Johann Peter Hebel
Born	10 May 1760 Basel
Died	22 September 1826 Schwetzingen near Heidelberg

Johann Peter Hebel was a German short story writer and dialectal poet, most famous for his collection of alemannic tales Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes (Treasure chest of the family friend by the Rhine). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Schwetzingen is a German city lying in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, around 10 km southwest of Heidelberg and 15 km southeast of Mannheim. ... A view of the city from the castle (Schloss) A view of stone bridge from the castle (Schloss) The castle (Schloss) above the town Main Street (Hauptstrasse) Shopping district Heidelberg and the other cities of the Neckar valley View from the so called alley of philosophers (Philosophenweg) towards the Old... The term Alemannic can have several meanings. ...

Life

Hebel's father, a weaver and batman who loved learning, died when Hebel was little over a year old. As a result, Hebel was brought up amidst poverty-stricken conditions in the village of Hausen im Wiesental, where he received his earliest education. A promising student, he found friends who enabled him to complete his school education and to study theology (1778-1780) at Erlangen. Genera Many:see text The Weavers are small passerine birds related to the finches. ... A batman is a soldier assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. ... Hausen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογια, logia, words, sayings, or discourse) is reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... Erlangen around 1915 Erlangen is a German city in Middle Franconia. ...

At the end of his university course he was for a time a private tutor, then became teacher at the gymnasium in Karlsruhe, and in 1808 was appointed director of the school. He was subsequently appointed member of the Consistory and evangelical prelate. A gymnasium (pronounced with or, in Swedish, as opposed to ) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools and U.S. High Schools. ... Karlsruhe (population 283,959 in 2005) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ... // Antiquity Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply sitting together, just as the Greek syn(h)edrion (from which the Biblical sanhedrin was a corruption). ...

S' Hebelhuus

Memorials have been erected to him at Karlsruhe, Hausen im Wiesental, Basel and Schwetzingen. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1536 × 2048 pixel, file size: 890 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Das „Hebelhuus“ in Hausen, Heimathaus des alemannischen Dichters Johann Peter Hebel. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1536 × 2048 pixel, file size: 890 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Das „Hebelhuus“ in Hausen, Heimathaus des alemannischen Dichters Johann Peter Hebel. ... Karlsruhe (population 283,959 in 2005) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ... Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area... Schwetzingen is a German city lying in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, around 10 km southwest of Heidelberg and 15 km southeast of Mannheim. ...

Works

The original illustration for Unverhofftes Wiedersehen (Unexpected Reunion), a famous story collected in Schatzkästlein.

Hebel is one of the most widely read of all German popular poets and writers. His poetical narratives and lyric poems, written in the Alemanic dialect, are popular in the best sense. Image File history File links Unverhofftes_wiedersehen. ... Image File history File links Unverhofftes_wiedersehen. ... Alemannic German (Alemannisch) is a group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family. ...

His Alemannische Gedichte (1803) bucolicize, in the words of Goethe, the whole world in the most attractive manner (verbauert das ganze Universum auf die anmutigste Weise). Indeed, few modern German poets surpass him in fidelity, naïveté, humour, and in the freshness and vigour of his descriptions. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced [gø tə]) (August 28, 1749–March 22, 1832) was a German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher. ...

The anecdotes and tales contained in the Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes belong to the best class of German stories, and according to August Friedrich Christian Vilmar (1800-1868) in his Geschichte der deutschen Literatur are worth more than a cartload of novels (wiegen ein ganzes Fuder Romane auf). Admirers of this work include Goethe, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. German Neo-Lutheran theologian; born at Solz (near Rotenburg, 78 m. ... Kafka at the age of five Franz Kafka (IPA: ) (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. ... Walter Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. ... Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) (pronounced ) was an influential German philosopher, best known as the author of Being and Time (1927). ...

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Alemannische Gedichte

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Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes

• Comprehensive scope of information, curriculum vitae, pictures, articles, "Kalendergeschichten" as well as the complete "Alemannische Gedichte" (alemanic poems)
• Homepage of the Primary/Secondary-School of his formerly homeborough Hausen im Wiesental
• Works by Johann Peter Hebel at Project Gutenberg

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