Johannes Daniel Falk
Illustration — Photo of Johannes Daniel Falk Johannes Daniel Falk (28 October 1768 Danzig – 14 February 1826 Weimar) was a German publisher and poet. Falk was born in the port city of Danzig (modern-day Gdańsk), Royal Prussia, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he received his first education against the wishes of his father, who wanted to employ the child in his business as wig maker. The Danzig city council granted Falk a theology stipendium at Halle, but he did not become a preacher and frequented literary circles of Schiller and Goethe instead.
Johannes Daniel Falk
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- Born
- 1768. · Gdańsk.
- Died
- 1826. · Weimar.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- poet, hymnwriter, writer, philanthropist, satirist and educator.
- Languages
- German.
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Illustration — Photo of Johannes Daniel Falk Johannes Daniel Falk (28 October 1768 Danzig – 14 February 1826 Weimar) was a German publisher and poet. Falk was born in the port city of Danzig (modern-day Gdańsk), Royal Prussia, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he received his first education against the wishes of his father, who wanted to employ the child in his business as wig maker. The Danzig city council granted Falk a theology stipendium at Halle, but he did not become a preacher and frequented literary circles of Schiller and Goethe instead.
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In late 1815 or early 1816, he wrote the German text O du fröhliche that became a popular Christmas carol, to the melody of the Catholic hymn O Sanctissima. Falk was the founder of the Falk'sche Institute, a public education place for orphans in Weimar. He died in that city in 1826.
Johannes Daniel Falk is recorded as poet, hymnwriter, writer, philanthropist and satirist.
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Johannes Daniel Falk, 1999
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- 1.Todesanzeige in Weimarisches Wochenblatt vom 17. Februar 1826, S. 61.
- 2.Ernst Schering: Johannes Falk. Leben und Wirken im Umbruch der Zeiten. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1961, S. 15.
- 3.Ernst Schering: Johannes Falk. Leben und Wirken im Umbruch der Zeiten. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1961, S. 11.
- 4.Ernst Schering: Johannes Falk. Leben und Wirken im Umbruch der Zeiten. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1961, S. 14–15.
- 5.Beigesetzt am 24. September, „alt 60 Jahr“; Todesanzeige und Beisetzungsangabe in Beilage zur Weimarischen Zeitung vom 29. September 1841, S. 337 und 344.
- 6.Weimarisches Wochenblatt vom 4. März 1807, S. 79.
- 7.Roderich (5. Mai), Cäcilie (12. Oktober), Eugenie (17. Oktober), Guido (3. November); vgl. Weimarisches Wochenblatt 1813, S. 134, 337 und 346.
- 8.Getauft am 26. Dezember 1799 (Weimarische Wöchentliche Anzeigen vom 28. Dezember, S. 415); † 20. März 1819 (Weimarisches Wochenblatt vom 26. März, S. 112).
- 9.Getauft am 15. September 1805, † 21. Mai 1821 (Weimarisches Wochenblatt vom 21. September 1805, S. 321, und vom 29. Mai 1821, S. 213).
- 10."Pädagoge verwilderter Kinder".
- 11.Empfang für Johannes Falk. In Glaube und Heimat vom 4. Februar 2024, S. 12.
- 12.Großherzogl. S. Weimar-Eisenachʼsches Regierungs-Blatt vom 5. Juni 1829, S. 76f.
- 13.Johann Eduard Bernhard, * 18. September 1820, † 27. April 1837 (Taufangabe in Beilage zum Weimarischen Wochenblatt vom 24. Oktober 1820, S. 365; Todesanzeige und Beisetzungsangabe „alt 16 Jahr 7 Mon. 9 Tage“ in Beilage zur Weimarischen Zeitung vom 29. April 1837, Todesanzeige, und vom 24. Mai, Gestorbene).
- 14.Vgl. Horn 2009.
- 15.Gesellschaft der Freunde in der Noth aufs Jahr 1816. Weimar 1817 Zweyter Bericht. Darin: Lieder, die jeder Zögling der Sonntagsschule auswendig wissen und singen muß, .
- 16.Gerd Bockwoldt: , Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 24. Dezember 2007.
- 17.Letztwillige Verfügung: „sollen also für ihn beten:“
- 18.Zum Grab von Falk und seiner Familie: Hannelore Henze, Doris-Annette Schmidt: Der historische Friedhof zu Weimar. RhinoVerlag, Ilmenau 2011, S. 146 f. ISBN 978-3-939399-08-7.
- 19.Gedenkstätte
- 20.Liturgische Konferenz (Hrsg.): Das Kirchenjahr. Evangelischer Sonn- und Feiertagskalender 2019/2020. Hamburg 2019, S. 34–39 (Namenkalender).
- 21.Conny Mauroner: Wiederbelebt und weitergeführt. In Glaube und Heimat vom 24. Dezember 2023, S. 6.
- 22.PGDW falk/misc/goethe Goethes erste Bekanntschaft mit Schiller
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