Carl Frowin Mayer
Carl Frowin Mayer (born August 17, 1827 in Tiengen , † February 18, 1919 in Offenburg ) was a mayor, district secretary, local history researcher and collector .
Life
Carl Frowin Mayer was born in Waldshut-Tiengen and attended the Lyceum in Basel, he became road master in the Fürstlich Fürstenberg services in Donaueschingen, and was mayor of Waldshut from 1878 to 1885. Near Homburg he discovered an antenna dagger from the Iron Age , today in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe . He was a passionate homeland researcher who liked to do research with a spade. Among other things, he found two rag axes at Gutenburg's . In 1885 he became district secretary in Offenburg. In 1895 he discovered Alemannic graves. He not only collected things from home, but also minerals, animals and birds and objects from the colonies . After his apartment and two rooms that the city had given him overflowed, the city made rooms in the hospital building available to him. An exhibition was created in 10 rooms, which he called the Museum of Natural History and Ethnology . Until 1917 he headed the museum which still exists today as a museum in the knight's house . The city of Offenburg gave him a self-portrait in gratitude in 1913. Ernst Batzer became his successor.
literature
- Dr. Otto Kähni, Franz Huber, Offenburg. From the history of an imperial city , Verlag Dr. Franz Burda (Ed.), 1951
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Otto Kähni, Franz Huber, Offenburg. From the history of an imperial city , Verlag Dr. Franz Burda (Ed.), 1951, p. 104
- ^ Website of the museum in the Ritterhaus
Web links
- Entry on Carl Frowin Mayer on the page Discover cultural studies online (leo-bw)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, Carl Frowin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor, district secretary and local history researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tiengen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1919 |
| Place of death | Offenburg |