Writer Auguste von LITTROW (1819-1890): Letter 1850

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You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter the German-Austrian writer (Ps. Otto August) and women's rights activist Augustus von Littrow (1819-1890), Daughter of the doctor Ignaz Rudolf Bischoff Edlen von Altenstern (1784-1850).

Dated Gmunden, 22. Sep 1850. -- Auguste von Littrow was on vacation there with her husband Karl and their children Otto and Gabriele.

Addressed to her mother Johanna von Bischoff, b. cow (born * 4 August 1798 in Breslau, † 28. August 1891 in Weinhaus), the unter published several books with valuable memories under the name of Johanna von Bischoff. Her husband had died about two months earlier.

Addressed to "Frau Frau Hofräthin v. Bischoff in Vienna, Stadt 625."

Excerpts: "Dear dear mother // I have just received yours ? I wanted to say ? dear letter, but since it contained nothing but fatal things for you, I can only subjectively attach this adjective to it. This is the first Sunday that you haven't received a letter from us, and it's your kind indulgence with which you're asking me in today's letter not to try too hard with writing a very nice encounter, since yesterday and today I've already been quiet about mine omission annoyed. The reason for this is the divine weather, which prompted us to a three-day party to the Almsee and Kremsmünster, from which we only returned yesterday evening. The Almsee is the most secluded Velsenthal imaginable, which can be reached through the loveliest greenest valleys called the Grünau. We stayed the night in the Seehause, an old hunting lodge, and enjoyed the magic of a wonderful moonlight trip that Remy made on the lake, where the stillness of the night made the fourteen syllable-repeating echo appear in a truly fairy-like manner. The next completely fog-free morning delighted us no less and Gabriele and Otho (!) were in constant ecstasy. Since Karl had very little time and our way had taken us halfway to Kremsmünster, we used the beautiful evening and drove there, where we were received and accompanied by the two priest friends in the old loving manner. [...]

It is all the more sensitive for me to know you in Allen possible fatalities and to have to think with every joy that you are experiencing nothing but inconveniences. At such moments, the old wish to see you here awakens with twice the power.

I find the Haubtmannsberger story under the criticism so much that I can't get angry about it at all. If people don't produce a bill for the soupers, I really don't know what they're asking for. [...]

In order to avenge myself for the Heynau jokes, I report the following verses that are circulating here.

[...]

I live quietly and take my money

Speaks Minister Thierfeld

Pray diligently and learn nothing

Says the Minister of Education.

The minister Herr von Bruck

Thinks we have enough money

And the Minister Baron Krauss

Doesn't care about the credit.

Baron Kulmer is also a minister

He sleeps by night, eats by day.

[...]

Farewell dear dear mother. Greetings and recommendations from Allen to All follow here invisibly enclosed at. Gratefully kissing your daughter Auguste's hands."

Postally sent (with postmark).

Scope: 3 text pages and an address page (21.2 x 14.3 cm).

Condition: Paper browned and stained (unattractive waterstains); Paper slightly creased, with small creases. The left part of the exit stamp is missing (a stamp was obviously removed there). BPlease note also the pictures at the end of the item description!

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About Auguste von Littrow, her father, her husband and her son Otto (source: wikipedia):

Auguste Wilhelmina von Littrow (* 13. February 1819 in Prague; † 23 March 1890 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian writer (Ps. Otto August) and women's rights activist of the 19th century. century.

Life and work: Auguste Wilhelmine, married von Littrow, a daughter of the physician Prof. Ignaz Rudolf Bischoff (since 1836) Edler von Altenstern (1784–1850), shortly after her twentieth birthday in 1839, married the astronomer Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811–1877), a son of the astronomer Joseph Johann von Littrow (1781–1840), and lived with her husband in Vienna.

After a short time, the predominantly literary Littrowsche Salon developed into a sought-after meeting place and center of intellectual Vienna, which temporarily included Hermann Bonitz, Josef Danhauser, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, August Eisenmenger, Ernst vonFeuchtersleben, Ottilie von Goethe, Franz Grillparzer , Friedrich Hebbel, Rudolf von Jhering, Joseph Lewinsky and Franz Miklosich. Franz Grillparzer, who was a friend of hers, jokingly called her “Frau Astronomus”, presumably because of her penetration into the hitherto unknown existence of poorer, working women, known as women, in Vienna.

Auguste Wilhelmine von Littrow was the author of memoirs and articles on the employment of women and the hiring of certified teachers at elementary schools after the introduction of compulsory schooling for boys and girls in Austria-Hungary. At 13th. On November 1, 1866, together with Iduna Laube and Helene von Hornbostel, the wife of the industrialist Theodor von Hornbostel, she founded the Association for Economic Progress, which later became the Viennese Women's Business Association, founded by the women's rights activist Lucia Laube (1872–1945), daughter by the geologist Gustav Carl Laube (1839-1923), President of the Prague German Women's Business Association and member of the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations.

Ignaz Rudolf Bischoff, Noble von Altenstern since 1836 (* 15. August 1784 in Kremsmunster; † 15 July 1850 in Meidling) was an Austrian doctor.

Life: Originally from Upper Austria, Ignaz Bischoff studied medicine at the University of Vienna and became a doctor of medicine in 1808. During the French occupation of Vienna, he headed a department in a French hospital.

In 1813-1825 Ignaz Bischoff lived in Prague, where he was a professor at Charles University in Prague, director of the Second Medical Clinic and chief physician at the General Hospital in Prague. During this time he made a great contribution to the dissemination of vaccination against the smallpox plague, which claimed numerous lives among the population and was considered an authority during the typhus epidemics in Bohemia. He was then professor of physiology at the Josephs Academy in Vienna from 1826.

