Ludwig Heinrich Meyer

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Ludwig Heinrich Meyer (born March 17, 1798 in Hanover ; † November 6, 1855 ) was a German Protestant pastor . In literary terms he emerged from his volume of poems Weser-Lieder (1844).

Life

Ludwig Heinrich Meyer: Weser songs , table of contents

Ludwig Heinrich Meyer was the son of the Royal Hanoverian Court wallpaper maker . Ludwig Meyer .

A gouache of the young Meyer with a view from Hanover with the title Garten am Mühlenplatz from 1820 is known. It shows the view from a sparsely furnished room into a garden between winding half-timbered houses between Brückmühlenkolk and Ernst-August-Straße .

From 1821 to 1831 Meyer was pastor of the parish in Stemmen , and from 1831 to 1855 that of Barsinghausen .

The Weser songs, printed by the Hahnschen Hofbuchhandlung publishing house in 1844, date from the Barsinghauser period . In them Meyer addresses historical sites along the banks of the Weser and tells their story in a romantic spirit.

Fonts

literature

  • Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath (ed.): Alt-Hannover 1500–1900. The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. 4th, improved edition, Heinrich Feesche Verlag, Hanover 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , pp. 102, 141.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath (Ed.): Alt-Hannover 1500–1900. The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. 4th, improved edition, Heinrich Feesche Verlag, Hanover 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , pp. 102, 141.