Mathias Etenhueber

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Mathias Etenhueber , also Matthias Ettenhu (e) ber (born February 3, 1722 in Munich ; † August 24 or September 23, 1782 there ) was a German poet and writer .

He came from a modest background, but enjoyed a very good education. So he attended the Jesuit high school in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) until 1745 and then probably studied philosophy at the lyceum . Already in his youth he stood out for his remarkable poetic talent when he began to write poetry in Latin at an early age . These were very well received. Contemporaries praised his well thought-out verse structure and his round and pure language. In subsequent years, he moved - influenced among others by the work of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and Gottlieb Wilhelm Raabe agent - toGerman language and his printed and reproduced works brought him recognition at home and abroad. Among other things, he wrote homage verses on official occasions. Maria Theresia awarded Etenhueber a gold medal of honor for his services.

Over time, however, his fame faded, he became a casual poet and it became increasingly difficult for him to obtain financial security. Although the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian III appointed him . Joseph in 1763 as court poet ; However, it was a “title without resources”, for which he did not receive any salary. Between 1759 and 1778 he published the Münchnerisches Wochenblatt , in which he commented on daily events in the city in baroque verse from Alexandrians . From 1760 onwards, on the occasion of public executions , he also wrote several stanzas with the heading "Morality" under the death sentences distributed in print form in the city and hoped in this way to increase the awareness of his work. However, these activities did not change the fact that he lived in great poverty throughout the last years of his life. In 1778 he was arrested as a result of the publication of the all too government-critical ode Das complaining Baiern and after his release he found shelter with the Brothers of Mercy of St. John of God . Etenhueber died a broken man in their hospital in 1782.

“He was perhaps born to be a poet, but, depressed by his age and his fate, which deserves all our pity, remained mostly just a poet, to whom he provided well over a hundred thousand. […] In the end he was (not for our glory) an object of poverty and only compassion. [...] Nevertheless, his writings belong in the history of literature - as works that were liked. "

- Obituary by Lorenz von Westenrieder

"The poor poet"

Carl Spitzweg The poor poet

In research nowadays it is commonly assumed that Etenhueber served the Biedermeier painter Carl Spitzweg, who also worked in the greater Munich area, as a model for his most famous painting The poor Poet . The writer Bernhard Setzwein produced the radio report Der arme Hofpoet for Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1993 . The fate of Mathias Ettenhueber .

Work (selection)

The majority of Etenhueber's writings that are now digitized were originally articles from the Münchnerisches Wochenblatt and are not listed here individually.

  • Victory Das Binde-Band Ihro Kayserl. Royal Majesty MARIÆ THERESIÆ & c. & c. Munich, 1758
  • Anyone who doesn't want to remain a botch in poetry . Munich, 1765
  • The complaining Bavaria . Munich, 1778
  • Rome in Munich. Or: The most joyful arrival of Sr. Papal Holiness Pius VI. after the electoral capital and residence city of Munich . Printed by Maria Anna Bötterinn - widowed court, academy and landscape printer, Munich, 1782

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Joseph Lipowsky: Life and deeds of Maximilian Joseph, III. in Upper and Lower Bavaria, also the Duke of Upper Palatinate, Count Palatine near the Rhine, the Holy Roman Empire Archtruchfeß and Elector Prince, Landgrave zu Leuchtenberg and Munich, 1833, page 173
  2. ↑ Entry in RambowGenealogie (PDF; 264 kB) on rambow.de . Found July 11, 2011.
  3. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich, 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 2, p. 19
  4. ↑ Hans-Michael Körner , Bruno Jahn: Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 1, A - G . De Gruyter Saur , Berlin , 2005, ISBN 978-3-598-11730-5 , page 476
  5. ^ Karl von Reinhardstöttner : The electoral Bavarian court poet Matthias Etenhueber . Munich, 1892
  6. ^ Leonhard Lenk: The electoral court poet Mathias Etenhueber. A curious sheet of Bavarian literary history . In: Our Bavaria . Issue 5, 1956, pages 83-85
  7. ↑ Max Spindler : Handbook of Bavarian History. Volume II - Old Bavaria - The Territorial State . Verlag CH Beck , Munich, 1988, ISBN 3-406-32320-0 , page 1009
  8. ↑ Manuel Albrecht: Carl Spitzweg's painter's paradise . Schuler-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herrsching am Ammersee , 1979, ISBN 3779620464 , page 161
personal data
SURNAME Etenhueber, Mathias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ettenhuber, Matthias; Ettenhueber, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1782 or September 23, 1782
Place of death Munich