place of death Feldkirch (Vorarlberg)