August Stolberg

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Adam Friedrich Wilhelm August Stolberg (born May 1, 1864 in Nordhausen am Harz ; † May 15, 1945 there ) was a German art historian , geographer , meteorologist , polar researcher and museum director in Nordhausen.

Life

The participants of the Swiss Greenland Expedition in 1912
The participants of the Swiss Greenland Expedition

August was the son of a Nordhausen brandy manufacturer and attended high school in Nordhausen until 1885. After attending school, he worked as an art and bookseller in Munich and did his military service. He then studied art history in Munich as well as in Zurich, Bern and Strasbourg. He also took part in lectures in geography and geophysics. In 1888 he photographed the cathedrals of France on behalf of the art guide Dehio . After graduating, he worked at the University of Strasbourg as a scientific assistant in the regional meteorological service for Alsace-Lorraine . In 1904 he received his doctorate in Bern with "Tobias Stimmer, his life and his work".

Around 1900 Stolberg worked in the Meteorological State Service of Alsace-Lorraine, whose director was Hugo Hergesell . With him, Stolberg undertook the first scientific free balloon trips in Germany. Both of them were the first to fly over the Zugspitze in a balloon from Friedrichshafen on May 12, 1900 and landed in Tyrol. From 1907 to 1913 he took part in numerous Greenland expeditions.

The Swiss Greenland Expedition on their way home in Copenhagen
The Swiss Greenland Expedition on their way home in Copenhagen

Until 1914, Stolberg also worked as a private lecturer in Strasbourg. During the First World War he was employed as a meteorologist in Lemberg , Cholm and at times on the Brocken . In 1922 he took over the management of the Altes Museum in Nordhausen. When his son Friedrich Stolberg , who became museum director in 1935, moved to Berlin in 1939, he took over the management of the museum again until 1945.

After the death of his wife Luise, he moved to a nursing home in Nordhausen in 1945. He died there two weeks after his 81st birthday. His resting place was in the no longer existing old cemetery on Leimbacher Strasse.

Stolberg was a member of the educational association, the association for science and education and the Nordhäuser history and antiquity association.

Together with his son Friedrich, he edited the city's architectural and art monuments for the two-volume commemorative publication The Thousand Years of Nordhausen . A memorial plaque on August Stolberg's house at Bahnhofstrasse 19, donated by the Nordhäuser History and Antiquity Association, was installed in 2005.

family

In 1891 he married Luise Werther (1868–1943) from Nordhausen. In 1882, son Friedrich Stolberg (1892–1975) was born, who worked as an architect and speleologist.

Works

  • The astronomical clock in Strasbourg, 1898.
  • Tobias Stimmer, his life and works, with contributions to the history of German glass painting in the 16th century , 1901.
  • with Alfred de Quervain and Paul Louis Mercanton : Across the Greenland Ice . Munich: Reinhardt, 1914.
  • Through the Vosges . Strasbourg i. E.: Schweikhardt, 1917.
  • House and handicraft antiquities in the town museum . Nordhausen: Magistrate, City Education Authority, 1926.
  • People versus sea giants. Shark and whale hunting 25 years ago . Nordhausen: Müller, 1938.
  • An aviation with Hugo Gergesell , Leipzig 1929.
  • Personal information from Zeppelin. Memories of the count and unpublished letters; an anniversary font. Nordhausen: Müller, 1938.

Contributions

  • Nordhausen. A look around from Petriturm , In: Der Harz , July 1924, pp. 362–364.
  • Der Waffensaal , In: Museum der Stadt Nordhausen, The historical and cultural-historical collections , Nordhausen 1925, pp. 22–31.
  • House and handicraft antiquities , In: Museum der Stadt Nordhausen, The historical and cultural-historical collections , Nordhausen 1925, pp. 38–54.
  • with Friedrich Stolberg: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Nordhausen , In: The thousand year old Nordhausen , Vol. II, Nordhausen 1927, pp. 515–613.
  • Nordhäuser Martinifeier on November 10, 1816 in Paris , In: Der Harz , May 1927, p. 87.
  • Art history of Nordhausen , In: Festschrift for the millennium , Nordhausen 1927, pp. 85–94.
  • Grönland, Bilder und Erlebnisse , In: Westermanns Geographische Monatshefte , Vol. 112, I Issue 668, pp. 241-256.
  • Nordhausen - the cultural capital of northern Thuringia and the southern Harz , In: Der Harz , September 1929, p. 146f.

literature

  • Fritz Reinboth: August and Friedrich Stolberg; A memorial sheet for two Nordhausen researchers , In: Contributions to local history from the city and district of Nordhausen, Volume 25, 2000.
  • Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Nordhausen personalities from eleven centuries . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2009, ISBN 978-3-86595-336-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1909, Greenland Expedition
  2. ↑ Greenland Expedition of 1912, The Forgotten Arctic Pioneers
personal data
SURNAME Stolberg, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stolberg, Adam Friedrich Wilhelm August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, geographer, meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1945
Place of death Nordhausen