Justinus Kerner

Justinus Andreas Christian (from) Kerner ( born September 18, 1786 in Ludwigsburg, † February 21, 1862 in Weinsberg ) was a German poet, physician and medical writer.

• 2.1 Roman
• 2.2 stories
• 2.3 poems
• 2.4 Satire
• 2.5 Medical and scientific writings
• 2.6 Autobiographical

Life

Origin and school

His father, Christoph Ludwig Kerner was, like his grandfather, Johann Georg Kerner, chief official in Ludwigsburg. His mother was Friederike Luise, born Stockmaier ( 1750-1817 ). Justin was the youngest of six children. His eldest brother, Johann Georg, was known as a chronicler of the French Revolution, his brother Charles became general, hut professional and briefly Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Württemberg. In addition, he had another brother and two sisters.

Justinus Kerner went to Ludwigsburg to school and then was initially in Maulbronn, where his father had been transferred, taught by fellows of the local convent school, then he received in Knittlingen lessons. After the death of his father in 1799 his mother put the still underage Justin as apprentice in the office of the ducal cloth factory in Ludwigsburg. Kerner did not like the dull work. He began to write poems to distract and entertain the sick of the housed in the same building madhouse by playing his mouth harp.

Study

His former pastor and teacher Karl Philipp Conz, meanwhile, poet and professor of ancient languages ​​at the University of Tübingen, implemented in Kerner's mother that the son was allowed to study. From 1804 to 1808, he studied for his doctorate in medicine and science in Tübingen.

Already during his studies he was a friend of Ludwig Uhland and Gustav Schwab, from which later the core of the Swabian poet school should develop, the most prominent representatives belonged Kerner.

In 1807 he learned at a ceremony on the occasion of Uhland's birthday his future wife Friederike Ehmann (January 9, 1786 - April 4, 1854 ) from Ruit know the Fildern, he Rickele (from Ruit ) called and immortalized in many poems, which he married in 1813. ( - April 14, 1886 December 2, 1813 verh. Niethammer ) and Emma From this marriage the daughters Marie went (married Gsell, November 16, 1822 - November 26, 1895) as well as the son of Theobald (14 June 1817-11 August., 1907 ) produced.

A close friendship with his fellow student Kerner and physician colleagues David Assing in Hamburg, who had Friederike Ehmann cured of a serious illness as well with Assings wife Rosa Maria and her brother Karl August Varnhagen von Ense in Berlin. This friendship extended to Assings daughters Ottilie and Ludmilla and sat down in the next generation when Theobald continued.

Kerner as a physician and writer

After his studies and several trips he worked as a physician from 1810. Initially he was in Dürrmenz, 1811 in Wildbad spa doctor, worked as a general practitioner in Welzheim since 1812. In 1815 he became senior medical officer, first in Gaildorf, from 1819 until his retirement as a result of eye disease ( cataract ) in 1851 then in the vineyard. There he settled, after the family had previously lived mostly in very cramped living conditions for rent, build 1822 which is now open to visitors even as the Kerner -rise residential building in the former town moat. The expanded many times, the house and the adjacent harbor after 1823 newly acquired spirits medieval tower Kerner's large collection of art objects and were hospitable meeting place of Kerner's numerous contacts. Ludwig Uhland, Gustav Schwab, Nikolaus Lenau, the brothers Charles and Louis Mayer and Alexander of Württemberg went there on and off. His son, Theobald Kerner, also a physician and writer, reported it in his 1894 published book The Kerner house and its guests. Kerner also belonged to the poet Seracher circle and had a circle of friends in Munich.

His style is described as simply and intimately, which can be found in his works both sadness and humor and real heart piety. Some of his poems are very well known, as songs such as The richest prince Wanderlied ( " Arise! Yet been drinking sparkling wine !") Or The Wanderer in the saw-mill, though often is not aware that it is poetry Kerner. Is in the concert halls still performed frequently today the song cycle Twelve poems by Justinus Kerner for voice and piano, Op 35 by Robert Schumann ( 1840).

Later Kerner turned to spiritualism, occultism and somnambulistischen questions. He took the visionary of Prevorst, Friederike Hauffe (1801-1829), some time with him, and in 1829 published two books on it.

