Emil Barber

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Emil Barber (1857-1917)

Emil Barber , pseudonym E. v. Zilligstein (born January 14, 1857 in Thiemendorf near Görlitz , † April 26, 1917 in Görlitz) was a German Upper Lusatian dialect poet , teacher and botanist. In botany, his main field was batology . His botanical author abbreviation is E. Barber .

Life

Emil Barber was born as one of five children of the teacher, arbitrator and court clerk Gotthelf Martin Barber in Thiemendorf (today part of the community of Waldhufen ). When he was six years old, the family moved to Arnsdorf because his father had accepted the position of teacher and cantor there. Thiemendorf still belongs to the parish of Arnsdorf. Since he was a lively and inquisitive boy, his father took him to school at the age of four, and two years later he was already in the "upper class".

After his training in the teacher training college in Reichenbach / OL from 1874 to 1877, Barber first worked as a teacher in Hoyerswerda , then in Freiwaldau . There he married the plumber's daughter Maria Otto in 1878, and the marriage resulted in four daughters. Maria Barber died in 1901 and Emil Barber married again, from this marriage his son Joachim (* 1905) was born.

From 1880 Barber worked as a teacher at the 9th community school in Görlitz. Due to his rural origins and his upbringing, he felt a deep connection to his homeland and nature, which drove him to his later career as a naturalist. His books Aus derr Heemte and Hausbacken Brut , written in East Lusatian dialect , also show his sense of home. In addition, however, he also wrote in High German, as shown by his long poem After Christmas , which humorously deals with Görlitz family life between Christmas and New Year. Barber summarized his childhood experiences and the influence of his father in a dialect verse:

“And the one who ruled us olle ruled with an arduous and firm hand,
doas woar mei Voater, darlehrte us mieh, when he stood up.
Dar let me read and hide in the Nadur beech,
from clouds, wind and starlings, from forest and field and corridor. "

- Emil Barber : Mei Dörfel . In: From the Heemte . 1885.

Translated into standard German:

“And the one who ruled us all with a serious and firm hand,
that was my father, who taught us more than was written in the books.
He taught me to read and learn in the book of nature,
from clouds, wind and stars, from woods and fields and meadows. "

Act

Barber was from 1882 a member of the Natural Research Society and from 1884 to 1914 inspector (director) of the botanical garden in the Görlitz city park. He played a decisive role in the processing and publication of the first important floral work for Upper Lusatia, Carl Oettel's The Systematic Directory of Plants Growing Wild in Upper Lusatia (Görlitz 1799). This book is considered a rarity. Scientific publications on the flora of Upper Lusatia were continuously published in the papers, and this continues to the present day. In 1898 Barber founded his own flora of Upper Lusatia , a description of the plant species native to the region there, which was only completed in 1955 by Max Militzer and Erich Glotz . To do this, he researched the flora in the Görlitzer Heide , which at the time was home to over 900 plant species. He was a specialist in the genus Rubus ( blackberries ), evidence of this can still be found in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum in Görlitz.

Shortly before the start of the First World War, according to the address book of the city of Görlitz in 1912/13, he lived at Brautwiesenstrasse 37, 1st floor (i.e. ground floor).

His simple grave site made of granite Cyclops masonry is just before the southern exit to the A. Bolze courtyard of the Görlitz cemetery in Königshufen (grave field K-135).

Publications

  • The flora of the Görlitz Heath . 1893
  • Contributions to the flora of the Elster area in the Prussian Upper Lusatia . 1893
  • From the Heemte . Dialect poetry, 1885
  • En thing . Dialect poetry.
  • Village heads .
  • Homemade Brut . Dialect poetry, 4th edition Tzschaschel, Görlitz undated (approx. 1900)
  • After Christmas (long poem). In: Görlitzer Dichterheim . Publishing house Eugen Munde, Görlitz 1903
  • Floristic sketch of Upper Lusatia . In: Treatises of the Natural Research Society of Görlitz . Volume 25, Edition 1906, pp. 19-28

literature

  • Erich Glotz: On the 100th birthday of the natural scientist Emil Barber . Görlitzer Kulturspiegel, January 1957, p. 2f.
  • Werner Reeb: The 600 year old Thiemendorf past and present . Görlitz, Zittau 1989, p. 34f
  • Emil Barber - naturalist, teacher, poet . In: Sächsische Zeitung from 25./26. April 1992
  • Erich Feuerriegel: The memorial stone reminds of a restless naturalist and local poet . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 11, 2009
  • I. Dunger: On the history of floristry in Upper Lusatia, with special appreciation of the work of Emil Barber and Max Militzer . In: Reports of the Natural Research Society Oberlausitz . Vol. 4, pp. 55-64

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Reeb: The 600 year old Thiemendorf in the past and present . Görlitz, Zittau 1989, p. 34
  2. ↑ a b Erich Feuerriegel: Memorial stone reminds of a restless natural scientist and local poet . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Barber, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zilligstein, E. v. (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dialect poet, teacher and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Thiemendorf near Görlitz
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1917
Place of death Goerlitz