Richard Weitbrecht

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Richard (Philipp) Weitbrecht (born February 20, 1851 in Heumaden (Stuttgart) , † May 1, 1911 in Heidelberg ) was a German writer and Protestant pastor .

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Memorial plaque for Richard Weitbrecht on the Palatinate Wall in Wimpfen

Weitbrecht came from the Schorndorfer branch of the Württemberg Weitbrecht family and was the son of pastor Karl Gottlieb Weitbrecht (1810-1886) and Julie, née Finck (1823-1893). After leaving school, he studied at the University of Tubingen theology and philosophy and his doctorate there to the Dr. phil. After a longer stay in Italy, which inspired him to rework the blood structure of Calabria and the text Battle for Rome , he first became pastor in Mähringen near Ulm and from 1893 in Wimpfen .

From an early age he dealt with local stories , folk and youth writings, song texts, novellas , poems and short stories. He often worked with his brother, the literary historian Carl Weitbrecht , and other regional poets of the time. He was particularly interested in editing and rewriting already known stories or writing treatises on these texts.

Richard Weitbrecht was married to Eugene Haug (1853-1886), with whom he had two children. After her death he married Marianne Murschel (* 1865), who gave birth to four more children.

Works (selection)

  • History of German Poetry - from its beginnings to the present , Stuttgart, 1880
  • Marriage breeding booklet , adaptation of the original version by Johann Fischart , Stuttgart, 1881
  • Hostile powers ; Stories, Barmen , 1882
  • Nohmôl Schwôbagschichta , co-author: Carl Weitbrecht, Stuttgart 1882,
  • Gschichta'n aus'm Schwôbaland , co-author: Carl Weitbrecht, Stuttgart 1877, 2nd edition 1883
  • Hent he heard? Love lust and love affliction in Swabia , co-author: Carl Weitbrecht, Edition Erdmann, Stuttgart, 1883
  • Gudrunlied , editing and repositioning , Stuttgart 1884
  • The blood structure of Calabria , processing of a historical picture , Stuttgart 1885
  • A struggle for Rome , processing of a historical picture, Stuttgart, 1886
  • German Heroes' Book, Telling German Youth , Gebrüder Kröner-Verlag , Stuttgart 1886
  • 's Schwobaland in Lied und Wort , collection of Swabian dialect poems, co-author: Gustav Seuffer, Ulm 1886
  • From Swabian districts , co-author: P. Lang, Stuttgart 1887
  • The peasant piper , a pilgrimage story from the 15th century, Klein-Verlag, Barmen, 1887
  • Allerhand Leut ' , Stuttgart 1888
  • Heretic courts , Stuttgart 1891
  • D'Pfarrmagd , Stuttgart, 1892
  • No'gstät , Ulm, 1893
  • Religious poetry , selection Leipzig, 1896
  • A bold horseman , Glogau 1900
  • The people eater and his boy , Munich, 1905
  • Bohlinger Leut , Heilbronn 1911

literature

  • Walter Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus: Dictionary of German Biography , Vol. 10, KG Saur, Munich, 2006; P. 436 google-online

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personal data
SURNAME Weitbrecht, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitbrecht, Richard Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pastor and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Heumaden (Stuttgart)
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1911
Place of death Heidelberg