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Nikolaus Hocker (born March 22, 1822 in Neumagen-Dhron , † December 21, 1900 in Cologne ) was an editor , diplomat, poet and author of numerous historical and regional works.

Life

Nikolaus Hocker was to embark on a military career as an officer. However, since he felt the inclination to study history and literature and to write , he left the military in 1842 to study German in Tübingen . After completing his studies, in 1849 he became editor of the "Saar- und Moselzeitung" in Trier . He later headed the "Düsseldorfer Journal", then moved to Cologne in 1857, where he took over the management of the "Kölner Nachrichten". Because of his economic work " The Big Industry of the Rhineland and Westphalia ", Hocker was appointed Chancellor of the Austro-Hungarian Consulate General in Cologne. He was deeply friends with the Brothers Grimm and with Karl Simrock .

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Nikolaus Hocker's literary work is very diverse. In addition to lyrical works , he published travel books on the Moselle and Rhine regions as well as a number of historical works that dealt with the ruling dynasty of the princes and modern German history. He also made numerous contributions with mythological and cultural-historical content, which earned him his doctorate in Tübingen in 1857. For his friend Jacob Grimm collected stool Weis Hallows .

Bibliography (selection)

• Poems . 1847
• Sagas, stories and legends of the Moselle valley . Trier 1852
• German folk belief in song and legend . Goettingen 1853
• The Moselle valley from Nancy to Koblenz. Landscape, history, legend . (1855) Reprint Spee-Verlag, Trier 1982. ISBN 3-87760-040-9
• Engelhart et al. Angel turkey . Epos. Trier 1854
• The ethical German sagas. From the mouths of the people and the poets. Trier 1857
• The legends d. Hohenzollern u. Guelphs. A contribution to German mythology a. Heroic saga . Düsseldorf 1857
• Images of women in the wreath of seal . Goettingen 1858
• Carl Simrock . Leipzig. 1877
• From the German spirit. A cultural history in songs and legends of German poets . Cologne 1858
• A train journey from Cologne to Brussels . 1859
• The Rhine. Travel guide . 1860
• The big industry of Rhineland and Westphalia . Leipzig 1867. Reprinted by Olms, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-487-07873-2
• The Hohenzollern Empire in 1871 . 3rd edition Cologne 1873
• Rhine album . Photographs by M. Ziegler with text by Nicolaus Hocker. Berlin (1874)
• Kaiser Wilhelm and Prince Bismarck. A story of her life and politics . 2nd edition Berlin 1879
• The chronicle of the city of Cologne: with illustrations. - Düsseldorf: Arnz, 1857. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

• Stool, Nicholas . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 601.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Hocker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Nikolaus Hocker , biography and estate in the portal rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de