Johann Chrysostomus Senn (born 1 April 1795, in Pfunds - died 30 September 1857, in Innsbruck; pseudonym: Bombastus Bebederwa) was a political lyric poet of the Vormärz.
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Johann Senn was the son of the freedom fighter Franz Michael Senn.
He lived in Vienna from 1807 and attended the Akademische Gymnasium. He was a pupil of the Wiener Stadtkonvikts with Franz Schubert. He later studied philosophy, law und medicine, but failed to complete any of these. He became a teacher to von Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier.
From 1815 he articulated his interest in politics ever more stridently. He was a member of the outlawed student body, the Vormärz, and formed a circle which read the classic and early romantics banned in Austria for their criticism of the Metternich regime. Members of the circle included the composer Schubert, the poet Johann Mayrhofer, the lawyer and later Redemptoristen Franz von Bruchmann, the artist Leopold Kupelwieser and the doctor Ernst von Feuchtersleben.
In 1820, Senn was arrested for his revolutionary ideas and imprisoned for almost a year. He was then deported to Tyrol and never returned to Vienna.
He spent eight years there in military service, rising to the position of lieutenant. He was unable to enjoy a middle-class career and lived out the rest of his days in Innsbruck working either as a Tagschreiber or in the offices of regional administration.
His friend Franz Schubert, set his poems Schwanengesang (Swan Song) and Selige Welt (Blessed World) to music. Senn, who had only one collection of poetry published in his lifetime, became popular in Tyrol through his poem Der rote Tiroler Adler (The Red Tyrolean Eagle). This popular song was used as national propaganda and later set to music. A street in Innsbruck has been named after him. Part of his work was published at the behest of Adolf Pichler und Moriz Enzinger, but most remains unpublished and virtually unknown to this day.