Sketches from the life of nature and people

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The sketches from the life of nature and peoples by the travel writer Johann Georg Kohl (1808–1878) are a collection of essays on various topics. The work was published in Dresden by Rudolf Kuntze in the summer of 1851 in two parts .

Title page of the first part

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The two volumes bring together a total of 13 individual essays on various topics that Kohl wrote between 1845 and 1850. Three chapters are travel descriptions in the narrower sense ( Weser estuary , Moselle cruise , Franconian Switzerland ), all of which go back to 1849. Kohl's stay in the Ore Mountains (1845) and in Switzerland ( Interlaken Winter 1846–1847) gave him the occasion for several regional and cultural-historical descriptions. The other chapters deal with political, medical and geographical topics (including Pan-Slavism and German naval policy ).

part One

  • I. Political Meditations (written in Dresden 1848–1849) (pp. 1–84)
  • II. Panem! et Circenses! or reflections on the new reforms in the housing, clothing, food and entertainment of the European peoples and especially of the Germans (written in Dresden in the winter of 1849-1850) (pp. 85-154)
  • III. The Slavs and the Pan-Slavic tendencies (written in Dresden in the summer of 1848) (pp. 155–218)
  • IV. The German Navy (written in Dresden in the winter of 1849) (pp. 219–280)
  • V. Journey to the mouth of the Weser. In autumn 1849 (pp. 281–344)
  • VI. The Danube in its natural and cultural-historical relationships (written in Dresden in the winter of 1847–1848) (pp. 345–408)

Part II

  • VII. A trip on the Moselle from Trier to Koblenz. In autumn 1849 (pp. 1–42)
  • VIII. Visit to the caves of Franconian Switzerland. In autumn 1849 (pp. 43–94)
  • IX. Slavs and Slavs in the vicinity of Dresden (written in a village at the foot of the Ore Mountains in 1845) (pp. 95–130)
  • X. On the superstitious opinions, manners and customs of a German tribe in the nineteenth century (written and collected in a village at the foot of the Ore Mountains in 1845) (pp. 131–196)
  • XI. Comments on the cuisine and diet of the residents of the Ore Mountains (written in a village at the foot of the Ore Mountains in 1845) (pp. 197–244)
  • XII. About cretinism in Switzerland (written about Interlaken 1847) (pp. 245–288)
  • XIII. Peculiarities of German in the Bernese Oberland (written at Interlaken in December 1846) (pp. 289–316)

To the formation

In an article printed in the Zeitschrift für deutsche Kulturgeschichte in 1875 , Kohl wrote in retrospect about his stay in the Ore Mountains: "Around the middle of this century I lived for a whole year in one of the pretty little straw-weaving villages in the southwest of the Saxon residence city of Dresden. During my stay There I familiarized myself with the character, customs, dialect and way of speaking of the inhabitants of my village and the neighboring valleys and places to which my walks and excursions led me, and among other things I collected quite a number of observations about the superstitious opinions and customs of those there People I Recorded ".

The two chapters The German Navy and Journey to the mouth of the Weser. In the autumn of 1849 , Kohl "saw the war fleet himself and inspected it closely" during this voyage.

Book ads and reviews

  1. Leipziger Zeitung , No. 238 (September 4, 1851), p. 4720 ANNO (single page view )
  2. Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig), No. 427 (September 6, 1851), p. 222 ANNO (single page view)
  3. Leaves for Literary Entertainment , No. 119 (September 20, 1851), p. 895 (bibliographic advertisement)
  4. Abendblatt der Wiener Zeitung , No. 235 (October 11, 1851), pp. 938 f .; to No. 269 (November 22, 1851), pp. 1073 f. (Short review and reprint of Chapter II from Part I in continuations in the features section of the evening paper ). Chapter IX from Part II was then printed in the supplement to the Morgenblatte of the Wiener Zeitung , beginning with no. 48 (November 27, 1851).
  5. Leaves for literary entertainment , No. 125 (November 1, 1851), p. 1034 f. ANNO (single page view p. 1034) ANNO (single page view p. 1035)
  6. Supplement to the Ilustrirten Zeitung (Leipzig), No. 851 (December 4, 1851), p. 374 (publisher's advertisement by R. Kuntze, with the offer of a discount on the book price, reduced from 3 Talers to 1 Taler, 15 Groschen)

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Georg Kohl  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann G. Kohl: Superstitious opinions and customs of the residents of the Ore Mountains . In: Journal for German Cultural History . New series IV. Hannover 1875, p. 514-533; 714-742 .
  2. ↑ "Literary" . In: Supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 261 , September 18, 1851, p. 4170 .