Nostalgia and literary opus of John Christoph Biernatzki
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The writer discusses negative and positive reactions to nostalgia. He illustrates the creative view with the literary work and religious thought of J. C. Biernatzky (1795-1840), a German poet, writer and pastor of Polish descent. As a third-generation immigrant he still felt a deep nostalgia for Poland, the homeland of his grandfather. He managed, however, to reach deep into his pain and find salvation in the realisation of the unifying essence of life.
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Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1875). Leipzig: Duncker & Humbolt.
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