You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed postcard (Postal stationery, Bavaria 5 Pfennig purple) des Politician, Catholic theologian, writer and librarian Johann Baptist Stamminger (1836-1892).

DatedWürzburg, 13. May 1880.

Addressed to the high school teacher dr D. Reichling in Heiligenstadt (im Eichsfeld; today: Heilbad Heiligenstadt); = Dietrich Reichling, father of the nature conservation pioneer Hermann Reichling (1890-1948), 1919-21 Head of "Provincial Museum of Natural History", today's LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster, and from 1921 to 1948 its director.

Transcription: "PP! Can you give me a good one with the low rh. call humanism a familiar force, which I can hand over to your J. Murmellius for review? Sincerely Dr. JB Stamminger, Librarian."

Referring to the work of the recipient Dietrich Reichling: "Johannes Murmellius, his life and works, along with a detailed bibliographical index of all writings and a selection of poems, published with the support of the Görres Society, Freiburg, Herder 1880."

Format:13.8 x 9.1 cm.

Condition:Browned and stained, with indentations on the left edge of the address page. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Order 5b/7

About Johann Baptist Stamminger (Source: Würzburgwiki):

dr Johann Baptist Stamminger (* 6. March 1836 in Zell am Main; † 10 December 1892 in Würzburg) was a politician, Catholic theologian, writer and librarian at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

Life and work: Stamminger attended the Latin school in Würzburg from 1845 and the grammar school from 1850-54. From autumn 1854 to 1859 he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Würzburg and was ordained a priest in the spring of 1859. He spent his chaplaincy first in Ebern and from the age of 20. July 1859 in the parish of St. Burkard in Würzburg.

University librarian: At the instigation of the chief librarian, he entered the university library as an intern in 1862, while retaining the position of chaplain. February 1864 chaplain of the military hospital at Marienberg Fortress. At 13th. On September 18, 1866 he was appointed librarian at the university library. In the years that followed he was also active as a preacher and in pastoral care. He took a keen interest in the activities of the Catholic association, especially in the social endeavors, and also made a name for himself as a patron of church art.

Political career: In the political field he developed a self-sacrificing activity; from the late 1960s to 1877 and again from 1882 he was the leader of the Catholics in Lower Franconia and between 1885 and 1886 a member of the Bavarian state parliament. In 1868 the “Lower Franconian Windthorst” founded the Fränkisches Volksblatt, which was initially close to the so-called Patriot Party. [1]

Literary works: In the years 1862-66 and 1869 Stamminger published the magazine "Chilianeum, leaves for Catholic science, art and life" (1.-8. vol., Würzburg 1862-66; New episode 1. and 2. vol., 1869). 1877-85 3rd-6th Volume of "Catholic Studies"; 1879-84 he was editor of the "literary review for the catholic Germany" (5.-10. year).

Unfortunately, his two large-scale major works remained unfinished:

"Franconia sancta. The Lives of the Saints and Blesseds of Franconia", Volume I (Würzburg 1878-81)

"Franconia Sacra. History and Description of the Diocese of Würzburg". Edited in conjunction with the Diocesan Clergy by JB Stamminger. 1.

"Würzburg's art life in the eighteenth century" (archive of the historical association of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, 35. vol. 1892, pp. 209-255; also separately, Würzburg 1892)

"A true nobleman". Memorial speech to His Excellency Georg Eugen Heinrich Karl Arbogast Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein" (Würzburg 1890).

"In memory of Cardinal Hergenröther" (Freiburg i. Br. 1892).

Stamminger wrote a series of church-historical and biographical articles for the 2nd Edition of the Church Lexicon by Wetzer and Welte.

Legacy: His special scientific field of study, in which he had also collected a valuable private library bequeathed to the Diocese of Würzburg in his will, was the church history of Franconia.