Max Seippel

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Gravestone of Max Seippel and his wife in the cemetery in Marburg

Max Seippel (born June 14, 1850 in Langendreer , today a district of Bochum , † July 18, 1913 in Marburg ) was a German writer .

Life

Seippel was born as the son of a Protestant pastor. He trained as a businessman in a machine factory. He later pursued this profession in Bochum.

In the 1890s Seippel became a member of the General Writers' Association. The literary genres that he cultivated were the features pages , poetry and youth stories . Over the years, a series of six independent book publications was created. In 1891 he founded his own book printing business in Bochum, which produced paper goods and printed matter. After the company was sold, he moved to Marburg in 1906, where he lived as a pensioner until his death. He was married to Anna Seippel, b. Pieper (1866-1940).

Max Seippel was accepted into the Masonic lodge To the Three Rosebuds in Bochum on October 16, 1883 . After moving, he was a “constantly visiting brother” and an honorary member of the Marc Aurel Lodge for the Flaming Star in Marburg.

Works

  • The May evening festival in Bochum. Edited and edited from existing sources. Self-published, Bochum 1881.
  • Gudula von Hardenberg. A story from the days of Engelbert III. of the Mark and Dortmund's great feud. Reissner, Leipzig 1891.
  • Bochum then and now. A look back and around at the turn of the century. Rheinisch-Westfälische Verlags-Anstalt, Bochum 1901 ( digitized ; reprint, with an afterword edited by Jörg-Ulrich Fechner. Schürmann and Klagges, Bochum 1991, ISBN 3-920612-35-3 ).
  • At the sources. Pusch, Bad Wildungen 1908.
  • Little Jacob. A story for children. Weise, Stuttgart 1909.
  • Three castles and three towers. Descriptions and life pictures from the county of Mark. Märkische Druck und Verlags Anstalt, Witten 1911.

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