Ernst Hoeltzer

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Ernst Hoeltzer, 1870

Ernst Hoeltzer actually Ernst Höltzer (born January 7, 1835 in Kleinschmalkalden , † July 3, 1911 in Isfahan ) was a German telegraph operator and photographer .

Life

From 1844 to 1848 he attended the Salzmann School in Schnepfenthal near Gotha. After a training Telegraph he went in 1863 for the British Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran to the telegraph line in the country to install and state employees and engineers at the Dar-ol Fonun to teach. After the work was completed in 1867, he stayed as a telegraph operator in Julfa , a suburb of Isfahan.

In 1870 he married Maryam Hacknazar (* 1850; † October 12, 1920), an Armenian from Tehran. The children Nicola Höltzer (1870–1892), Carl, OW (1875–1878), Barbara Höltzer (1877–1877), Martha Höltzer (1882–1909) and Gregoris Höltzer (1887–1888) resulted from the marriage.

Höltzer got to know photography on a short trip to Germany. He bought a camera and all other photo accessories and took them to Iran. Thousands of photographs were taken between 1873 and 1897.

After his retirement and a short stay in Germany, he returned to Isfahan. Ernst Höltzer died there on July 7, 1911. He was buried in the Armenian cemetery in Isfahan.

gallery

  • Ernst Höltzer with his wife in front of his house in Julfa

  • Ernst Höltzer and his family

  • Ernst Höltzer's house in Isfahan

  • Three Armenian women in Iran

  • Meydan-e mashq in Tehran

  • Women from Iran

  • German expedition to Persia observed the passage of Venus in Isfahan in 1874

plant

Höltzer brought the photo plates to Germany after his retirement, where they were forgotten. It was not until 1969 that around 1,000 photographic glass plates were found by chance packed in five wooden boxes in the house of a granddaughter of Höltzer. Copies of these photos came into the possession of Mohammad Assemi, who sent them to the Ministry of Culture in Tehran. A selection first appeared in 1976 under the title Persia 113 Years Ago and in 2004 under the title Thousand Sights Of Life .

literature

  • Jennifer Scarce: Isfahan in Camera: 19th-Century Persia through the Photographs of Ernest Hoeltzer ; Art and Archeology Research Papers (Apr. 1976)
  • Dirk Schaal : Ernst Höltzer. Life Paths Volume 3. Siemens Historical Institute, Munich 2015. Digitized.
  • Thousand sights of life . Photographs of Ernst Hoeltzer from Naser al-Din Shah's Age. Documentation Center of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization ICHO-DOC. Tehran 2004
  • Persia 113 years ago , Ed. Mohammad Assemi, Tehran: Vezarat-e Farhang va Honar, 2535/1976

See also

Web links

Commons : Photographs by Ernst Hoeltzer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift for the 100th anniversary celebration of the educational institution, 1884
personal data
SURNAME Hoeltzer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höltzer, Ernst (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German telegraph operator and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinschmalkalden
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1911
Place of death Isfahan