Ludwig Brill

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Grave site in the cemetery of the Marienkirche in Quakenbrück
The Whooper Swan in an edition from 1893, Brill's main work

Ludwig Brill (with full name Ferdinand Friedrich Ludwig Brill, born February 15, 1838 in Emlichheim , Grafschaft Bentheim , † November 17, 1886 in Quakenbrück ) was a German teacher and poet .

Life

Brill came from a poor, rural background. He was the fourth of nine children of the married couple Heinrich Wilhelm Brill (1808) and Agnes Regina, geb. Kendeler, from Hoogstede near Emlichheim .

Because the family lived in modest circumstances economically, Brill could only visit the elementary school and then prepared himself self-taught on the profession of primary school teacher before. After working for several years as a teacher at a village school, he trained to become a teacher for higher education.

He then got a job at the rectorate school in Lohne and then at the secondary school in Quakenbrück. In 1862 he married the Quakenbrückerin Elisabeth Sophie Meyer, with whom he had two children, the son Bernhard born in 1863 and the daughter Regina Elisabeth Eustella born in 1870.

In 1886 he was promoted to senior teacher. Soon afterwards he had to give up teaching due to illness and died that same year, only 48 years old.

His lyrical-epic poem The Whooper Swan from 1882 is seen as the successor to Friedrich Wilhelm Weber and his work Dreizehnlinden . His work is extensively acknowledged in literary-historical treatises of the 19th century. In a German literary history from 1912 it says:

“What Brill achieved as a prose does not match his acclaimed poetical stories; on the other hand, he has shown himself to be a sensitive and fair critic in the literary highlights. "

A poem by Brill I know a star clearly ... reads:

I know a star clearly
That shines wonderfully
Into the dark world gear;
No other burns so faithfully
In the wide firmament:
The star is called motherly love.

He also wrote the “Lohner Lied”, probably originally a poem as well.

Brill's grave, which shows the whooper swan on a cast-iron grave cross , is in the Catholic cemetery behind St. Mary's Church .

Ludwig-Brill-Straße in Quakenbrück was named after him.

Works

  • The whooper swan. Lyric-epic poetry. Münster: Nasse 1882. 228S. (Hollenberggymn. Waldbröl); 4th edition Münster: Nasse 1885. 223S. (Germ. Sem. Of the WWU Münster); 23rd edition Paderborn: Schöningh 1925 - Bertran Gomez. Epic poetry. Paderborn, Münster: Schöningh 1884; 2nd edition. Münster: Nasse [1884]. 188S. (StA Bielefeld); 5th edition Paderborn: Schöningh 1901 -
  • The Waldenhorst. Romantic poetry. Münster, Paderborn: Schöningh 1886. 146S. (EDDB Cologne); 2nd edition Paderborn: Schöningh 1887. 150 p. (ULB Münster, ULB Düsseldorf, Germ. Sem. Of the WWU Münster); 6th edition, ibid. 1907. 150 p. [with pictures]; 7th edition, ibid. 1926.
  • Bertran Gomez. Epic poetry. Paderborn, Münster: Schöningh 1884; 2nd edition. Münster: Nasse [1884]. 188S. (StA Bielefeld); 5th edition Paderborn: Schöningh 1901

literature

  • Heiko Bockstiegel: Ludwig Brill. Writer and schoolboy from the north of Osnabrück. (1838-1886) . Thoben-Verlag Quakenbrück, 1984. ISBN 3-921176-53-0
  • Heinrich Böning: Quakenbrück. History of a small North German town. Thoben-Verlag Quakenbrück, 1979. ISBN 3-921176-50-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Böning: Quakenbrück. P. 74
personal data
SURNAME Brill, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brill, Ferdinand Friedrich Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Emlichheim , County of Bentheim
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1886
Place of death Quakenbrück