Paul Meintel

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Paul Rupert Meintel (born June 21, 1884 in Zurich ; died October 25, 1950 in Horb am Neckar ) was a German-Swiss art historian and secondary school teacher .

Life

Meintel's father Paul Meintel (1851–1904) was the head gardener at the Botanical Garden in Zurich. He came from the southern German town of Horb am Neckar. Meintel attended the mathematics teachers' seminar and obtained the patent for the primary school level as well as a certificate on school management. In the winter semester of 1904 he enrolled at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich in the fields of German studies, art history and general history. He completed his studies in Zurich on March 11, 1907, and placed it on the philosophical-historical faculty of the University of Bern , where he in 1909 at the Dean Mueller Hess with a record of Gottfried Keller and the romance Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He then worked as a vicar in Wiedikon and worked as a journalist before working as a secondary teacher in Regensdorf from 1921 until shortly before his death . In 1923 he was accepted into the "Society for Local History in the Zürcher Unterland" (GHZU), whose membership was limited. Here he was employed as a clerk from 1937 to 1950.

In addition to this activity, he wrote biographical contributions on artists for the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present , for example on Wilhelm Klink or Franz Jakob Anton Kottmann . He also wrote articles for volumes 6 and 7 (1931 and 1934) for the Historisch-Biographische Lexikon der Schweiz (HBLS). He wrote articles on literary and cultural-historical topics in the daily and local press, such as in the Wehntaler or the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . In 1934 he organized the celebrations for the school where he worked and wrote a commemorative publication for the centenary.

The
Meintel family was married to Katharina (née Neyer, † 1945) from Flums . The marriage remained childless. There were two well-known sculptors in his family: his grandfather was Johann Nepomuk Meintel and his uncle was his son Karl Meintel (1844–1880). Around 1938 Meintel bought a house at Feldblumenstrasse 7. For his retirement he had planned to compile a Regensdorf chronicle and a biography of his grandfather Johann Nepomuk Meintel. He was no longer able to write these works because he died of a stroke during a trip in 1950, shortly after his retirement. His grave is in the Manegg cemetery in Zurich.

Fonts (selection)

  • Gottfried Keller and Romanticism, literary historical studies . Buchdruckerei Gebr. Leemann, Zurich 1909, OCLC 457605220 (inaugural dissertation).
  • Zurich fountain . Grethlein & Co., Zurich 1921, OCLC 887421020 .
  • Schweizer Brunnen (=  Switzerland in German intellectual life . Volume 16 ). Huber, Frauenfeld / Leipzig 1931, OCLC 1091969273 .
  • From the founding history of the secondary school in Regensdorf: Festschrift for the celebration of the century, May 13, 1934 . Self-published, Regensdorf 1934, OCLC 891332296 .
  • Oskar Gallus Baumgartner (1884–1937): an obituary . Self-published, Regensdorf 1937, OCLC 730269667 .

literature

  • Lucas Wüthrich: Well-known Regensdorfer - Dr. Paul Meintel (1884-1950). In: Regan-Zunftblatt Volume 31, 1993 ( landzunft-regensdorf.ch PDF, pp. 10–16).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Luterbacher: The landscape in Gottfried Keller's prose works . Mohr, Tübingen 1911, p. VII ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Klink, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 522-523 .
  3. ^ Kottmann, Franz Jakob Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 356 .
  4. ↑ Lucas Wüthrich: The high altar of the penitentiary by Wilhelm Klink. In: Regan-Zunftblatt Volume 35, 1997 ( landzunft-regensdorf.ch PDF, pp. 10–16).
personal data
SURNAME Meintel, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meintel, Paul Rupert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1950
Place of death Horb am Neckar