Heinrich Noë

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Bust of Heinrich Noë by Andreas Kompatscher in the Bolzano train station park

Heinrich August Noë (born July 16, 1835 in Munich , † August 26, 1896 in Bozen ) was a German writer (travel non-fiction books and novels).

Life

His father Heinrich Noé (* 1795) was the royal administrator for (successively) several castles in Bavaria .

Heinrich Noë (he never used his second name 'August') wrote Noë to himself; since there was often no e with a trema [ë], one also wrote “Noé”, which leads to the same pronunciation. The name indicates Huguenot descent and is now often written "Noe".

After attending grammar schools in Augsburg and Aschaffenburg (Abitur 1853) in Munich, then (1854–64, Dr. phil.) In Erlangen, he studied comparative literature and natural sciences (he is sometimes referred to as "botanist"). In addition, due to his knowledge of foreign languages, he was court librarian in Munich from 1857–63.

To complete his pronunciation, he also went to archival work in London (at the British Museum of Natural History - he would have been employed there too, but he didn't like big city life at all). Apparently he was able to communicate in 18 languages. His polyglotism in particular makes it difficult to distinguish any eponymous names - in 1861 he submitted a rough translation of poems by the Russian attaché and poet Fyodor Ivanovich Tjuttschew (1803–73), who had lived in Munich for almost 20 years.

From 1865 on, Noë appeared repeatedly as a travel writer. His role model was probably Ludwig Steub . In doing so, he accommodated the "tourism" that was just developing at the time, the "pioneer" of which he was also called. He made many more remote areas tempting (places like Toblach , Cortina d'Ampezzo , Arco , Abbazia ). You cannot deny him a foresight when he compares the Berchtesgadener Land with the Yellowstone area for Europe and recommends a future landscape, cultural and nature conservation.

During his inspections he proved to be persistent, insensitive to the weather and frugal, but adventurous - sociable, but then again looking for solitude. Of course he also wrote about rail travel, but a more detailed exploration of an area can only be done “modestly on foot” - possible at any time of year. It was not difficult for him to give up his residence in Munich when he had problems there with the "priests" he portrayed as prepotent (pamphlet Oh how stupid it goes in Baiern , 1866); first he moved to Mittenwald , then for a while as editor of the “Alpenzeitung” (1875) even to Vienna; For almost ten years he was traveling in the Alpine arc and beyond (in Istria , Dalmatia , Montenegro - where he even wanted to settle after 1878 -, Alsace , parts of France and Spain - sometimes even as a war reporter!) without a permanent residence.

In the German Forest Book of 1894 Heinrich Noë proves himself to be a botanist and romanticist von Graden and it is clear that the National Socialists were able to declare him to be one of their “their”.

In 1884 he lived in Gorizia , where irredentism soon became a nuisance. In 1890 he moved to the milder Abbazia, which actually owed its fame to him. In 1893 he tried again - out of necessity - as a newspaper editor (in Laibach - but there too, nationalism began to stir against him). Most recently he stayed in Gries near Bozen.

Gravestone of Heinrich Noë in Gries

His daughter accompanied him on his later explorations; But when she suddenly died in 1894 (he had two younger ones; all of them from a second marriage), he was broken, completely addicted to alcohol and died two years later of a brain disease that had been on the horizon for a long time, impoverished in Bolzano, where he lived at the old cemetery of Gries found his grave. A memorial was erected to him in the Bolzano station park in 1899.

The Heinrich-Noë-Steig from the Mittenwald railway station of the Mittenwaldbahn via the Linderspitze (2374 m) in the Karwendel to the Brunnsteinhütte (via ferrata of medium difficulty - named in his honor, so he did not find it or attempted it - rock climbing lay not him at all).

Works

His books (mostly well illustrated - initially with woodcuts, later with photos) are based on extensive geographic, historical (etc.) research and mostly on direct observation - he was also very well versed in talking to the local residents. His travel reports and handbooks quickly achieved large print runs and are still of interest today - partly directly, partly in historical cultural and social history; quite a few are now being reissued or reprinted.

Noë is ethnographically significant through his collections of legends. He became best known through hundreds of feature pages (e.g. in the "Gartenlaube", but also in daily newspapers - albeit of quite different quality). He was not very happy with his novels based on the same subjects - probably because they often have a gloomy, “mystical” atmosphere, which is all the more appealing to those with similar predispositions (such as Vincenz Brehm ). Henry Thoreau was a role model for him in this regard .

In the following his main works; Special editions and new editions only considered on a case-by-case basis; Some feature titles are also included; extensive catalog raisonné in: Z. Dt.-Österr. Alpenverein , 1933, p. 228 ff.

