22 in German History
October 22 Feast Day of St. Cordula
Little is known of St. Cordula who was a
very early Christian in Cologne. She is said to have been a
member of the following of St. Ursula. She is believed to
have been martyred by the invading Huns. Her relics are in a
shrine in the Johanniterkirche in Cologne. St. Albertus
Magnus spoke of her as a saint in 1278. Her designation as a
saint precedes the practice of canonization by the Pope.
October 22, 1650
Death of Petrus Lotichius Secundus in
Heidelberg, Germany. He was a professor of medicine at the
University of Heidelberg but is much more remembered as a
poet of the Renaissance period. He wrote in Latin.
October 22, 1854
Death of Jeremias Gotthelf in Lützelflüh,
Switzerland. Jeremias Gotthelf was a pseudonym chosen by the
pastor, Albert Bitzius. His books were intended to extend his
duties as a pastor and stress religion and conservative
values. Noted works by Gotthelf include Die schwarze
Spinne, Uli der Knecht, and Leiden und Freuden eines
October 22, 1824
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich
Heine meet in Weimar.
October 22, 1811
Birth of the composer, Franz Liszt, in
Raiding, Hungary. A Hungarian by birth, Liszt spent
relatively little of his life in Hungary. The majority of his
life was spent in Austria, France, Germany and Italy. He was
taken to Vienna to study music at age 10. There he studied
with Karl Czerny and Antonio Salieri. After his Paris years
he settled for several years in Weimar, Germany (1848-1861).
In terms of composition, these were his most productive
years. After Weimar he lived for a number of years in Rome.
His last years were spend moving between Budapest, Rome and
Weimar. His daughter, Cosima, was married to the conductor
Hans von Bülow and later to Richard Wagner. Liszt died while
at the Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany, in 1886.
October 22, 1859
Birth of Karl Muck in Darmstadt, Germany.
An orchestra conductor, Muck attained the reputation of
master of the music of Richard Wagner. Just before the
outbreak of WWI Muck had become the director of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. He was, however, interned as an enemy
alien from 1918 to 1919. Thereafter he returned to Germany to
conduct the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
October 22, 1965
Death of Paul Tillich in Chicago. Tillich
was a Protestant theologian who sought to integrate
traditional Christianity and modern life. He was an early
opponent to the Nazis. He was the first non-Jew to be barred
from academic appointments in Germany. He immigrated to the
U. S. and taught first in New York and then at the University
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