Emil Heuser (local history researcher)

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Emil Heuser “in the field” on his 65th birthday. From the illustrated Zeitbilder , Kaiserslautern, 1916

Emil Heuser (born March 24, 1851 in Reipoltskirchen ; † February 24, 1928 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German author and porcelain expert.

life and work

Emil Heuser was born in 1851 on the Ausbacherhof near Reipoltskirchen as the son of a railway engineer. After school in a Bavarian boarding school - the Palatinate was then part of Bavaria - and military service, Heuser went to Turkey as a railroad technician in 1871 , where he stayed until 1890. He then worked for the Pfalzbahn until his retirement on April 30, 1920 . Heuser was a soldier in the Franco-German War and, when he was over 60, again in World War I , where he had achieved the rank of major in 1915 . He died on February 24, 1928 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In addition to his work, Emil Heuser occupied himself with historical research and homeland maintenance all his life. He also became a sought-after porcelain expert and was co-founder and curator of the Landau Museum. In his private life, he had one of the largest collections of old Palatine book printing and literature, coins and ceramics , which, however, were scattered all over the world after his death and can only be traced back to old auction catalogs. Through his extensive and thorough scientific work he provided important foundations for today's historical research about the Palatinate. For many years he was also editor of the Palatinate Museum magazine .

Fonts (selection)

  • The four sieges of Landau, 2 vol., 1894, 2nd edition 1913
  • Heuserscher Pfalzführer, 1st edition 1901, 8th edition as New Palatinate Guide 1929, 10th edition as "New Palatinate Guide" 1951
  • The Pfalz-Zweibrücker porcelain manufactory , Witters publishing house in Neustadt, 1907
  • Pennsylvania in the 17th century and the Palatinate emigrants in England, Witters Verlag in Neustadt 1910
  • Palatinate Country in the Past, Wilhelm Marnet Verlag in Neustadt 1922
  • Porcelain from Strasbourg and Frankenthal in the 18th century, 1922, reprinted in 1988
  • The alchemist Stahl in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken - a piece of cultural history from old files. - Neustadt an der Haardt: Marnet 1911. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Heuser  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Heuser: Palatinate in the past . Weidlich Reprints, 1980, p. iv ( limited preview in Google Book Search - short biography in the foreword of the new edition).
  2. ^ Emil Heuser: German: Letter from Emil Heuser in his function as editor to the Heidelberg Museum of January 28, 1901. A total of three pages. It is about the surrender of lost property from an Ilvesheim body grave to the Heidelberg Museum. January 28, 1901. Retrieved November 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Heuser, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and porcelain expert
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Reipoltskirchen
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1928
Place of death Ludwigshafen am Rhein