Johannes Mährlen

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Johannes Mährlen around 1862, photograph by Carl Buchner

Johannes Mährlen (born September 14, 1803 in Ulm , Electorate of Bavaria , † March 19, 1871 in Stuttgart , Kingdom of Württemberg ) was a Württemberg economist and historian .

Mährlen came as the eldest son of the surveyor and building counselor Johannes Mährlen, (1778–1828) from Ulm, and his wife Anna Katharina Mährlen, née. Gerber (1779–1827), to the world.

In 1820 Mährlen entered the Evangelical Theological Seminary of the Urach Abbey . In 1822 he moved to the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen . During this time friendships developed with Wilhelm Waiblinger , Friedrich Theodor Vischer and Eduard Mörike, among others . Mährlen was one of Mörike's closest friends all his life. They accompanied each other in their professional planning in many ways. Mährlen was later a great help to Mörike in the financial area for a long time. 1827 joined Mährlen a job as a vicar in Zell unter Aichelberg , but settled after the death of his mother in the same year leave of absence to first few weeks philosophy in Schelling in Munich to study, and then a job as a proofreader at Cotta in Augsburg to compete . In 1830 he moved to Stuttgart and worked as a journalist, including for the Hochwächter , the first democratic newspaper in Stuttgart.

In 1831 Mährlen received his doctorate in philosophy in Tübingen. In 1832 he received a teaching position at the Stuttgart Trade School for the subjects of religion, language, geography and history. There was also a teaching position for language and rhetoric at the Royal Dramatic Institute. From 1833 he was also editor and editor in charge of volumes 2–20 of the 25-volume work History of Our Days (published by Verlag Schweizerbarth). In 1838 Mährlen was appointed professor at the Polytechnic University of Stuttgart (forerunner of the University of Stuttgart ). From 1841 he was the first to teach economics there in Württemberg .

Elise Mährlen née Conradi with one of her sons around 1862, photograph by Friedrich Brandseph
The son Herrmann Mährlen, landlord on the Elfinger Hof, and his wife Marie, a sister of the psychiatrist Karl Stark , photographed by Friedrich Brandseph around 1865

In 1839 Johannes Mährlen married Elise Conradi (1816–1871), daughter of the Stuttgart merchant Leopold Conradi (1776–1839), owner of the Feuerleinsche paint wholesaler in Stuttgart, and his wife Luise Conradi, née. Feuerlein (1780–1861). Luise Conradis' brother, Willibald Feuerlein , was Stuttgart's first mayor from 1822 to 1833. The three children Hermann, Auguste and Ernst Johannes come from Mährlen's marriage to Elise.

In 1842 Johannes Mährlen traveled to England and Belgium as an advisor to King Wilhelm I of Württemberg on questions of railway construction. In the same year he wrote a study and published it as a book with the title: " The importance of the railways for the German customs union, with special consideration for Württemberg ". Mährlen campaigned for the route from Stuttgart over the Swabian Alb to Ulm, which was then also implemented. In 1847 he became mining director in Schapbach and gave up teaching in Stuttgart during this time. From 1854 Johannes Mährlen taught again at the Polytechnic, where in 1855 he took over the chair for economics and business statistics. In the same year he was appointed executive secretary of the newly founded Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

In 1860 Mährlen joined the Statistical-Topographical Institute , became co-author of the statistical yearbooks and laid the essential foundations for the uniform collection of economic data. In the following years he published a number of papers and reports on economic and social reform issues. In 1866 he was a co-founder of the Association for the Welfare of the Working Class , today: Building and Housing Association Stuttgart. In 1867, King Karl I of Württemberg awarded him the Knight's Cross and the Order of Frederick for his special services in building the University of Stuttgart.

In 1864, Hermann Mährlen, the eldest son, married Marie Stark in Daasdorf. Hermann's sister Auguste Mährlen married Marie's brother, the psychiatrist Karl Stark , in 1866 . On December 2, 1870, the youngest son, Ernst Johannes Mährlen, died as a soldier in the Württemberg army in the battle of Champigny .

Johannes Mährlen and his wife Elise Mährlen, b. Conradi found their final resting place in the Hoppenlaufriedhof in Stuttgart , the wife followed her husband to her death on October 22nd, 1871 after only 7 months.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Property of a descendant
  2. ^ The Wuerttemberg convent schools and seminars: The Evangelical Theological Seminar Urach 1818-1977 , with contributions by Albrecht Goes and Theo Sorg. Publisher: Association for Württemberg Church History , in cooperation with the State Church Archive Stuttgart and the State Church Museum Metzingen . 1991. ISBN 978-3-7722-0245-2
  3. ^ Eduard Mörike: Historisch-Kritische-Gesamtausgabe Eduard Mörike . Ed .: Hans Ulrich Simon. z. B. 11 + 12. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart.
  4. ↑ Andreas Abel: The descendants of the government councilor Carl F. Feuerlein , Todt-Druck, Villingen-Schwenningen 2007, p. 471 u. P. 487
  5. ^ Andreas Abel: The descendants of the government councilor Carl F. Feuerlein , Todt-Druck, Villingen-Schwenningen 2007, p. 503

literature

  • Peter Huber: Visionary in times of change , Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart - Leipzig, 2008. ISBN 978-3-89850-161-3
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 251 f .

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personal data
SURNAME Mährlen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1871
Place of death Stuttgart