Achilles Roediger

Achilles (Heinrich Friedrich) Roediger , (born October 20, 1812 in Hanau ; † November 26, 1868 ibid) was pastor, lecturer and cantor of the Walloon-Dutch Church in Hanau and founder and director of the La Châtelaine boarding school in Geneva.

origin

Like his father Christian Roediger and his grandfather Bernhard Roediger, Roediger was a pastor in Hanau. His mother Jeanette Schehl came from Krefeld. He studied a. a. at the Université Lille II. On June 10, 1837, he married the Hanau pastor's daughter Brigitte Zimmermann (1813–1863). The couple had children Antonie Thudichum , Bertha Hartmann , Emilie Luise (Lulu) and Wilhelm, who were copper mine owners in Huelva, Spain, who were born in Hanau .

life and work

In addition to his work as a pastor, Roediger ran Roediger's private teaching and educational institution in Hanau. His commitment to religious tolerance, to the disadvantaged and persecuted, and to the Baden Revolution of 1848/49 ultimately cost him the job. He was released from church service and lost the right to run his private school with boarding school. The Roediger family had to go into exile in Geneva in 1852, where they opened a boarding school in the La Châtelaine manor . Roediger later handed the management of this international boarding school for boys to his son-in-law Karl Thudichum .

literature

• Ludo Moritz Hartmann: The memory of the mother. In memory of Bertha Hartmann recorded by her son for her friends .- Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, Vienna 1917, p. 3 f.
• Gerold Unterhumer: Freedom, Equality, Fraternity. Democracy and popular education with Ludo Moritz Hartmann . Diploma thesis, Vienna 2005 .

Web links

• Exhibition Georg Thudichum
• Family sheet published by Pierre Roehrich about Achilles Roediger on gen-gen.ch accessed on February 27, 2015.