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Ernst Köhler (writer)
Johann August Ernst Köhler (5 August 1829 – 19 December 1903) was a German teacher, writer and naturalist. He conducted ethnological, folkloristic, and geological studies. He was a founding member of the Erzgebirgsverein. Köhler was born in Bautzen Bautzen () or Budyšin (), until 1868 ''Budissin'' in German, is a town in eastern Saxony, Germany, and the administrative centre of the Bautzen (district), district of Bautzen. It is located on the Spree (river), Spree river, is the eighth most ..., the son of a house servant and his mother was a Sorb. He attended local schools after which he trained at the teaching school. He had an interest in the natural sciences and taught botany, mineralogy, local history and mathematics as a private tutor in Bellwitz near Löbau (1852) and at a school in Großschönau and at Bautzen. He took an interest in the local folklore. In 1860 he received a doctorate from the University of Leipzig and in 1873 he became a senior teacher at the royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ore Mountain Club
The Ore Mountain Club () is one of the oldest and most tradition-steeped local history, alpine club, mountain and hiking clubs in Germany. The club was founded in 1878. After the Second World War the club and its many branches were banned by the East German authorities, but it was refounded in West Germany in Frankfurt am Main in 1955. Only after the political events of ''Die Wende'' in 1990 was it newly founded in the Ore Mountains. At the end of 2008 the club had over 3,859 members in 61 branches. Before 1945 there were more than 25,000 members. In 1929 the Ore Mountain Club even had over 28,000 members in 156 branches and managed several accommodation houses on the Fichtelberg (Ore Mountains), Fichtelberg near Oberwiesenthal and the Schwartenberg between Seiffen and Neuhausen/Erzgeb. Today the Ore Mountain Club has 12 woodcarving and 30 bobbin lacemaking groups (''Schnitzgruppen'' and ''Klöppelgruppen''). In 2008 its members did 220,000 hours of voluntary work. The club's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
