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Phosphoros oder: Die Morgenröte des Kalevala. Die Turkuer Romantik aus einer internationalen Perspektive betrachtet

2023; Transcript Verlag; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.14361/zig-2023-140104

2198-0330

Christian Niedling,

German Literature and Culture Studies

Romanticism reached Northern Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, where it first ushered in a new guldalder in Denmark and soon the dawn of a ›New School‹ in Sweden.The Finn Carl Axel Gottlund (1796-1875), who belonged to the circle of the so-called Turku Romantic Movement, collected a significant amount of Finnish folk poetry during his Turku study period (1814)(1815)(1816).Influenced by the Swedish Romantics, he continued his studies in Uppsala.In his review of Friedrich Rühs' Finland und seine Bewohner in 1817, Gottlund formulated the famous idea of creating an epic from the Finnish songs as a »new Homeros, Oßian, or Niebelungen Lied«.In the same year, he finds the first record of the Sampo among a group of Finnish emigrants living in Sweden.Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) later placed the object at the dramaturgical center of the Kalevala.The article illustrates the influence of Johann Gottfried Herder and the Phosphorists on the creation of the Kalevala through the work of Gottlund, who is now largely forgotten.In doing so, the Edda reception of the 19th century as the »backbone of Nordic Romanticism« is also taken into account.The Turku Romantic movement is thus viewed from an international perspective.