Abstract
The article places Stifters Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters in the traditional line of educational narratives developed in the 18th Century. Dieter Richter has shown how 18th Century’s pedagogists rewrite pre-modern legends of children being miraculously rescued by their guardian angels and reshape them as warning disaster stories. Stifters Mappe centres in the narrative of Augustinus’ nearly carried out suicide on the one hand and the story of a successful self-education told by the ‘sanftmütiger Obrist’ on the other hand. In combining these two narratives Stifter lets the gentle Obrist step into the place of the pre-modern Guardian Angel instructing the pupil – who is risking self-destruction – to rescue himself.
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