Karl Wilhelm von Martini
Karl Wilhelm Ritter von Martini (born July 12, 1821 in Lugosch , Banat , Austrian Empire , † June 22, 1885 in Baden (Lower Austria) ) was an Austrian journalist, writer and member of parliament. He also published under the pseudonym Carl Wilm .
Life
From 1831 to 1836 he attended the Piarist high school in Timisoara . Martini, whose father worked as a doctor in the army, studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and from 1841 taught as an artillery officer at the Grenzer cadet academy in Caransebesch . During the revolution of 1848 he was a garrison in Pest . As a captain he was able to network well during his work on the Hungarian general staff.
From 1850 he worked in Prague as an editor for the Constitutional Journal in Bohemia . From 1853 he headed the Grazer Zeitung , then until 1866 the Grazer Tagespost . In 1868 he was elected to the Landtag of Styria , where he joined the parliamentary group of Moritz von Kaiserfeld . He also worked in the press office of the State Ministry in Vienna. From 1868 to 1878 he wrote editorials for the foreign paper .
In addition, he published novels that described the time of the Swabian settlement of the Banat and the life of the border population. They are considered to be some of the first documents to reveal a pronounced self-confidence of the Banat Swabians .
Fonts (selection)
- Travel pictures from Italy , 1849
- Croatian pictures , 1849
- Sketches from Vojvodina - among the Daco novels , 1850
- Pictures from honved life , 2 volumes, 1851, new edition 1920
- Heidebilder , 1854
- Still life of a border officer , 1854
- Planter and Soldier, Pictures and Stories from the Banat , 1854
- 100 years ago, a German moral picture , 2 volumes, 1864
- A noble farm in Greater Romania , Ed .: F. Wettel, In: Deutsche Banater Volksbücher , No. 24, 1916
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Martini, Karl Wilhelm Ritter von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, pp. 36–38 ( digitized version ).
- Martini, Karl Wilhelm von . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 17, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 560.
- Franz Wettel: Six lyric poets. New contributions to the German-Banat cultural history (= Deutsch-Banater Volksbücher. No. 5, ZDB -ID 31542-4 ). South Hungarian printing house, Temesvar 1912, p. 124.
- Karl Kurt Klein : literary history of Germanness abroad. Reprint of the Leipzig edition, Bibliographisches Institut, 1939. Reissued with a bibliography (1945–1978) by Alexander Ritter. G. Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1979, ISBN 3-487-06713-7 , p. 555.
- Anton Scherer : Introduction to the history of Danube Swabian literature. Self-published, Graz 1960, p. 31.
- H. Stanescu: Martini, Karl Wilhelm von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 117.
- Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banat Germans. Breit, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922-04676-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Wilhelm von Martini in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anton Scherer: Martini, Karl Wilhelm von . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Martini, Karl Wilhelm von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilm, Carl (pseudonym); Martini, Karl Wilhelm Ritter von (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist and politician, member of the state parliament |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1821 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugosch , Austrian Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1885 |
Place of death | Baden (Lower Austria) |