Wilhelm Ribbeck

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Wilhelm Ribbeck (born March 11, 1793 in Markgrafpieske ; † February 27, 1843 in Magdeburg ), was a Prussian officer , rendant and writer .

Life

Ribbeck grew up in his parents' house until 1807, most recently as superintendent in Strausberg . Afterwards, orphaned , he was sent to his uncle in Berlin, where he finished his education at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin . In the Wars of Liberation , he joined the Lützow Freikorps in 1813 . His close friendship with Theodor Körner inspired him to write his first poems . He and his comrade transferred to the 25th Infantry Regiment in 1815 and, as a battalion leader , was able to capture both the traveling car with the war chest and Napoleon's cash and kitchen wagons. For this initiative he received the Iron Cross 1st Class and a share of the booty. For health reasons, Ribbeck resigned in July 1817 at his own request with half pay, initially for one year from the Prussian army service .

First in Berlin, then in Kleve, he received civil benefits in the financial administration. From 1823 he was finally employed as rendant at the Provinzialsteuerkasse and the Provinzial Feuersocietät, and later at the Kreiskasse in Magdeburg. Ibid. In 1828 he became a citizen of the old town , a little later also a city ​​councilor . In the years 1836 and 1837 he was the recorder of the city council, later as the treasurer of the Magdeburg Bible Society.

Ribbeck appealed to Arthur Schopenhauer in Frankfurt am Main to add a memorial.

As a versatile art lover and interested, he was an avowed supporter of Magdeburg poets, painters and sculptors. Encouraged by Friedrich Lucanus , he founded in 1835 with other initiators such as a. August Wilhelm Francke , Friedrich Wiggert , Friedrich Albert Immanuel Mellin and Carl Sieg founded the first Magdeburg Art Association.

In addition to comprehensive and, ultimately, supraregional general art funding, he devoted himself to his mostly patriotic poetry. His poem The praying peasant family led to a theological dispute, the so-called Magdeburg picture dispute, between pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Sintenis and Bishop Bernhard Dräseke about the veneration of images in Magdeburg.

Works

  • Wild roses from Eugenia's estate , 1820
  • The Veiled Messenger , 1833
  • Virgin Emerentia Lorenz of Tangermünde. A legend , 1835
  • Poems , 1839

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Individual evidence

  1. On the Schopenhauer Memorial: [On an appeal in the newspapers, Arthur Schopenhauer in Frankfurt a. M. to set a monument.] / W. Ribbeck.