Theodor Springmann junior

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Theodor Springmann junior (born December 25, 1880 in Hagen , Westphalia , † April 16, 1917 at Chemin des Dames ) was a German author and translator.

Life

Springmann was a son of the Hagen industrialist Theodor Springmann senior . He lived in Hagen and became known for his posthumously published translation of the Bhagavad Gita , one of the central scriptures of Hinduism .

Springmann served as an officer in the First World War . A few months after completing his Bhagavad Gita translation, he fell in 1917 during the Battle of the Aisne as commander of a mine throwing squad.

His son is the organic farmer Baldur Springmann .

Works

  • Germany and the Orient: the colonial empire of the future in the spiritual and material field. Otto Hammerschmidt, Hagen 1915.
  • Bhagavad-Gītā: The song of the Blessed One. Translated from Sanskrit into German by Theodor Springmann. Hall, Hamburg 1920. 9th edition: Schwab, Schopfheim 1962.

literature

  • Ortrud Wörner-Heil: From utopia to social reform: Frankenfeld youth settlement in Ried in Hesse and Schwarze Erde women's settlement in the Rhön 1915 to 1933 (= sources and research on Hessian history. Volume 104). Hessische Historische Kommission, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-88443-196-X , pp. 261-263 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Patrizia Gallistru-March: The "Colonial Empire of the Future" by Theodor Springmann jun . In: Fabian Fechner u. a. (Ed.): Colonial pasts of the city of Hagen , Hagen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063343-0 , pp. 72–73.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Gerber: Hagener Bohème: People around Osthaus. vd Linnepe, Hagen 1990, ISBN 3-89431-008-1 , p. 93 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland Volume 91 (1940), p. 393.
  3. ^ Theodor Lessing : The cursed culture. Thoughts on the contrast between life and spirit. Beck, Munich 1921 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Springmann, Theodor junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1917
Place of death Chemin des Dames