Viktor Wolf of Glanvell

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Viktor Wolf-Glanvell

Viktor Wolf Edler von Glanvell (born September 4, 1871 in Klagenfurt , † May 7, 1905 ) was an important Austrian alpinist and professor of canon law.

Life

At the meeting to climb the Campanile di Val Montanaia

Wolf-Glanvell was born as the son of the Austro-Hungarian officer Ignaz Wolf Edler von Glanvell (1832–1898) and his wife Therese (née Braunhofer, 1845–1930) in Klagenfurt. He graduated from Graz and was awarded a doctorate at the university there in 1894. jur. PhD. Four years later, he qualified as a professor in canon law , in 1901 he was appointed extraordinary professor appointed. In the same year, after a three-year engagement period, on July 20, 1901, he married the painter Maria Theresia "Mary" Luschin Edle von Ebengreuth (1877–1968), a niece of the renowned legal historian and numismatist Arnold Luschin-Ebengreuth , his mentor at the university.

Wolf-Glanvell became known as a mountaineer , especially in South Tyrol , where he made numerous first ascents in the Dolomites , including the Seekofel north face, the Campanile di Val Montanaia , the Dito di Dio , several peaks of the Fanes group or the east face of the Cima dei Preti . In the course of less than twenty years he made around 150 first ascents, most of them together with Günther Freiherr von Saar and Karl Domenigg . Wolf-Glanvell wrote the first “Guide to the Braies Dolomites” and a popular Dolomites guide and, in addition to scientific papers on canon law, published numerous articles on mountaineering topics.

Wolf-Glanvell's wife Mary shared his interest in the mountains and accompanied him on many tours, some of which were difficult. Freshly engaged, they climbed the Herrenstein Tower (2395 m) on August 23, 1898 ; other joint successes were: Kleine Zinne and Planspitze each from the north, Pisciadù over the north face, Wischberg from the Saifnitzer Karnica and also the Campanile di Val Montanaia. Her friends Titty Anger (daughter of the tram director in Graz and later wife of Günther von Saar), Mizzi Wellspacher and Johanna "Hannchen" Capellmann were also there occasionally.

Günther von Saar (1878–1918, Austrian mountaineer and doctor) describes Wolf-Glanvell in his obituary as a “tall, athletically built man” who trained his body through gymnastics and fencing .

On May 7, 1905, the 33-year-old mountain pioneer (together with his companions Gottlieb Stopper and Leo Petritsch ) fell to his death from the Fölzstein south-east face in the Hochschwab area ( Styria ). This misfortune aroused unusual sensation and sympathy in the mountaineering world, because he was considered a very cautious mountaineer. He left his wife and a few weeks old daughter Irmingard (born March 22, 1905) and is buried at the St. Veit cemetery in Braies with a view of the north face of the Seekofel. The Wolf-Glanvell-Hütte in the Travenanzestal, west of Cortina d'Ampezzo , built in 1907 , was destroyed in the First World War and not rebuilt afterwards. In the Sexten Dolomites , the Glanvellturm (also: Kleinster Zwölfer) is named after him, which Wolf and Domenigg were the first to conquer in September 1896. The Glanvellsteig still exists on the shores of Lake Braies . The journalist Armin Wolf is his great-grandson.

Works

  • Guide to the Braies Dolomites (1890)
  • Dolomites Guide (1898)
  • Studies from canonical private law. I. The Negotia inter vivos (1897)
  • The Canon collection of Cod.Vatican lat. 1348 (1897)
  • The last wills according to common ecclesiastical rights (1905)
  • Cardinal Deusdedit's collection of canons (1905)

literature

  • Univ.Prof. Dr. Victor Wolf Edler von Glanvell. The great mountaineer from Graz (1871–1905) died 100 years ago. In: Grazer Alpenvereins-Nachrichten 4/2005, pp. 6-7.
  • Günther von Saar: Obituary Viktor Wolf v. Glanvell , in: Österreichische Alpenzeitung, Volume 27, No. 687 of May 25, 1905, pp. 121–126.
  • The Lord of the Towers , in: Land der Berge 01/2008, pp. 92–93.
  • Hans-Günter Richardi : The development of the Dolomites. In the footsteps of the pioneers Paul Grohmann and Viktor Wolf-Glanvell in the pale mountains. Athesia-Verlag, 2008.
  • Wolfgang Strobl: "... to defy all hosts and speculators!" Victor Wolfs Edler von Glanvell against the building of a hotel on Lake Braies (1891) , in: Der Schlern 91, 2017, issue 6, pp. 4–23.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Hanifle: Interview with Armin Wolf: “I don't do anything special”. In: barefoot. The South Tyrolean online magazine. August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolf of Glanvell, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf-Glanvell, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1905