Adolf Seifert (local history researcher)

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Adolf Seifert

Adolf Seifert (born March 4, 1826 in Weletitz near Saaz as Adolph Joseph Seifert ; † June 11, 1910 in Saaz) was a German-Bohemian doctor and local researcher .

biography

Seifert was born in Weletitz in 1826 as the son of the farmer Johann Seifert and his wife Katharina Dietz. After graduating from Saaz high school in 1844, Seifert attended the University of Prague to study medicine. During his studies in the revolutionary year 1848 he took an active part in the liberal aspirations of the student body and became a founding member of the literary-rhetorical association of German students in Prague. In 1852 he returned to Saaz as a doctor of medicine, opened a practice there and married Anna, geb. Štiansny († 1889 Saaz).

In addition to medical practice and politics, he devoted himself to agriculture. His services to the hop cultivation in the city of Saaz and the surrounding area should be emphasized . From 1859 he was the editor of the trade journal "Die Hopfenhalle", the first German brewery newspaper, through which he became known nationwide. In 1860 he was instrumental in founding the city's hop market. He was one of the founders of the Saaz Hop Association and its chairman from 1878 to 1889.

In the 1870s he was an influential member of the Liberal Party in Saaz local politics.

As an archivist , he ran the Saaz City Archives on a voluntary basis from 1903 to 1905, and organized and inventoried its holdings.

Publications

  • For the homeland: Selected poems , Saaz 1867
  • The story of the royal. City of Saaz from the earliest times to the present day , Saaz 1894
  • The history of the Saaz City Decanal Church on the St. Mary of the Assumption , Saaz 1898
  • A catechism of the history of Bohemia with special consideration of German Bohemia , Saaz 1898
  • The Leitmeritz diocese according to its historical, ecclesiastical and topographical relationships , Saaz 1899
  • The history of civil brewing in Saaz. A commemorative publication to celebrate the centenary of the bourgeois brewery founded in 1801, written on behalf of the laudable brewery committee , Saaz 1901
  • The city of Saaz in the 19th century , Saaz 1902
  • History of the city of Saaz , in: Tutte, Karl (ed.), The political district of Saaz, Saaz 1904, pp. 296–382
  • A lost pre-Hussite church in Saaz , Mittheilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen 47, 1909, pp. 263–271
  • A Latin dialogue concerning the surname of St. John of Nepomuk , Mittheilungen des Verein für die Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen 48, 1910, pp. 28–37

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://epub.oeaw.ac.at:8000/oebl/oebl_S/Seifert_Adolf_1826_1910.xml Biographical information
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian doctor and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Weletitz
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1910
Place of death Saaz