Edvard Storm

Edvard Storm ( born August 21, 1749 Lom, † September 24, 1794 in Copenhagen) was a Norwegian poet and educator.

His parents were the priest Johan Storm (1712-1776) and his second wife Ingeborg Birgitte Roring ( 1718-1760 ). He remained unmarried.

Storm was initially taught at home. At age 13, he went to Christiania in 1762 to the Latin School. In the fall of 1765, he was the " examination of arts ". In the summer of 1766 he was the Anne exam. He interrupted his studies probably for health reasons, first off, and returned to Lom. He remained there for the next three years with the exception of a home teacher in Lesya for half a year. He taught two servants at the vicarage. In 1769 he continued his studies in Copenhagen continued at the theological faculty. The study did not meet him, and he took no exams. But Copenhagen was his new home, and in spite of his homesickness, he saw Lom never again. But he remained in correspondence with his two former students.

The first three years in Copenhagen, he lived in Regensen, later in different places in the city. He has held various positions as a teacher and was active in the circles of poets and intellectuals. His ethical ambitions brought him to " Selskabet for Efterslegten " (Society for the offspring), where he pursued the goals of education for good citizenship. 1786, he was among the founders of the company. Later, where he also got an apartment, teachers, and in 1790 Inspector General of junior high school of the company was. Greek was not taught, Latin only two hours per week, for new languages, natural sciences and history. Pure timpani and corporal punishment were frowned upon. The goal was the formation of character. Among his pupils there was one of the later poets Adam Oehlenschläger. Storm had many close relatives and good friends in Copenhagen, " Det norske Selskab " who met. He was rarely there, because this society too much care for his feelings about the aesthetics and too little attention to the political and cultural building in Norway. He especially loved Johan Herman Wessel not because of his parodies. He was a follower of the poet Johannes Ewald, which he " wanted for trial the gode Ewald eller " dedicated his poem, but was made ​​by Wessel and his followers ridiculous.

Storm worked a wordlist with approximately 1400 words and dialect explanations. His local ties also comes in its eight Dølavise to express the act of Lom with its magnificent scenery and an eclectic life. They are among the first texts that are written in a Norwegian native dialect. Myths, nature and love were the common seal motifs of his time. But there is a big difference between the then standardized Shepherd seals and Storms lyrics. At the same time, as his poem Storm " Skogmøte " ( Forest Encounter) wrote, Thomas De Stockfleth wrote his " Hejmatkomsten " ( 1772). With these two poets poetry came home to a higher language level. Storm wanted to be a Danish- Norwegian poet. He wrote poetry in Adskilligt paa verse according to the taste of the time and lovely idyllic odes. Literary significance has only the first poem, "Ode til Jutulsbierget " ( Ode to the Jutulsberg ), in which he again sings his hometown Lom. He handed the poem at a poetry competition, which was awarded " skjønne Selskabet til og de ​​nyttige Videnskabers Fremme " of ( society promoting the beautiful and useful sciences ), a. The default theme is indicative of the Danish Early Romanticism: There should be a time are also typical moralizing fables and tales " be painting or descriptive poetry about a place in the Danish countries, which is characterized by grace, or horror, or is associated with ancient legends. " which he published in 1779 and 1781.

In Indfødsretten i fire Sange ( civil rights in four cantos ), which was prompted by a royal decree of 1776, he wrote enthusiastically about the political and human freedom and found many connecting factors, Norway and the Norwegian praise. For this he received in 1778 from King 100 Rigsdaler annually and as much of the hereditary prince. Full of energy is zinc Lars Vise, where it goes over the destruction of a Scottish company under Captain Robert Sinclair, who fought in the wars on the side Kalmar Sweden and raided on August 26, 1612 farmers from Gudbrandsdalen and were almost completely destroyed. Again he took the opportunity to praise his homeland. His poetic work ended in 1785, and joined the teachers Storm in the foreground.

Storm suffered from dropsy, of which he died in 1794.

Works (selection)

  • " Dølavisene " ( Songs of the inhabitants of the valley ). The individual poems were printed at different times, together for the first time in 1832.
  • Braeger. A comical heroic poem. ( In his native dialect; anonymous) 1774
  • Adskilligt paa verse ( under the pseudonym Erland Siverssen ), 1775
  • Indfødsretten i fire Sange. 1778
  • Fabler og i Fortællinger the Gellertske Smag, 1778
  • Zinc Lars Vise. (1781 )
  • Original Fabler above Fortællinger. 1782
  • " Ewald eller the gode wanted for trial " in: Dansk Museum 1782, pp. 322-337
  • "En nationally Vise om the skotske Colonel zinc Lars Indfald i Norge 1612 " in Dansk Museum 1782, pp. 714-717.
  • Hellige Sange. ( Free translation of German hymns ). 1785
  • Samlede defendant. ( In it, there are no poems in his native dialect) 1785
  • Erastus eller the bedragne Varsomhed. Comedy in five acts, 1791
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