Albert Niederhoeffer

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Albert Niederhöffer (born February 18, 1828 in Röbel / Müritz ; † July 25, 1868 there ; full name: Albert Ludwig Heinrich Niederhöffer ) was a German painter, local researcher and editor of Mecklenburg's folk tales .

Life

Albert Niederhöffer was a son of the pastor in Röbel (Friedrich Ludwig) Heinrich Niederhöffer (1784–1835) from his third marriage to Henriette, née. Susemihl († 1879). His half-brother was the prepositive in Stavenhagen and administrator Fritz Reuters (Friedrich Carl Otto) Wilhelm Niederhöffer (1812-1894).

From an early age he dealt with archeology, heraldry and painting. After graduating from high school in Parchim in 1846, he studied at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

Since he could not find a job in Mecklenburg, he worked in Berlin as a litterat , painter and graphic artist and sent petitions for support to Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and wealthy landowners. Probably because of lack of money, he let himself be recruited as a police spy in the reaction era and denounced the Berlin writer and radical democrat Gustav Rasch , which was based on information from his father-in-law Karl Petermann and led to a rift with him.

Since 1857 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . His special merit was the publication of the four volumes of Mecklenburg's [sic!] Folk sagas . Four volumes with a total of 355 sagas appeared between 1858 and 1862 after he had appealed to his compatriots to send them. As early as 1882, however, after the publication of the more scientific sagas, fairy tales and customs from Mecklenburg by Karl Bartsch , it was critically commented that Niederhöffer's collection contains much that does not belong in such a collection , and some of it is disfigured by romantic clothing and robbed of its folk character.

In 1863 friends gave him a job as a teacher at Hermann Wiedemann's (1817–1866) private grammar school in St. Petersburg, which opened in 1859 . In 1865 he switched to the Petri School . Shortly afterwards he received the title of State Councilor , associated with the Russian nobility . (see ranking table ).

He died as a convalescent trip to Röbel.

Albert Niederhöffer was married to Henriette Friederike Sophie Caroline (Lila), b. Petermann (born September 18, 1839 in Wesenberg, † 1888 in St. Petersburg). The couple's son Egon (from) low Höffer (* July 14, 1854 in Berlin, †) was first forester in the Russian civil service, then studied medicine in 1897 at the University of Wuerzburg to Dr. med. doctorate and last lived as a doctor in Berlin. He developed the Niederhöffer system for the treatment of scoliosis and was married to Luise, geb. von Egidy (* 1873), a daughter of Moritz von Egidy and a pioneer of Swedish gymnastics in Germany. The couple's son Egon von Niederhöffer (1904–1995) also became a doctor and, as a student of Ludwig Klages, a psychologist and graphologist.

Works

Paintings, drawings and lithographs

  • The Stuer water sanatorium in Mecklenburg i. J. 1850 (1850)
  • The Church of Röbel (1853)
  • Roebel. Dedicated to my dear compatriots (1855)
  • The Ludorf Church. Your high welfare. the wife of Schulze born Respectfully dedicated by Knuth auf Ludorf (1855)
  • The St. Georgen Church in Waren (around 1855)
  • The three women and the angel at the grave , in the blind niche on the north side of the choir of the Nicolaikirche (Röbel) (no longer there today)

Fonts

  • Mecklenburg's folk tales
Volume 1. Hübner, Leipzig 1858 digitized
Volume 2. Hübner, Leipzig 1859 digitized
Volume 3. Hübner, Leipzig 1860 digitized
Volume 4. Hübner, Leipzig 1862 digitized
  • New edition:
Mecklenburg's folk tales. Newly edited and provided with explanations by Reno Stutz. With a post from Ralf Wendt. Ed. Temmen, Bremen 1998. ISBN 3-86108-710-3 .
  • In memory of Theodor Körner's 50th anniversary of death: August 26, 1863.
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

literature

  • Ralf Wendt: The legendary journalist Albert Niederhöffer. A fate in the disputes of its time. - In: 1848 - the revolutionary events in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Rostock (?), 1998, pp. 68-76.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7065 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Walter: Our regional clergy from 1810 to 1888: biographical sketches of all Mecklenburg-Schwerin clergy. , Penzlin 1889, p. 248
  2. ↑ This is the name in his son's birth certificate in 1854, accessed via ancestry.com on September 11, 2017
  3. ^ Ralf Wendt: A Mecklenburg espionage case from the year 1863. In: Stier und Greif. Schwerin 6 (1996), pp. 47-52.
  4. ↑ Leaves for literary entertainment 1882, p. 398
  5. ^ Entry in the Erik Amburger database
  6. ^ Entry in the Erik Amburger database
  7. ↑ Treatment of curvature of the spine (scoliosis) according to the Niederhöffer system and the treatment of the rounded back. Osterwieck: Staude 1942
  8. ↑ Diss. Jena 1940: Biogenetic structural relationships and developmental characteristics of the personality. Leipzig: Barth 1940
  9. ↑ His estate is in the Munich City Archives , see entry in the estate database
  10. ^ Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Volume 5: The district courts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin, 1902 ( digitized , p. 507)
personal data
SURNAME Niederhoeffer, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niederhöffer, Albert Ludwig Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Röbel / Müritz
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1868
Place of death Röbel / Müritz