Hermann Lynx

Hermann Lynx

Hermann Luchs (born February 27, 1826 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia , † January 13, 1887 in Breslau ) was a German teacher and art historian .

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Hermann Luchs was born as the son of the district judge Hermann Carl Rudolf Luchs and Dorothea Frederike Hildebrand and studied philology and history at the universities in Breslau , Leipzig and Berlin from 1844 after attending grammar school . In 1848 he was in Halle Dr. phil. PhD . Shortly afterwards he received the vendia docendi in Berlin . In 1849 he began his career in higher education in Breslau. First he completed a probationary year at the Elisabethgymnasium . Then he became an assistant teacher at the Friedrichs Gymnasium and in 1851 at the Maria Magdalena secondary school for girls. In 1852 he became a full teacher there. From 1863 to 1886 he was rector of the secondary school for girls on Ritterplatz.

Luchs was a co-founder of the Association for the Museum of Silesian Antiquities and, until his death, curator of the Museum of Silesian Antiquities, which opened in Wroclaw on August 24, 1859. In 1862 he was able to unite the club collection with the antiquities collection created by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching . In 1879 the museum moved to larger rooms in the new Provincial Museum. Until his death, the inventory grew to 47,000 pieces. Luchs had been a member of the Association for the History and Antiquity of Silesia since 1855 , and a board member since 1859. Since 1861 he was also a member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , since 1870 he sat on its presidium. In 1873 he became a knight of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern .

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Luchs published his essays in the magazine Schlesiens Vorzeit in Bild und Schrift (the first four volumes of which he edited), in the magazine of the Society for History and Antiquity of Silesia , in the treatises of the historical-philosophical class of the Silesian Society and in the programs of his school . He also published:

• De auctore carminis ad Messallam scripti . Dissertation, Halle, 1849
• Contribution to the scientific and medical appreciation of Warmbrunn's healing springs . Trewendt & Granier, Breslau 1853
• About some of the medieval art monuments of Wroclaw . Breslau 1855 (Special print from the Easter program of the secondary school for girls in St. Maria-Magdalena in Breslau)
• Wroclaw. A guide through the city . Breslau 1857; 9th edition, 1884; 12th edition, 1901
• Construction bills of the former Dominican Convent at St. Adalbert in Breslau . Max, Breslau 1858 (reprint from: Journal of the Association for History and Antiquity of Silesia. Volume 2, 1859, pp. 209–330)
• Romanesque and Gothic style samples from Breslau and Trebnitz . Trewendt, Breslau 1859 ( digitized version )
• The monuments of the St. Elisabeth Church in Wroclaw . Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1860
• About the pictures of the Hedwig legend . Graß, Barth and Co., Breslau 1861
• About the Elisabeth Church in Breslau and its monuments . [Breslau] [1862] (from: Treatises of the Silesian Society Philosophical-Historical Department, 1862, Issue 1, pp. 14–68)
• Visual artists in Silesia by name and monograms . Breslau 1863 (separate print from: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens, Volume 5, Issue 1)
• Heraldry an auxiliary science of art history . Grass, Barth & Comp., Breslau 1864 (annual report on the municipal secondary school for girls on Ritterplatz in Breslau 1864)
• About the external growth of the city of Breslau, with reference to its fortifications . 2 parts, Breslau 1865 and 1866 (annual report of the secondary school for girls on Ritterplatz zu Breslau 1865 and 1866)
• Silesian images of princes of the Middle Ages . E. Trewendt, Breslau 1872
• Hermann Luchs (explanatory text); Alphons Hollaender, Jean Brück and Carl Lüdecke (drawings): Culturhistorische Wandtafeln . Wroclaw, 1878
• Silesian state and city coats of arms . Breslau 1881 (from: Silesia's prehistory in pictures and writing, Volume 4)
• with M. Salzmann: The Martinikirche in Breslau and the von Rechenberg altarpiece in Klitschdorf (Kr. Bunzlau) . Nischkowsky, Breslau [1883]

literature

• Hermann Markgraf:  Luchs, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 113.
• Paul Knötel: Hermann Luchs . In: Friedrich Andreae, Max Hippe [among others] (Ed.): Schlesische Lebensbilder. Volume 2: Silesians of the 18th and 19th centuries . Korn, Breslau 1926, pp. 282-285
• Colmar Grünhagen : Hermann Luchs. In: Journal of the Association for History and Antiquity of Silesia. Volume XXII, Breslau 1888, pp. 356-360
• Franz Heiduk : Oberschlesisches Literaturlexikon . Part 2, Mann, Berlin 1990, p. 115
• Karl Masner and Hans Seger (eds.): Yearbook of the Silesian Museum for Applied Arts and Antiquities (= Silesian prehistory in pictures and writing. New series). Breslau 1900 and 1934, Volume 1 , pp. 16-17 and 22 (in the article History of the former Museum of Silesian Antiquities by Hans Seger, with picture on p. 16); Volume 10, 1933, pp. 2–4 (in the article Seventy-five Years of Silesian Antiquities Association by Hans Seger, with picture on p. 2)
• Limpricht: Nekrolog. In: 65th annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. 1887, Breslau 1888, pp. 395–398
• Martin Zimmer: Dr. Hermann Luchs † . In: Silesia's prehistory in pictures and writing. Volume IV, No. 19, April 1887, pp. 572-577 (with catalog raisonné); Volume V, p. 23 (additions to the catalog raisonné)

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Luchs in the catalog of the German National Library