To Joe Meyer
Reason Reinecke Reineke you may find some help in German poetry of 1700s
and 1100s
Reinecke, usually Hanover and Hamburg Son of Reineke
Unfortunately Reineke name from famous epic poem Reineke Voss
However see also Reineking
Not connected to Rein/Reinen (Frisia),Reinboth, Reinbolt/Reinbold
See German Names Hanes Bahlow / Edda Gentry
1794 Reinecke / Reineke
Winckelmann / Goethe and the popularity of Reineke name after 1794
The apostle of this neo-Hellenism was Johann Joachim Winckelmann (d. 1768),
the founder of the historical study of art. He postulated the canons of
ancient Greek art as absolute. The classicism that he inaugurated was
directly opposed in spirit to the national tendency championed by Herder.
Lessing's work had shown the influence of this neo-Hellenism. Now Goethe
became its pronounced follower. The works that he wrote under its influence
exhibit perfection of form, notably the dramas "Egmont" (1788), "Iphigenie
auf Tauris" (1787), and "Torquato Tasso" (1790). Goethe's literary
productions during this period, before 1794, are not numerous; they include
the "Romanische Elegien" and the epic "Reineke Fuchs" (1794), a free version
in hexameters from the Old Low German.
Other Early German poetry
During the ninth and tenth centuries German poetry fell into neglect; at the
courts of the Saxon (919-1024) and Franconian emperors (1024-1125) and in
the monasteries the Latin language was almost exclusively cultivated, and
thus a body of Latin poetry arose, of which the tenth-century "Waltharius"
(Waltharilied) of Ekkehard, a monk of St. Gall (d. 973), the "Ruodlieb"
(1030), and the "Ecbasis Captivi" (c. 940) are the most noteworthy examples.
The "Waltharilied" relates an old Burgundian saga and is thoroughly German
in spirit, while the "Ecbasis" is the oldest medieval beast epic that we
possess
1170 and Reinecke/ Reineke by Heinrich der Glichesaere
Among these "K�nig Rother" (c. 1160) is conspicuous. Its subject is an old
Germanic saga, and the role which the Orient, Constantinople in this case,
plays therein shows the influence of the Crusades. Still more noticeable is
this fondness for the Orient in "Herzog Ernst" (c. 1190), where the
historical hero, Duke Ernest II of Swabia (d. 1030), is represented as a
pilgrim to the Holy Land and the subject of marvellous adventures in the Far
East. From this period dates also the first German beast epic, "Reinhart
Fuchs," by Heinrich der Glichesaere (c. 1170).
I hope this helps in some way.
Merry Christmas
Pam Homeyer Sullivan Arkansas USA