Julius Meurer

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Julius Meurer

Julius Meurer (born January 13, 1838 in Leipzig , † March 19, 1923 in Wels ) was a German-Austrian alpinist , alpine club official and author of alpine literature.

Life

Meurer studied agriculture and forestry, began mountaineering in 1856 and fought in the German War in 1866 . In 1873 he came to Vienna while working for a mining company and was heavily involved in the Austrian Tourist Club . In 1878 founded, among others with Alfred Margrave von Pallavicini and other members of the tourist club, the Austrian Alpine Club , later the Austrian Alpine Club . From 1886 to 1887 he was president of this association and publisher of the Österreichische Alpen-Zeitung . Due to disputes about the elitist character of the association, he returned to the tourist club in 1887, where he managed the publication of the Austrian tourist newspaper and was vice president, and from 1891 also president. In 1896 he withdrew from club life in a dispute. From 1900 Meurer lived in Meran and finally died in 1923 impoverished in an old people's asylum in Wels.

Alpinistic and journalistic importance

Meurer was considered an excellent mountaineer. His greatest alpine successes were in 1878 the first ascent of the Pala di San Martino ( 2987  m ) and the first ascent of the Suldengrat at the Königspitze ( 3859  m ), both of which he carried out with Margrave von Pallavicini. In 1881 he succeeded in the first ascent of the Bärenbartgrat on the Weißkugel ( 3739  m ). In the Zillertal Alps he carried out several first winter ascents, including the Hochfeiler ( 3510  m ).

Meurer was best known as a connoisseur of the Ortler Alps . His illustrated special guide through the Ortler Alps from 1884 was also his first guide, which was followed by several others about other mountain groups in the Alps. His Handbook of Alpine Sports (1882) and his Catechism for Mountaineers, Mountain Tourists and Alpine Travelers (1892) are also important. He made the Österreichische Alpen-Zeitung the most important alpine specialist magazine of its time in the German-speaking region.

In his theoretical works he took the view that mountaineers should be characterized more by endurance and tenacity than by strength, and on this basis he also defended women's mountaineering, which was still controversial at the time.

plant

  • A handy illustrated guide to Vienna and environs . A. Hartleben, 1906.
  • Die Buchgemeinde Berlin (ed.): Around the globe - world travel pictures by Julius Meurer . Berlin 1925.
  • Small illustrated guide through Salzburg and the Berchtesgadener Land . A. Hartleben, Vienna / Pest / Leipzig 1897.
  • Illustrated Guide On The Quay. royal Austrian State Railways . Steyrermühl / Vienna 1900.
  • Illustrated special guide through the Ortler Alps . A. Hartleben, Vienna / Pest / Leipzig 1884.
  • Catechism for mountaineers, mountain tourists, alpine travelers . Weber, Leipzig 1892.
  • Handbook of Alpine Sports . A. Hartleben, Vienna / Pest / Leipzig 1882.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c R. Hösch:  Meurer, Julius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 253 f. (Direct links on p. 253 , p. 254 ).
  2. ↑ a b Personal folder on Julius Meurer (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline), accessed on March 29, 2010
  3. ↑ Julika Funk, Cornelia Brück: body concepts . Günther Narr, 1999, ISBN 3-8233-5704-2 , p. 129 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Dagmar Günther: Alpine Quergang: cultural history of bourgeois alpinism (1870-1930) . In: Campus Historical Studies . tape 23 . Campus, 1998, ISBN 3-593-36100-0 , pp. 281 (368 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).

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personal data
SURNAME Meurer, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian mountaineer, publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1923
Place of death catfish