Today, Johann Andreas Eisenbarth is still widely known because about 70 years after his death a Göttingen student, of whom only the beer name Perceo ("dwarf" or "Kleinwüchsiger") is known, wrote a
drinking song, the first line of which reads: "Ich bin der Doktor Eisenbarth" ("I am the Doctor Eisenbarth"). As a student song, text and melody made their way through the student associations of the German universities in numerous variations from about 1800; in 1815 a variant was printed for the first time in a commercial book. This song, in turn, inspired various authors to write novels to this day (Agnes Harder, 1897;
Josef Winckler, 1928;
Otto Weddigen, 1909;
Fritz Nölle, 1940;
Hanns Kneifel, 2002), plays (for example
Otto Falckenberg, 1908), operas (Alfred Böckmann and
Pavel Haas) and
Nico Dostal's operetta Doktor Eisenbart. The school opera Der Arzt auf dem Marktplatz by Hanna and Siegfried Stolte, written in the 1950s in the
GDR, was also based on motifs from the life of Doctor Eisenbarth. == Literature ==