Joseph Mindler
Joseph Maximilian Mindler ( Greek Ιωσήφ Μίνδλερ Iosif Mindler , * February 7, 1808 in Wertingen ; † October 10, 1868 in Athens ) developed the modern Greek shorthand as a government official and was the author of the first complete German translation of the hymn to freedom , the poetic basis the national anthems of Greece and Cyprus .
Life
Mindler was the son of a lawyer and studied law and philology in Munich from 1828 to 1833. In 1827 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Munich (x, xx). He had to drop out of college because of the death of his parents. In 1833 he volunteered for military service and in 1834 joined the protective corps of Otto (Greece) , the former Bavarian prince and second-born son of Ludwig I (Bavaria) . Promoted to lieutenant in Greece , he entered the Greek civil service in 1835/36 and married Eleni Eliaki Renieris, a Greek woman of Cretan origin. From 1838 to 1843 he was the office director in the Greek Ministry of War. After the unrest in 1843 against the absolute power of the king, all government officials of German origin who came to Greece after 1827 had to leave the country. Mindler returned to Bavaria with his wife and three sons and held various, less lucrative administrative positions.
In 1844 he received a text by the Ionic- Greek poet Dionysios Solomos via the Bavarian royal court , which the composer Nikolaos Mantzaros had set to music and sent to King Otto. The transmission he made did not appear publicly in print, but was apparently sent back to the Greek court and was the basis for an award by the king to the composer. In 1865 a melody from this composition with the first four stanzas of the underlying poetry was declared the Greek national anthem.
In 1832 Mindler learned shorthand from Franz Xaver Gabelsberger . After his return to Bavaria, he was already busy with the transfer of the principles of shorthand to the modern Greek language. In 1847 he went to Greece for some time to look for a new job. The establishment of a position for him at the Athens Polytechnic initially failed; It was not until 1856 that he succeeded in becoming a professor of shorthand there. Mindler spent the time up to his death on a very high salary as a teacher of the Greek shorthand he had developed in Athens. In 1859/60 Mindler was appointed head of the Royal Stenographic Institute in the Greek Parliament .
A bust in the Greek parliament that was made shortly after his death is a reminder of Mindler today. Two of his sons succeeded him as head of the stenographic office at the Greek parliament.
literature
- Christian Johnen: Mindler, Josef . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 416 f.
- Hans-Bernhard Schlumm, Andreas Kertscher, Konstantinos Zervopoulos (eds.): Joseph M. Mindler: Hymne to freedom. The first complete German translation of the hymn after Dionysios Solomos to the music of Nikolaos Mantzaros . (IFB Verlag Deutsche Sprache), Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-931263-88-1 . Review by Diana Siebert pop-griechische-kultur.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 178/164.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mindler, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mindler, Joseph Maximilian; Mindler, Iosif (Greek); Μίνδλερ, Ιωσήφ (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stenographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wertingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1868 |
| Place of death | Athens |