Richard Erfurth

Richard Erfurth (born January 14, 1869 in Schleinitz , † August 23, 1949 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) was a German educator and local writer.

Life

Erfurth attended the teachers' college in Weißenfels from 1887 to 1890 , on April 1, 1890 he received a teaching position in Dobien , on October 1, 1890 in Dabrun , in order to work in the same position in Pratau in 1894 . There he got involved in community life and built a small library. In 1899 he took over a position as a teacher at the Luther School in today's Lutherhaus in Wittenberg , which he held until his retirement in 1932.

In addition to his professional activity and his work in various committees of the Evangelical Church in Wittenberg, his work in the "Association for Heimatkunde and Heimatschutz" in Wittenberg should be emphasized. Since the foundation of the association in 1910, Erfurth was represented on the board and worked closely with Gottfried Krüger . In addition to his lectures in 1911 " Zur Geschichte der Faustsage ", 1927 on " The Smuggled Pig ", 1930 on " In Wittenberg 100 Years Ago " and in 1935 on " Emil Quandt - Preacher and Poet ", he was editor and editor of the from 1924 to 1936 Local supplement of the "Wittenberger Tageblatt": "O du Heimatflur", which later appeared under the title "Unser Heimatland".

Erfurth also published his articles in magazines and newspapers, and as a correspondent for the newspaper he attended meetings, public events and special events that took place in Lutherstadt. His collaboration on the various "city guides", which appeared from 1911 to 1938 in Wittenberg and foreign publishers, all bear his name as the author in the textual part. His former student Heinrich Kühne reissued his dialect scripts at the turn of the millennium under the title “Vun jrienen Schtrand der Elwe”.

Selection of works

• Local history of the Wittenberg district. Wittenberg 1902
• Images from the cultural history of our homeland. Wittenberg 1905
• History of the city of Wittenberg. Part I. Wittenberg 1910
• Delivered from the yoke. The Patriotic Festival in Two Acts deals with the storming of the city by the Prussians in 1813-1814. Issue 208 of the series "Jugend und Volksbühne". Leipzig undated (1913)
• Guide through Lutherstadt Wittenberg and its surroundings (in collaboration with Paul Friedrich). Wittenberg 1917
• History of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Part II. Wittenberg 1927
• From the edge of the Elwe. (Dialect). Berlin-Leipzig undated (1930) Apollensdorf's daughter at school. Halle no year (1934)
• "He lives". D. Martin Luther in the legend. Leipzig 1938
• What you inherited from your fathers. The dialects of the German Gaue. Leipzig 1941

literature

• Heinrich Kühne : Richard Erfurth - teacher and local writer, in the 2004 home calendar of Lutherstadt Wittenberg & District Wittenberg, published by Drei Kastanien Verlag ISBN 3-933028-78-7
• Kühling: The elementary, middle and private schools., 24 year. Verlag Hermann Schroedel Halle (Saale)
• Otto Dibelius : The royal seminary at Wittenberg 1817-1917, Berlin 1926

Web link

• Literature by and about Richard Erfurth in the catalog of the German National Library