Background
Rietsch was born in Nuremberg, and trained there as a bellmaker, which was at the time a major industry in the city.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Johann Rietsch
Edit ProfileCareer
He was a younger contemporary of Konrad Grübel, and inspired by the latter to write poems in the local Nuremberg dialect as well. These were collected in the volume Anekdoten in Nürnberg Mundart ("Anecdotes in the Nuremberg Dialect", 1811), which proved popular enough to run to a second edition He gained a general reputation locally for his intelligence and education, owing to his poetry, ability at playing the harp, and command of French.
He died young, during the Napoleonic Wars: when Russian troops were quartered in Nuremberg in 1813 on their way to France, Rietsch caught typhus from them, and died in January 1814.
