Wolfgang Arnholtz
| Wolfgang Arnholtz | |
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| Physical information | |
|---|---|
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color and style | Black |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Skin color | White |
| Biographical information | |
| Date of birth | 1683 AN |
| Place of birth |
 Helderbourgh Stadt, Grand Duchy of Helderbourgh |
| Date of death | 6.X.1757 AN (Aged 74 AN years) |
| Place of death |
 Cárdenas, Nouvelle Alexandrie |
| Occupation | Author, Social Activist, University Professor |
Dr. Wolfgang Rudolf Arnholtz (b. 1683 AN, d. 6.X.1757 AN) was a Weisenburger author who is most known for his tell-all novel, The Plight of the Louisians, which exposed the discrimination and systematized poverty that the Louisian people in the United Principalities faced.
Early Life and The Plight of the Louisians
Born to a Saxon family in the Helderbourgh Stadt in 1683 AN, Arnholtz and his family left his hometown after the collapse of the Grand Duchy in 1685 AN and settled in Prins Haven, which at the time was in Craitish Zandarijn. From a young age he was devoutly Nazarene and, according to his memoirs, his mother taught him that "...if you see an injustice, you either speak up about it or you are just as complacent as the people committing it."
Arnholtz attended the University of Svorgas, obtaining a Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology. After a decade of documenting several groups of oppressed people throughout Micras such as the Yamaqhacha, Dromoskers, and several groups of Euran kuls. He would gain a tenure at the Kaiser Ludwig I University, where he discovered the state of the Louisian-speaking community in the United Principalities. After documenting these conditions he published a tell-all novel called The Plight of the Louisians. He would be forced to resign his tenure and leave the UPC, with the guise of giving a lecture at the University of Noursala in Aerla, in order to escape an arrest warrant that was issued after the books publishing due to blasphemous statements against the royal family.
Exile and Death
After much moving around, Arnholtz settled in a small flat in Cárdenas and continued his activism towards the Louisian community. He would then make the decision to donate all revenue recieved from The Plight of the Louisians to the Louisian Relief Fund. This would lead to him living a very frugal life, mostly surviving off the savings he had brought with him and because he was known for refusing any donations offered to him and instead directing donators to the Louisian Relief Fund.
Arnholtz would go on a grand tour of Alexandrian universities such as the University of Cárdenas, the Royal University of Parap and University of Punta Santiago to help gather funds towards the Louisian Relief Fund.
In 1736 AN, the blasphemy charges against Arnholtz were dismissed after the arrest of Neudemmin governor Theodor von Ertling following his refusal to abide by the terms of the Louisian Decree. While this meant that Arnholtz would be allowed to lawfully reenter the UPC, he chose to remain in Nouvelle Alexandrie in a self-imposed exile. He would continue his career as a cultural anthropologist, studying different nomadic groups throughout southern Keltia. He would, however, suffer from a profound sadness of being forcibly exiled from his homeland. Alhough the United Principalities had been annexed into Aemilia, his financial situation prevented him from returning home. He authored one more book, A Summer with the Wakara, published in 1753 AN.
Arnholtz's would suffer from depression and panic attacks in his later life, to the point where he fainted while delivering a lecture about his time in the Louisian villages. He had not had contact with his wife and daughter since he had been exiled, and believed that he had been killed by the Kaiser's Secret Police (although unbeknownst to him, they were alive and residing in Lanzerwald). On the morning of 6.X.1757 AN, he was found dead in his apartment of an apparent overdose of a Benzodiazepine medication that he had been prescribed. Colleagues stated that the day before, he had shown up to an anthropology conference stating that it would be his “last” conference, though they assumed that this was referring to an impending retirement.
Works
- Vanicism in Cibola (1714 AN)
- Commentaries on the Yamaqhacha (1720 AN)
- The Dromosker Tribes of the Skerries (1723 AN)
- Life-Service Bond: Kuls in Eura (1727 AN)
- Ethnic and Cultural Shifts During and After the Collapse of Lanzerwald (1732 AN)
- The Plight of the Louisians (1736 AN)
- A Summer with the Wakara (1753 AN)
