Simon Martin Mayer

Simon Martin Mayer (1832)

Simon Martin Mayer , pseudonym Julius probes (born April 21, 1788 in Klagenfurt ; † May 16, 1872 ) was a Carinthian priest and publicist. He was the editor-in-chief of Carinthia magazine .

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Mayer was born the son of a sergeant in Klagenfurt, but was orphaned at an early age. But he was allowed to choose a spiritual career and became a world priest. He was ordained priest in the autumn of 1809. Initially he worked in the Klagenfurt cathedral parish and in 1820 moved to the main parish church of St. Egid , where he worked as a late preacher until 1859. He never took the bankruptcy test that would have been a prerequisite for obtaining a benefice .

As early as 1815, Mayer had taken over the editing of the Carinthia magazine, which was founded in 1811. With only brief interruptions, he was to remain editor until 1862. From 1821 he was also editor of the Klagenfurter Zeitung , which he also headed for almost three decades. From 1820 on he published the Kärntnerische Zeitschrift , of which eight volumes were to appear. In 1837 he published the book Noreia , in which he published ballads, sagas, legends and fairy tales.

Mayer published over 200 poems and around 150 prose essays, making him the hardest-working author of his newspaper. He also used pseudonyms such as Julius probes or from Lutold's papers . Nussbaumer describes his poetry as tender, intimate, correctly built , but there are many occasional poems of only ephemeral importance . Important topics are friendship, parting and separation as well as praise for home. Mayer often used Carinthian legends in rhyme form.

In 1859 Mayer resigned from his priestly activities, in 1862, at the age of 74, Mayer also withdrew from the editorial office of Carinthia. He was an honorary citizen of the city of Klagenfurt and died on May 16, 1872. He was buried at the St. Ruprecht cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Anton Kreuzer: Carinthian Biographical Sketches. 14.-20. Century . Kärntner Druck und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1999, ISBN 3-85391-166-8 , pp. 85-87.
2. ↑ Erich Nussbaumer: Spiritual Carinthia. Literary and intellectual history of the country . Verlag Ferd. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt 1956 (without ISBN), pp. 318-320.
3. ↑ Simon Martin Mayer - Necrolog . Carinthia, Volume 62, No. 6/7, Klagenfurt 1872, pp. 161–169.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Mayer, Simon Martin . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 175 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Helgard Kraigher: Simon Martin Mayer, a contribution to the literary and cultural history of Carinthia in the first half of the 19th century. Dissertation. Graz 1967.
• Nussbaumer:  Mayer Simon Martin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 448.