Jonas Rein

Jonas Rein ( born January 30, 1760 Øksendal, today part of Sunndal, † November 21, 1821 in Bergen ) was a Norwegian priest, poet and member of the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll Grunnlovsforsamlingen.

His parents were the resident chaplain and later pastor Ole clean (1729-1792) and his wife Margretha Hansdatter Ross ( † 1760). Jonas Rein married his first marriage on December 10, 1791 Anna Cathrine Arbo ( 1756-1794 ), daughter of the pastor Christian Arbo ( 1726-1773 ) and his wife Livia Anne Wolner ( 1725-1769 ); his second wife he married on February 25, 1796 Anna Friderica (or Fredrikke ) Bergersen (21 May 1779-23. February 1856 ), daughter of Berger Bergersen and his wife Inger Marie Wiig.

Rein was a poet in the transition from rationalism to Romanticism. He was in the Imperial Assembly of Eidsvoll in 1814 a strong advocate of Norwegian independence.

Youth and Professional Career

Rein was born on the Kaplanhof Sandbrekken in Øksendal. The mother died two weeks after his birth. He then grew up in Jevnaker, where his father became pastor in 1763. The father taught his children themselves

Since his youth clean was a hypochondriac with weak nerves. He had a difficult character, and his fellow man feared his sharp tongue.

Rein was 1777 in Copenhagen artium the exam. After Anneneksamen he began the study of theology, but was more interested in modern European literature and philosophy. He became a member of " Det norske Selskab " and became an admiring friend of Johan Herman Wessel Johan Vibe. After the theological state examination in 1780 he returned to Norway and was until 1787 mainly tutor in noble families in Østlandet. He wanted to be a poet. His first work Hagen og Axel in classic French style was indeed printed in Copenhagen in 1786, but never mentioned lack of originality.

1787 clean again traveled to Copenhagen and was looking for a job. Initially did not succeed, which filled him with great bitterness against the powerful bureaucrats. In 1789 he passed the newly created Philological state exam, hoping in vain for a teaching job in a secondary school. In 1791 he was offered a pastorate in Kautokeino in Finnmark County. But he preferred before, Resident Chaplain in Skjeberg to today, are part of Sarpsborg, where he was appointed in 1792. For a promotion he ran again in 1799 to Copenhagen and became a minister in Eidanger and Brevik (now districts of Porsgrunn ). There he remained until he became in 1808 pastor at the Nykirche in Bergen.

His poetry

Since 1786 net had published many poems in Danish magazines. 1802 was a collection of poems out in two volumes. The mood of his poetry is sad and melancholic. His best works are elegies. His poems Ved Johan Herman Wessel Grav (An Johann Herman Wessels grave ) and En fader Sang ved sin moderløse Datters Vugge ( song of a father at the birth of his motherless daughter) seem even more poignant today. In his early poems also have a strong social criticism is felt. First, he had great sympathy for the French Revolution, but she was greatly attenuated by the subsequent terror. But always he followed a religious- moral ideal of freedom on an individualistic basis.

His spiritual background was the rationalism and deism of the 18th century. But he also felt the train to romance in the German and Danish philosophy, theology and poetry in the period around 1800. He took to pulses of Kant, Schleiermacher and Schiller. He wrote epigrams, one of which is said to have triggered the so-called Holger feud. 1799 came to a lifelong friendship with the poet couple Kamma and Knud Lyne Rahbek. In 1810 he published another collection of poems. Some of the poems are evidence of a change in the mass treatment of reason towards the feeling.

Together with Christian Magnus Falsen and Herman Foss he founded in 1817 in Bergen patriotic magazine The norske Tilskuer and also wrote some posts.

On the national assembly at Eidsvoll

Clean Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie joined, who had gathered an intellectual circle around him, and founded the society " Quod Libet ", which should correspond to the " Norwegian Society " in Copenhagen. With Christie, whose political views he shared, he came as the fourth delegate of Bergen in the Imperial Assembly of Eidsvoll. He was a passionate patriot and a good speaker. Because of his biting sarcasm he was hated by many followers of Sweden. He claimed that the future King Charles John had converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism only hunger for power and ambition. In advising on the Eidsvollgarantie he accused the opponents, which Count Wedel and Severin Løvenskiold were meant treason and demanded that they should leave the country. His speech led to the adoption of the proposal by a large majority. But these two speeches may have meant that he Bishop of Bergen to the death Johan Nordahl Bruns was not.

In his final years he suffered from severe depression. He was constantly sickly and was embittered and misanthropic. When he died in 1821, he left behind a wife and six small daughters.

Works

• Hagen og Axel. Et Originalt WORRY Spil i fem Optog ( Hagen and Axel. A original tragedy in five acts ). Copenhagen 1786
• " Ved Johan Herman Wessel Grav De Elegy " in: Poetiske Samlinger. 3 piece. Published by " Det norske Selskab ". Copenhagen 1793. Pp. 41-50
• "En Sang ved fader sin moderløse Datters Vugge ". f in Charis 1799, p 123
• Jonas Reins Samlede defendant. 2 vols, Copenhagen 1802
• Nyeste defendant. Copenhagen 1810

Notes and References

The article is mainly based on Norsk biografisk leksikon. Any other information will be reported separately.