Johann Wurth

Johann Wurth (born July 9, 1828 in Trumau , † July 8, 1870 in Münchendorf ) was an Austrian teacher , poet and collector of legends and fairy tales.

Life

He came from a poor background, his father was a weaver from the Waldviertel . After attending elementary school, he worked for three years in the Trumau spinning factory, then on the advice of the local pastor, Fr. Friedrich Lewandersky from Heiligenkreuz , at the age of 18 he trained as a teacher at the pedagogical institute in St. Anna ( today St. Annahof ) in Vienna to begin. After that, he began working for several years in various incorporated parishes of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey: from 1847 to April 1851 he was a school assistant in Münchendorf, then briefly in Gaaden , and then as an assistant teacher in Heiligenkreuz. In April 1857 he became a primary school teacher in Münchendorf, and in July he married Karoline Weißenberger. Through his job, he came into contact with school councilor Moritz A. von Becker , who u. a. Was teacher of Crown Prince Rudolf . Wurth corresponded with Hugo Mareta , Theodor Vernaleken , Johann Matthias Firmenich-Richartz , Georg Karl Frommann , Karl Weinhold , Ignaz Zingerle and Franz Pfeiffer and owned a library with over 2000 books.

In the dispute over the school reform , he represented the church camp.

Works

• over 700 poems
• Articles in magazines such as Oesterreichische Schulbote , the Oesterreichischen pedagogical weekly newspaper and the Allgemeine Österreichische Schulzeitung
• Collection of songs, sagas and customs, folk traditions and dialect expressions

literature

• Karl Borromäus Landsteiner : An Austrian schoolmaster (Johann Wurth) . Program of Josefst. Gymnasium, Vienna 1871
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wurth, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1890, pp. 9–11 ( digitized version ).
• Petrus Kaserer, Ed .: Chronicle Münchendorf, 4300 BC to 2004 AD . Münchendorf 2004
• Tilde Lackner: Johann Wurth, schoolmaster in Münchendorf , in: Kaserer, Chronik Münchendorf ..., pp. 764–767
• Christian Fastl: Johann Wurth. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

Web links

• Entry on Johann Wurth in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• RM:  An Austrian schoolmaster. In:  Neues Fremd-Blatt , September 4, 1872, p. 29 (online at ANNO ).