Johann Senn
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Johann Chrysostomus Senn (1 April 1795, Pfunds – 30 September 1857, Innsbruck; pseudonym: Bombastus Bebederwa) was a political lyric poet of the Vormärz.
Life[]
Johann Senn was the son of the freedom fighter, .
He lived in Vienna from 1807 and attended the . He was a pupil of the along with Franz Schubert. He later studied philosophy, law und medicine, none of which he managed to complete. He became a teacher to Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier.
From 1815, his interest in politics grew ever more strident. Members of his circle included his old schoolmate, the composer Franz Schubert, the poet Johann Mayrhofer, the lawyer and later Redemptorist , the artist Leopold Kupelwieser and the doctor Ernst von Feuchtersleben.
In 1820, Senn was arrested for his revolutionary ideas and imprisoned for almost a year. He was then deported to Tyrol and never returned to Vienna.
He spent eight years there in military service, rising to the position of lieutenant. He was unable to enjoy a middle-class career and lived out the rest of his days in Innsbruck working either as a or in the offices of regional administration.
Works[]
His friend Franz Schubert, set his poems Schwanengesang (Swan Song) and Selige Welt (Blessed World) to music. Senn, who had only one collection of poetry published in his lifetime, became popular in Tyrol through his poem Der rote Tiroler Adler (The Red Tyrolean Eagle). It was used as national propaganda and later set to music. A street in Innsbruck has been named after him. Part of his work was published at the behest of Adolf Pichler und Moriz Enzinger, but most remains unpublished and virtually unknown to this day.
- Johann Senn: Gedichte (poems), Innsbruck, 1838.
- (Ed.): Glossen zu Göthe's Faust. Aus einem Nachlasse von Johann Senn, Innsbruck, 1862.
References[]
- : der Freund J. Chr. Senns und des Grafen Aug. v. Platen. Eine Selbstbiographie aus dem Wiener Schubertkreise nebst Briefen. In: Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum 10, 1930, 117-379.
- Moriz Enzinger: Zur Biographie des Tiroler Dichters Joh. Chrys. Senn. In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 156, 1930) 169-183.
- : Dioskuren im Schubert-Kreis. Senn, Bruchmann und [Schober]. Das philosophische Triumvirat. In: Schubert durch die Brille. Mitteilungen des Internationalen Franz Schubert Instituts 19, 1997, 65-80.
External links[]
- Johann Senn in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU)
- 1795 births
- 1857 deaths
- People from Landeck District
- Austrian male writers