Peter Johann Willatzen

Peter Johann Willatzen (also Johann Peter Willatzen ; born September 12, 1824 in Silberstedt ; † December 14, 1898 in Bremen ) was a German teacher , translator and poet .

Life

Willatzen was the son of a teacher in Silberstedt. He first attended the school in his hometown and then after his father was transferred to Hadersleben . Then he graduated from high school there . Since his parents could not afford to pay for studies, he attended from 1842 to 1845, the seminar of Tonder to elementary school teachers to be. This was initially followed by a job as an assistant teacher in Altona . During this time he began to publish his first poems in the Hamburger Observer . In 1849 he returned to Hadersleben as his father's representative, but was dismissed with the other German teachers in May 1850.

Willatzen briefly taught, supported by the German-minded population, as a private teacher in Hadersleben. But he was threatened with jail time if he continued to teach. Therefore he fled to Rendsburg in 1850 . There he joined the army and became field sexton . After the army was disbanded, he went to the secondary school for girls in Bremen in April 1851 . He changed schools several times and mainly taught history. In 1865 he was elected by the Bremen Senate as a teacher at the Bremen secondary school . He is said to have been valued for his teaching skills.

Works

• Songbook for Schleswig-Holstein's warriors , 1850.
• Shore flowers , collection of poems, 1853.
• Tagfalter , collection of poems, 1855.
• Hannibal's death , epic poem, 1857.
• Poems , 2 volumes and 1 selection volume, 1860–1872.
• Old Icelandic folk ballads and Faroese hero songs , translation, Geisler, Bremen 1865.
• Book of Songs , 1866.

Translations

• Henrik Scharling : Hauran. Travel pictures from Palestine. Bremen 1890 ( online  - Internet Archive ).

literature

• Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg writers from 1866–1882 . Volume 2. Biernatzki, Kiel 1886, p. 383 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
• Franz Brümmer :  Willatzen, Johann Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 93 f.
• CA Nissen: Willatzen, Peter Johann . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 18 : Ubbe – Wimpffen . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1904, p. 602 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

• Works by and about Peter Johann Willatzen  in the German Digital Library