Aurel Meinhold

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Aurel Immanuel Meinhold (born August 26, 1829 in Krummin , Usedom ; † January 14, 1873 in Hochkirch near Gramschütz , Lower Silesia ) was a German priest and writer.

Life

Aurel Meinhold: The Catholic Church, Princes, Peoples and the Revolution (1860), title page

Aurel Meinhold was a son of the Protestant pastor and writer Wilhelm Meinhold (1797-1851). He received elementary instruction from his father and private tutors, and obtained his university entrance qualification at the Stralsund grammar school and the Collegium Groeningianum in Stargard . In 1849 he enrolled at the University of Breslau for philosophy . In 1850 he became active in the Corps Borussia Breslau . Soon after, while his father was still alive, who had finally approached Catholicism, he converted to the Catholic Church. He studied Catholic theology and was ordained a priest on July 9, 1853 . He became a chaplain in Ottmachau and then a localist at the former Dominican Church in Friedrichsstadt von Neisse . Finally he came to the parish and pilgrimage church in Hochkirch as a pastor . There he died at the age of 43.

Meinhold completed his father's novel The faithful knight Sigismund Hager von und zu Altensteig (1858) and wrote the novel The Cross of Vineta with Nordic legend motifs (1870). He also took part in the contemporary discourse on church, revolution and nationalism with two papers ( The Catholic Church, Princes, Peoples and the Revolution , 1860; The Nationality Principle , 1862).

Quotes

"The everywhere similar echoes of national life, the equality of ideas, Christian education and morals, the mutual ongoing circulation of public, social and ecclesiastical life (as it was brought about in particular by the councils, universities and political congresses), contributed, as has been shown, contributes significantly to the mutual amalgamation of nationalities.
To this end, particularly in the course of the last few decades, the easing of traffic and the expansion of trade and industry have led to an all the more rapid interconnection of peoples; The national boundaries run away under the wheels of the steam wagons, and only the languages, almost alone, allow one to notice the mutual differences.
[…]
While the peoples of antiquity were tied to the flock of the fatherland with all the fibers of life, beyond whose horizon the world delimited them, the peoples of civilized Europe are chained to one another by hundreds of bonds and interwoven in their interests.
We remember the public world market, the mutual solidarity movements of papers, the customs connections of the states, the flooding of the masses of people in trade, industry and commerce.
[...]
The nationalities of the future are doomed in advance; because where the national enthusiasm is not carried by religion, it is nothing but a momentary intoxication that ends in misery. "

- Aurel Meinhold: Das Nationalitäts-Princip , Neisse 1862, pp. 31, 32, 37

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 4, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, pp. 419-420
  • Stephan Sehlke: Pedagogues - Pastors - Patriots: Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 . Norderstedt 2009, pp 251

Web links

Commons : Aurel Meinhold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. His uncle was the Lutheran cathedral pastor and superintendent in Cammin Karl Meinhold (1813–1888), a half-brother of his father.
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 78 , 400
  3. Hans Dieter Huber , NDB article Wilhelm Meinhold
  4. Brümmer calls him "localist at the former Dominican Church [in] Hochkirch"; the pilgrimage church there was never a Dominican church; Ernst Josef Krzywon ( history of Christian life in the Silesian region , Münster 2002, p. 740 ) calls him “localists in Neisse-Friedrichsstadt” and (in the note ibid.) “Pastor at the pilgrimage church of Hochkirch”.
  5. To the pilgrimage church Hochkirch