Max Eyth
Eduard Friedrich Maximilian Eyth, since 1896, Max von Eyth, ( born May 6, 1836 in Kirchheim unter Teck, † August 25, 1906 in Ulm ) was a German engineer and writer.
Life and work
Max Eyth was born the son of Edward Eyth (1809-1884), teacher of Greek and history at a Protestant theological seminary, and his wife Julie nee Capoll (1816-1904) in Kirchheim unter Teck. His childhood was spent 1841-1852 in Schoental, where his father was headmaster at the Protestant seminary. In addition to the theological work of the Father, but his own poetry was still historical and literary history works out, including translations of Greek classics. His school time spent, the young Max in Heilbronn, as well as his first apprenticeship at Maschinenfabrik Hahn & Göbel.
From 1852 to 1856 he studied at the Polytechnic Stuttgart engineering. Since that time, he was a member of the fraternity Corps Stauffia. His first professional experience was gained in the steam engine factory Gotthilf Kuhn in the outskirts of Stuttgart. Although he finished his studies, he first had to complete a locksmith apprenticeship before he was allowed to take over tasks designer after working as a technical draftsman.
In 1862 he joined the British steam plow factory Fowler in Leeds and took over the diplomatic mission for steam plows. On many trips and long -term stays abroad, including to Egypt and the U.S., he campaigned for the introduction of steam- engine driven plows in agriculture. Eyth was instrumental also in the establishment of rope boat trip on the Rhine. In the time of the American Civil War, he traveled to Egypt. The Nilstaat tried at that time to be the main producer of cotton for Europe. Three years Eyth was chief engineer of the Egyptian Prince Halim Pasha. The experiences of this time, he described in his novel rear plow and vice.
1882 Eyth returned back to Germany. He founded together with the farmer and politician Adolf Kiepert in 1885, the German Agricultural Society ( DLG) and remained until 1896 whose managing director. He spent his remaining years, remained unmarried, mainly with writing activities with his mother in Ulm.
Max Eyth has left except his literary also an extensive collection of drawings. His drawings were often on his business trips and mostly naturalistic depictions of buildings, road and harbor scenes to content.
Tributes
Max Eyth is named the Max Eyth Society for Agricultural Engineering in the VDI and the fraternity Göttingen Society Max Eyth ( GGME ). According to him, roads and schools across the country are named, as well as a lake in Stuttgart- Mayrhofen. The Literature Museum Max Eyth House in Kirchheim unter Teck documenting his life and work.
Monuments were erected to him in Ulm and at the former headquarters of the German Agricultural Society. The latter is by Ernst Herter and was inaugurated on 6 May 1908 in Dessauer Straße in Berlin- Kreuzberg.
Writings
- Volkmar. Historical and romantic poem. 1863
- Hiking book an engineer. 5 volumes, 1871-1884
- The Waldteufel. 1878 ( stage play )
- Monk and Landsknecht. 1882
- Behind the plow and vice. 2 volumes, 1899
- The battle for the Cheops pyramid. A history and stories from the life of an engineer. 2 volumes, 1902
- In the current of our time. 3 volumes, 1904-1905
- Living forces. Seven lectures from the fields of technology. 1905
- The Tailor of Ulm. 1906 ( posthumously )
- The bridge over the Enno Bay
- Max Eyths Collected Writings. 1909
- Max Eyth, letters from his youth (1852-1859), 1936 ed. Otto Lau, Kirchheim / Teck