Doom
Under a fatal one today "(unfavorable) in the German fate ," an " evil " or " bad luck understood."
The word has been used in German since the 14th century. In Middle High German it had as verhencnisse the meaning of "approval", "consent", "destiny". The word was a noun formation for the verb verhengen ("let hang, give in, let happen, endure").
During the time of the Reformation , the word acquired the meaning of “God's disposition”. This religious use is dwindling in the Age of Enlightenment , instead doom is used to mean "fate".
At the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, Friedrich Schiller speaks of the "divine doom"
- "... I am the last of their tribe, the murder
- Torn from a divine doom. "
as well as your own:
- “When I think [...] that maybe in a hundred or more years - even if my dust has long been blown away - my memory will be blessed and tears and admiration will be paid to me while I am still in my grave, then I will be happy about my profession as a poet and will be reconciled me with God and my often harsh doom. "
References and footnotes
- ↑ a b c d from Kluge Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , 24th edition, 2002
- ↑ a b c d e according to Duden "Etymologie" - dictionary of origin of the German language , 2nd edition, Dudenverlag, 1989
- ^ Friedrich Schiller : Demetrius. Second act, second scene in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ^ Friedrich Schiller, from a letter to Charlotte von Wolzüge, 1784, quoted from http://www.goethezeitportal.de/index.php?id=3544 , accessed on October 29, 2008