Wilhelm Obermüller

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Wilhelm Obermüller (born February 22, 1809 in Karlsruhe , † August 6, 1888 in Vienna ) was a German lay historian and linguist, in particular a supporter of Celtomania .

Life

Obermüller was born the son of a war superintendent and, after attending high school in Karlsruhe, studied law at Heidelberg University from the winter semester 1828/29 . During his studies there, in 1828, he became a member of the Fäßlianer fraternity . From the winter semester of 1831/1832 he studied at the University of Freiburg . In 1832 he was a founding member and clerk of the old Freiburg fraternity Germania . In 1832 he took part in the boys' day in Stuttgart . Obermüller received the Consilium abeundi on May 24, 1832 .

He was a speaker at the Hambach Festival (from May 27 to June 1, 1832). Obermüller took part in the Frankfurt Wachensturm on April 3, 1833. On October 19, 1836 he was sentenced to life imprisonment and reimbursement of costs. On January 10, 1837, he and five other inmates, including Johann Wilhelm Sauerwein , managed to break out of custody. He went to Paris and became a member of the Union of Outlaws . In 1845 there was an amnesty. Obermüller went to Karlsruhe and worked as a writer.

In 1848 he became editor of the Mannheimer Journal , then of the Karlsruher Zeitung . In 1849 he became editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung , the organ of the Greater German parliamentary group in the Frankfurt National Assembly . In 1860 he went to Leipzig as editor.

In 1870 he had to flee from Leipzig to Vienna because, as the publisher and owner of the Sächsische Zeitung, he had spoken out against Saxony's participation in the war against France and had shown himself to be a zealot for Austria. A violent crowd in front of his house had demanded, “Beat him to death! Tear it to pieces! "

His works deal with open questions about the prehistory of peoples on several occasions. Among other things, he translated the Chronicles of Eri , a pseudo-historical chronicle of Irish prehistoric times, from English into German.

The Königsberg legal scholar Felix Dahn made a mocking comment on Obermüller's views:

"Mr. W. Obermüller destroyed my most beautiful thought, the joyous belief that here in Konigsberg we stand on the outermost outpost of German culture and the guard against the Slavic East, like our colleagues in Strasbourg against the Celtic = Romanic West. But if the Celts themselves are Slavs, the Saxons are Chinese, and the Prussians are partly Wenden, partly Gypsy, then I don't know why I should continue to deal with Chinese-Wendish legal history and the statutes of these gypsy gangs. And he also spoiled my dear Bavarian home. Because I don't like to count myself among the Gottscheers, the old Hartschieren of the Suevenkönige, and the Marcomanni, to whom I always looked up with reverence as the fathers of our tribe, aren't Germans either! There is nothing left of us on earth because of the sheer number of Celts and turns. Even the language in which I am writing this is a "Belgian = Saxon, so half Chinese, complaint." So let me fall silent [...] "

- Felix Dahn : Letters from Thule , 1879

Works

  • The balance of goods. A solution to the question: How can the misery of the working classes be remedied? Glükher, Constanz 1840.
  • The bottoming out of Europe, the Middle East and the Berry. Addition to the relief map of Europe. Farmer's cellar, Paris around 1842.
  • Les Pays et les peuples de l'Europe, de l'Asie antérieure et de Berbérie dans leur état actuel. Map. Gravé par U. [rban] Muschani. IIe edition revue et augmentée. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1842 ( digitized version ).
  • Small practical gardener lexicon containing the Latin and Greek names used in art gardening with their translation into German together with an indication of the origin and the people after whom many plants are named. Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1860. Later as a small practical flower encyclopedia […]. 4th edition. Schwabe, Basel 1886.
  • German-Celtic, historical-geographical dictionary to explain the names of rivers, mountains, places, Gau, peoples and people in Europe, West Asia and North Africa in general and especially Germany, together with the resulting conclusions for the prehistory of mankind. 2 volumes. Denicke, Leipzig 1868/1872 (digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 ).
  • About the origin of the gypsies. 1871.
  • The descent of the Magyars with an introduction to the Celtic migrations and today's European peoples. Along with an appendix on the origins of the gypsies and redskins. Herzfeld & Bauer, Vienna 1872.
  • About the origin of the Basques. 1872.
  • The origin of the Sekler and the Atlantic-Indian or Gypsy Race. Winter, Vienna 1872. Special print from: Austrian weekly for science and art . Issues 52/53, December 1872.
  • Amazons, Sarmatians, Jazygen and Poles. Denicke, Berlin 1873.
  • Prehistory of the Wends. A historical-ethnological study of the peoples who immigrated to Central Europe before the Germans. Denicke, Berlin 1874.
  • The Alpine peoples. Titans, giants, Albanians, Neapolitans, Chatti, Scots, Swabians, Swiss and Tyroleans: historical-ethnological research. Winter, Vienna 1874; 2nd edition 1880.
  • The Hessen peoples. Historical-linguistic research. Volume 1. 6 booklets. Jungklaus, Cassel Jungklaus 1874–1876.
  • Germanism or Catholicism. 1875.
  • The Hessen peoples. Historical-linguistic research. Volume 2: Saken and Saxons. 6 booklets and 1 supplement. Eurich, Vienna 1877–1878.
  • The emergence of the Hebrews, Jews and Israelites, Christianity and Islam. Historically and ethnologically represented according to Egyptian, Greek, Assyrian-Babylonian, Hebrew and Arabic sources. Eurich, Vienna 1878.
  • The pre-Roman population of Noricum. In: Communication from the Vienna anthropological society. Volume 10 (1879).
  • The Gaelic Annals . After the transmission [Roger] O'connor ’s with explanations by Wilhelm Obermüller Vetter. Issue 1 (no longer published). Vetter, Vienna 1887.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 235.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Karl Gundermann: The members of the old Freiburg fraternity. Online document. Freiburg im Breisgau 1984/2004, p. 23.
  2. ^ A b c d e f Neele Müller: Wilhelm Obermüller - a new old face in Germany's era of Celtomania. Presentation. Glasgow 2015.
  3. ↑ The Frankfurt assassination attempt. In: Berliner Politisches Wochenblatt. 1839, No. 47 (November 23), pp. 257-261, here p. 260.
  4. ^ A b Neele Müller: Wilhelm Obermüller: celticist, dissident, revolutionary. Presentation. Aberystwyth 2015.
  5. ↑ a b profile. In: Frankfurter Ober-Postamts-Zeitung . 1837, No. 62 (March 2), supplement.
  6. ^ Heinrich Wuttke : The German magazines and the emergence of public opinion. A contribution to the history of the newspaper industry. 3. Edition. Krüger, Leipzig 1876, p. 339 ( online ).
  7. ^ Felix Dahn : Letters from Thule . In: Felix Dahn: building blocks. Collected Little Writings. First row. Janke, Berlin 1879, pp. 3–69, here p. 49
personal data
SURNAME Obermüller, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lay historian and lay linguist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1888
Place of death Vienna