Samuel Gottlieb Burden

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Samuel Gottlieb Bürde (born December 7, 1753 in Breslau ; † April 28, 1831 on a trip to Berlin ) was a German poet .

Life

Burde was born the son of a church servant. In Breslau he attended the Elisabeth Gymnasium ; the rector there drew Bürde's attention to poetry. He studied law in Halle . 1776–1778 he was a teacher at a school in Breslau. Later, Bürde toured Switzerland and Italy . As a chamber secretary he worked in his hometown from 1781. In 1783 Samuel Bürde was appointed secretary of the Polish border commission and in 1795 as secret secretary at the Silesian Ministry of Finance and eleven years later as director of the chamber and chancellery. Another nine years later, in 1815, he was a member of the royal councilor.

Works (selection)

  • Translation of Paradise Lost
  • The path that leads us to perfection is steep and thorny
  • The only joy in my heart is that I never part from Jesus
  • He came down to free us, the bound, to be incurable salvation
  • When the Lord will one day free the prisoners of their bonds, then past sufferings will vanish like a dream of the night
  • When the Lord once took the prisoners (EG 298)
  • Tale of a social journey through part of Switzerland and Upper Italy

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Samuel Gottlieb Bürde  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Burden, Samuel Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1831
Place of death Berlin