Dowsing rod
The dowsing rod was a late Romantic period from Göttingen . It appeared from January to June 1818 twice a week with the subtitle "Ein Zeitblatt" by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht .
The magazine was carried by a group of student poets, the “Poetic Shoemaker Guild on the Leash”. Heinrich Straube (1794–1847) and Johann Peter von Hornthal (1794–1864), son of Bamberg's mayor Franz Ludwig von Hornthal , acted as editors . Well-known writers could also be won as additional contributors, including Clemens Brentano , the Brothers Grimm , Ernst Moritz Arndt and Achim von Arnim , as well as professors and students from Göttingen. The magazine mainly contained literary texts, poems and short stories , as well as literature announcements. A special focus was on folk songs and - say .
Other well-known contributors
- August von Arnswaldt
- Georg Friedrich Benecke
- Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- Friedrich Wilhelm Carové
- Helmina von Chézy
- Rudolf Christiani
- Johann Dominik Fiorillo
- Johann Nikolaus Götz
- August Franz von Haxthausen
- Werner von Haxthausen
- Arnold Heeren
- Justinus Kerner
- Otto von Loeben
- Ernst von der Malsburg
- Johann Heinrich Menken
- Wilhelm Muller
- Martin Opitz
- Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin Schmidt
- Aloys Schreiber
- Gustav Schwab
- Konrad Schwenck
- Ludwig Uhland
- Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
- Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel
- Carl August Heinrich Zwicker
literature
- Eduard Arens, Josepha Grauheer: The Poetic Shoemaker Guild on the Leine , in: Göttingische Neben Stunden Heft 7, published by Otto Deneke, Göttingen 1929
- Dietrich Denecke , Ernst Böhme (ed.): Göttingen - history of a university town . Volume 2: From the Thirty Years War to the annexation to Prussia. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002. pp. 974 and 1026f.
- Heinrich Straube, Johann Peter von Hornthal (ed.): Wünschelruthe, a newspaper of time . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1818. Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln / Lichtenstein 1971. ( Digitized volume 1 Google Books )
