Johann Senn

Johann Chrysostom Senn ( born April 1, 1792 in Pound, † September 30, 1857 in Innsbruck, pseudonym: Bombastus Bebederwa ) was a political poet of the pre-March period.

Life

Johann Chrysostom Senn was a son of freedom fighter Michael Franz Senn. From 1807 he lived in Vienna, where he attended the Academic Gymnasium. Together with Franz Schubert Senn was a pupil of the Vienna City Seminary. After leaving school, he studied philosophy, law and medicine, but finished none of these studies. After all, he was an educator of Baron Anton von Doblhoff -Dier. Since 1815, his political interests emerged ever more clearly. He belonged to an outlawed in Vormarz fraternity at (he was in 1819 the fraternity Lichen circle in Vienna and in 1823 the fraternity Liberation Germania Innsbruck joined ), and together with Schubert, the poet Johann Mayrhofer, the jurist and later Redemptorist Francis of fracture husband, the painter Leopold Kupelwieser and the physician Ernst von Feuchtersleben a circle that read the German classics and early romantics, the forbidden in Austria German idealism propagated and articulate criticism of the Metternich regime. Due to its revolutionary ideas he was arrested in 1820, threw for nearly a year in jail and eventually deported to Tyrol. There, he served eight years military service and rose to the rank of lieutenant. However, a civil career was hardly possible and so he lived until his death in 1857 in Innsbruck as Tagschreiber or worked in the district administration. Senn died totally lonely in Innsbruck garrison hospital and was buried in the military cemetery in Pradl. His friend Adolf Pichler was built by him in 1860 a memorial stone.

In 1907 in Vienna Simmering ( 11th district ) was named the Mountain street after him.

Work

His friend Franz Schubert set to music two poems his swan song and blessed world. In Tyrol became popular Senn, who had published during his lifetime, only a single book of poems, inspired by the poem The red Tyrolean eagle. Due to this popular, later taken up by the national propaganda and set to music the poem, a street was named after him in Innsbruck. Adolf Pichler and Moriz Enzinger could publish his work in part, the majority of his works are, however, largely unpublished and unknown.

• Johann Senn: poems, Innsbruck 1838.
• Adolf Pichler (Ed.): Goethe's Faust glosses. From a Discounts Conditions of Johann Senn, Innsbruck 1862.