Wilhelm Bode (writer)

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Wilhelm F. Bode (born March 30, 1862 in Hornhausen ; † October 24, 1922 in Weimar ), also called Goethe-Bode to distinguish it from Wilhelm von Bode (= Art-Bode), was a teacher , activist of the abstinence movement and writer .

Life

Wilhelm F. Bode passed his state examination in philology in 1885. In the following year he worked as a teacher for German, French and English at the Technikum Mittweida and wrote his first “temperance writings”, which led him to the anti-alcoholic movement. Wilhelm F. Bode lived in England for a while, and later returned to Germany. From 1899 he lived as a writer in Weimar. He died there after a traffic accident with the tram. His gravestone was renewed by the writer Walther Victor and is located near the cemetery hall in Weimar.

Wilhelm F. Bode and his first wife, whom he divorced in Hildesheim in 1900, had two sons and a daughter. Victor Bode, one of the sons, lived in church service in Hanover and was the editor of the "Hannoversche Sonntagsblatt".

His house in Weimar, in which his widowed second wife, Anna Bode, ran a Goethe mail order company and a lending library , was demolished after 1936 due to construction work.

Wilhelm-Bode-Strasse in the south of Weimar is a reminder of Wilhelm F. Bode today . There is also a ground well in Weimar . The house he was born in is in Hornhausen on August-Bebel-Strasse. A plaque there points to the Goethe researcher .

Act

When Wilhelm F. Bode moved to Weimar in 1899, he began to study source material from the Goethe Archive, which was released in 1885. He published numerous individual studies on Goethe, published the quarterly journal "Stunden mit Goethe" from 1904 and thus influenced Goethe research, although his journalism was not undisputed. His main work, “Goethe's Life”, was published in twelve volumes from 1920, but he was only able to complete seven volumes. Following his philanthropic ideas, he also turned to the works of Leo Tolstoy, for example.

Wilhelm F. Bode founded a federation of alcohol opponents in 1889 and was managing director of the German association against abuse of spirits in Hildesheim from 1892 to 1899. From 1902 to 1906 he worked as a lawyer for the Association for Inn Reforms, which he co-founded.

Works

  • Tolstoy's teachings. A thought excerpt from all the works of Lev Tolstoy. 1900. Reprints: Bibliobazaar, 2009 ISBN 1110214855 ; Severus-Verlag, 2015 ISBN 3958013244
  • Goethe in confidential letters from his contemporaries. Also a life story. 3 vols. Peter Lang, Munich 1969
  • A small selection of Goethe's letters. 2 vols. Publishing house of the German Poets' Memorial Foundation, 1907
  • Goethe's love life. Berlin 1919.
  • Back then in Weimar
  • Life in Alt-Weimar.
  • Goethe's life. (Vol. 1–6; Vol. 7–8 continued by Valerian Tornius ), incomplete due to Bode's death
  • The Weimar court of muses .
  • Charlotte von Stein .
  • Amalie, Duchess of Weimar . 3 vol.
  • Goethe's life in the garden at the star.
  • Goethe's thoughts.
  • Goethe's art of living.
  • The power of consumers . Weimar 1902
  • The state ban on the beverage trade in America . Weimar 1901
  • Indivi: A strange travelogue. Novel. Chr. G. Tienken, Bremerhaven and Leipzig 1892

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Stolzenau: frequent writer Wilhelm Bode died 90 years ago in Weimar ( Thüringer Allgemeine , October 24, 2012, accessed December 27, 2014)
  2. ^ Excerpts from thoughts from 63 writings Ts
  3. only the 2nd edition can be found in library catalogs