Lebrecht Blücher Dreves, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lebrecht Blücher Dreves

German poet

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1816

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Dec-1870

Profession: writer, lawyer, poet, notary, translator, poet lawyer, church historian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Lebrecht Blücher Dreves

  • Lebrecht Blücher Dreves (12 September 1816 – 19 December 1870) was a German poet and translator of poetry from Hamburg. The Prussian general Blucher was his baptismal sponsor, whence his name.
  • At age nineteen he submitted a volume of poems for the judgment of Adelbert von Chamisso and Gustav Schwab, and both expressed favourable opinions.
  • This was followed shortly by another volume entitled Lyrische Anklange (Lyrical Melodies), grafted on the music of his favourites, Chamisso, Ludwig Uhland, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Rückert, Schwab, and others.
  • Over the next three years he studied jurisprudence, gaining the degree of doctor of laws summa cum laude.
  • Another volume, entitled Vigilien (Vigils), followed, and in 1843 he published anonymously a third volume, Schlichte Lieder (Unpretentious Songs) embodying his battle-songs, Lieder eines Hanseaten.
  • He converted to Catholicism in 1846, and took a job as notary out of financial difficulties.
  • He also wrote the two-act comedy Der Lebensretter (The Life-Saver) inscribing it: "A manuscript printed for (improvised) private theatricals". His Lieder der Kirche (Church Hymns) paved his way to becoming a translator of hymns (2d ed., 1868).
  • He also wrote a History of the Catholic Congregations in Hamburg and Altona.
  • He likewise translated the Nachtigallenlied by the anonymous author known as "Pseudo-Bonaventura" and Rimbert Vita Ansgari.
  • He undertook the task of editing (in 1867) sources regarding the history of his native city in the Annuae Missionis Hamburgensis 1589-1781.
  • About this time he revised and republished his own poetical works, in which work he was aided by the poet Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff who had become his good friend.
  • He moved to Feldkirch in the Vorarlberg, and became friendly with the poet Father Gall Morel.
  • His son, Dr.
  • G.
  • Dreves, became editor of the Analecta hymnica medii aevi, a large collection of medieval hymnology.
  • Dreves died in Feldkirch.

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