Ferdinand Stamm, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ferdinand Stamm

Czech member of Czech council, local politician, publicist and writer

Date of Birth: 11-May-1813

Date of Death: 30-Jul-1880

Profession: writer, politician, journalist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Ferdinand Stamm

  • Ferdinand Stamm (pseudonym Fernand) (11 May 1813 – 29 July 1880), was a Bohemian-Austrian writer, industrialist and politician.
  • Stamm was born in Orpus (MezilesĂ­) near PreĂźnitz (Prisecnice) in the Bohemian Ore Mountains in the present-day Czech Republic.
  • The son of a small mine owner who died when he was young, Stamm attended school in Duppau (Doupov) and then Saaz (Ĺ˝atec).
  • He began working as a journalist and private tutor while at Prague University, and, after graduating, joined the Viennese literary scene, producing essays, sketches, and a novel, Leben und Lieben, Dichten und Trachten des Amtsschreibers Michael Häderlein (1845).
  • In 1848 he became a member of the Kremsier (KromerĂ­Ĺľ) Imperial Diet, the editor of the Deutsche Zeitung aus Boehmen, and a mining entrepreneur.
  • The following year he moved to Komotau (Chomutov), where he wrote on the living conditions of workers in the Ore Mountains.
  • In 1856 he returned to Vienna, where he founded several short-lived periodicals and directed large railway, mining, and iron concerns.
  • In the 1860s he helped establish, and curated, the Austrian Museum for Arts and Industry, and served in the Bohemian Diet and the Austrian Imperial Diet.
  • After losing most of his fortune in the 1874 crash, he worked as a journalist and died at Pötzleinsdorf, Vienna.

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