Post register

The Post Gathering Book is a collection of songs and poems, essays and accounts, dedicated to the relatives and friends of the Post.

It contains the sounds of the post horn , articles on language and writing , as well as a history of the post that has been overtaken by recent research, from the Egyptians to Persia and Rome to the Middle Ages, from the messengers to the field post in 1871.

The publisher is not named, but it is known that the work was edited at the instigation of Heinrich von Stephans in the Reich Post Office . The postal log was published by R. v. Decker , first edition in 1875, in the third edition in 1877, as a reprint in Leipzig, Zentralantiquariat der DDR 1982 and in Heidelberg, R. v. Decker's Verlag G.Schenck, 1983.

The Berliner National-Zeitung (Hermann Lessing) wrote: “Even if its author wraps himself in the veil of anonymity, the recherche de la paternité is not difficult here. Anyone who has so much data at their disposal, from the first traces of the postal system in the Old Testament to the currency of the field post in June 1871 when the troops marched in, as they sung about Juvenal and Martial, knows how to find out from the abundance of classical literature, and even that Postman, who puer tabellarius has at his disposal immediately and in the right place, who then follows the mail car through Italy, France, Germany over mountains and valleys to the sand can of the Holy Roman Empire through swamp and sand, must be one of the top drivers be the great transport authority, have devoted themselves body and soul to it. "

literature

• Heinrich von Stephan, postal log book , digitized

, 3rd edition 1877