The Famous Rabbit Incident
A trove of mysterious photographs and paintings has emerged, all related to the notorious “rabbit incident” of 1871. We are indebted to Professor Jo...
Category: Meingast’s Life
Meingast – A Collector of Objects
A curious fact often overlooked by his biographers (but well-known among his contemporaries) was the delectation Meingast took in objects as such. This fervent ...
The Elixir of Sunbeams
An entry on Meingast was written for the 1923 edition of the Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie (Schwabe & Co Verlag), but Meingast’s attorney wr...
On Breakfast Cereals
A. L. Katz devotes some pages to an enigmatic, hastily scrawled remark in Meingast’s diary dated July 13, 1902: “Müsl, Müsl, wie du mein Wesen ver...
Pets
By all accounts, Meingast was fond of animals. In 1910 or 1911, he adopted two kittens. Dr. Marie de Besombes (a librarian at the BNF) thinks there’s a go...
Maria von Klemperer II
The union (he would have hated that word, of course) between Adalbert and Maria was short-lived because Maria herself was short-lived: she intentionally overdo...
Meingast’s Routine
I found an excerpt written by Alexandr (Shurik) Leonidovich Katz describing Meingast’s daily life in Graz: “Teaching obligations claimed two to thr...
Maria von Klemperer
He courted her in the cruelly hot summer of 1867 when he was stationed outside Linz. From a youthful diary entry: “She wanted to be expressive, yes, but h...