Gustav Leutelt
German poet (1860–1947)
Gustav Leutelt (21 September 1860 – 17 February 1947) was a German Bohemian poet and writer. Most of his poetry concerned the area around his birthplace of Josefsthal, causing him to be described as a "poet of the Jizera Mountains."
Life
Leutelt was born the son of a teacher in Josefsthal in the Jizera Mountains, northern Bohemia, then a part of the Austrian Empire, now the Czech Republic. He was the great-grandson of the "miracle doctor" Josef Johann Kittel. Leutelt settled in Litoměřice to train at a teachers' training college and work as a teacher at the elementary school of his father. As a senior teacher, he took over the local elementary school in the nearby town of Untermaxdorf (Dolní Maxov) first but later at the training college. At this institution he came into contact with glass workers and he chose this craft as his life's study. In 1906, he founded a museum in Untermaxdorf, in which he documented the history and economy of the Upper Kamenice valley. After 1922 he moved as a pensioner near Jablonec nad Nisou.
As a result of the Beneš decrees, Leutelt, an 85-year-old, was expelled from his home in 1946. He died in 1947 in Seebergen, Germany at the age of 86.
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