In the years 1826-1832, at the medical-surgical military academy, the Collegium-Medico-Chirurgicum-Josephinum, Ignaz Bischoff was a professor of special pathology, until 1849 holder of the professorship for physiology, from 1841 and definitely from 1847 chief field doctor of the army of the Austrian Empire and head of the Josephinum. During this time, this institution acquired a recognized reputation in medical circles in Europe. Bischoff was also chairman of the permanent field medical commission, the military drug administration in the revolutionary year 1848, general staff doctor and member of the Vienna Doctors' Forum and founding member of the Society of Doctors in Vienna.

Elevation to the nobility and family: In 1836 Ignaz Bischoff was elevated to the hereditary Austrian nobility with the predicate Edler von Altenstern.

He was with Johanna born Kuh (1798–1891), who published several books with valuable memoirs under the name of Johanna von Bischoff. She also worked as a benefactor who later founded the women's home in Meidling. This arose from the villa of the Bischoff family, who had lived in it as a summer residence since 1836. The rest of the year the family lived in an apartment on Vienna's Stephansplatz. The salon of the Bishop's villa in Meidling was a meeting point for well-known personalities, including the painter Friedrich von Amerling, the writer Heinrich Laube, the astronomer Joseph Johann von Littrow and his son Karl Ludwig von Littrow, with whom the Bishop of Altenstern Auguste von Littrow had a daughter was married in 1839. His daughters Auguste and Luise were taught drawing by Josef Danhauser in their parents' house.

Ignaz Rudolf Bischoff Edler von Altenstern died in 1850 in his house in Meidling and was buried in the Meidlinger Friedhof.

writings

Observations on Typhus, 1815

Views of homeopathic pathology, 1819

Principles of practical medicine, 3 volumes, 1823-25

Principles of the natural science of man, 4 volumes, 1837-39

Text-book of Physiology, 1838

Treatises on pulmonary consumption, 1843

On Poisoning, 1844

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In 1874 the Bischoffgasse in Vienna-Meidling was named after him.

Karl Ludwig Littrow, nobleman of Littrow since 1836, also given as "Carl Ludwig Littrow" in the literature (* 18. July 1811 in Kazan; † 16 November 1877 in Venice) was an Austrian astronomer, specialist book author and director of the Vienna University Observatory.

Life and work: He was the son of the 1836 ennobled astronomer Joseph Johann von Littrow, his brother Heinrich was a cartographer. Karl Ludwig stood by his father as an assistant from 1831 and succeeded him as director of the University Observatory in Vienna in 1842, after he had made himself known in particular by working on Hell's observation of the transit of Venus in 1769.

In 1847 Karl Ludwig von Littrow was appointed with Otto Wilhelm von Struve to assess the trigonometric connection between Russia and Austria-Hungary. In 1850, as university dean, he made a major contribution to the permanent introduction of the institutions of German universities that were being attempted in Austria at the time, and from 1862 he was actively involved in the work of Central European linear measurement. He also provided a new method of determining longitude at sea, edited the meteorological observations of the Vienna Observatory with Edmund Weiss and translated "Outline of a History of Astronomy in the Beginning of the 19th Century". Century" by George Biddell Airy. In 1858 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Littrow wrote, among other things, a “Popular Geometry”. In 1844 he published his "Index of Geographical Localizations" in Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler's Physical Dictionary, which he was able to publish separately in Leipzig that same year (supplements 1846). Under his direction, the "Annals of the Vienna Observatory" have become one of the most important astronomical yearbooks.

Littrow pushed through the new construction of the University Observatory in Vienna, which his father had suggested. However, he did not live to see its completion.

In 1879 in Vienna-Währing (18. District) Littrowgasse - along the Observatory Park - named after him.

In 1839, Littrow married Auguste Bischoff, a German-Austrian writer and women's rights activist. His son Otto von Littrow, who died young, was the inventor of the Littrow spectrometer.

writings

The toposcop on the St. Stephen's Tower in Vienna: an instrument by which the tower keepers are enabled to announce the location of a conflagration, day or night, with equal certainty. Gerold, Vienna 1837 digitized

Popular Geometry, 1839

Contribution to a monograph of Halley's Comet, 1834

Contribution to Adalbert Stifter The solar eclipse on 8. July 1842

Directory geograph. Location determinations, 1844

Physical Meetings of the Planets, 1859

JJ v. Littrow's Comparison of the Most Excellent Measures, Weights and Coins, Beck, 1844.

Karl von Littrow Commemorative Medal: The Karl von Littrow Commemorative Medal was an Austrian bronze award issued in honor of the astronomer beginning in 1878. It was an anticipated award for the new Vienna University Observatory, which was not completed until 1883. This was a project of the honoree, which was started on his initiative during his lifetime, but was not yet finished.

The medal, created by the engraver Anton Scharff, weighs around 107 grams, has a diameter of 64 millimeters and shows a left half-length portrait of the namesake on the front with an inscription "*CAROLO DE LITTROW HUMANITATE INGENIO DOCTRIN INSIGNI" and on the back the new ( at the time of publication planned and under construction) university observatory as a front view and the two-line text "HARUM AEDIUM AUCTORI" and in Roman numerals the year "MDCCCLXXVIII".

Otto von Littrow (* 14. February 1843 in Vienna; † 7 November 1864 ibid) was an Austrian physicist and astronomer.

He was the son of the astronomer Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811-1877), who, like his father Joseph Johann von Littrow, was director of the Vienna Observatory. Littrow studied with Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff at the University of Heidelberg. Although he died of typhus at the age of 21 shortly after completing his doctorate, he made a name for himself with spectral apparatus (Littrow spectrometer) and heliostats.