Pětr Młónk

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Pětr Młónk

Pětr Młónk (also Młóńk, Młynk ) (born March 19, 1805 in Seitschen ( Sorbian Žičeń ); † February 6, 1887 in Kleinförstchen ( Mała Boršć )) was a Sorbian folk poet.

Life

He was born the son of a farmer and carpenter. He didn't have much time for school education in Göda , because he had to serve as a farmhand for farmers at an early age. In 1821 his father bought him a small property in Siebitz near Göda and married him in 1822 to spare him the service in the Saxon army .

However, after a change in the law, married couples also had to join the army. Pětr Młónk served in Dresden from 1825–1833 , where he began to write poetry during the night watch. After serving in the army, he worked again as a farmhand on various farms.

1844–1847 he participated in the construction of the Dresden – Görlitz railway line , which also touched the boundaries of some Sorbian villages in the Göda community. When disputes broke out because a supervisor demanded that the Sorbian workers employed in the construction should speak German, Młónk successfully campaigned for the rights of the Sorbian language. The German workers, all of whom came from other areas, were quartered with Sorbian families from the area. Młónk argued, "If we do not here wendisch allowed to talk, you now have no place to stay here even longer."

In the revolutionary year of 1848 Młónk supported the petition of the Maćica Serbska (also in his poems) and was active in public life. He became a village judge in Siebitz and worked closely with the Göda parish priest Jaroměr Hendrich Imiš . On April 19, 1876 he was elected honorary member of the Maćica Serbska.

Memorial stone between Preske and Kleinförstchen

Młónk gained great recognition as a folk poet. It can even be said that he influenced an entire school of folk poets. Authors such as Hańža Budarjowa, Handrij Falka, Jan Hajnca, Gusta Hatas and Jan Kruža took up his influences. Młónk wrote hundreds of casual, religious and political poems, most of which were published by the Sorbian newspaper Serbske Nowiny .

Młónk was a prayer leader at funeral processions well into old age.

On February 6, 1887, Młónk suddenly died in a procession near Kleinförstchen. On February 9th, he was buried in the Göda cemetery. Hundreds of Sorbs from all over Upper Lusatia attended his funeral. At the place of his death, a simple memorial stone reminds of Młónk; a more recent grave monument in the Göda cemetery.

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b Franz Lau (ed.): Herbergen der Christenheit 1979/80 (=  contributions to German church history . Volume 12 ). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1980, p. 51 .
  2. ↑ Alexander Nikolajewitsch Pypin: The Serbian-Wendish literature in Upper and Lower Lusatia . FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1884, p. 43 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Młónk, Pětr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Młynk, Pětr; Młóńk, Pětr; Müller, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian folk poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Seitschen (Žičeń)
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1887
Place of death Kleinförstchen (Mała Boršć)