Leo Fischer (poet)

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Leo Fischer OSB (born June 25, 1855 in Vöslau as Otto Ludwig Bartholomäus Fischer , † August 16, 1895 in Boswil ) was an Austrian poet and linguist .

Life

Fischer's father came from Havelberg . As court master and tutor to Moritz II. Von Fries and later to Karl zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , he converted to the Roman Catholic denomination in 1862 . Otto Fischer initially spent his childhood in Italy, either in Duino or Venice . In 1867 the father died, whereupon the mother moved to Linz with Otto . He studied theology at the University of Innsbruck and entered the Muri-Gries Abbey in 1877 , where he took the religious name Leo. Leo Fischer was ordained a priest on July 11, 1880 . From 1885 he was a professor of history and German literature at the Sarnen College in Switzerland . In 1895 Fischer died of a stroke in Boswil in the canton of Aargau .

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Leo Fischer published five volumes of poetry in which he used the canton of Obwalden and episodes from the history of Switzerland as motifs. Adolf Hinrichsen ascribes Fischer's poems in “The Literary Germany” (1891) “Beauty of form and wealth of thought”. In addition, Fischer wrote works on the history of language and literature.

Volumes of poetry

  • Ecclesia militans . A cycle of historical poems. Fösser, Frankfurt a. M. 1883.
  • Flowers from the monastery garden . Seals. Fösser, Frankfurt a. M. 1886.
  • Subsilvania . Festival ceremony for the 4th secular celebration of Blessed Nikolaus von der Flüe. Fösser, Frankfurt a. M. 1887.
  • Greetings from poets from the Alps . New songs. Fösser, Frankfurt a. M. 1889.
  • Wanderer's ways . Poems. Cordier, Heiligenstadt (no year [1896]).

scientific publications

  • The cid and the cidromances . In: Studies and communications from the Benedictine order . 1887.
  • Five chapters from the history of language . [sn], Sarnen 1890 (supplement to the annual report of the cantonal educational institution in Sarnen 1889/90).
  • Linguistic treatises . [Müller], [Sarnen] (no year [1894], supplement to the annual report for the cantonal educational institution in Sarnen 1893/94).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Friedrich Wienstein: Lexicon of the Catholic German poets from the beginning of the Middle Ages to the present . Beer & Thiemann, Hamm iW 1899.
  2. ^ A b Adolf Hinrichsen: The literary Germany . 2nd Edition. Publishing house of "Literary Germany", Berlin 1891.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Kosch: The Catholic Germany . tape 1 . Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1933.
  4. ^ Fischer, Pater Leo, OSB In: Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz . tape 3 , 1926, pp. 165 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Otto Ludwig Bartholomäus (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Vöslau
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1895
Place of death Boswil