Johann Bernhard Vermehren

Johann Bernhard Increase (* June 6, 1777 in Lübeck, † November 29, 1803 in Jena ) was an early romantic German poet and scholar.

Life

Increase was an early Romantic poet, who was clearly in the shadow of the revered great poets of his time. He had his doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Jena in 1799, habilitated a year later and taught there as a lecturer until he fell ill in 1803 and died of scarlet fever.

His first poems appeared in Musenalmanach by Friedrich Schiller and in Berlinischen Archives of time. His ten letters about Friedrich Schlegel 's Lucinda at the right assessment of the same brought him after the publication in 1800 the patronage of Friedrich Schlegel, while the contemporary critics tore the work. Friedrich Schleiermacher Familiar letters presented Vermehrens observations about Lucinda time then entirely left out. With the helpful support of Friedrich Schlegel Increase gave his romantic Musenalmanach twice, in 1802 appeared in Leipzig and in 1803 in Jena, out. In addition to the 15 poems of Friedrich Schlegel published in proliferating Almanac Posts by Sophie Mereau, August Stephan Winkelmann, Klopstock and Hölderlin.

Increase married on April 20, 1801, the twelve years his senior widow of the kingdom Postmaster in Jena, Henriette boar, daughter of the Privy Court Councillor Prof. Johann Ludwig von Eckardt ( 1732-1800 ). The son of this marriage, Johann Bernhard Increase, later became Secret Oberappellationsgerichtsrat Total Area on top of Appeals to Jena for Ernestine States, in 1878, the Higher Regional Court Jena emerged.