Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815)

Born 15 Aug 1740 in Reinfeld, Holstein

Husband of Anna Rebekka Behn — married 15 Mar 1772 in Wandsbeck, Holstein

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1815 at age 74 in Hamburg, Germany

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Biography

Matthias Claudius is Notable.

Matthias Claudius was a German poet and journalist, also known by the pen name "Asmus".

Matthias was born in 1740. He was the son of the pastor Matthias Claudius in Reinfeld, Holstein, and his second wife Maria, née Lorck, daughter of Jess Lorentzen Lorck, a Flensburg councilman. Matthias's parents married on 9 Oct 1738 in Flensburg.^[1][2] Matthias's father's ancestors were pastors in Süderlügum for over a hundred years. The original family name "Clausen" was Latinized to "Claudius". Matthias is related to Theodor Storm and Johannes Brahms through his maternal family.^[3]

Matthias married Anna Rebekka Behn (26 Oct 1754 - 26 Jul 1832) on 15 Mar 1772 in Wandsbeck, Holstein. She was the daughter of the local carpenter Joachim Friedrich Behn. They had the following children:^[3]

• Matthias (died early on 30 Sep 1772),
• Caroline Ilsabe (7 Feb 1774 - 28 Aug 1821), married Friedrich Christoph Perthes,
• Christiane Maria Augusta (23 Nov 1775 - 2 Jul 1796),
• Anna Frederike Petrina (4 Jun 1777 - 12 Mar 1856), married 1798 Maximilian Jacobi (1775-1858),
• Augusta Ernestina Wilhelmina "Auguste" (2 Sep 1779 - 15 Jan 1856),
• Johanna Katharina Henriette "Trinette" (16 May 1781 - 31 Dec 1863),
• Johannes (8 May 1783 - 5 Aug 1859), married Anna Katharina Wilhelmina (Wilhelmine) Marschner (1789-1857),
• Carolina Rebekka Elisabeth (15 Dec 1784 - 6 Aug 1835), married 1819 Jakob Schröder (1770-1831),
• Matthias Heinrich (1786-1788),
• Friedrich Matthias Jacobus (17 May 1789 - 27 Oct 1862), married Johanna Wilhelmina (Wilhelmine) Momma (1791-1855),
• Augustinus Ernst Carl (19 Jul 1792 - 24 Apr 1854), married Theresa Wilhelmina (Wilhelmine) Stavenhagen (1796-1867),
• Franziskus (30 Dec 1794 - 25 Nov 1866).

Matthias passed away in 1815.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPNL-GFHR : 27 October 2021), Matthias Claudius, 9 Oct 1738; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Marriage, Holstein, Großsolt, Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland, Flensburg, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
2. ↑ "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C398-194R-J?cc=3015626 : 2 March 2019), > image 1 of 1; Records extracted and images digitized by Ancestry.com. German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} German Wikipedia article on Matthias Claudius
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #128339374

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q77338
• English Wikipedia article on Matthias Claudius

Notes

N191Matthias Claudius (August 15, 1740 - January 21, 1815) was a German poet, otherwise known by the penname of “Asmus”. Claudius was born at Reinfeld, near Lübeck, and studied at Jena. He spent the greater part of his life in the little town of Wandsbeck, near Hamburg, where he earned his first literary reputation by editing from 1771 to 1775, a newspaper called the Wandsbecker Bote (Wandsbeck Messenger), in which he published a large number of prose essays and poems. They were written in pure and simple German, and appealed to the popular taste; in many there was a vein of extravagant humour or even burlesque, while others were full of quiet meditation and solemn sentiment. In his later days, perhaps through the influence of Klopstock, with whom he had formed an intimate acquaintance, Claudius became strongly pietistic, and the graver side of his nature showed itself. In 1814 he moved to Hamburg, to the house of his son-in-law, the publisher Friedrich Christoph Perthes, where he died on January 21, 1815. Claudius's poem Death and the Maiden was used by composer Franz Schubert in 1817 for one of his most celebrated songs, which in turn became the basis for the 1824 string quartet of the same name. Claudius's collected works were published under the title of Asmus omnia sua secum portans, oder Sämtliche Werke des Wandsbecker Boten (8 vols., 1775-1812; 13th edition, by C. Redich, 2 vols., 1902). His biography has been written by Wilhelm Herbst (4th ed., 1878). See also M. Schneidereit, M. Claudius, seine Weltanschauung und Lebensweisheit (1898). - Source: Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

CLAUDIUS, MATTHIAS (1740-1815), German poet, otherwise known by the nom de plume of Asmus, was born on the 15th of August 1740 at Reinfeld, near Lübeck, and studied at Jena. He spent the greater part of his life in the little town of Wandsbeck, near Hamburg, where he earned his first literary reputation by editing from 1771 to 1775, a newspaper called the Wandsbecker Bote (Wandsbeck Messenger), in which he published a large number of prose essays and poems. They were written in pure and simple German, and appealed to the popular taste; in many there was a vein of extravagant humour or even burlesque, while others were full of quiet meditation and solemn sentiment. In his later days, perhaps through the influence of Klopstock, with whom he had formed an intimate acquaintance, Claudius became strongly pietistic, and the graver side of his nature showed itself. In 1814 he removed to Hamburg, to the house of his son-in-law, the publisher Friedrich Christoph Perthes, where he died on the 21st of January 1815.

Claudius's collected works were published under the title of Asmus omnia sua secum portans, oder Sämtliche Werke des Wandsbecker Boten (8 vols., 1775-1812; 13th edition, by C. Redich, 2 vols., 1902). His biography has been written by Wilhelm Herbst (4th ed., 1878). See also M. Schneidereit, M. Claudius, seine Weltanschauung und Lebensweisheit (1898).

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