Adolph Lehmann

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Adolph Lehmann

Adolph Lehmann (born March 2, 1828 in Breslau ; † February 16, 1904 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist , founder and editor of the general "Wiener Adreßbuch - Lehmanns Wohnungsanzeiger" published from 1859 to 1942. This is now generally available on the web.

Life

Adolph Lehmann came to Vienna as a young man to work as a journalist. In 1850 the so-called suburbs (today the districts 2 to 9 and 20 as well as parts of the 10th district) were incorporated into the city of Vienna, which was still walled up until the beginning of the 1860s, thereby increasing interest in information about the traceability of people living and working in Vienna , Institutions and companies rose. In 1859 Lehmann began to publish an address book, which appeared under the title Lehmann's General Housing Anzeiger together with a commercial and commercial address book for the imperial capital and residence of Vienna and the surrounding area . This was the first general address directory for Vienna, in which homeowners and main tenants of apartments were recorded, initially according to the place of residence, soon after the alphabet.

After extensions and improvements, which Lehmann carried out himself from 1860, this reference work known as Lehmann appeared almost every year for decades from 1870. As head of a large staff, Adolph Lehmann worked on the new editions until shortly before his death.

Adolph Lehmann was appointed imperial council and has received several awards. In 1892 the so-called suburbs on the right bank of the Danube (today parts of the 10th district and districts 11 to 19) were also incorporated, which meant that Lehmann had to process enormous additional amounts of data and confuse street names that occurred several times in the new urban area. This year Adolph Lehmann was built by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Knight of the Franz-Joseph-Order appointed.

In the obituary in the Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung on February 17, 1904, Lehmann's life's work was honored as follows:

“He was popular in the sense that his name had long since become a household name. In Vienna one does not speak of the address book or the apartment gazette, but of the "Lehmann", by which every adult Viennese who has only looked a little into business life understood the once thin, later ever thicker volume and, for some years, the two address volumes. understands and will understand for a long time. "

The fact that the volumes were available for reference in important Viennese coffee houses, like the official telephone directory later, contributed to the popularity of the address book. The reference to the future made in the obituary turned out to be correct. The Lehmann appeared, later in three volumes, until 1942 and is still a local historical reference work today. The search in the volumes has been made much easier since 2012 by the digital copy of all volumes made available on the web by the Vienna Library in the City Hall .

Grave site

Grave of Adolph Lehmann at the Central Cemetery in Vienna

Adolph Lehmann is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery , Group 31B, Row G1, No. 16; the grave is located near the second gate of the cemetery at the main entrance to the Karl-Borromäus-Kirche . Carl Kundmann designed the grave monument, a female figure symbolizing silent mourning . The grave is dedicated for the duration of the cemetery; Lehmann's widow Wilhelmine is also buried in it.

estate

In April 1920, Lehmann's widow Wilhelmine left correspondence and objects from Lehmann's estate to the municipal collections; part of it is now in the Vienna Library in the City Hall , part in the Vienna Museum .

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personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1904
Place of death Vienna