Eduard Baltzer


Eduard Baltzer was the founder of the first German vegetarian society, the German Natural Living Society.

Biography

Born in the village of :de:Krostitz|Hohenleine in the Kingdom of Saxony, he was the son of an Evangelical clergyman. He was educated at the Universities of Leipzig and Halle where he chiefly studied theology. He became a tutor, and was chaplain of the hospital of Delitzsch from 1841 until the beginning of 1847, when he founded at Nordhausen a free religious community, after having failed to have his nomination to various dioceses confirmed by the authorities.
In 1848 he was elected to the Frankfurt preliminary parliament, and afterward to the Prussian National Assembly. In 1868 he founded a society and a journal for the promotion of vegetarianism. He continued to be a representative leader until 1881. He lived in retirement at Grotzingen for the last few years of his life, partly occupied in the promotion of vegetarianism.

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