Julius Sponheimer

Julius Sponheimer (born before 1892; died after 1901) was a Swiss life reformer and a personality of the land reform , vegetarian and theosophical movements.

Live and act

In 1892/1893, Sponheimer suggested founding the Heimgarten fruit growing association in Bülach . He was also involved in drawing up the statutes of the Eden Charitable Fruit Growing Settlement in Oranienburg .

In 1895 he founded the Zurich Center, from 1896 the Zurich Lodge, the European section of the Theosophical Society , which was dissolved again around 1900.

Sponheimer was editor of the magazine Der Mensch , the organ of the "German Bund für Lebensreform", and since 1901 published the magazine Out on the country in Eden . Monthly to promote rural settlement activity.

Publications

The housing misery of the big cities and its averting through self-help. Berlin 1906.
Vegetarianism - an economic necessity. Attempt to scientifically justify vegetarianism. Berlin 1905.
Purpose and goals of the vegetarian settlement activity. Lecture given on January 26, 1901 at the Association of German Vegetarians in Vienna, 1901.
The social question can only be solved from the country side. Berlin 1899.

Translations

Ward H. Snowden: The ABCs of Theosophy. Leipzig 1894.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Schwarz: Veganism and the right of animals. Historical and theoretical basics as well as selected case studies with animal rights activists and vegans from music-oriented youth scenes. In: Wilfried Breyvogel (Ed.): An introduction to youth cultures. Veganism and tattoos. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 102. Online: Die Obstbaukolonie Eden-Oranienburg
↑ City Archives Zurich VII.477, directory of the club archive of anthroposophic association in Switzerland, Pestalozzi branch.
^ Janos Frecot, Johann Friedrich Geist, Diethart Kerbs: Fidus. 1868-1948. On the aesthetic practice of bourgeois escape movements. Extended new edition. Hamburg 1997. On Sponheimer p. 37 and p. 53.

personal data
SURNAME	Sponheimer, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss life reformer
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1892
DATE OF DEATH	after 1901

[1] Thomas Schwarz: Veganism and the right of animals. Historical and theoretical basics as well as selected case studies with animal rights activists and vegans from music-oriented youth scenes. In: Wilfried Breyvogel (Ed.): An introduction to youth cultures. Veganism and tattoos. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 102. Online: Die Obstbaukolonie Eden-Oranienburg

[2] City Archives Zurich VII.477, directory of the club archive of anthroposophic association in Switzerland, Pestalozzi branch.

[3] Janos Frecot, Johann Friedrich Geist, Diethart Kerbs: Fidus. 1868-1948. On the aesthetic practice of bourgeois escape movements. Extended new edition. Hamburg 1997. On Sponheimer p. 37 and p. 53.