{"id":852,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/weizenberg\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:53:18","slug":"weizenberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/w\/weizenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Juhan Weizenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poems<\/span><\/strong><\/a> \"Juhan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Juhan Weitzenberg (also Weizenberg, 22 July 1838 \u2013 4 November 1877) was a poet.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weitzenberg was born in Kanepi parish in V\u00f5ru County as son of a cottager. He studied at Erastvere village school, Kanepi parish school and in 1850\u20131854 at the German-language Tartu County school where one of his schoolmates was later pastor and folklorist Jakob Hurt. As a 13-year-old schoolboy, Weitzenberg accidentally killed his 5-year-old brother when playing with a gun in summer. The memory of the tragic incident accompanied him throughout his life and urged him to write a longer poem Ikulaul<\/em> (\u2018Song of Lament\u2019) which has not been preserved. From 1855\u20131857, Weitzenberg worked as home tutor for sacrist Adam Jakobson\u2019s family, thus, being also the tutor of Carl Robert Jakobson, a later political activist of national awakening. From 1858\u20131861, he worked as a manor and parish clerk at Alatskivi, from 1861 as a clerk at Zinovyev\u2019s forest industry company in Narva.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weitzenberg\u2019s creativity period was short, reaching its peak in the years when he lived at Alatskivi. In 1860, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He finished writing poetry after 1865. To improve his health, he travelled in Germany, Switzerland and Austria in 1873. In 1876, he visited Finland and Sweden. In 1874, he was elected president of the newly founded Narva choral society society Ilmarine. He died in Narva of tuberculosis and was buried in Siivertsi cemetery there. A monument created by his cousin, sculptor August Weizenberg, was erected on his grave but was demolished in the 1960s. In 1977, Weitzenberg was reburied to Kanepi.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weitzenberg\u2019s creation represents the transition from newer folk song to artistic poetry. His verses appeared in newspapers, songbooks, anthologies and school textbooks. Several of his poems began to circulate as anonymous folklore spreading all over Estonia. He wrote nearly 20\u201330 poems. Weitzenberg wrote in the Kanepi dialect of the South-Estonian language. As the author admitted in his letters, he preferred narrative poetry to lyrical. Weitzenberg\u2019s major achievements are his narrative poems T\u00f6nnis Laks ehk Eestlaste Isamaa<\/em> (\u2018T\u00f6nnis Laks or Estonians\u2019 Homeland\u2019, about Estonian peasants\u2019 deceptive expectations about resettlement to Russia) and Vana hopmanni Nutu-laul M\u00f5isavalitsust k\u00e4est \u00e4ra andes. J\u00fcrip\u00e4eval 1861<\/em>. (\u2018Old Overseer\u2019s Lament When Yielding the Rule over the Manor. On St George\u2019s Day 1861\u2019). These are true-to-life accounts of actual events and persons.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weitzenberg was a contributor to the newspapers P\u00e4rnu Postimees<\/em> and Eesti Postimees<\/em> and collected folklore materials which he sent to Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald. He was in correspondence with Kreutzwald and Georg Julius von Schultz-Bertram. From 1856\u20131877, nearly a hundred of his letters to his parents and like-minded companions have been preserved. These concern essential social, historical, cultural and personal themes and reveal his masterly usage of the language.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Books in Estonian<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Poetry<\/em><\/strong>
\nT\u00f6nnis Laks ehk Eestlaste Isamaa<\/strong>: Laulud s\u00fcgisel 1860. Narva: J. Pachmann, 1862. 4 lk.
\nWana hopmanni Nutulaul M\u00f5isawalitsust k\u00e4est \u00e4ra andes<\/strong>: J\u00fcrip\u00e4ewal 1861. Tartu: H. Laakmann, 1864. 14 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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