Ludwig Purtscheller

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Ludwig Purtscheller (born October 6, 1849 in Innsbruck , Austrian Empire , † March 3, 1900 in Bern ) was an Austrian mountaineer and teacher.

Ludwig Purtscheller
Purtscheller and Karl Blodig in a drawing by ET Compton
Purtscheller's grave in the Salzburg municipal cemetery 

Live and act

Son of Tyrolean parents (the father a kk tax collector from Innsbruck, the mother from the Stubaital ), Purtscheller attended the secondary school in Innsbruck from 1859 and then went to the secondary school in Rovereto for a year to learn the Italian language. His excellent knowledge of spoken and written Italian also came from this time.

In 1865 he came to Villach , where he had got a job in the Bleiberger mining company . Here he acquired extensive mineralogical and geological knowledge, which was useful in his later literary occupation. After he had passed the exam to become a gymnastics teacher in Graz, he was employed in Klagenfurt in 1872 with this qualification. In his free time he roamed the Karawanken , the Steiner Alps , the Julian and Carnic Alps and parts of the Tauern .

In 1874 Purtscheller moved to Salzburg, where he worked as a teacher at the kk teacher training institute and at the kk grammar school . During the school year he hiked through West Styria , the Salzburg region , North Tyrol and the Bavarian Alps . Purtscheller's endeavors were aimed at first getting to know the Eastern Alps thoroughly. He undertook successful mountain trips in all larger groups in the Eastern Alps , especially with his friend Heinrich Hess , with whom he later wrote Der Hochtourist in the Eastern Alps . After intensely climbing the local mountains, he turned to the western Alps .

Ludwig Purtscheller made many first ascents and first ascents without a mountain guide . In his time he was considered the best expert on the Alps , in which he climbed over 1700 peaks .

With the brothers Otto and Emil Zsigmondy , the first complete crossing of the Meije was achieved in 1885 . With the Zsigmondy brothers, he had already climbed the Kleine Zinne , the Ortler , the Monte Rosa east face and the Bietschhorn south face and crossed the Matterhorn without a guide . With Johann Punz from Ramsau , he climbed the east face of the Watzmann for the second time on June 12, 1885 .

On October 6, 1889, Purtscheller and his companions Hans Meyer and Yohani Kinyala Lauwo reached the summit of Kilimanjaro for the first time on their second attempt . In 1891 Purtscheller was active in mountaineering with Gottfried Merzbacher and the Glockner guides Kerer and Unterweser in the Caucasus (including Elbrus ).

In 1895 Purtscheller fell seriously ill with typhus , which from then on denied him the greatest possible exertion. In the same year he married Hedwig von Helmreichen († 1942 in Salzburg). The marriage produced a daughter and a son.

In 1897 Ernst Otto Leuenberger portrayed Purtscheller. After climbing the Aiguille du Dru on August 25, 1899, Purtscheller and his two rope companions fell into a 4-5 meter deep bergschrund and broke their right upper arm. After five weeks of inpatient treatment in Geneva , he was transferred to Bern to the clinic of the surgeon Otto Lanz , where he slowly recovered and planned to return to Salzburg in mid-March 1900. However, a flu attack and the accompanying bilateral pneumonia led to his death in the early morning hours of March 3, 1900. The burial in an honorary grave of the city of Salzburg took place on March 11, 1900 at the Salzburg municipal cemetery with great participation .

On June 28, 1901, on behalf of the Central Committee of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, the grave monument made by Hans Bitterlich was unveiled.

Honors

The Purtschellerhaus (an alpine club hut in the Berchtesgaden Alps ), a lane in the Salzburg district of Froschheim , a cul-de-sac in Innsbruck and the Purtscheller-Steig on the Schafberg were named in his honor. In addition, the channel called Couloir Purtscheller on the Dents d'Ambin near the Col de Clapier and the 3478 m high Aiguille Purtscheller on the south ridge of the Aiguille du Tour bear his name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Personal News. (...) All sorts. (...) Purtscheller memorial . In: Mittheilungen des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein , year 1901 (Volume XXVII), p. 173. (Online at ALO ).
  2. ↑ a b Blodig, p. 49.
  3. ↑ Blodig, p. 49 f.
  4. ↑ Personal News. Ludwig Purtscheller (…) In: Mittheilungen des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein , born in 1895 (Volume XXI), p. 175 f. (Online at ALO ).
  5. ↑ Blodig, p. 50.
  6. ↑ (…) Hedwig Purtscheller, die Witwe (…) In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Alpenverein , Issue 11, August (1942), year 1941/42 (October 1941 to September 1942), p. 171. (Online at ALO ).
  7. ↑ portrait
  8. ^ H. H. (d. I. Heinrich Hess): Personal-Nachrichten. † Ludwig Purtscheller . In: Mittheilungen des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein , year 1900 (volume XXVI), p. 55 f. (Online at ALO ).
  9. ^ H. H. (d. I. Heinrich Hess): Personal-Nachrichten. † L. Purtscheller . In: Mittheilungen des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein , year 1900 (Volume XXVI), p. 65 f. (Online at ALO ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1898, two years before his death, he had informed Blodig that he had now climbed 1,500 listed peaks . - See: Blodig, p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Purtscheller, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountaineer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1900
Place of death Bern