Georg Lommel

Georg Aloys Lommel (* shortly before October 27, 1805 (date of baptism) in Würzburg , † December 11, 1872 in Nuremberg ) was a German historian , state archivist and writer .

Life

Georg Lommel, son of Christoph Aloys Lommel, studied medicine from 1822 to 1827 , then history and philology in Würzburg. During his studies in 1822 he became a member of the Würzburg fraternity , which he reorganized after the youth union was dissolved. Because of his fraternity activities, he was later persecuted by the police. In Würzburg he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

After completing his studies, he taught in Aarau and at the University of Basel from 1828 to 1829 , before joining the royal archive in Würzburg as an accessist and archivist in November 1829 . Around 1832 he worked as archive secretary and board member at the royal archive in Nuremberg before he was seconded to the government depot in Neuburg an der Donau in 1837 as Reich archive secretary . In 1838 he was at the Amberg Archives Conservatory . In 1840 he was suspended for embezzlement and retired in 1841. From 1847 he worked as a newspaper correspondent in Switzerland . In 1848 he was sentenced to death for his republican activities in Bavaria and fled to Switzerland. He later worked with Karl Marx , with whom he was in correspondence around 1860. Lommel was a leading member of the German Catholic Movement . At the time of his death he lived in Nuremberg, completely impoverished.

Publications (selection)

• Armin or Hermann the Cheruscan Prince. Nuremberg 1839.
• Johannes Huss. Amberg 1839, 6th edition, Nuremberg 1877.
• together with Friedrich Hecker : Germany and Denmark. For the German people. Schaffhausen 1847.
• Jesus of Nazareth. Historical study. 8th edition, Nuremberg 1881.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 463-464.