Carl Herb

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Carl Herb , modernized Karl Herb , pseudonym : Carolus Asper , (born October 17, 1871 in Pforzheim , † 1935 in Potsdam ) was a German writer.

Life

He was the son of the Pforzheim factory owner Wilhelm Herb and his wife Josephine nee Katz. His ancestors on his father's side were originally farmers and co-founders of the German gold industry . On his mother's side, Carl Herb came from an old family of rafters.

After Carl Herb had initially received private tuition from private tutors, he attended the Realgymnasium and then attended lectures at the universities in Jena and Paris . Then he started a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg and Habana. For some time he worked in Barcelona, ​​then moved to Le Havre, Paris and London. He traveled to the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia and Central America for many years and started his own business in the grocery trade. He also worked as a vice consul.

His great passion was writing. He specialized in religion, philosophy and travel. He belonged to the German Writers' Association and was press and propaganda attendant.

His last residence was in Alt-Langerwisch in the Prussian province of Brandenburg .

Carl Herb was married to Thereslowna Menger-Demidoff, born Alwine, since 1894 and was married to Martha Emma Neumann for the second time. One of his children is the concert singer Gerda Wolff-Meurer, Kurt Erich Meurer's second wife . His second daughter was Hilde Herb, Paul Zech's partner . She took her own life in 1940.

Fonts (selection)

  • Blackberries from Home and Foreign , Part 1, Munich, [1930].
  • Blackberries from Home and Foreign , Part 2, Munich, [1930].
  • Blackberries from Home and Foreign , Part 3, Munich, [1930].
  • Marshal Count Miranda in Potsdam . In: Potsdamer Jahresschau 1933, p. 53.
  • Continents in comparison, part: Europe - South America , 3rd, ext. Edition with a representation of the indigenous peoples of the 19th century in color lithographs and new color photos by Sibylle Festner, Nusser, Munich approx. 2010, ISBN 978-3-86120-245-5 .

The publication Oclla, the girl with petrified eyes. A story of the Indians, told by the gaucho Pablo Ché. Written down by Karl Herb. Edited by Johannes Gaitanides . Frankfurt am Main: Schauer, 1948, was not written down by Karl Herb, but by Paul Zech .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Delseit: A "thick skull made of peasant Westphalian grain juice". The writer Paul Zech (1881–1946). In: Walter Gödden (Ed.): Literature in Westphalia. Volume 8, Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89528-557-9 , p. 81, footnote 71. (PDF) ( Memento from February 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Herb, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herb, Karl; Asper, Carolus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH 1935
Place of death Potsdam