Friedrich Julius Hammer

Friedrich Julius Hammer ( born June 7, 1810 in Dresden, † August 23 1862 in Pillnitz ) was a German writer and poet and cofounder of the German Schiller Foundation.

Curriculum vitae

Hammer 1831 studied law in Leipzig, then swung around on philosophy and literature. In 1834 he returned to Dresden. A comedy The strange breakfast, it provided access to the literary society of the town, particularly in Ludwig Tieck, since he worked only as a writer.

Between 1851 and 1859 he worked at the Saxon constitutional newspaper and was a founding member in 1855 of the German Schiller Foundation. His marriage in 1851 made ​​him financially independent and he bought a small farm in Pillnitz, where he, after several years of stage in Nuremberg, also died. His grave is located on the old Hosterwitzer cemetery, the cemetery Mary on the water.

Works

Hammer wrote, in addition to some other comedies and romances, the drama The Brothers (1856 ) and the novella, introspection and repentance ( Leipzig, 1856), his fame, of course based on his poems. His poetry collection Look around, and look at you ( 1851), was published in more than thirty editions. He was followed in all good hours (1854 ), Fixed base ( 1857), on quiet roads (1859 ), and Learn, love, live (1862 ).

He also wrote a work on Turkish songs, Under the Crescent Moon (Leipzig, 1860), and rhymed versions of the Psalms ( 1861). He also compiled an anthology of popular religious texts: the life and home in God, from the fourteenth edition was published in 1900.