Theodor Colshorn

Theodor Colshorn as a young man (around 1850)

Ludolph Louis Theodor Colshorn (born January 13, 1821 in Ribbesbüttel near Gifhorn , † September 1, 1896 in Hanover ) was a German writer .

Live and act

Theodor Colshorn was born in Ribbesbüttel in 1821 as the son of the teacher and cantor Heinrich Colshorn. After private lessons with the local pastor Heydorn, he attended the teachers' seminar in Hanover. In 1838 he became a teacher in Warmbüttel , in 1840 an adjunct on the moor colonies Neudorf-Platendorf near Gifhorn, then a teacher in 1843 in Gifhorn and in 1848 in Hanover. In Hanover he worked from 1854 at the Höhere Töchterschule and from 1857 at the Realschule, the later 1st Realgymnasium . He belonged to the Association of German Philologists and School Men ( German Section ), as well as the Historical Association for Lower Saxony and the Association for Low German Language Research .

Together with his older brother, the cantor Carl Colshorn (1812–1855), Theodor Colshorn published the popular collection of fairy tales and legends from Hanover in 1854 . Based on Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim , he published Des Deutschen Knaben Wunderhorn , a selection of German poems for boys and young men , in 1860 . Because of his numerous and popular publications, he received a call from three universities: Rostock , Göttingen , Utrecht . However, he decided against a university career and stayed with his students. In 1893 he was appointed senior teacher and retired in 1895. He maintained friendships with Emanuel Geibel , Ludwig Uhland , Karl Friedrich Ludwig Goedeke , the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann von Fallersleben .

In Hanover Colshorn was a member of the Freemason Lodge Friedrich zum white horse .

He had several children, including Hermann (1852–1914) and Theodor (1865–?) Colshorn.

Works

• German reading book for elementary schools. Child friend. Stade 1851. Together with Louis Münkel. Online version
• The maiden's poet forest. Graduated selection of German poems for girls. Hanover 1871 (6th edition). Online version , oldest edition: Hanover 1851.
• German mythology for the German people. Hanover 1853. Online version
• Fairy tales and legends from Hanover. Hanover 1854, ISBN 3-487-05613-5 . Online version
• Changing images. A double picture book with 18 panels, through which 42 different genre pictures can be put together. Hanover 1856.
• The declamator. A hundred German poems to declaim. Hanover 1860. Together with Carl Colshorn.
• The German boy's Wunderhorn. Graduated selection of German poems for boys and youngsters. From the sources. Hanover 1860.
• Light for love. A comedy in three acts. Hanover 1860.
• The German emperors in history and legend. Leipzig 1863. Online version
• The German Wars of Independence, 1813-1815. Hanover 1863.
• German ballads and pictures, from the sources. Hanover 1879.
• March 22nd. Pictures from the life of the German emperor in speech, song and declamation. Hanover 1887.
• The enchanted pot. Together with Carl Colshorn (author), Claudia Carls (illustrator), 2007, ISBN 3-865-66073-8 .
  • The porridge pot. 2007, ISBN 0-698-40073-9 . (English version)
  • La Princesse et le chaudron. 2007, ISBN 2-354-13010-4 . (French edition)

• The book by Linde Knoch: Die Zaubermühle or How salt came into the North Sea / De Zaubermöhl or How dat Solt in de Nordsee keem. (Potsdam 2010) is based on the fairy tale Why Sea Water is Salty.

Article on Wikipedia:

• From the thick, fat pancake
• Of the messengers of death

Honors

• 1888 - Red Eagle Order IV class
• 1890 - Honorary member of the Holzminda student association in Göttingen.

literature

• Adolf Hinrichsen: The literary Germany. Berlin 1887, p. 97.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 115–116.
• Rudolf Eckart : Lexicon of Lower Saxony writers from the oldest times to the present. Osterwieck / Harz 1891, p. 49.
• B. Lundius (ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity of Holzminda Göttingen , 35th year, Pinneberg, 1933, pp. 92-95.
• Richard Mehlen: Letters from the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm to Theodor Colshorn 1853-1860. In: New archive for Lower Saxony. 1949, Volume 3, Issue 9-14, pp. 833-855.
• German Literature Lexicon . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Volume 2. Bern; Munich: Francke, 1969.
• Günter Häntzschel: Bibliography of the German-language poetry anthologies 1840-1914. Part 1: Bibliography. Munich 1991, pp. 97-99.
• Franz Kößler, personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918, volume Cadura – Czygan Preprint Giessen 2007 (PDF; 1.5 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gustav Othmer: Vademecum of the assortment. Hanover 1861, p. 24.
2. ^ Negotiations of the twenty-third meeting of German philologists and school men in Hanover. Leipzig 1865, p. 9, 189.
3. ^ Nineteenth message about the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. Hanover 1856, p. 57.
4. ^ Correspondence sheet of the Association for Low German Language Research. Hamburg 1877, p. 42
5. ↑ Walter Pape : The “Wunderhorn” and Heidelberg Romanticism: Performance, Orality, Written Form. Tübingen 2005 (Writings of the International Arnim Society. 5), p. 51.
6. ^ Theodor Colshorn: German mythology for the German people. Hanover 1853, p. IV.
7. ^ Heinz Schuler : Music and Freemasonry. Wilhelmshaven 2000, p. 215.
8. ↑ Georg Friedrich Quantity: History of the Masonic Lodge Gate to the Temple of Light in Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1863, p. 55.
9. ^ Günter Häntzschel: Bibliography of the German-language poetry anthologies 1840–1914. Part 1: Bibliography. Munich 1991, p. 98.
10. ^ Theodor Colshorn: Fairy tales and legends from Hanover. Hanover 1854, fairy tale no.61.
11. ^ Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia. Berlin, 1890, p. 760.

Web links

Wikisource: Theodor Colshorn  - Sources and full texts

Wikisource: Carl Colshorn  - Sources and full texts

• Works by Theodor Colshorn at Zeno.org .