Emil Weller

Emil Ottocar Weller (born July 24, 1823 in Dresden , † January 4, 1886 in Nuremberg ) was a German bibliographer , publisher and socialist .

Life

Emil Weller was the eldest son of the practical and ophthalmologist Carl Christian Heinrich Weller and his wife Berta Baarmann. He attended the Gymnasium zum Heiligen Kreuz and entered the lower quarta in 1834 . In 1838 he left school after finishing high school . When and where he graduated from high school is not known.

For the winter semester of 1843 he studied medicine in Leipzig . He soon became politically active, influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach and Théodore Dézamy . At the end of 1844 he was referred to as a "communist" in spy reports. At Easter 1845 he gave up his studies and learned the trade of bookseller with Otto Wigand . His own publishing Commissions bookstore EO Weller , he founded on March 1, 1847. Weller 1848 was one of the Leipzig correspondent for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung of Karl Marx and the Democratic club and sociality Lischen club in Leipzig operates. The latter accepted Karl Marx as an honorary member. Parts of this club were also a member of the Communist League and one of them was Emil Weller. Because of his participation in the Dresden actions during the revolution of 1848/49 , Weller was indicted before the Saxon appellate court and sentenced to one and a half years in prison. Weller then went to Cologne and Brussels and later to Switzerland.

He was only able to return to his homeland in 1862 thanks to the Prussian amnesty . Weller became a co-founder and long-time member of the Nuremberg section of the International Workers 'Association and in 1869 he was one of the co-founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party . Weller died impoverished in Nuremberg on January 4, 1886. His life was only researched more thoroughly by historians from the GDR after 1967 .

Lifetime achievement

Emil Weller secured important documents of the young labor movement as well as works by Marx and Engels for research in his “pocket books” .

His standard works on the deciphering of pseudonyms and fictitious printing locations are part of every better academic library and of second-hand bookshops and auction houses of high standing and also serve as evidence of pseudonyms in Wikipedia .

The books on Hans Sachs and Johann Fischart are also still fundamental to this area today.

Emil Weller is one of the first bibliographers in Germany.

Books and essays (selection)

• De tribus impostribus. anno MDIIC. With a bibliographical foreword . Wilhelm Jurnany, Leipzig 1846.
• Théodore Dézamy : The victory of socialism over Jesuitism or the Jesuit Constitutions, their secret orders of conduct, compared with a draft on the organization of work . From the French with an afterword by E. Weller. Jurany, Leipzig 1846.
• The will of the people. Scientific examination of a modern issue . EO Weller, Leipzig 1847.
• Democratic paperback for 1847. Collected small writings . EO Weller, Leipzig 1846.
• Democratic paperback for 1848. Collected small writings . EO Weller, Leipzig 1847.
• Journalistic voices from France on political, religious and social conditions . Leipzig 1847.
• The popular friend . (Edited by E. Weller). Leipzig 1848.
• Alexandre Dumas : Karl Sand . Historical sketch. As a supplement to all of A. Dumas' writings . From the Franz. Von EW Reclam, Leipzig 1847.
• People or Stand - Polemical sheets . EO Weller, Leipzig 1849.
• Democratic paperback for 1849. Collected small writings . EO Weller, Leipzig 1848.
• The efforts of the Germans for freedom in the 18th and 19th centuries are shown in the testimonies of their literature . EO Weller, Leipzig 1847.
• The German Michel on the broadest basis. Almanac for Germany's 34 units. Edited by Reichshanswurst . EO Weller, Leipzig 1849.
• Catalog of the writings that have been published under the wrong company since the 17th century up to the most recent times . EO Weller, Leipzig 1849.
• New original poetry by Johann Fischart. Edited and provided with an introduction to the history of literature and new information about J. Fischart . HW Schmidt, Halle 1854.
• The songs of the Thirty Years War reprinted from the originals. Collected for the first time. With a foreword by W. Wackernagel. Neukirch'sche Buchhandlung (H. Georg), Basel 1855.
• The masked literature of the older and newer languages. I. Index pseudonymorum. Falcke & Rössler, Leipzig 1856.
• Supplements to the index pseudonymorum . Leipzig: Falcke & Rössler 1857
• The wrong and fake print locations. Repertory of the German fonts that have been published under the wrong company since the invention of the art of printing. At the same time as the second part of "masked literature" . Falcke & Rössler, Leipzig 1858.
• Annals of the poetic national literature of the Germans in the XVI. and XVII. Century. Edited from the sources . 2 vols. Freiburg i. Breisgau, Herder 1862–1864. (Digitized edition at: urn : nbn: de: s2w-6611 )
• The German newspapers of the sixteenth century. Addenda by Emil Weller in Zurich. , in: Zeitschrift Serapeum, 1862 .; P. 12 ff. , Accessed on June 16, 2014
• The old people's theater in Switzerland. According to the sources of the Swiss and South German libraries . J. Huber, Frauenfeld 1863.
• Repertorium typographicum. German literature in the first quarter of the sixteenth century . 3 vols. Nördlingen 1864–1885. (Digitized edition at: urn : nbn: de: s2w-2846 )
• The folk poet Hans Sachs and his poems. A bibliography . Jacob Sichling, Nuremberg 1868.
• Lexicon pseudonymorum, dictionary of pseudonyms of all times and peoples, or directory of those authors who used false names . Alfred Coppenrath, Regensburg 1886.

