Felix Milleker

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Felix Milleker (born January 14, 1858 in Vršac , Voivodeship of Serbia and Temeser Banat , † April 25, 1942 in Vršac, Serbia ) was a German-Hungarian pedagogue , museum curator , historian , local researcher and editor .

Teacher, local historian and editor

Felix Milleker was the son of the nail smith Johann Milleker. From 1869 to 1873 he attended the lower secondary school in Werschetz and from 1873 to 1876 the teacher training college in Szeged . In 1876 he passed the teaching qualification examination for elementary schools in Szeged, where he also completed the probationary year. From 1878 to 1883 Milleker worked as a teacher in Weißkirchen . Here he received initial suggestions for local history research from the Banat historian Leonhard Böhm .

In 1887 Milleker took over the management of the Werschetz school library, which last had an inventory of 60,000 books. On behalf of the magistrate, he set up the municipal museum in Weißkirchen, which opened in 1882. In 1883 he returned to Werschetz. In 1894 he became custodian of the municipal museum in Werschetz, which he expanded into an excellent research facility. The prehistoric and early historical collection in particular was very rich in artefacts. In Werschetz he worked at the elementary school until his retirement in 1925.

Milleker devoted his free time to local history. He gave lectures and courses and played an important role in public and club life. Milleker was a co-founder of the German Catholic Teachers Association in the Banat ( Timisoara 1919) and the German Society for Prehistory ( Berlin 1908). He also suggested the establishment of the Lenau Society , for which he donated a considerable sum of money.

From 1921 Milleker published the “Banater Bücherei”, which provides a cross-section of German cultural activity in south-eastern Europe and for which he himself wrote around 60 articles. In 1941 the Banat library contained exactly 73 volumes.

In more than 200 publications, Milleker dealt in Hungarian and German, sometimes also translated into Serbian, prehistory, local history and cultural history as well as literary history of the Danube Swabian settlement area.

Works (selection)

  • History of the silk culture in southern Hungary, 1883
  • The Werschetz area in antiquity, 1885
  • History of the free royal city of Werschetz, 1886
  • History of the Nagy-Zsám Commune 1370–1909, 1909
  • History of the city of Pančevo, 1925
  • History of the Banat Military Frontier, 1926
  • Lenau im Banat, in: Banater Bücherei 25, 1926
  • History of the Germans in the Banat from the earliest times up to the year 1716, in: Banater Bücherei 28, 1927
  • Cultural history of the Germans in the Banat 1716–1918, 1930
  • History of the theater in the Banat, 1937
  • Prehistory of the Banat, in: Starinar, F. 3, 12–15, 1937–40;
  • History of the school system in the Banat military border 1764–1876, 1939
  • Rom. Crafts and arts and crafts in the Banat 101–270 AD, in: Banater Bücherei 73, 1941
  • History of the trade in the Banat, in: Banater Bücherei 74, 1941

Awards

For his work he received several prizes, certificates of honor, medals and other awards and recognitions:

  • Honorary certificate from the German Archaeological Society
  • Certificate of Honor from the Belgrade Scientific Academy
  • Silver Medal of the German Academy of Sciences (1935)
  • Prinz Eugen Prize of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Foundation of the University of Vienna (1942, posthumously)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums. Th. Breit Verlag, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
  2. ^ History of the Temescher Banat , Leonhard Böhm
  3. ↑ a b c d e hw.oeaw.ac.at , Milleker Felix
personal data
SURNAME Milleker, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mileker, Feliks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian pedagogue , museum curator , historian , local researcher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Vršac , Voivodeship of Serbia and the Temesese Banat
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1942
Place of death Vršac , Serbia