Jewish Invention Myths: The Linotype Machine
According to various jewish sources, the linotype machine – invented by Ottmer Mergenthaler who was a German immigrant to the United States between 1884 and 1886 – which was used to quickly typeset newspaper, magazines and posters for printing should be classified as a ‘jewish invention’. (1)
This is because they claim that Ottmar Mergenthaler was actually a jewish immigrant to the United States from Germany.
For example, the ‘Jewish Virtual Library’ claims that:
‘Probably most significant of all in this last respect was the solid-line setting machine, the Linotype – line o' type – invented by a man of German-Jewish origin, Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899), and first used in New York in 1886.’ (2)
The problem is this is complete unsupported and unsourced nonsense since while some jewish authors – such as Lawrence Bush writing at ‘Jewish Currents’ in July 2014 – is prepared to admit that there are ‘doubts’ Mergenthaler was jewish. (3) They never state on what actual evidence they believe Mergenthaler to be jewish on the first place but rather just blithely claim he was without evidence.
The likelihood is that some jewish writer somewhere has just assumed that Mergenthaler’s surname was synonymous with the common jewish surname in Poland ‘Morgentaler’ (4) not mentioning that ‘Morgenthaler’ is a common German surname meaning ‘Morning Valley’ which is common in Switzerland, the southern Rhine Valley and other nearby regions such as Bavaria, Austria and southern France. (5)
In fact, ‘Mergenthaler’ despite its superficial similarity to ‘Morgenthaler’ is a completely different name from Swabia and Bohemia which means something like ‘Maria Valley’. (6) It also has no known jewish associations whatsoever.
And where did Ottmar Mergenthaler’s family come from?
Swabia.
Indeed, when you consult the non-jewish and biographic literature on Mergenthaler it never mentions the supposed jewishness claimed by jews, but instead quite rightly labels Mergenthaler as a German immigrant to the United States not a jewish one. (7)
Further evidence of this can be found in simply recounting Mergenthaler’s family tree as Styliani Tsaniou has helpfully done:
‘Ottmar Mergenthaler was born on May 11, 1854, in the village of Hachtel, in the northeastern part of the Kingdom of Württemberg. Today, Hachtel is part of Bad Mergentheim. Mergenthaler was the third of five children of schoolteacher Johann George Mergenthaler (1820-93) and Rosina (née Ackermann) Mergenthaler (1828-59).
The genealogical roots of the Mergenthaler family can be found in Swabian agriculture. For generations, members of the Mergenthaler family, including Ottmar’s paternal grandfather, George Christoph Mergenthaler, had worked as farmers on small landholdings in the town of Hohenacker. In choosing to become a teacher, Ottmar’s father, Johann, broke with family tradition. Little is known about Rosina Ackermann aside from the fact that she was of petite bourgeois origins. Her father, Johann Christian Ackermann (1791-1853), worked as a teacher in Erbstetten and as a surveyor and architect on the side.
In the autumn of 1854, Johann Mergenthaler was transferred from Hachtel to Neuhengstett, and in 1858, he was transferred once again, this time at his own request, to Ensingen, where Ottmar spent the majority of his childhood together with his siblings, Adolf (born 1851), Karl (born 1852), Karoline (born 1855), and Julius (born 1857). In 1859, when Ottmar was just five years old, his mother died. For the next two years, he was cared for by his maternal aunt Wilhelmine Ackermann. On February 12, 1861, his father married Karoline Hahl, who proved a good and loving stepmother to Ottmar and his siblings. In 1864, Karoline gave birth to a son, who only lived about three months; in 1868, she gave birth to another son, Friedrich, the last of Johann Mergenthaler’s children.’ (8)
Tsaniou’s genealogy is supported by Basil Kahan is his 1999 biography of Mergenthaler which again make absolutely no mention of any alleged or actual jewish ancestry whatsoever but do mention his Christian upbringing. (9)
The truth is then there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Ottmar Mergenthaler was jewish and even jews offer no actual evidence he was jewish; they merely assert that he was.
Thus, we can see that jews have quite literally stolen Ottmar Mergenthaler’s inventions from the German-Americans and presented him as if he was a ‘immigrant jewish genius’.
References
(1) https://christianislamicforum.wordpress.com/dedicated-to-our-jewish-brethren/
(2) https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/typographers
(3) https://jewishcurrents.org/july-1-mergenthalers-linotype-machine
(4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgentaler
(5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthaler_(name)
(6) https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=mergenthaler
(7) For example: https://web.archive.org/web/20030605180610/http://www.cazoo.org/library/OttmarMergenthaler.html
(8) https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/ottmar-mergenthaler/#Family_Background
(9) Basil Kahan, 1999, ‘Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and His Machine’, 1st Edition, Oak Knoll Press: New Castle, pp. 5-6