Hugo Alexander Oelbermann | |
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Born | |
Died | 1898 (aged 65–66)
Bad Godesberg,
Bonn, Germany |
Other names | Hugo von Müllenbach, Ernst Thränenlacher, Nath. Faust |
Occupation(s) | Poet, bookseller |
Hugo Alexander Oelbermann (or Ölbermann; 4 October 1832 – 1898) was a German poet and bookseller. His pseudonyms were Hugo von Müllenbach, Ernst Thränenlacher, and Nath. Faust. [1]
Oelbermann was born on 4 October 1832 in Müllenbach , Marienheide, Germany, [2] the son of pastor Friedrich Oelbermann and Marianne von Wenckstern (née Komp). [3] The writer and journalist Otto von Wenckstern was his stepbrother.
Hugo received his education at a boys' boarding school and at a rector's school in Gummersbach. In 1848, he went to Barmen to apprentice under Wilhelm Langewiesche (b. 1807) as a bookseller. [2] In Barmen, he met the poets Emil Rittershaus and Carl Siebel, with whom he founded the Wuppertal poets' circle. [4]
Later, after 1853, he worked as a bookseller in Königsberg, Gotha, Zurich, and Leipzig. In Leipzig, he also wrote for Die Gartenlaube magazine. [2] On 19 October 1859, he asked Siebel to inquire with Friedrich Engels or Karl Marx whether they could financially support him.[ citation needed]
In 1866, he helped to provision a statue for the tomb of Friederike Brion, made by the sculptor Wilhelm Hornberger . [5] Oelbermann is said to have joined the "Young Germanic School" at one point, as stated in a publication about Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. [6] [7] In 1882, he founded the short-lived Bonner Montagsblatt (Bonn Monday Journal), which became a publishing house a few months later under the name Das Alte Blatt (The Old Leaf). [2]
Oelbermann died in 1898 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, and was buried on November 2, 1898, in the Castle Cemetery . [3]
His poem "Maienglöcklein" was set to music by Paul Hindermann. [8] His poem "O säh ich auf der Heide dort" was set to music by Franz Neuhofer in his unpublished Opus 25. [9]
In the Kalliope Catalog , letters from him to Julius Campe , the J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung (publishing house), Lorenz Diefenbach, Luise Förster (1794–1877), Karl Gutzkow, Hermann Kletke, Adolf Stern, and others are preserved.[ citation needed]
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Hugo Alexander Oelbermann | |
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Born | |
Died | 1898 (aged 65–66)
Bad Godesberg,
Bonn, Germany |
Other names | Hugo von Müllenbach, Ernst Thränenlacher, Nath. Faust |
Occupation(s) | Poet, bookseller |
Hugo Alexander Oelbermann (or Ölbermann; 4 October 1832 – 1898) was a German poet and bookseller. His pseudonyms were Hugo von Müllenbach, Ernst Thränenlacher, and Nath. Faust. [1]
Oelbermann was born on 4 October 1832 in Müllenbach , Marienheide, Germany, [2] the son of pastor Friedrich Oelbermann and Marianne von Wenckstern (née Komp). [3] The writer and journalist Otto von Wenckstern was his stepbrother.
Hugo received his education at a boys' boarding school and at a rector's school in Gummersbach. In 1848, he went to Barmen to apprentice under Wilhelm Langewiesche (b. 1807) as a bookseller. [2] In Barmen, he met the poets Emil Rittershaus and Carl Siebel, with whom he founded the Wuppertal poets' circle. [4]
Later, after 1853, he worked as a bookseller in Königsberg, Gotha, Zurich, and Leipzig. In Leipzig, he also wrote for Die Gartenlaube magazine. [2] On 19 October 1859, he asked Siebel to inquire with Friedrich Engels or Karl Marx whether they could financially support him.[ citation needed]
In 1866, he helped to provision a statue for the tomb of Friederike Brion, made by the sculptor Wilhelm Hornberger . [5] Oelbermann is said to have joined the "Young Germanic School" at one point, as stated in a publication about Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. [6] [7] In 1882, he founded the short-lived Bonner Montagsblatt (Bonn Monday Journal), which became a publishing house a few months later under the name Das Alte Blatt (The Old Leaf). [2]
Oelbermann died in 1898 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, and was buried on November 2, 1898, in the Castle Cemetery . [3]
His poem "Maienglöcklein" was set to music by Paul Hindermann. [8] His poem "O säh ich auf der Heide dort" was set to music by Franz Neuhofer in his unpublished Opus 25. [9]
In the Kalliope Catalog , letters from him to Julius Campe , the J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung (publishing house), Lorenz Diefenbach, Luise Förster (1794–1877), Karl Gutzkow, Hermann Kletke, Adolf Stern, and others are preserved.[ citation needed]
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