Bernhard Stadié

Bernhard Stadié (also Bernhard Stadie; born July 29, 1833 in Marienburg (West Prussia) ; † November 26, 1895 in Weißenfels ) was a Protestant pastor and historian in Prussian Stargard , an active local researcher in West Prussia , a writer and publisher of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung and local politician in Weißenfels .

Live and act

Bernhard Stadié was the son of the Danzig archivist Wilhelm Stadie from a Prussian family who immigrated from East Prussia . After studying theology in Halle and Königsberg , Stadié became a parish assistant to his future father-in-law Ernst Wahl in remote Groß Leistenau in West Prussia in 1856 . After that he was rector in Domnau , 1859–68 Protestant pastor and teacher at the community school in Pr. Stargard, then 1868–73 pastor in Neukirch, 1873–75 Neumarkt, since 1875 Graudenz and 1887–89 Groß Krebs. For unknown reasons, he was transferred from Graudenz and then retired early after two years after conflicts with the community. Allegedly, disregard for the liturgy and his liberalism were the cause. In the meantime he had made a name for himself as a West Prussian historian. Since the 1860s Stadié has been involved in several historical societies and published works on the history of West Prussia. Especially important were his local historical works to Starogard, one from the University of Jena as a doctorate phil. was accepted. Dr. Bernhard Stadie “became known far beyond the borders of Stargard”, says the Stargard Chronicle published in 1969, “besides his official work he was engaged in scientific research and after a very thorough study of the sources wrote the only home history of Pr. Stargard to date. “He also documented early historical coin finds in the region. As a member, he dedicated a printed festival poem to the Masonic lodge “Viktoria zu den Drei Gekrönten Towers” ​​in Marienburg (now Malbork in Poland), which has been lost.

After his release he bought the printing and publishing house of the liberal Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Weißenfels ad Saale around 1890, where he and his family lived in the Novalishaus , Klosterstrasse 24. In addition, Stadié was also active in local politics in Weißenfels and one of the leading personalities in the city. In the elections for the city council on 23-25. November 1891 he was a candidate and was elected with by far the highest number of votes for a period of six years (85.14%: 510 of 599 votes). In 1895 he was the chairman of the city parliament and a member of the board of the Weissenfelser Association for Nature and Antiquity Customers.

family

His wife Mathilde Wahl, who was active as a writer, was a descendant of the West Prussian families of dignitaries and pastors, Wahl, Kummer, Jackstein, Bobrik and Sperber (among other things going back to the theological publicist Erhardus Sperber ). She published novels under an unknown pseudonym in order to supplement the family's income. Probably the patriotic novels ascribed to her husband, published in Mohrungen, were in fact written by her. She ran her husband's publishing house from 1895 to 1897. Her passionate, unpublished love letters have repeatedly been the subject of historical studies on the history of the German bourgeoisie (Budde 1994; Trepp 2000).

They had eight children, one of whom died in childbirth. Several writers and scientists are among the descendants. The daughters Grete and Erna Stadié succeeded the publishers of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (1897 to 1904). The youngest son was the pastor of Großünder Dr. phil. Johannes Stadie (who gave up the name Stadié around 1900), in addition to his official activities, was a West Prussian local historian and Aramaic (1925 appointed to the Protestant University of Riga ). Two granddaughters were the poet Ruth Niehaus-Stadie and the largely unsuccessful West Prussian writer Edda Schultze verw. Barczewski born Stadie (pseudonym Charlotte Esceha ); their granddaughter is the historical writer Ellen Alpsten and one of her great-grandchildren is the dancer David Moll .

Publications

• The Hohenzollern State “from rock to sea.” Rautenberg, Mohrungen 1964–67 (= Prussian People's Books No. 37), 136 pages, with 7 pictures.
• "Called up to the flag." A picture of life from the present. Told for the people . Rautenberg, Mohrungen 1964–67 (= Prussian People's Books No. 58), 96 pages.
• The claims of the Poles on West Prussia . Lambeck, Thorn 1867 ( contemporary review )
• History of the city of Stargard, collected and edited from many previously unprinted archival sources, and older chronicles, as well as from major historical works. At the same time a contribution to the history of the district . Kienitz, Pr. Stargard 1864 (dissertation) ( full text )
• The lodge "Victoria" to the three crowned towers in the Or. To Marienburg at its 100th anniversary. Foundation festivals on Oct. 18 Dedicated by Bernhard Stadie (Lied) in 1872 . Bretschneider, Marienburg 1872
• The district of Stargard in West Prussia in historical terms from the oldest times until now . In Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 70, Königsberg 1867, pp. 489–510 ( full text ) and pp. 585–620 ( full text )
• The district of Stargard in West Prussia in historical terms from the oldest times until now. Part II: Historical notes about the individual villages in the district . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 72, Königsberg 1869, pp. 289–314 ( full text ) and pp. 699–726 ( full text )
• The district of Stargard in West Prussia in a historical context . Kienitz, Preuss. Stargard 1870; Special print from the Old Prussian monthly magazine (= Prussian provincial sheets) .
• several short essays in the Old Prussian Monthly ( A coin find by Pr. Stargard , p. 570 ff. in Volume 4, 1867, Coin Fund , p. 183 in Volume 5, 1868).
• An unpublished comparative dictionary on the Prussian and Lithuanian language and on Polish and Sanskrit, allegedly written by Stadié, burned in a house fire of the granddaughter Edda Schultze in Hildburghausen

As editor

• Stadié was editor of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung until 1895 . (Weißenfelser Geschäfts-Anzeiger.) Independent organ for town and country. (available, inter alia, in the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt , Halle / Saale, there until approx. 1910)

literature

• Gdansk Official Gazette. 1859, Vol. 44, In: Friedwald Moeller (edit): Official sheet of the Royal Prussian Government in Danzig. Personal extracts from 1834–1870 . Hamburg 1995 (special publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia eV; No. 87), p. 154.
• Weissenfelser Kreisblatt. November 28, 1895
• Stargard's story. Published by the home district of Pr. Stargard, 1969, Grenzland-Druckerei Rock in Wolfenbüttel (introduction; p. 191: mentions by Dr. B. Stadies).
• Susanne Stadie: The big, green garden. Memoirs, 1977 (unpublished; Kempowski Archive Nartum)
• Gunilla-Friederike Budde : On the way to bourgeois life: childhood and upbringing in German and English bourgeois families, 1840–1914. Dissertation, Free University of Berlin, winter semester 1992/93 (published Göttingen 1994), p. 31.
• Anne-Charlott Trepp: Emotion and bourgeois creation of meaning or the metaphysics of feeling: love at the beginning of the bourgeois age. In: Manfred Hettling, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann : The bourgeois sky of values, interior views of the 19th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, pp. 23–56, here p. 34.
• Wolbert Smidt:  Stadié, Bernhard Wilhelm Julius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Stargards , ed. Vom Heimatkreis Pr.Stargard, 1969, Grenzland-Druckerei Rock in Wolfenbüttel, introduction
2. ↑ See name key to pseudonyms, double names and name modifications , Vol. I, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung 1965, p. 878.
3. ↑ see archive link ( Memento from November 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )