Baldwin Groller

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Balduin Groller , pseudonym for Adalbert Goldscheider , (born September 5, 1848 in Arad , Austrian Empire , † March 22, 1916 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist , writer and sports official .

Life

Adalbert Goldscheider spent his childhood in Arad and Dresden and studied at the University of Vienna a . a. Philosophy and Law. During his studies he made his debut with smaller articles in the feature pages of various newspapers . In 1880 he Magyarized his name to Gál Béla.

At 22, Groller became a Freemason in the Hungarian Széchenyi Lodge in Arad . And at the age of 23 he founded the Allgemeine Kunstzeitung in Vienna in 1871 , with which he went bankrupt after a short time. He later edited the German writer newspaper , the Neue Illustrierte Zeitung and the Neue Wiener Journal and worked as a columnist.

Groller worked for several years as a freelancer for the magazines Die Gartenlaube and Über Land und Meer . Groller headed the journalists and writers' association Concordia for a number of years as Vice President and as such he also advanced to become a member of the Art Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Culture.

On February 6, 1906, the General Sports Committee for Austria was founded and the Executive Committee appointed Vice President alongside President Viktor Silberer and Secretary Siegfried Hochermann Groller. This association is now considered the forerunner of the Austrian Olympic Committee .

On March 16, 1908, the Central Association for Common Sports Interests was founded in Vienna and Groller was elected its first president. This was supported by the Vice Presidents Alexander Hornaczek and Gustav Magg .

He was friends with the writer Bertha von Suttner , about which she reports in her memoir.

reception

As a writer or columnist, Balduin Groller is almost forgotten today. Only his Dagobert Trostler is noteworthy, as he succeeded in creating an Austrian version of Sherlock Holmes .

Works (selection)

Young blood. Novella, Leipzig 1882
Worldly things. Novellas. 1883
Countess Aranka . Novel. 1887
The daughter of the regiment. Novellas. Budapest 1888
From my editorial mailbox: Involuntary humor. I experienced u. suffered myself . Reclam, Leipzig 1900 (Reclam's Universal Library. 4053)
Detective Scrooge's deeds and adventures. A cycle of novels . 1910–1912 (6 issues)

literature

Goldscheider Adalbert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 25.
Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 457f.
Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Th. Breit Druck und Verlag GmbH, Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
Balduin Groller , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 91–94
Groller, Balduin , in: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 2. Chernivtsi, 1927, p. 523

Web links

Commons : Balduin Groller - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Balduin Groller - Sources and full texts

Works by Balduin Groller in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

↑ Günter K. Kodek: Our building blocks are the people. The members of the Viennese Masonic lodges 1869–1938. Vienna, 2009 ISBN 978-3-85409-512-5 , p. 120.
^ ÖLV history: 115 years of the athletics association . Retrieved May 13, 2019.
↑ Communication with friends , in: Bertha von Suttner: Memoirs . Stuttgart, 1909
↑ Klaus Peter Walter, as editor of Reclam's Krimi-Lexikon , noted that, although Groller, a prolific writer , was not included in his compilation , he certainly deserves sympathy as the creator of Dagobert Trostler : Klaus-Peter Walter (ed.): Reclams Krimi-Lexikon. Authors and works. Philipp Reclam Jun., Stuttgart 2002, p. 8. ISBN 3-15-010509-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Groller, Baldwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goldscheider, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian journalist, writer and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH	September 5, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arad , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 1916
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Günter K. Kodek: Our building blocks are the people. The members of the Viennese Masonic lodges 1869–1938. Vienna, 2009 ISBN 978-3-85409-512-5 , p. 120.

[oelv-115-jahre-2] ÖLV history: 115 years of the athletics association . Retrieved May 13, 2019.

[3] Communication with friends , in: Bertha von Suttner: Memoirs . Stuttgart, 1909

[4] Klaus Peter Walter, as editor of Reclam's Krimi-Lexikon , noted that, although Groller, a prolific writer , was not included in his compilation , he certainly deserves sympathy as the creator of Dagobert Trostler : Klaus-Peter Walter (ed.): Reclams Krimi-Lexikon. Authors and works. Philipp Reclam Jun., Stuttgart 2002, p. 8. ISBN 3-15-010509-9 .