Rudolf Flex
Rudolf Flex (born November 12, 1855 in Jena , † July 22, 1918 in Eisenach ) was a German writer and poet .
Life
The son of the teacher Gottlieb Flex in Jena and Clothilde Luise Rothe from Königshain attended the grammar school in Weimar . He studied classical philology and linguistics in Jena and Berlin . During his studies in 1874 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . In 1879 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .
After his studies he worked as a private tutor in Ilberstedt . After passing the senior teacher examination in Jena in 1882, Flex taught at the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Eisenach (preferably old languages), in 1882 as a trial candidate, in 1883 as a provisional and full teacher, and from 1899 as a professor. In 1885 he married the merchant's daughter Margarete Pollack. They had four children together, one son was Walter Flex .
From Bismarck excited politics, he was a member of various patriotic associations include: National Liberal Empire Association, National Liberal Party (twice unsuccessful candidacy in parliamentary elections) and National Association against social democracy . He was a member, 1903 chairman and later honorary chairman of the Eisenacher Volksbildungsverein. He campaigned for the erection of the Bismarckian Column and the Carl Alexander Monument in Eisenach. Flex was a co-founder of the Literary Society and was a member of the city theater committee for many years. Together with nine other fraternity members he founded the fraternity monument association ; When the foundation stone was laid for the monument, he gave the commemorative speech in 1897.
He wrote poems and poetic preludes for patriotic celebrations.
Fonts (selection)
- The oldest monthly division of the Romans . Jena 1880 (also dissertation, Jena 1880).
- Contributions to research into the Eisenach dialect . Eisenach 1893.
- Home and fatherland. Poems . Eisenach 1910, OCLC 7370529 .
- Bismarck poems . Eisenach 1915, OCLC 804941350 .
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 199-200.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flex, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1918 |
| Place of death | Eisenach |