Meta Wellmer

Meta Wellmer (born December 18, 1826 (according to other information, 1832 ) in Leonrod (Dietenhofen) , † August 1, 1889 in Ebersdorf ) was a German writer.

She was the daughter of the unmarried weaver and mayor's daughter Eva Margaretha Wirth from Leonrod, who married the brewery tenant Johann Geck in Deberndorf in 1830 . The baptismal register gives no information about the father. However, he is likely to have been the lawyer, non-fiction author and satirical writer Michael Ludwig Wellmer , who adopted her and provided for her careful upbringing and training. Wellmer had been trained in the teacher training college in Droyssig (about eight kilometers west of Zeitz ) and worked as a teacher in Germany, Switzerland, Paris, London, Madrid and Rome, but for most of her life she worked as an educator in the Moravian Brethren in Ebersdorf. She was the author of both fiction and works on issues relating to education, nutrition and women's rights . She called for an independent tourist infrastructure for women traveling alone, an agitation that received benevolent attention abroad as a feminine rebellion. She also published ghost stories and articles on spiritualism and occult issues , some of which appeared in the theosophical journal Sphinx . Wellmer had advocated animal welfare since 1869 at the latest and dealt with vegetarianism . Their criticism of vegetarianism led to a public statement by the religious philosopher Georg Friedrich Daumer . From 1879 at the latest, Wellmer was on friendly terms with the German vegetarian movement and initially worked on cooperation between animal welfare and vegetarian associations, which, according to Eduard Baltzer, the founding father of modern German vegetarianism, was an endeavor worth supporting. After her death she was given several obituaries by the Vegetarian Association and described as a "tirelessly active champion"

Works

Memories of Father Hyacinthe. In: Nürnberger Tagblatt. 1869, 10/12, p. 68, left column, continued on next page, left column below.
The vegetarians. In: Ernst Dohm, Julius Rodenberg (Ed.): Salon for literature, art and society. Volume 6, Verlag AH Payne, Leipzig 1870, pp. 618-624.
Lately ghost stories. Nordhausen 1875. This includes: About belief in miracles . - From Paris . - From 1686 . - The ghost story of Fräulein Bertha von K. - Two friends . - The mother's spirit . - Countess Montléard's dream. - The curse . - Woke up from death . - Ghost seers. - Own experiences.
Theophile. A story. Hall 1876.
German educators and their sphere of activity. Leipzig 1877.
Relationship of the child to the animal world. A contribution to education. Munich 1878.
The lady and the company. 1879.
Something in good form. 1880.
Our newspapers and our youth. Berlin 1880.
Poems. Zurich 1883.
The vegetarian way of life and the vegetarians. Berlin 1889.

literature

Wellmer, Meta . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 422 ( digitized version ).
Wolfgang Achnitz: German Literature Lexicon . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023159-5 , column 413.

Web links

Table of contents of the Sphinx magazine with articles by Wellmer

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Achnitz: German literature lexicon . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023159-5 , column 413.
↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Biographical Lexicon of the Kaiserthums Oesterreich . Volume 57 (1889), p. 118 ( digitized version ). Meta Wirth is given as the actual name . In other sources this name appears as a pseudonym, for example in the GND and in Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. Volume 2.
↑ Waltraud Feis, Hans Werner Kress et al. (Eds.): Debendorf: History and stories of a Franconian village, Debendorf 2004, pp. 101-103.
↑ ^a ^b Ibid. See also the contribution of the local researcher Hans Werner Kress: Railway, railway and again railway ... In: The Zirndorfer Lokalanzeiger. No. 15 v. September 10, 2010, p. 17. After Meta Wellmer took up a teaching position for newer languages at the Neuendettelsau Diakonissenanstalt for the winter semester 1858/59, the deaconesses' body reported in 1860 that she was the daughter of the deceased district judge Michael Ludwig Wellmer and was im Teachers' college had been trained by Droyanzig ; cf. Correspondence sheet of the deaconesses of Neuendettelsau. No. 2 and No. 3, February and March 1860, p. 7, § 6, first paragraph.
↑ Scientific supplement to the Leipziger Zeitung. No. 7, from Thursday, January 28, 1872, pp. 33-34.
↑ The Ladies' Repository. A Monthly Periodical devoted to Literature and Religion . Volume 32, Hitchcock and Walden, Cincinnati / Carlton and Lanahan, New York 1872, p. 310.
^ Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of the German poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century. Volume 2, Leipzig 1885, p. 469.
↑ G. Fr. Daumer : My relationship to vegetarianism. In: Westermann's yearbook of the Illustrirten German monthly books. Volume 29, October 1870 - March 1871, Braunschweig 1871, pp. 509-510.
↑ Eduard Baltzer, Der Münchener Thierschutzverein In: Association sheet for friends of the natural way of life (vegetarians). Volume XII, No. 113, Nordhausen March 10, 1879, p. 1803.
^ AK, Small Chronicle. Meta Wellmer † In: Vegetarisches Rundschau. Monthly for a rational way of life. Volume 9, Issue 8, Berlin 1889, pp. 251–252.

personal data
SURNAME	Wellmer, Meta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wirth, M. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 18, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leonrod (Dietenhofen)
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1889
Place of death	Ebersdorf

[1] Wolfgang Achnitz: German literature lexicon . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023159-5 , column 413.

[2] Constantin von Wurzbach : Biographical Lexicon of the Kaiserthums Oesterreich . Volume 57 (1889), p. 118 ( digitized version ). Meta Wirth is given as the actual name . In other sources this name appears as a pseudonym, for example in the GND and in Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. Volume 2.

[3] Waltraud Feis, Hans Werner Kress et al. (Eds.): Debendorf: History and stories of a Franconian village, Debendorf 2004, pp. 101-103.

[CDN-4] Ibid. See also the contribution of the local researcher Hans Werner Kress: Railway, railway and again railway ... In: The Zirndorfer Lokalanzeiger. No. 15 v. September 10, 2010, p. 17. After Meta Wellmer took up a teaching position for newer languages at the Neuendettelsau Diakonissenanstalt for the winter semester 1858/59, the deaconesses' body reported in 1860 that she was the daughter of the deceased district judge Michael Ludwig Wellmer and was im Teachers' college had been trained by Droyanzig ; cf. Correspondence sheet of the deaconesses of Neuendettelsau. No. 2 and No. 3, February and March 1860, p. 7, § 6, first paragraph.

[5] Scientific supplement to the Leipziger Zeitung. No. 7, from Thursday, January 28, 1872, pp. 33-34.

[6] The Ladies' Repository. A Monthly Periodical devoted to Literature and Religion . Volume 32, Hitchcock and Walden, Cincinnati / Carlton and Lanahan, New York 1872, p. 310.

[7] Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of the German poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century. Volume 2, Leipzig 1885, p. 469.

[8] G. Fr. Daumer : My relationship to vegetarianism. In: Westermann's yearbook of the Illustrirten German monthly books. Volume 29, October 1870 - March 1871, Braunschweig 1871, pp. 509-510.

[9] Eduard Baltzer, Der Münchener Thierschutzverein In: Association sheet for friends of the natural way of life (vegetarians). Volume XII, No. 113, Nordhausen March 10, 1879, p. 1803.

[10] AK, Small Chronicle. Meta Wellmer † In: Vegetarisches Rundschau. Monthly for a rational way of life. Volume 9, Issue 8, Berlin 1889, pp. 251–252.