Ludwig Feyerabend

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Ludwig Hermann Oswald Feyerabend (born October 17, 1855 in Auras an der Oder, † October 11, 1927 in Würzburg ) was a German prehistoric expert and long-time director of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Görlitz .

life and work

Ludwig Feyerabend, the son of the preacher Oswald Feyerabend (1809–1872) and Therese Tischer, attended grammar school in Jauer . After the death of his father, the 16-year-old was given a job at the Pforta State School , which he left in 1875 with the Abitur as Primus Omnium . After his military service he studied classical philology , German , history and art history in Wroclaw and comparative linguistics , German studies and applied arts in Vienna . During his studies in 1876 he became a member of the Old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks . He passed the state examination in 1880 in Breslau. As a senior teacher , he then mainly taught Greek at the grammar schools in Ohlau and Jauer. In 1885 he became head of the medical education center at Kahlbaumschen Heilanstalt in Görlitz, and in 1896 head and owner of the Dr. Winkler preparatory institute in Görlitz. During the First World War , as captain of the Landwehr, he was in command of a battalion of the infantry regiment "von Courbiére" (2nd Posensches) No. 19 , with which he was deployed on the Eastern Front. On January 27, 1915, he was promoted to major . After healing a wound he was assigned to the general staff of various parts of the army, then as a reconnaissance officer of the quartermaster general . He received the Iron Cross II. And I. Class, the Austrian Cross of Merit with the war decoration and the Bulgarian Order of St. Alexander with crown and swords.

Feyerabend led many archaeological excavations, for example in Zentendorf , Leschwitz , Lissa, on the Landeskrone , in Rothenburg , Muskau and Reichwalde . In 1902 he became director of the newly created Oberlausitz memorial hall with the Kaiser Friedrich Museum . He devoted himself to the construction of the still empty museum, to which he incorporated the collections of the Municipal Museum of Antiquity and Art as well as the collections of some private individuals and the collection of the Society for Anthropology and Prehistory of Upper Lusatia, which he founded in 1888 and headed until 1926. In 1889 he became a member and in 1909 an honorary member of the Niederlausitz Society for Anthropology and Archeology . He was also a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences (since 1888) and inspector of its rich collections, a member of the Natural Research Society in Görlitz and twice its second president as well as a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory . He had corresponding memberships in the Brandenburgia , in the Association for the History of Berlin and in the Association for the History and Archeology of Silesia. He received the Red Eagle Order 4th class and in 1913 he was awarded the title of professor.

His first marriage was to the daughter of the railway contractor Plüschke, and his second marriage to Marie Hummel. His children were Margarete (* 1886), Hildegard (* 1889), Richard (* 1904), Fritz (* 1907) and Heinz (* 1907).

Fonts

Feyerabend published articles on prehistoric topics in various scientific journals and on museum studies in Karl Koetschau's journal Museum Studies . Since 1890 he published the annual books of the Society for Anthropology and Prehistory of Upper Lusatia . He also published:

  • Luther and the Herzigsche Luther Festival. Sinogoritz, Görlitz 1888
  • Ludwig Feyerabend (editor) and J. Schurig (draftsman): Panel of prehistoric antiquities of Upper Lusatia. 2nd edition, CA Starke, Görlitz [1900]
  • Guide through the Upper Lusatian Memorial Hall with the Kaiser Friedrich Museum. 2nd edition, Arthur Krüger, Görlitz 1910
  • The Oberlausitzer Memorial Hall with the Kaiser Friedrich Museum 1902/1912. Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger, Görlitz 1912.
  • with Arthur Haupt: Alt-Görlitz then and now. Hoffmann & Reiber, Görlitz 1928.

literature

  • Karl Gander : Obituary. In: Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen. Volume 18, Guben 1928, pp. 448-450
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Our contemporaries. Who is it 6th edition, Degener, Leipzig 1912
  • Hans Jaeger (editorial management) and Gerhard Lüdtke (ed.): Kürschner's German learned calendar for the year 1926. 2nd year. Gruyter, Berlin [et al.] 1926
  • Obituary in: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin . Volume 103, Görlitz 1927, pp. 274-275
  • Alfred Hartmann: 50 years of the “Society for Anthropology, Prehistory and Folklore of Prussian Upper Lusatia” (1888–1938). In: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Society for Anthropology, Prehistory and Folklore (= annual issues of the Society for Anthropology, Prehistory and Folklore. Volume V, Issues 1 and 2). Görlitz 1938, pp. 7–20 (with picture by Feyerabend on page 9)
  • Hans Gummel : History of Research in Germany. Berlin 1938, p. 414
  • Jan Filip: Encyclopedic manual on the prehistory and early history of Europe. Volume 1, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [u. a.] 1966, p. 356

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Schmidt : Oswald Friedrich Feyerabend (1809–1872). Evangelical pastor in the Silesian Oder town of Auras / Wohlau district from 1840 to 1857. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015, pp. 265–294, here: p. 290.
  2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members. Edition 1925/26. Frankfurt am Main 1925/26, p. 104.
  3. ^ G. Rennebach: Ludwig Feyerabend in memory. On the development of the Society for Anthropology and Prehistory of Upper Lusatia. In: Werner Coblenz (Hrsg.): Work and research reports on the Saxon soil monument preservation. Volume 14/15, Berlin 1966.

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personal data
SURNAME Feyerabend, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feyerabend, Ludwig Hermann Oswald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric, director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum Görlitz
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Auras on the Oder
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1927
Place of death Wurzburg