Karl von Lutterotti

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Karl von Lutterotti

Karl Anton Josef von Lutterotti zu Gazzolis und Langental (* February 1793 in Bozen ; † 20 July 1872 in Imst ) was a Tyrolean folklorist , dialect poet and dialect researcher .

Life

He was born as the son of the kk Gubernialrat and district chief on the Etsch Johann Maria von Lutterotti and Barbara nee. Prugger von Pruggheim was born in Bozen. After his father's death in 1796, he spent a few years at the family seat in Salurn and then in 1804 at the grammar school in Innsbruck. After his Matura exam, Lutterotti devoted himself to legal studies and took a philosophical course at the local university. From Innsbruck he went to Landshut to end his studies by attending a "cameralistic teaching course". In August 1812 he started as an intern at the Innsbruck Rent Office . This marked the beginning of a poor civil service career for him, the peak of which was reached in 1834 when he was appointed protocolist at the district office in Imst with a salary of 500 guilders. Lutterotti was repeatedly transferred as a gubernial official and had to experience some humiliation in his service. With his dialogues “The Conditions of Time” and “Conversations about the Lords” in the revolutionary year of 1848 , he vented his anger about it, which by no means made him more popular with the authorities. On the occasion of the reorganization of the district authorities, people in higher places obviously remembered that Lutterotti was a lawyer, but instead of finally getting him a position that would have been adequate to his training, he was given early retirement. In 1853 Lutterotti asked for re-employment, but in vain, in October of the same year he was given a pension of 250 guilders in permanent retirement "with the attorney's testimony that he was particularly satisfied with his long and diligent service". With a petition for clemency submitted directly to the emperor, he was only able to raise his pension insignificantly.

After he was denied recognition in professional life, Lutterotti sought to find fulfillment in another way. So he began to collect folk songs and legends. He processed these in his dialect poems, which have become a piece of Tyrolean cultural history and are still a treasure trove for dialect researchers today. In addition to dialect research, Lutterotti devoted himself to folklore in general. Like no other, he succeeded in characterizing the folk types that were to be found in the old Tyrol. A small masterpiece is “The St. Nikolausmarkt in Imst in 1829”, in which he lets all the important dialects in Tyrol appear. His episode poem "The Movement of the Militia Company from St. Nikolaus 1809 to Kochl in Bavaria" was popularly known as "The Koatlackler Excerpt" .

Karl von Lutterotti: Imster Schemenlaufen , Am Stadtplatz; Watercolor, ca.1830

In his folklore work, Lutterotti benefited from the fact that he had been able to gain a deep insight into rural life at the district office. Whenever it was possible for him, he sought to expand this knowledge by going in search of originals that he believed he could find most easily in the most remote valleys. The records that Lutterotti made on these trips are no longer preserved, but his estate contains very detailed pictures of Tyrolean costumes and many landscape sketches.

As in his ethnological endeavors, Lutterotti also became a collector and researcher in botany. His herbarium , the alphabetical catalog of which is still preserved, is kept in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum like his traditional costumes.

Lutterotti was a typical representative of the Biedermeier period . He attended holy mass every day and high mass on Sundays. Then he let his hair clipper curl his wig and then went to church with the cylinder in hand. He hated people with close-cropped hair.

During his stay in Imst he kept the same apartment in the Baldaufhaus without interruption. Lutterotti was married, but his marriage to Sophie von Wörz in 1837 remained childless.

Honors

In 1902 a memorial was erected to Lutterotti on the town square (today Postplatz) in Imst. In Innsbruck and Imst streets bear the name of the poet.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, August 4, 1902 ff.
  2. ^ Tyrol Lexicon, Gertrud Pfaundler-Spat
  3. ↑ On the history of the Lutterotti monument, Innsbrucker Nachrichten, July 1, 1902
personal data
SURNAME Lutterotti, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lutterotti zu Gazzolis and Langental, Karl Anton Josef von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian dialect poet, dialect researcher, folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1872
Place of death Imst