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Ludwig Bechstein (24 November 1801 – 14 May 1860) was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales.

Ludwig Bechstein
Ludwig Bechstein

He was born in Weimar, the illegitimate child of Johanna Carolina Dorothea Bechstein and Hubert Dupontreau, a French emigrant who disappeared before the birth of the child; Ludwig thus grew up very poor in his first nine years. His situation improved only when his uncle Johann Matthäus Bechstein, a renowned naturalist and forester living in Meiningen in the country of Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, adopted him in 1810. He was sent to school in Meiningen, and in 1818, started an apprenticeship as a pharmacist.

From 1828 to 1831 he studied philosophy and literature in Leipzig and Munich thanks to a stipend granted by Duke Bernhard II of Sachsen-Meiningen, who hired him subsequently as a librarian. This lifetime post provided Bechstein with a continuous income, while leaving him a lot of freedom to pursue his own interests and writing. He lived from 1831 until his death in Meiningen. In his honor, a fountain was built in the English Garden.

Bechstein published many works and was a successful author of his time. His German Fairy Tale Book was even more popular than the Brothers Grimm's collection when it was first published in 1845.[1] He published several collections of folk tales, and also published romances and poems


Important works


Cover of Villa Carlotta. Poetische Reisebilder vom Comersee und aus den lombardisch-venetianischen Landen, by Bechstein (1857)
Cover of Villa Carlotta. Poetische Reisebilder vom Comersee und aus den lombardisch-venetianischen Landen, by Bechstein (1857)

Schools named after Ludwig Bechstein



Notes


  1. Bell, Anthea (2006). Rapunzel and other Magic Fairy Tales. Egmonts Press. p. 157. ISBN 1-4052-1832-0.

References





На других языках


[de] Ludwig Bechstein

Ludwig Bechstein (* 24. November 1801 in Weimar, Herzogtum Sachsen-Weimar; † 14. Mai 1860 in Meiningen, Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Bibliothekar, Archivar und Apotheker. Er ist heute vor allem durch die von ihm herausgegebene Sammlung deutscher Volksmärchen bekannt (u. a. Deutsches Märchenbuch und Neues deutsches Märchenbuch).
- [en] Ludwig Bechstein

[ru] Бехштейн, Людвиг

Людвиг Бехштейн (нем. Ludwig Bechstein; 24 ноября 1801 (1801-11-24), Веймар, — 14 мая 1860, Майнинген) — немецкий писатель, известный составитель сборников народных сказок.



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