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Title page of a Palatinate story by Luitpold Baumblatt, 1860
Title page of a textbook by Luitpold Baumblatt, 1865

Luitpold Baumblatt , maiden name Jakob Baumblatt (* 1806 in Theilheim, today a district of Waigolshausen , Lower Franconia ; † February 16, 1877 in Kaiserslautern , Palatinate ), was a well-known Jewish-Catholic convert, teacher, specialist book author and local writer who supported the Prince Regent Luitpold von Bavaria had as a godfather.

Live and act

Luitpold Baumblatt was born to wealthy Jewish parents in Theilheim, Lower Franconia, where there was a large Jewish community with a synagogue. He was given the first name Jacob and, according to his father's will, was to become a rabbi . For this purpose he attended the famous Talmud school in Fürth near Nuremberg from the age of 14 . When the boy had studied at school for 5 years, a law was passed in Bavaria that rabbis also have to graduate from university, just as it was prescribed for the Christian clergy. This prompted Jakob Baumblatt to pursue a different career path.

In Nuremberg he learned the merchant trade and entered a trading house in Fürth, later moved to a Munich department store. In addition, he dealt with language and literature studies in German, French and Italian. From 1835 Baumblatt gave French language lessons in Würzburg and passed a state examination as a teacher in 1838 in the Rhineland Palatinate, part of Bavaria.

At that time the decision to convert to the Catholic faith matured in Jakob Baumblatt and he found a Lower Franconian compatriot in Frankenthal city ​​pastor Adam Seibert (1794-1860) who voluntarily taught him for 6 months. On the feast of St. Peter and Paul on June 29, 1840, the priest baptized him in the Trinity Church in Frankenthal ; Prince Luitpold of Bavaria , the later ruler, took over the office of godfather , which is why Baumblatt from then on carried the first name Luitpold. The Wittelsbach prince was represented at the ceremony by the royal land commissioner (district administrator) von Frankenthal, Freiherr Joseph von Pölnitz ; also a lower franc. The Münchner Tageblatt No. 8 of July 8, 1840 reports on this u. a., the convert "led such an impeccable way of life that he was found to be worthy of admission to the Catholic Church and his hot wishes, which also had to sacrifice earthly considerations, could be satisfied."

Luitpold Baumblatt was married to Karolina Schraut and lived with her temporarily in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , where their son Emil Gottfried was born on December 19, 1847. There he ran his own commercial training institute

From December 8, 1850, Baumblatt worked as a commercial science teacher, later as rector, at the agricultural and trade school in Kaiserslautern , and from 1867 also at the technical advanced training school there. In this capacity he published many specialist publications, such as B. a longer treatise on peasant bookkeeping in the journal of the Agricultural Association of Bavaria (No. 5, 1857), but also textbooks on mathematics and commerce. From this the mathematics book The practical calculating, with special consideration of the decimal system , from 1865, was reprinted in February 2010, ISBN 1-160-54684-3 .

writing

In addition to his teaching activities, Luitpold Baumblatt gained broader fame as a storyteller and book author, mainly devoting himself to historical-religious topics. Immediately after his conversion, in 1841 he translated the autobiographical work of the famous rabbi, convert and later Catholic priest David Paul Drach, under the title Catholicism and Judaism , from French into German. A large number of his own works followed, mostly stories that are often rooted in the history of the Rhineland Palatinate and all of them bear the basic moral and religious pattern of the Catholic faith. Sometimes the teacher wrote under the pseudonym Friedrich Haller . At the celebration of Friedrich Schiller's 100th birthday, Baumblatt gave the ceremonial speech in Kaiserslautern in 1859, which was sent as a souvenir to the poet's daughter, who was still alive.

Luitpold Baumblatt died as a pensioner in Kaiserslautern in 1877.

Works

(Selection)

  • Catholicism and Judaism . (Translation of the French autobiography of the convert David Drach), Frankenthal (Pfalz), 1841
  • The seduced youth. A story for the more mature youth . 1842
  • The Frankish rose. A story for the more mature youth . 1842
  • The stepmother or the prize won. A story for the more mature youth . 1842
  • Fate of an orphan girl: the maiden jump . 1843
  • The Christian Museum. Stories for the more mature Christian age . 1844
  • The merchant and his sons; a story for the youth and adults . 1854
  • Judith, or the French in Worms; a historical novella . 1857
  • The Fraulein von Flörsheim on Landstuhl. A novella from the time of Franz von Sickingen . 1860 complete scan of the book
  • The little daughter of the cathedral bell. A historical novella . 1865
  • Practical arithmetic, with special attention to the decimal system . 1865 complete scan of the book ; Review of the book, from the Pestalozzianum Zurich, 1866
  • The client's daughter. A historical novella from the 17th century . 1866 complete scan of the book
  • Exchange teaching for school and people . 1868, review of the work
  • Complete arithmetic book for all classes in bourgeois life, according to the metric measure and weight legally introduced in Germany; for schools and for self-study . 1871
  • Commercial knowledge for commercial, industrial and advanced training schools, as well as for industrial schools . 1873

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the Jewish community in Theilheim
  2. ↑ Scan. Newspaper report on the baptism of tree leaf. In: Münchner Tageblatt , July 8, 1840
  3. ↑ Birth announcement from Neustadter Wochenblatt No. 2, dated January 4, 1848
  4. ^ Advertisement for the commercial college of Luitpold Baumblatt, Neustadt, 1848
  5. ^ Advertisement from Luitpold Baumblatt's commercial training institute, Neustadt, 1848, with description of teaching activities
  6. ^ Luitpold Baumblatt as head of the Kaiserslautern commercial school
  7. ↑ Scan of Baumblatt's treatise on agricultural accounting
  8. ↑ To David Drach
  9. ↑ Source, celebratory speech on the Schiller anniversary
personal data
SURNAME Tree leaf, Luitpold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumblatt, Jakob (maiden name); Haller, Friedrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish-Catholic convert, teacher, specialist book author and local writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Theilheim, today a district of Waigolshausen , Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1877
Place of death Kaiserslautern