Wilhelm Schöpff

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Friedrich Wilhelm Traugott Schöpff (born November 15, 1826 in Dresden , † February 13, 1916 in Niederlößnitz ) was a German Lutheran pastor , poet and librettist .

Wilhelm Schöpff (around 1907)

Life

Wilhelm Schöpff was the son of the deacon at the Kreuzkirche and preacher at the Sophienkirche Joseph Wilhelm Schöpff (1793–1831). He attended the Kreuzschule and in 1847 gave the farewell speech in the form of a German poem The Prophet of Ferrara . Until 1850 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . He then worked as a teacher before becoming a deacon in Plauen in 1858 . He was pastor in Oberlossa and Straßberg and from 1871 pastor in Geringswalde . In 1876 he went to Großröhrsdorf as a pastor and in 1883 to Gersdorf . In 1894 he retired and moved to Niederlößnitz.

He also published under the pseudonym Wilfried von der Neun , which he had already acquired during his school days and which was based on the house name of his parents' house To the nine muses in Pillnitzer Strasse, poems that were set to music by Robert Schumann . Further names are W. Schöpff , Wilhelm Schoepff , (Friedrich) Wilhelm (Traugott) Schöpf and Frid. Guil. Pistoth. Schöpff .

Works

Fonts

  • Endweder - Or in the elementary school question with regard to the latest Prussian elementary school bill. Naumann, Leipzig 1892.

Poems

  • World and heart. Seals. 2nd Edition. Leipzig 1856.
  • In God's light: poems. 4. face. u. probably edition of “Welt u. Heart “Section 1, Finster, Kötzschenbroda 1908.
  • From a colorful world / poems. Pierson, Dresden, Leipzig 1908.
  • Lights and Arrows: Proverbs u. Saying. 4. sighted u. strongly probable edition of “Welt u. Heart "Section 3, Pierson, Dresden, Leipzig 1909.

Libretti

Awards

literature

  • Wilhelm Haan (Ed.): Saxon Writer's Lexicon. Schaefer, Leipzig 1875, p. 312.
  • F. Gustav Jansen : Unprinted letters from Robert Schumann. In: The border messengers . 1898, pp. 275–281 (with two letters from Schumann to Schöpff).
  • Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland scholars, artists and writers in words and pictures. Volger, Leipzig 1908, p. 444 f.
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.): Nekrolog zu Kürschner literature calendar . 1901-1935. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1936, column 652.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ After Jansen (Lit.), p. 277
  2. ↑ a b Schöpff, Wilhelm.
  3. ^ Address book Dresden with suburbs, Part VI. Niederlößnitz, p. 354 (Moritzburger Strasse 23 EG.).
  4. ^ Address book Dresden with suburbs, Part VI. Niederlößnitz, p. 361 (owner of Moritzburger Straße 23, Haus Gottfried , which he lived in with a “manorial servant”).
personal data
SURNAME Schöpff, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neun, Wilfried von der (pseudonym); Schöpff, Friedrich Wilhelm Traugott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, poet and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1916
Place of death Niederlößnitz (Radebeul)