Julius Lippert (historian)

Julius Lippert (born April 12, 1839 in Braunau , Bohemia , † November 12, 1909 in Prague ) was a Sudeten German teacher and historian. As a member of the Bohemian Landtag and the Reichsrat, he was primarily involved in school and social policy.

Life

Lippert attended Broumov Abbey and the upper secondary school on the Lesser Town in Prague . After graduating from high school, he studied law, then history, philosophy and German philology at the Charles University in Prague . He was the 15th member of the Corps Teutonia Prague. His teachers included Constantin von Höfler , Wilhelm Volkmann and Václav Vladivoj Tomek . While still a student, he founded the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia with Ludwig Schlesinger and Hermann Hallwich . He wrote publications in the notices of this association and in the collection of charitable lectures of the association for the dissemination of charitable knowledge . Adolf Siegl, the great connoisseur of Prague's university and student history, wrote about Lippert:

“Lippert developed into a historian of recognized stature and one of the most reliable leaders in the Sudeten German efforts for renewal. His later relevant publications made him a universal scientific personality in this working group. "

- Adolf Siegl

In 1863 he became a high school professor at the secondary school in Leitmeritz . In 1869 he came to Budweis as head of the elementary school (connected to a community school) . Since 1872 head of the municipal high school, in 1874 he came into conflict with the provincial school inspector, Father Johann Maresch, due to his free-spirited and anti-clerical attitude . The fact that he was therefore not accepted into the civil service when the educational institution was nationalized caused a great stir in the Reichsrat (Austria) and in the press ("Lippert Affair").

In the winter of 1874/75 he traveled to the German Empire , where he was involved in the Society for the Dissemination of Popular Education founded by Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch , first as a traveling teacher, then - after Franz Leibing's death in August 1875 - as Secretary General in Berlin. At the same time he was the responsible editor of the magazine Der Bildungsverein published by the society .

Returned to Bohemia in 1885, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat in 1888. As a member of the United German Left , he devoted himself particularly to school policy . In 1891 he left. As in 1871/72, he sat in the Bohemian state parliament from 1889 . In the state committee (since 1891) he was significantly active in social policy . In 1895 he was appointed as Bohemia's Oberstlandmarschall deputy. The Baden language ordinance radicalized the German-Bohemian nationality conflict and drove Lippert, who was looking for a compromise, into isolation. Therefore he resigned his state parliament mandate and the related offices in 1898.

For a time he was 2nd President of the Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art and Literature in Bohemia .

meaning

Lippert achieved supraregional importance as a cultural and religious historian. His works The religions of the European civilized peoples, the Lithuanians, Slavs, Teutons, Greeks and Romans, in their historical origin (Berlin 1881), The cult of the soul in its relationship to the ancient Hebrew religion (Berlin 1881), Christianity, folk belief and popular custom. The historical development of their conceptual content (Berlin 1882) and General History of the Priesthood (2 vols., Berlin 1883–1884) attracted some attention with their critical access to religious beliefs and are still exemplary today for critical religious studies. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote to Franz Overbeck on April 10, 1886 : “Allow me to recommend a book to you, which Germany doesn't want to know about, but which contains a lot of my way of thinking about religion and a lot of suggestive facts: Julius Lippert, Christianity, Folk Faith, Popular Customs (Hofmann in Berlin, 1882.). “Lippert had a significant influence on Nietzsche's knowledge of the history of religion.

Other works (selection)

History of the royal treasury town of Trautenau . Prague 1863. ( E-copy ).
History of the city of Leitmeritz . Prague 1871. ( E-copy ).
The wild plants of home . Prague 1876. ( E-copy ).

Honors

Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) III. class

Web links

Literature by and about Lippert, Julius in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Adolf Siegl: The suspended corps of the Prager SC, III. The Corps Teutonia . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research , Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 134-136.
↑ Adolf Siegl (corpsarchive.de)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d NDB
^ Nietzsche, Friedrich: All letters. Critical study edition in 8 volumes, ed. by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin / New York 2003, vol. 7, no. 684, p. 171, lines 36-41
↑ Andreas Urs Sommer : Commentary on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works, ed. from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Vol. 5/1, Berlin / Boston 2016, pp. 153, 335, 355, 636.

personal data
SURNAME	Lippert, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sudeten German teacher, historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunau , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1909
Place of death	Prague

[AS76-1] A ^b Adolf Siegl: The suspended corps of the Prager SC, III. The Corps Teutonia . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research , Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 134-136.

[2] Adolf Siegl (corpsarchive.de)

[NDB-3] NDB

[4] Nietzsche, Friedrich: All letters. Critical study edition in 8 volumes, ed. by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin / New York 2003, vol. 7, no. 684, p. 171, lines 36-41

[5] Andreas Urs Sommer : Commentary on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works, ed. from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Vol. 5/1, Berlin / Boston 2016, pp. 153, 335, 355, 636.