Hermann Goldberger
Hermann Goldberger (born May 22, 1854 in Beverstedt , Geestemünde district ; † 1930 in Peoria (Illinois) , USA) was a German-American author , journalist and publisher .
Life
Goldberger emigrated in 1884 to the state of Illinois (USA), which was then mostly populated by Germans . He worked in Peoria as a journalist, publisher and editor. Goldberger was local editor of the daily newspaper Peoria Demokratie , in 1885 the founder and long-time editor of the Sonntags-Post and from 1901 to 1903 a partner in the newspaper Volksfreund .
He was a member of the Association of German Writers in America , the German-American National Alliance ( National German-American Alliance ) and other German-American associations and was committed to preserving German culture. In 1901 he was head of the Thalia theater department in the Peoria gymnastics club .
His numerous German-romanticizing poems, which he wrote over many years - such as joy and sorrow and Uns der Glaube (both 1896) or heather blossoms and near the blossom-scented linden tree (both 1911) - were published in various publications. A number of his poems as well as a photo can be found in Beß, who Goldberger calls “ Konrad Nies Peorias” in the caption Goldberger .
literature
- Frederick Bodo Beß: A Popular History of the City of Peoria , Preoria 1906 online .
Web links
- Photo by Goldberger (bottom left) on the title page of the Sonntags-Post from March 1896
Individual evidence
- ↑ The date of death has not yet been definitively established.
- ↑ Katja Rampelmann: In the light of reason. The German-American Freethinker Almanac from 1878-1901 , Transatlantic Studies, Volume 13, Stuttgart 2003, page 252 ( digitized version ). Caution: Katja Rampelmann demonstrably mixes two different people here - the publisher described here Hermann Goldberger (1854- ??) and the pedagogue Henry Harold Goldberger (1878–1969)
- ↑ Ernst Jockers (Ed.): German-American Musenalmanach , Verlag Heiss Corp., 1925, page 186 ( excerpt )
- ↑ Frederick Bodo Beß: A Popular History of the City of Peoria , 1906: 529; 532
- ^ Protocol of the ... Convention of the German-American National Federation of Ver. States of America , National German-American Alliance, Verlag Der Bund, 1907 ( excerpts )
- ^ German-American history sheets , volumes 1–2, German-American Historical Society of Illinois, Verlag Die Gesellschaft, 1901, page 24 ( excerpt )
- ^ Yearbook of the Association of German Writers in America , 1911, page 224 ( excerpt )
- ↑ Frederick Bodo Beß: A Popular History of the City of Peoria , 1906: 532f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldberger, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American author and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beverstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1930 |
| Place of death | Peoria (Illinois) |