Heinrich Moses

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Heinrich Moses (born December 3, 1852 in Mattersdorf (today Mattersburg ), Burgenland ; † February 29, 1920 in Vienna ) was an Austrian teacher, folklorist, collector and founder of the Municipal Museum in Neunkirchen , Lower Austria , who also used the pseudonyms Heinrich Mose and Heinrich Moses took advantage.

life and work

Heinrich Moses grew up in poor conditions in the Jewish community of Mattersdorf, one of the traditional “Holy Seven Communities” ( Schewa Kehilot ). After training as a primary school teacher, he was employed as a teacher first in Schottwien , then in Edlach an der Rax , Pottschach and in Neunkirchen. During this time he began collecting and writing articles for the “Zeitschrift für Österreichische Volkskunde” and he was also a member of the Verein für Volkskunde. His work made him one of those "lay informers" and "teacher-collectors" who have long been the most important pillars of the early collecting activities of the Society for Folklore. As Leopold Schmidt explained, with Heinrich Moses, this “excellent home collector”, the “more locally emphasized collecting work” began. In this way, those regionally centered stocks were brought together that are far more important in terms of documentation than the two-dimensional, superficial other collections. Moses organized events for the association and collected exhibits for the Folklore Museum in Vienna , as well as for the Lower Austrian State Museum , where, together with the Eggenburg notary Eugen Frischauf and Franz Kiessling, he laid the foundation for the national museum's collection of costumes. As a local historian, he developed the only complete historical representation for the city and district of Neunkirchen to date . In 1910 he organized an exhibition on cultural history, the objects of which formed the basis for the Neunkirchen Museum, which he founded shortly afterwards.

Due to numerous anti-Semitic hostilities, Moses changed his name to Moser in 1911.

Moses was also one of the founders of the Neunkirchen Israelite Religious Community, whose statutes he signed in 1897. He was the registrar of the community, a member of the " Chewra Kadischa " and a representative of the Zionist party in Neunkirchen.

After his retirement, Moses moved with his family to Vienna, where he died in 1920 at the age of 67.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerhard Milchram; Heinrich Moses, Mose, Moser. Elementary school teacher - folklorist - local historian - museum founder. In: Our home. Journal for regional studies of Lower Austria. Vol. 79, Issue 1, 2008. pp. 42-56.
  2. ^ Leopold Schmidt; The Austrian Museum of Folklore. Becoming and essence of a Viennese museum (= Austria series 98/100). Vienna 1960, p. 38.
  3. ↑ a b c Herbert Nikitsch; Moser, Schmidl, Trebitsch & Co. Half-forgotten from the history of the Folklore Society. In: Austrian magazine for folklore. Vol. LIX / 108, Vienna 2005, pp. 275-294
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Vavra (ed.); 100 years of the State Museum. The history. Collected diversity. St. Pölten 2011, p. 28.
  5. ↑ Heinrich Mose; History of Neunkirchen am Steinfelde on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Joseph I. Neunkirchen: Viktoria 1908
  6. ↑ The world. Vienna May 29, 1903 / 3rd Siwan 5663, No. 22, 7th year p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Moses, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mose, Heinrich; Moser, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher, folklorist and collector
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Mattersburg
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1920
Place of death Vienna