Paul Therstappen

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Franz Paul Hubert Eustachius Therstappen (nickname Paul , born June 9, 1872 in Breyell , † November 26, 1949 in Breyell) was a German librarian , cultural historian , narrator and poet who also wrote in the Lower Rhine dialect .

Life

Paul Therstappen is the son of Franz Gerhard Terstappen (1842–1904) and Johanna Maria Moubis (1842–1916). After attending grammar school in Venlo and grammar school Marianum in Warburg (Abitur 1893), he studied in Münster (1893, history, church history), Munich (1894, history), Strasbourg (1895, history) and Marburg (1896, philology). From 1898 he did his doctorate in Marburg on "Cologne and the cities of the Lower Rhine in their relationship to the Hanseatic League in the 2nd half of the 15th century" (doctoral supervisor Goswin von der Ropp , acceptance of the dissertation 1900). At the same time, he trained as an archivist from 1897 to 1901.

1902–1904 he was an archive assistant in Königsberg (Prussia) (with a short break in Breslau ), 1904/05 he worked at the Trier Chamber of Commerce , 1907–1919 at the Volksverein für die Catholic Deutschland in Mönchengladbach (with a war-related break 1916–1918). After losing his job in 1919, he tried to work as a freelance publisher, but in 1921 he also applied to the public libraries of the city of Cologne as a city librarian, which he accepted in 1921. From 1922 to 1933 he was a member of the board of directors of the Cologne branch of the German Peace Society , he was also in the environment of the social politician Benedikt Schmittmann and had contact with Hanna Meuter and Paul Honigsheim . This is also the main period of his historical and literary work.

On February 15, 1934 , he was forced to retire by the National Socialists on the basis of the law to restore the civil service . Shortly after his 70th birthday, he left Cologne and returned to his birthplace.

Paul Therstappen was married to Magdalena Lambertz (1882–1979) and had two daughters with her.

Works (selection)

  • Cologne and the cities on the Lower Rhine in their relationship to the Hanseatic League in the 2nd half of the 15th century (dissertation, 1901)
  • Festschrift in honor of Arnold Anton Goosens and his creation, the Goosens Brothers company in Breyell, Lower Rhine: 1797-1922; 1922
  • Rhine psalm. A festival to mark the millennium of the Rhineland, 1925
  • Eridanus. Rhine poem, 1930
  • The river of God. A performance of the Rhine myth and the Rhenish-Atlantic commission, 1932
  • America I sing too. American Negro poetry (with Hanna Meuter ), 1932, new edition 1959
  • Legends and tales between the Rhine and Maas, 1946
  • The time - between set and rise, 1947
  • Parzival the German, 1948
  • The cathedral for the 700th anniversary (selection of poems), 1948

About Paul Therstappen

  • Cologne Authors' Lexicon 1750–2000, Volume 1, Cologne 2000
  • German Literature Lexicon
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia
  • Karl Rembert , Festschriften for Paul Therstappen on his 70th and 75th birthday (with contributions by Alfons Paquet , Jakob Kneip , Ernst Thrasolt and others), 1942 and 1947
  • Various publications by the Paul Therstappen Archive (Ed. Hanna Meuter)
  • Keith Spalding: Paul Therstappen's poetry. A contribution to the cultural history of the Rhineland, 1950 ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-0483.1949.tb01788.x online)
  • Hanna Meuter, Paul Therstappen as a Lower Rhine dialect poet, in: Die Heimat, Krefelder Jahrbuch 22 (1951), pp. 9-13
  • Hanna Meuter, death-life and the great mother-idea in Paul Therstappen's life work, in: The home. Krefelder Jahrbuch 22 (1951) pp. 169–176
  • Hanna Meuter, The connection to the landscape in Paul Therstappen's life and work, in: The home. Krefelder Jahrbuch 23 (1952), pp. 3–12
  • Berndt Goossens, Angela Wegers: Paul Therstappen and the last days of the war in Breyell, in: Heimatbuch Kreis Viersen Volume 69, 2018, pp. 197–213

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In the Venlo school is the result of culture struggle from the Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary -Kloster Trans-Cedron emerged 1879 College Albertinum the Dominican -Ordens; Since their degrees were not recognized as university entrance qualifications in Germany, this had to be acquired as an external examination at a German grammar school - here the Marianum in Warburg.
personal data
SURNAME Therstappen, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Therstappen, Franz Paul Hubert Eustachius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, cultural historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Breyell
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1949
Place of death Breyell