German Association for Art and Science London

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Share certificate from 1906

The German Association for Art and Science, London (also: German Athenaeum London ) was founded in 1869 by German artists and writers, with Gottfried Kinkel playing a key role . It was an elitist association of Germans in London who belonged to the middle to upper social class. This is reflected in the membership fees, which were quite high for the time: After a one-off membership payment of initially 15 guineas , scientists, artists and authors paid 4 guineas per year, but all other members 6 guineas per year. Membership was later acquired through the purchase of a share certificate, 1,000 of which were issued with a face value of £ 5 each.

At the turn of the century the association had around 430 members, which grew to almost 600 by 1910. Lectures, concerts, exhibitions and the like were held regularly in order to establish networks of relationships. These took place in the club's club rooms, which were initially at 93 Mortimer Street and from around 1908 at 19 Stratford Place.

Due to strong anti-German sentiment that arose at the beginning of the First World War, the clubhouse had to be closed in September 1914. According to The Times , the association was dissolved on its own initiative on October 24, 1914. It was removed from the police register shortly afterwards.

literature

  • German Association for Art and Science London (ed.) (1873). Annual report 1873. London: self-published.
  • German Association for Art and Science London (ed.) (1873). Statutes of the German Association for Art and Science in London. London: self-published.
  • German Association for Art and Science London (ed.) (1875). List of members / German Association for Art and Science in London. London: self-published.
  • German Association for Art and Science London (ed.) (1876). Association for art and science. London: self-published.
  • German Association for Art and Science London (ed.) (1911). German Athenæum in London. Annual report 1910. London: self-published.
  • Katscher, Leopold (1887). 'German Life in London'. In: The Nineteenth Century. A Monthly Review. Edited by James Knowles. London: Henry S. King & Co. pp. 726-741.
  • Panayi, Panikos (ed.) (1996). Germans in Britain since 1500 .London & Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Dictionary of Victorian London , online at http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/germanathenaeum.htm
  2. ↑ Naubert, Carl. Country and people in England. Langenscheidt's specialist dictionaries. Third processing. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1906. p. 145.
  3. ^ Katscher, Leopold (1887). 'German Life in London'. In: The Nineteenth Century. A Monthly Review. Edited by James Knowles. London: Henry S. King & Co. p. 729
  4. ↑ Naubert, Carl. Country and people in England. Langenscheidt's specialist dictionaries. Third processing. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1906. p. 145.
  5. ^ Flood, John L. 'The London Branch of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein.' In: Proper Words in Proper Places: Studies in Lexicology and Lexicography in Honor of William Jervis Jones . Eds. Máire C. Davies, John L. Flood, & David N. Yeandle. Stuttgart works on German studies 400. Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter Heinz Akademischer Verlag, 2001. S, 237.
  6. ↑ Debates in the House of Lords , HL Deb 12 April 1916 vol 21 cc699-700, online at http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1916/apr/12/the-german-athenobum-club#column_699 .
  7. ↑ The Times, October 26, 1914, p. 10 and The Times, November 11, 1914, p. 11.