Otto Sutermeister

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Otto Sutermeister

Friedrich Gottlieb Otto Sutermeister (born September 27, 1832 in Tegerfelden , † August 18, 1901 in Aarau ) was a Swiss educator and, along with Ludwig Bechstein , one of the most important European folk tale collectors.

Life

Ernestine Möhrlen (1832–1900), Sutermeister's wife
Life stages of Otto Sutermeister's family: Frauenfeld 1856, Küsnacht 1857–1866, Aarau 1866–1876, Rorschach 1876–1880 and Bern from 1880

Sutermeister was a son of the Zofingen composer Heinrich Cornelius Sutermeister (1792–1855). After attending grammar school in Aarau, Otto Sutermeister studied philology and German at the University of Zurich and then worked as a teacher at private educational institutions in Payerne and Paris . After working for a short time at the industrial school in Winterthur , he took on an apprenticeship for German and French at the Thurgau Cantonal School in Frauenfeld .

In 1856 Sutermeister married Ernestine, daughter of Christophe Moehrlen , with whom he fathered seven children who reached adulthood: Emilie (1858–1922, ∞ Friedrich Mühlberg ), Lily (1859–1934), Eugen , Paul , Werner , Friedrich and Walter.

In 1857 Sutermeister was appointed to the Zurich teachers' seminar in Küsnacht, where he taught until 1866; he then worked as a professor at the Aarau Cantonal School until 1873 . From 1876 to 1880 he was director of the St. Gallen teachers' college in Mariaberg, Rorschach (today part of the St. Gallen University of Education ), and then switched to the secondary school for girls in Bern , where he worked as a teacher from 1880 to 1890. From this time on, Emma Rott , a teacher at the municipal secondary school for girls, also lived in Sutermeister's household.

In 1890 he became associate professor for German language and literature at the University of Bern . In 1900 Sutermeister resigned for health reasons.

Part of Sutermeister's estate is in the Bern Burger Library .

Create

Otto Suter champion is considered one of the most important collectors of fairy tales , proverbs , House sayings , nursery rhymes and riddles of the 19th century. From 1882 he published the “Schwizer-Dütsch” series, which contains stories from the German-speaking cantons written in dialect. He was also a correspondent for the Swiss Idiotikon . Sutermeister also wrote children's and youth literature and was the editor of a heavily edited national selection edition of the works of Jeremias Gotthelf , with which Gotthelf was to be inscribed in the tradition of the free-thinking federal state. In the foreword to the magnificent illustrated edition, he admitted that only “superfluous, party-political and crude (rawness and cynicisms)” passages had been shortened or deleted.

Fonts

  • The three ravens u. a. Swiss house fairy tales. Auer Verlag, Donauwörth 1929
  • The big puzzle book: 2000 original puzzles for young and old. Schultze, Bern 1903
  • In Evening Gold: New Seals, 1890
  • Parents' newspaper, 1889 to 1893
  • Commemorative sheets: New songs and sayings, 1886
  • The child friend, 1885 to 1893
  • The household friend: Swiss papers for entertainment and instruction, 1885 to 1888
  • For d'Chinderstube. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1885
  • Juice gifts, 1883
  • (Ed.): Schwyzer-Dütsch: Collection of German-Swiss dialect literature . Orell Füssli, Zurich (50 ribbons from 1882 to 1890).
  • Poetry and Lies, academic lecture, 1882
  • World and Spirit: Old and New Diary Pages in Sayings, 1881
  • The schoolmaster in the German proverb, 1878
  • Evergreen: Legends and Parables, Proverbs and Riddles, 1870
  • Cornflowers: New Fables and Animal Tales, 1870
  • The Poetry School, 1870
  • Children's and household tales from Switzerland . HR Sauerländer, Aarau 1869, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-12928 ( full text - reprinted by Friedrich Reinhard, Basel 1977, ISBN 3-7245-0406-3 ).
  • The Swiss proverbs of the present in a selected collection . JJ Christen, Aarau 1869 ( digitized from Internet Archive ).
  • Children's house fairy tales from Switzerland, 1868
  • Educational Distichen, 1866
  • Guide to Poetics for School and Self-Teaching, 1865
  • Literature-historical character pictures from the 18th century, 1864
  • Speeches for teachers, educators and parents, 1863
  • Fresh and pious: new stories, fables, fairy tales, tales, riddles and sayings dedicated to the youth, 1863
  • Swiss house sayings: a contribution to epigrammatic folk poetry from the Zurich landscape . S. Höhr, Zurich 1860 ( digitized at Internet Archive ).
  • The mother tongue in its meaning as the living word, 1859
  • Life fruits. W. Kaiser, Bern. At least three editions.
  • (Ed.): Uli the servant and Uli the tenant of Jeremias Gotthelf .
  • (Ed.): A child of the people. Swiss life picture, from the estate of Jakob Senn , 1888
  • (Ed.): Sorrows and joys of a schoolmaster by Jeremias Gotthelf, published by F. Bahn, 1901

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Sutermeister  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Otto Sutermeister  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lecturers at the University of Bern 1528 to 1984
  2. ↑ In 1840 he published a bouquet of songs for the youth in Zofingen .
  3. ^ Steven A. Sutermeister (in collaboration with Robert A. Sutermeister and Robert L. Sutermeister): Sutermeister family register . Steven A. Sutermeister, Flushing (Michigan) 1987 (American English, Helveticat ).
  4. ^ EH: Necrology for Emma Rott. In: Schweizerische Lehrerinnen-Zeitung, July 15, 1904.
  5. ↑ biography on bernensia.ch
  6. ↑ Holdings: ES 314 Sutermeister family, v. a. Otto Sutermeister (1832–1901), 1847–1863. Burger Library Bern . link
personal data
SURNAME Master sitter, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sutermeister, Friedrich Gottlieb Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Tegerfelden
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1901
Place of death Aarau