Otto Kamp

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Otto Kamp (born August 9, 1850 in Koblenz , † February 15, 1922 in Bonn ) was a German teacher , writer and poet .

Life

The son of a businessman in 1850, Kamp was after visiting the Cologne grammar school as a merchant operates. Around 1868 he became a member of the North German fraternity in Bonn . After graduating from high school in 1873 at the Humanities College , he studied philosophy and philology in Bonn. After passing the senior teacher testing it was in Tübingen for Dr. phil. received his doctorate and went to the Elisabethenschule in Frankfurt am Main as a teacher in 1876 . In 1895 he became a professor at this secondary school for girls . In 1902 he moved to Bonn.

Kamp was involved as a social politician . He was a champion for an imperial housing law, founder of associations and cooperatives for the procurement of cheap household items for manual workers and founder of housekeeping schools for factory workers. He also campaigned against alcoholism , particularly through the introduction of so-called milk houses , through which milk was also made available for adults, especially for urban workers. He suggested offering milk in the factory in larger establishments. He was the founder of the non-profit society for serving milk in Reinland and Westphalia GmbH in Düsseldorf and the German society for non-profit making milk in Bonn, of which he was the second chairman. He was the founder of the magazine for people nutrition and the founder of apprentice and day nurseries. Kamp was the founder and chairman of the West-Bonn Association , with which he made outstanding contributions to the preservation of the Bonn tree nursery .

Kamp was active as a poet, translated from French, wrote poetry , an epic and several comedies as well as a festival for the inauguration of the Niederwald monument . He also composed well-known student songs , for example Filia hospitalis , which found its way into the Lahrer Kommersbuch , and Aura Academica , which was set to music by Otto Lob .

Publications (selection)

  • Festival on the eve of the inauguration of the National Monument on the Niederwald on September 28, 1883. Cologne, Leipzig 1883.
  • Target community and division of rank of the German teaching staff. Essen, Leipzig 1884.
  • The census taker. Comedy. Frankfurt am Main, 3rd edition 1885.
  • Mélanie and Adolar or city and country children. A children's epic for young and old. Cologne 1887.
  • Poor people songs. Frankfurt am Main 1888.
  • Acquisition and economic management in the workers' household. Leipzig 1892.
  • Commercial training for wage-workers. A contribution to the professional education of the female sex. Leipzig 1892. Together with Wilhelm Bode and Victor Böhmert.
  • The housing shortage and its remedy through a Reich Housing Act. Frankfurt am Main 1900.
  • Factory worker? Frankfurt am Main 1902.
  • Our young wage workers in work, lessons and leisure hours. Leipzig 1902.
  • Aura, filia and other student songs. Bonn 1903, 2nd edition 1909.
  • Milk, also a folk food. Bonn 1909.
  • The factory food of the workers and their milk consumption. Düsseldorf 1911.

literature

  • Kamp, Otto in: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Vol. 3rd 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, p. 405.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 60-61.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑
    Wikisource: O wonderful youth  - sources and full texts
  2. ↑
    Wikisource: General German Kommersbuch: 120 # 266  - Sources and full texts
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    Wikisource: General German Kommersbuch: 121  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Kamp, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1922
Place of death Bonn