Paul Sellin

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Paul Sellin (* 19th century; † 20th century) was a German writer and publicist in the field of the life reform movement and experimental occultism . He also worked as an inventor and entrepreneur.

Presumably he came from the Prussian province of Pomerania - at least for the year 1909 mentions from the community Georgendorf (today Lubkowo ) in the district Rummelsburg and from the community Altenhagen (today Jeżyce ) in the district Schlawe are documented. On March 16, 1909 he was awarded the patent for a "nailless horseshoe for horses" under number 393721 and on August 1 of the same year he was awarded a "mobile sawing machine with a reciprocating saw frame for long and cross-cutting of logs" the patent number 231311.

A little later he moved to the then still independent town of Altona and published the magazine Psyche there around 1910 in E. Seehase's Psychological Publishing House . Sellin was also a founding member of the German Association for Herbal Medicine . His publication Massenmensch und Individualist , published in 1911, was quoted in the 1981 Yearbook for International German Studies .

At the end of the 1920s - now living in Hamburg - he had reoriented himself professionally and ran a business for sewer clearing and cleaning machines. Among other things, he worked out special plans for cleaning the canals in the Elbmarschen near Hamburg.

Publications (selection)

  • The banana. A new folk food. A botanical-economic-nutritional study . Neukultur-Verlag, Langenfelde -Altona, 1910.
  • The dried or permanent banana, its value and uses . Neukultur-Verlag, Langenfelde-Altona, [no year, around 1910].
  • Mass man and individualist. A psychological consideration . In: Die Aktion , Volume 1, № 6, March 1911, pages 169–171.
  • The basis of the cultural reform movement . In: Prana. Central Organ for Practical Occultism , Volume 4, № 1, October 1912.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b VDI Society Production Technology (Working Group of German Industrial Engineers) ( Ed. ): Workshop technology. Journal for the plant and operation of factories and for manufacturing processes , Volume 5, Springer-Verlag , 1911, page 181.
  2. ↑ a b Imperial Patent Office (ed.): Patentblatt , Volume 33, Part 2, Carl Heymanns Verlag , 1909, page 1879.
  3. ↑ Ludwig Deinhard: The mystery of man in the light of psychic research. An Introduction to Occultism . Verlag Reichl & Co. , Berlin , 1910, page 201.
  4. ↑ Heinz Rupp , Hans-Gert Roloff (Ed.): Files of the VI. International Congress of German Studies. Yearbook for International German Studies, Series A, Volume 8.1 . Verlag Peter Lang , Bern , 1981, ISBN 978-3-261-04923-0 , page 278.
  5. ↑ Looking around. Illustrated weekly publication on advances in science and technology , H. Bechhold Verlagsbuchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main , Volume 32, 1928, Page 263.
  6. ↑ Peter Lesniczak: Old landscape kitchens in the wake of modernization: Studies on a food geography of Germany between 1860 and 1930. In: Studies on the history of everyday life, Paul Sellin: Die Banane, p. 126. Franz Steiner Verlag, accessed on September 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sellin, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century