Peter Geibel

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Peter Philipp Geibel (around 1895)
Peter Geibel House

Peter Philipp Geibel (born August 21, 1841 in Klein-Karben ; † March 2, 1901 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Hessian dialect poet.

The son of a smallholder family studied veterinary medicine and practiced as a veterinarian in Groß-Felda (Vogelsberg), in Battenberg (Wittgensteiner Land), Selters (Westerwald) and in Höchst am Main, among others. During his studies he became a member of the Germania Gießen fraternity in the winter semester of 1863/64 . He made it up to the official slaughter cattle inspector and had a successful veterinary practice.

Between 1876 and 1899, Peter Geibel published around 90 poems in the "Oberhessischer Anzeiger". The first edition of the book of poems "Humorous Poems in Wetterau Dialect" was published by Carl Scriba in 1878 (10th edition 1906). The second volume, "Mein schinste Gruß d'r Wearreraa" appeared in 1895.

Geibel achieved great regional popularity with his humorous dialect poems and descriptions of rural life in the Wetterau and Vogelsberg. His complete works were published in 1951 in a volume of the "Hessische Volksbücherei". Various reprints of his works have been published since the 1970s.

In his birthplace, the Peter-Geibel-Haus (opposite is the Geibel fountain) and a street name still reminds of him. The city of Karben usually awards the Peter Geibel Medal to deserving citizens once a year.

literature

  • Otto Renkhoff: Nassau biography. 1985, p. 117 (not accessed)
  • Bernhard Sowinski: Lexicon of German-speaking dialect authors. 1997, p. 168
  • Karben booklets. Special issue Peter Geibel, 2006 (not viewed); for further local publications see Hessische Bibliographie
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 240–241.

Web links

Wikisource: Peter Geibel  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Peter Geibel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, R. Germania. No. 195.
personal data
SURNAME Geibel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geibel, Peter Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Karben
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1901
Place of death Frankfurt am Main