  • In the foothills of the Alps. Sketches from Upper Bavaria by a South German . Munich 1865, 1871.
  • Bairisches See [n] book . Munich 1865 ... 1982.
  • Austrian lake book. Representations from life on the lakeside of the Salzkammergut . Munich 1867 ... 1983
  • How should one travel the German Alps? Munich 1867.
  • The spring of Merano . Meran 1868. (online)
  • New studies from the Alps . Munich 1868.
  • Burner book . Munich 1869.
  • Dalmatia and its islands, along with hikes through the Black Mountains . Vienna 1870.
  • Pictures from South Tyrol and from the shores of Lake Garda . Munich 1871.
  • Dies irae (novel). Munich 1872.
  • Alsace-Lorraine. Views of nature and images of life . Glogau 1872.
  • A home of German industry . In: The Gazebo . Issue 1, 1873, pp. 9–11 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Stories and pictures . Munich 1873.
  • The brothers (novel). Berlin 1873.
  • Italian lake book . Stuttgart 1874.
  • German Alpine Book. The German highlands in words and pictures (4 volumes). Glogau 1873–1878. Numerous special editions (… 1982).
  • The magician of the high mountains (story). Berlin 1874.
  • Gastein novellas . Vienna 1875.
  • Robinson in the Hohe Tauern (novel, 3 volumes). Jena 1875
  • Winter and summer in Tyrol . Vienna 1876.
  • Bolzano guide . Bolzano 1880.
  • From Germany to Italy . 1883.
  • A diary from Abbazia . Teschen 1884.
  • The journey into the Naßwald, the pioneers of the underworld, at the court of the Babenbergers, the wild gardener of Heiligenblut, the journey of the Sibylle, Primus and Samo (youth stories ; all: Teschen 1886).
  • Gossensass . Meran 1888, 1899.
  • The seasons . Gorizia 1888.
  • Innsbruck as a foreign city . Innsbruck 1889, 1890.
  • Toblach-Ampezzo and the Dolomites of the Höhlenstein-Ampezzaner valley . Klagenfurt 1889.
  • Arco and surroundings . Salzburg 1890.
  • Symbolic from the alpine world . Klagenfurt 1890.
  • From Germany to Italy. The Brenner Railway from the Innstrom to Lake Garda . Zurich (1890?) Several other rail travel guides (Semmering and others)
  • Theodor Gunkel's Kaiser-Franz-Josephs-Bad Tüffer in Lower Styria . Graz 1891.
  • Stories from the underworld . Vienna 1892.
  • Mountain drives and rest stops . Munich 1892.
  • Innsbruck, capital of Tyrol . Innsbruck 1893. (online)
  • German forest book. Memories of green loneliness (etc.) . Munich 1894, 1899.
  • The Batzenhäusel in Bolzano, artist and poet home of E [ngelbert] M. Trebo . Bolzano 1896
  • Edelweiss and laurel . Munich 1896.
  • Bolzano and surroundings . Bolzano 1898.
  • From the Berchtesgadener Land . Munich 1898.
  • Escort to the south, to the Karst, to Abbazia and the Adriatic. Views of the forest, the laurel beach and the sea . New edition. Munich 1899.
  • (Noë's) Illustrated Guide to Innsbruck and the Surrounding Area (revised by Karl P. Geuter). Innsbruck 1901, 1908, 1914, 1918, 1921.
  • Wind and people . (Reprinted in :) Westermannsmonthshefte , 100 (1959), issue 1.
  • At that time in the mountains (selection from H. Noe: Südbayern, Tirol, Salzkammergut). Rosenheim 1981.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Noë  - Sources and full texts
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Karwendel: Mittenwalder Höhenweg . 360 ° panorama from the Sulzleklammspitze (2323 m). From left to right: front part of the Mittenwalder Höhenweg, Karwendelbachtal, Pleisenspitze (2567 m; center), Kirchlspitze (2302 m), Große Arnspitze (2196 m; summit on the right behind), Wetterstein Mountains (massif on the right in the background). The Heinrich-Noe-Steig runs partially parallel to this, further down.

Remarks

  1. ↑ But there are e.g. B. from his time Italian grammars u. Ä. one Heinrich Noé, who was evidently not identical with Noë; Likewise, a Heinrich (Karl) Noë (from Iglau , 1835-1914, teacher in Graz) dealt with the history of shorthand and the application of the Gabelsbergs to Italian.
  2. ↑ Via ferrata description - Heinrich-Noe-Steig In: klettersteig.de , accessed on February 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ On the country and ethnology . In: Sheets for literary entertainment . FA Brockhaus, 1868, p. 422–427 ( preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Noë, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noe, Heinrich; Noé, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1896
Place of death Bolzano