literature

• Wermuth / Stieber : The Communist Conspiracies of the Nineteenth Century. On official order for use by the police authorities of all German federal states. Second part. Containing: The personal details of the persons appearing in the Communist investigations. Printed by AW Hayn, Berlin 1854, p. 137 ( digitized in the Google book search)
• Wolfgang Mönke : Emil Ottokar Weller . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1967, pp. 491–492.
• Bruno Kaiser : The first bibliographer and the first bibliography of the German labor movement . In: Emil Ottokar Weller. Guide to socialist literature (1847/1850) . Leipzig 1967.
• Rolf Weber : Emil Ottokar Weller . In: Karl Obermann : Men of the Revolution of 1848 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 149–189.
• Inge Kießhauer: Two unknown letters from EO Weller from the March . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement . 27th year 1985, Berlin 1985, issue 1, pp. 50-53.
• Winfried Schwarz, Inge Kießhauer: Once again about the "Pariser Horen", German Mäurer and Emil Weller . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels Research 20, Berlin 1986, pp. 53–61.
• Inge Kießhauer: Emil Ottocar Weller . In: Studies on book and library history . Vol. 5, Berlin 1987.
• Inge Kießhauer: Emil Ottocar Weller - bibliographer, publicist, publisher. Bibliography . Berlin 1990.
• Inge Kießhauer: Emil Ottocar Weller - bibliographer, publisher and socialist . In: Leipzig yearbook on book history . 3, 1991.
• Inge Kießhauer: Emil Ottocar Weller (1823–1886) . In: Günter Benser and Michael Schneider (eds.): Preserve, spread, enlighten. Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking labor movement . Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2009, pp. 345-351 ISBN 978-3-86872-105-8 . Digitized

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Weller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Essays by Emil Weller in the Central Directory of Digitized Prints
• REGESTA IMPERII Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Emil Weller)
• Franz Mauelshagen: Emil Ottokar Weller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Mönke, p. 491.
2. ↑ Rolf Weber, p. 165 ff.
3. ^ E. Weller to Karl Marx November 27, 1849. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III / Vol. 3, p. 416.
4. ^ The Workers' Brotherhood No. 84 of July 13, 1849.
5. ^ Rolf Weber, p. 173.
6. ↑ Rolf Weber, p. 175 ff.
7. ↑ Inge Kießhauer, 2009, p. 347 f.
8. ↑ Guide to Socialist Literature 1847/1850. The German press and its latest endeavors. Guide in the field of free democratic literature. Guide to the field of social democratic literature in Germany. From: Democratic paperback for 1848 and New Year's almanac for subjects and servants 1850 . Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1967.
9. ↑ Wolfgang Mönke, p. 492.
10. ↑ Review of The Old People's Theater in Switzerland
11. ^ Reprint Sendet, Wiesbaden 1966.
12. ^ Reprint Georg Olm, Hildesheim