Caesar Wilhelm Stuhlmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Caesar Wilhelm Stuhlmann (born March 22, 1822 in Hamburg ; † April 11, 1884 in Lübeck ) was a trained farmer, later a water doctor and writer.

Life

Caesar Wilhelm Stuhlmann was the son of Mathias Heinrich Stuhlmann (1774–1822), the pastor of the Hamburg main church Sankt Katharinen . Poor health led him to the Graefenberg water sanatorium by Vincenz Prießnitz (1799–1851) where he got to know contemporary hydrotherapy . After positive experiences, he worked himself as a water doctor in his hometown Hamburg. In 1855 he took over the management of the hydrotherapy institute founded by JH Rausse (d. I. Heinrich Friedrich Francke , 1805-1848) in Stuer in Mecklenburg , later that in Schwaan . His brother-in-law, the Hamburg lawyer Henry B. Sloman, was also a regular guest in Stuer . In 1879 Stuhlmann went to Lübeck and worked for various newspapers. His essays on rural life and popular culture in Mecklenburg appeared a. a. in the weekly papers Globus and Omnibus. He provided some folkloric observations on Karl Bartsch's legends, fairy tales and customs from Mecklenburg and occasionally worked as a lay archaeologist.

Stuhlmann married the merchant's daughter Hanna Sloman (1823-1859) in 1849, a daughter of the Wohldorf copper mill operator John M. Sloman . The marriage resulted in six children, four of whom reached adulthood.

The Hamburg lawyer Carl Alexander Stuhlmann was his brother. The painter and graphic artist Heinrich Stuhlmann (1803–1886) his uncle.

Works

  • Basics of hydrotherapy , 1850
  • Two comedies , Kiel 1859
    • "A large house", comedy in 4 acts
    • "Herr Sonnenthaler and his servant", comedy in 5 acts
  • Quart . Comedy. Kiel 1869
  • Plümeran Castle. A Mecklenburg knight and village history (anonymous), Berlin 1862
  • Stories from Northern Germany , 2nd vol., Wismar / Rostock 1867/1871 ( digitized version )
    • Volume 1: "Herztrost", "Those who are lucky lead the bride home"
    • Volume 2: "Under the chestnut tree", "Die rothe Grete"
  • The farmers in Mecklenburg , 1868
  • Sympathies and related superstitious habits in Mecklenburg , 1869
  • Cave dwellings in Mecklenburg , 1869
  • Short stories and stories , Hamburg / Leipzig 1870
    • Volume 1: From the patrimonial state. Novellas : "How won, so melted away", "The Captain of Sarov", "Double embarrassed"
  • "Descriptions from the popular life of Mecklenburg" in: Omnibus. Illustrirtes Wochenblatt, 1870
  • "The woman in the Low German proverb" in: Globus , 1876
  • From the experiences of a water doctor on the Graefenberge in 1846 , 1911

There are also contributions to Karl Bartsch's sagas, fairy tales and customs from Meklenburg (1879/80) as well as texts for the Volksfreund, the Rostocker Tageblatt, the Mecklenburgische Blätter and numerous foreign newspapers.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 7th 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, pp. 131-132.
  • 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. 9908 .

Individual evidence

  1. Enzo Maaß: The Slomans from the Wohldorfer Kupfermühle. John M. Sloman and his children . In: Yearbook of the Alster Association . Hamburg 2019, p. 40-64 .
  2. Hildegard von Marchtaler: The Slomans . Ed .: Ricardo Sloman. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1939.
  3. ^ Archives for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg and revue of agriculture . tape 20 , 1870, p. 147 .

Web links