Johann Philipp Zeller

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Johann Philipp Zeller (1824–1862)

Johann Philipp Zeller (born March 5, 1824 in Mannheim ; † September 19, 1862 ibid) was a Palatinate dialect poet and Mannheim city historian.

As the youngest of a total of eight children of the harbor master or Rhine bridge master Melchior Zeller and his wife Maria Magdalena born. van Seil, Zeller attended the United Grand Ducal Lyceum in Mannheim. While still at school he lost his mother (1840), and in the winter semester 1844/45 he enrolled at the medical faculty of Heidelberg University . Indeed, he did in fact listen to anatomy from the famous Tiedemann , but unfortunately he could not bring himself to attend further medical colleges. In this way he became what would be called a "lost student" today , but soon became the well-known Mannheim original. In addition to his dialect poetry based on philological observations, Zeller, who lived as a privateer on inherited wealth, found his life's work in the local and regional history . He is considered to be the main initiator of the founding of the Mannheim Antiquities Association in 1859. As its first chairman, he was diligently active in its interests and was able, in particular, to obtain the transfer of numerous archaeological finds from private collections to the association's collection. After a swim in the Rhine, the experienced swimmer and diver died of a stroke at the age of 38 .

Publications

  • D'r cousin from d'r Palz. Seals in the Palatinate dialect. With the portrait of the poet . Mannheim 1863 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Friedrich Walter : Mannheim in the past and present. Vol. 2: History of Mannheim from the transition to Baden (1802) to the founding of the empire. Verlag der Stadtgemeinde, Mannheim 1907, p. 551 f.
  • Joh. Philipp Zeller, the founder of the Mannheim Antiquities Association. In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 10 (1909), Sp. 77-81.
  • Hermann Wiegand : Johann Philipp Zeller - founder of the antiquity society and Mannheim dialect poet . In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 18, 2009, pp. 24–28 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The register of the University of Heidelberg. Part 5. Edited by Gustav Toepke. Heidelberg 1904, p. 748 No. 417 ( online from Heidelberger historical stocks - digital ).
  2. ↑ Zeller: D'r Vetter (see under 'Publications') p. VI.
  3. ↑ Genealogical details of the family in Joh. Philipp Zeller, the founder (see under 'Literature'), Col. 80 f.
  4. ↑ a b Zeller: D'r Vetter (see under 'Publications') p. VII.
  5. ^ So Wiegand: Johann Philipp Zeller (see under 'Publications'), p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Johann Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palatinate dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1862
Place of death Mannheim