Wilhelm Mohr (journalist)

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Wilhelm Mohr (born December 3, 1838 in Münstereifel , † November 25, 1888 in Obernigk in Silesia ) was a German journalist and as such a long-time employee of the Kölnische Zeitung .

Life

Wilhelm Mohr was born the son of a school teacher, studied in Bonn theology , but switched after passing the first test for Philology and a doctorate in 1863 on Sophocles . In 1864 he found a job as a teacher at the Marzellengymnasium in Cologne .

His art-critical and musical talent was the reason for a closer connection with the "Kölnische Zeitung", as a result of which he gave up his official position in 1868 in order to devote his energies exclusively to this newspaper from now on. His articles published there (marked by a post horn) indicated his talent as a writer.

He stayed as a reporter in Rome and Florence from 1869 to 1871 , in Spain from 1874/1875 , where he took part in the campaigns against the Carlist in the entourage of King Alfonso , and from where he made a foray along the west coast of Morocco in 1875 .

In August 1876 he wrote letters from a patron saint to the Kölnische Zeitung from Bayreuth . He saw Morocco again the following year, accompanied by a German embassy, ​​and delivered colorful descriptions from the residence of Sultan Mulai al-Hassan I ( A journey into barbarism ).

From the end of 1877 to the beginning of 1879 he stayed in Rome again, and then moved to Berlin , whose ambition in all areas he vividly described in letters.

Wilhelm Mohr visited America in 1883 to attend the opening of the Northern Pacific Railway as a representative of the Kölnische Zeitung, then stayed again for a year in Italy ( Turin exhibition in 1884), then took a longer stay in Paris , visited London and reported on the Antwerp World Exhibition in 1885 . These exhibition reports allowed the plan to mature in him to draw the entire German industry into the area of ​​his representation.

His activity in this direction was, however, after promised beginnings inhibited by an unexpectedly occurring brain ailment, against which he sought a cure in vain in the sanatorium in Obernigk.

Works

Published in book form by Wilhelm Mohr:

  • The founding in music. An epilogue to the laying of the foundation stone in Baireuther. Cologne 1872.
  • Eighteen months in Spain. Cologne 1876.
  • Richard Wagner and the work of art of the future in the light of the Baireuther performance. Cologne 1876.
  • With a return ticket to the Pacific Ocean. Stuttgart 1884.
  • Antwerp. The general exhibition in letters to the Kölnische Zeitung. Cologne 1885.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyer's Konversationslexikon mentions a report from the industrial district of the Kingdom of Saxony that was published in the Kölnische Zeitung at the end of the 1880s

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personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Münstereifel
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1888
Place of death Obernigk , Silesia