Siegfried Seligmann

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Siegfried Seligmann (born June 12, 1870 in Wandsbek - died November 10, 1926 in Hamburg ) was a German ophthalmologist and private scholar.

Life

Siegfried Seligmann was a son of the businessman Benzion Seligmann and his wife Jenny, nee. Simon. He studied human medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Strasbourg, Berlin and Munich. At the beginning of 1896 he received his medical license in Munich . In March he became an assistant at the Dr. Wertheim in Berlin. From September 1896 to September 1898 he also worked as an assistant at the eye clinic at the University of Berlin.

On September 20, 1898, he was accepted into the registry of Hamburg doctors by the Hamburg Medical College and opened his own practice.

In 1904 he married Alice Bettina Warburg (September 29, 1878 Hamburg -), a daughter of the house agent Moritz Gustav Warburg (1841–1887, cousin of Moritz M. Warburg ) and his wife Emilie Wilhelmine, née. Seligmann.

During the First World War he was the chief physician of the eye ward of a hospital in France; he was awarded the Iron Cross and the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross. After the end of the war he resumed his practice in Hamburg and worked in it until his death. He lived at Heimhuder Strasse 17 in Hamburg-Rotherbaum .

In addition to his practice, Seligmann carried out extensive studies on popular belief and superstition , in particular the Evil Eye , on which he presented a monumental two-volume work in 1910, which is still an indispensable standard work today. As an expert, he presented an extensive report in the trial against the clay pastor Emanuel Felke (1856-1926), which he also published. He put on an extensive collection of amulets comprising over 1500 objects . After his death, Aby Warburg succeeded in 1927 in arranging the purchase of the collection by Georg Thilenius with the help of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation for the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology . In 2001, the collection was shown in full for the first time as part of the exhibition Hexenwelten . After the amulet collection meantime into the witches archive was built the museum that deals with witches consultations , lectures on annual festivals, magic practices and presentations on issues of religious nature spirituality to a pagan center has developed, it has now been reversed.

In coordination with the Völkerkundemuseum, part of his ethnological book collection was transferred to the Warburg Cultural Studies Library .

Seligmann's papers have been in the archives of the Warburg Institute in London as a gift from the family since 1987 .

Publications

  • The microscopic methods of examination of the eye. Berlin: Karger 1899 ( digitized  - Internet Archive )
  • The evil eye and related things. A contribution to the history of superstition of all times and peoples. 2 volumes. Barsdorf, Berlin 1910.
Volume 1 digitized  - Internet Archive
Volume 2 digitized  - Internet Archive
Reprint: Hildesheim: Olms 1985 ISBN 3-487-07665-9
  • Eye diagnosis and quacking: With special consideration of the quarreling process against the "clay pastor" Felke. Berlin: Barsdorf 1910 ( digitized  - Internet Archive )
  • The magic of the eye and calling. A chapter in the history of superstition. Hamburg 1922, reprint Den Haag: Couvreur Verlag 1980
  • The magical remedies and protective means from inanimate nature with special consideration of the means against the evil eye. A history of the amulet being. Strechek & Schröder, Stuttgart 1927.

literature

  • Thomas Hauschild: Siegfried Seligmann. A collector and his amulet collection in the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology. In: Communications from the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg NF 8 (1978) pp. 151–159
  • Jürgen Zwernemann: The amulet collection Seligmann. In: Hamburg's gateway to the world: 125 years of the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg. Hamburg 2004, pp. 258-260

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The house was later a so-called Jewish house during the Nazi persecution of the Jews , see The persecution and murder of Hamburg's Jews 1933-1945: history, testimony, remembrance. Göttingen: Wallstein 2006 ISBN 9783835301375 , p. 51
  2. ↑ Thomas Rakoczy: Evil Eye, Power of the Eye and Envy of the Gods: An Investigation into the Power of the Look in Greek Literature. (= Classica Monacensia 13), Tübingen: Narr 199, zugl .: München, Univ., Diss., 1994 ISBN 978-3-8233-4872-6 , p. 40
  3. ↑ See the correspondence in the archive of the Warburg Institute, London
  4. ↑ Review of the exhibition , accessed on March 28, 2018
  5. ↑ Where are you going, broom? - Magical Places in the North , NDR from April 27, 2016, accessed on March 28, 2018
  6. ↑ Hans-Michael Schäfer: The Warburg Library for Cultural Studies: History and personalities of the Warburg library with consideration of the library landscape and the urban situation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg at the beginning of the 20th century. (= Berlin works on library and information science 11) Logos 2003 ISBN 9783832500740 , p. 135
  7. ↑ GB 1370 WIA, Siegfried Seligmann , accessed on March 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Seligmann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Wandsbek
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1926
Place of death Hamburg