Steen Steensen Blicher

Steen Steno Blicher ( born October 11, 1782 Vium; † 26 March 1848 the Spentrup ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and Danish writer.

Life

Blicher came from Jutland, and was the son of a Lutheran pastor. In 1796 he attended high school in Randers and put 1799 the Abitur examination. During his high school years his mother was diagnosed with a mental illness. This event influenced him deeply. In 1801 he was first tutor in Holgershåb on the island of Falster. From 1803 on he studied in Copenhagen in 1809 and put his theological exams from.

In 1810 he became a teacher at the Latin School in Randers, but gave in 1811 to the Magisterium. On June 11, 1810, he married; the marriage produced 10 children, but she was unhappy. He also fought for life with financial problems which were not resolved by the pastorate in Thorning in Central Jutland, which he held from 1819 to 1825. In 1825 he became pastor in Spentrup in Randers and remained there until his death in 1848. The economically precarious situation of a country parson, who was constantly distracted by ancillary works, to supply the growing family, may have contributed to that Blicher " never a good pastor become [ is] rather one who tended to neglect his congregation spiritually, to instead make efforts to extricate her from the economic misery ". In the enlightened spirit, he tried to bring in the poor northern Jutland advances in soil management, such as the promotion of the flat cultivation and reforestation of heathlands, and advocated the abolition of serfdom in Denmark.

In the spirit of his time Blicher was liberal and nationally oriented. Twice he attacked his village pastors from one in the Danish domestic politics. In May 1813 broke out in Denmark, the " literary feud Jews " from a short but fierce dispute over the question of the legal equality of the Jews living in Denmark. Blicher next to Jens Immanuel Baggesen one of the two decisive defender of the emancipation of the Jews. The dispute ended in March 1814 by a royal edict, the legally equal with the Jews in Denmark the non-Jewish Danes.

1839-44 organized Steen Blicher open-air meetings on the sky mountain. The sky mountain festival modeled after the German Hambach Festival from May 1832 as a national celebration should gather the Danes to strengthen their Danishness and express.

1845 Blicher suffered a nervous breakdown, he went into retirement in 1847 and died on 26 March 1848 in Spentrup. He was buried in the churchyard Spentruper.

Works

Blicher began as a poet and translated 1807/1809 Ossian into Danish. But he unfolded his special effects and over 100 short stories, playing in Jutland. Blicher also has historical and topographical works on his home published, which provide the background for the stories.

• The Himmelberg, short stories ( The Himmelberg, The Rauberstube, The stocking Krämer, Diary of a Parish Clerk, The Vicar of Veilby, Late Awakening, The shooter of Aunsbjerg, the three holy nights, Ah, how changed!, Peer Spillemands Journey to Parnassus, peer Spillemands ship Journal, Keltringleben ) transferred from the Danish by Inger and Walter Methlagl, Dragonfly publishing, 2007.
• Brudstykker af en Landsbydegns Dagbog, amendment 1824 (Eng. Back in Tjele 1948), film: Denmark 1974 ( Director: K. Rifbjerg / J.Cornell ); ( German edition: Fragments from the Diary of a Country Küsters, translated and edited by Walter Boehlich; Berlin: Friedensau Press 1993, ISBN 3-921592 -81- X)
• Røverstuen, amendment 1827 (Eng. The Robber's Cave, 1849)
• Præsten i Vejlbye, A criminal history in 1829 (Eng. The pastor of Veilby, nd before 1833), film: Denmark 1920 ( Director: A. Blom ); Denmark 1931 ( Director: G. Schneevoigt ); Denmark 1960 ( Director: P. Kjærulff - Schmidt)
• Telse. Fortælling fra Ditmarskerkrigen, amendment 1829 (German Telse, 1838)
• De tre Helligaftener, amendment 1840 (Eng. The three holy nights. Jutlandic a robber story, 1849)
• E Bindstouw, stories 1842