Karl Wilhelm von Martini

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Karl Wilhelm Ritter 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

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