Adolf Schults Explained
Adolf Schults (5 June 1820 – 2 April 1858) was a German poet.
Life
Schults was born in Elberfeld, Germany on 5 June 1820 to parents of "little financial means". His father was a foreman in a silk goods factory, while his more-educated mother came from a French family. After leaving school before reaching the secondary level, he entered his father's business. After marrying in 1843, he left this business six months after his father was forced to resign.
He was a deputy editor of the Barmer Zeitung newspaper for a time, but left it sometime before 1848.
He mainly worked as an accountant while writing poetry in his free time, in a situation similar to his childhood friend Friedrich Roeber.
Schults became known primarily for his lyrical works. Among his most famous poems, some of which also contained sociopolitical themes, is the satirical parody Ein neues Lied von den Webern (A New Song of the Weavers), written in response to Heinrich Heine's 1844 poem The Silesian Weavers. Also frequently cited today is his Mother's Day poem Das Mutterauge (Mother's Eye).
He was a member of the Wuppertal poets' circle in the early 1850s. In Schults' estate, the historian Michael Knieriem found the fragment of a drama by Friedrich Engels, entitled Cola di Rienzi. Schults also wrote a poem about Engels in 1848/49.
He died on 2 April 1858 in Elberfeld—reportedly "excessive work, especially at night time, increased his nervousness and ultimately led to the uncanny chest pain [{{Lang|de|Brustleiden}}] to which he succumbed".
Works
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Gedichte. Erste Sammlung . Emil Baensch . 1843 . Magdeburg . Poems. First Collection . 1344529729 . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Gedichte . Emil Baensch . 1847 . 2nd greatly expanded . Magdeburg . 504258840 . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Gedichte . Julius Baedeker . 1857 . 3rd expanded . Iserlohn . 504258840 . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Gedichte . Julius Baedeker . 1857 . 4th . Iserlohn . 504258840 . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Was ist des Michel Vaterland? Versuch zu einem neuen National- und Volkslied, den deutschen Männern Ernst Moritz Arndt und Ferdinand Delbrück in aufrichtiger Verehrung gewidmet . Jurany . 1847 . Leipzig . What is the Homeland of Michel? Attempt at a new national and folk song, dedicated to the German men Ernst Moritz Arndt and Ferdinand Delbrück in sincere reverence . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Märzgesänge. 25 Zeitgedichte . Julius Baedeker . 1848 . Elberfeld & Iserlohn . March Songs. 25 Contemporary Poems . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Leierkastenlieder . 1849 . Munich . Organ Grinder Songs . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Haus und Welt. Neuere Gedichte . Julius Baedeker . 1851 . Elberfeld . Home and World. Newer Poems . 246659931 . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Martin Luther. Ein lyrisch-epischer Cyklus . . 1853 . Leipzig . Martin Luther. A Lyric-Epic Cycle . 679943861 . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Ludwig Capet. Ein historisches Gedicht . Julius Baedeker . 1855 . Elberfeld . Louis Capet. A Historical Poem . 504258850 . 1 . de.
- Book: Schults, Adolf . Der Harfner am Heerd. Ein lyrischer Cyklus . . 1858 . Weimar . The Harpist at the Hearth. A Lyrical Cycle . 247391550 . 1 . de.
References
Bibliography
- Book: Brümmer, Franz . Franz Brümmer . Lexikon der deutschen Dichter und Prosaisten von Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart . Reclam . 1913 . 6 . Leipzig . 337–338 . de . Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Schults, Adolf . https://archive.org/details/BrmmerLexikonDichter19jhBd06/page/n336/mode/1up.
- Book: Engels, Friedrich . Cola di Rienzi: ein unbekannter dramatischer Entwurf . Hammer . 1974 . 978-3-87294-070-4 . Knierem . Michael . Michael Knieriem . Schriften aus dem Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier . Wuppertal . de . Cola di Rienzi: an unknown dramatic sketch . 954247756 . registration.
- Heidermann . Horst . 2002 . Die Weber haben schlechte Zeit. Aus Adolf Schults' revolutionärem Leierkasten . The weavers are having a hard time. From Adolf Schults' revolutionary organ grinder. . Geschichte Im Wuppertal . de . 11 . 46–57.
- Book: Knieriem, Michael . Wuppertaler Biographien, Folge 12 . Born . 1974 . Beiträge zur Geschichte und Heimatkunde des Wuppertals . Wuppertal . 57–68 . Wuppertal biographies, 12th Series . Adolf Schults (1820–1858).
- Book: Knieriem, Michael . Michael Knieriem . "Wir wollen dem Wuppertale einen Namen machen..." Eine Dokumentation zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Elberfelder Literaturkränzchens 1838–1844 . Stadt Wuppertal . 1994 . Nachrichten aus dem Engels-Haus . Wuppertal . de . 'We want to make a name for the Wuppertal...' A documentation of the history of the Elberfeld literary circle 1838-1844 . 34645266 . 10.
- Book: Pröhle, Heinrich . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . Duncker & Humblot . 1891 . 32 . Leipzig . 702–703 . de . Schults, Adolf . https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Schults,_Adolf.
- Book: Schults . Adolf . Adolf Schults und Johann Gabriel Seidl: mit den Biographien und Seidls Portrait . Seidl . Johann Gabriel . Johann Gabriel Seidl . . 1870 . Meyer's Groschen-Bibliothek der deutschen Classiker für alle Stände . 349 . Hildburghausen . de . Adolf Schults and Johann Gabriel Seidl: with the biographies and Seidl's portrait.
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