Kerner joy of grotesques prove his " Klecksographien ". Source of employment were the " Tintensäue " that fell at times to the letters and manuscripts of almost blind poet. He generated by folding the paper from the crushed inkblots abstract drawings, which he tried to give with a few extra strokes of the pen a narrative representation. The compiled by him from Klecksographien " Hades book" is available in single copy in the National Schiller Museum in Marbach am Neckar. The Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach used at the beginning of the 20th century such " drawings " of his patients in the Rorschach test named after him and always controversial for the determination of perception, intelligence, and emotional characteristics.

From heimatkundlichem interest he sought the Weinberger history and preservation of the castle ruins Weibertreu. He wrote in 1819 an essay about the Church Vineyard and 1820 on the basis of handwritten sources an essay (1822 ) book on vineyard in the Peasants' War, The storming of the city vineyard by the bright Christian pile in 1525 and their consequences for this city.

His consistent performance as a doctor is the initial clinical description of bacterial food poisoning botulism in his 1822 published writing The fat poison or the fatty acid and their effects on the organism thierieschen. A Beytrag to investigate the toxic substance acting in tainted sausages.

Justinus Kerner was buried in the cemetery next to his wife Weinberger Rickele. The grave still exists today.

Famous Works

Novel

• Travel shadow of the shadow players Lux (1811, ISBN 3-458-33526-9 )

Stories

• The Homeless (1816, ISBN 3-933292-73-5 )
• Story of two somnambulist (1824 )

Poetry

• Poetic Almanac (1812, together with Uhland, Schwab and others)
• German poet Forest (1813, together with Uhland, Schwab and others)
• Poems (1826, collection ) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• The last Blüthenstrauß (1852 )
• Winterblüthen (1859 )
• Known: The richest prince ( ballad )
• Hikers in the sawmill
• Arise still drunk
• The violinist to Gmünd

Satire

• The Raging Sandler (1817 )

Medical and scientific writings

• The Wildbad in the Kingdom of Württemberg (1813, ISBN 3-921841-26-7 )
• The fat or fatty acid and their toxic effect on the animal body (1822)
• Story of two somnambulist (1824 )
• The Visionary of Prevorst (First Edition: 2 volumes, 1829, revised edition 2012, 336 pages, paperback, ISBN 978-3-7984-0815-9 )
• Leaves from Prevorst (from 1831)
• Stories possessed more recently (1834 ) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• A publication from the night areas of Nature ( 1836)
• Message from the occurrence of the Obsessed One (1836 )
• Magikon, Archive for observations from the realm of spirit lore ( 1840, ISBN 3-923620-03-9 )
• Memories of Franz Anton Mesmer (1856 )

Autobiographical

• Picture book from my boyhood (1849, new edition: ISBN 3-458-32038-5 )
• Kleksographien (1890 published by his son Theobald, digitized )

Justinus Kerner - medal

The Medical Association of Public Health Service Baden-Württemberg gives the Justinus Kerner - medal since 1979. It is awarded to individuals who have rendered outstanding services to the Public Health Service in Baden -Wuerttemberg. Previous winners include:

Justinus Kerner - price

The city Weinberg donated to mark the 200th birthday Justinus Kerner Justinus - Kerner - 1986 price. It is awarded every three years since 1990 to individuals who have made in connection with the life's work of Kerner or in his spirit in the literary, medical, or homeless and historic preservation area standout. The ceremony takes place each September 18, the birthday of Justinus Kerner, in the vineyard, where the winner is already announced towards the end of last year. The award is endowed with € 5,000. Previous winners include:

Honors

In his retirement in 1850 Justinus Kerner was appointed Knight of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, whereby the personal nobility was connected. 1854 took him to the Bavarian King Maximilian II of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.

In honor of the grape variety Justinus Kerner Kerner was named, in 1929 crossed by the resident in Vineyard State College and Research Institute for Viticulture and Pomology red Trollinger and Riesling white.

In Ludwigsburg, Munich and other cities the streets are named after Kerner. There are several towns named after Justinus Kerner schools; in Heilbronn and vineyard wear high schools named in Ludwigsburg a work -Realschule.

In Gaildorf, on the southeastern edge of the Mainhardter Forest, the Swabian Albverein built in 1902 on the 458 m high Kirgel an observation tower and named it after the physician and poet, and his son Theobald Kerner tower.

Magazine

The information on Justinus Kerner is dedicated to the magazine releases of Justinus Kerner - Club and Women's Club Vineyard, published by Justinus Kerner - Club in the vineyard.