Adam Storck

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Philip Adam Storck (born October 16, 1780 in Traben-Trarbach , † April 19, 1822 in Bremen ) was a German educator and historian .

biography

Title page of the views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings

Storck was the son of the preacher and winery owner Andreas Storck, who died nine days after his birth. He graduated from Traben-Trarbach grammar school, founded in 1571, under the pedagogue Johannes Touton and then studied at the University of Giessen and the University of Jena . After graduating, he became a teacher at the commercial, civil and Latin school in Hagen (Westphalia). In 1810 he became director of the school. In 1811 he was married in Bremen with the local wine merchant's daughter Anna Wilhelmine Bödecker in the St. Martinikirche Bremen and his relations with Bremen deepened. His first wife died in 1813 and in 1814 he remarried a Bremen citizen from an influential family, the wine merchant's daughter Catharina Elisabeth von Kapff. In 1814 he was co-editor of the Westphalian magazine Hermann and also translator of works by the Scottish writer Walter Scott .

Due to his personal Bremen connections, he applied for a teaching position in Bremen. In 1817 he was appointed to the commercial school in Bremen . In 1818 he was appointed professor by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . He taught history, new languages ​​and business studies. Mayor Johann Smidt induced him to write an anonymously published paper against the southern German criticism of the free trade policy of the Hanseatic cities .

His work Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its Surroundings , which was published by Friedrich Wilmans in Frankfurt am Main in 1822/23 and is illustrated with 16 illustrations by Anton Radl , became important. The Bremen-based Schünemann-Verlag published a facsimile edition in 1977 . This historical and regional study of Bremen with 16 copper engravings is not so impressive because of the historical part, which was taken over from older chronicles, but also because of the poetic representation of impressions from the 19th century. Storck was already limited in his work by an illness. Some of the remaining chapters of the book in the raw text were completed by other Bremen historians. The book was finally revised eleven months after his death in March 1823.

Works

  • Episodes from a trip to Paris . 1810
  • Representations from the Prussian Rhine and Moselle region . 1818
  • Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings . 1822
  • Views of Bremen . 1822
  • About the relationship of the free Hanseatic cities to trade in Germany . 1921
  • Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings . 1922/23

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stork, Philipp Adam, representations from the preuss. Rhine and Moselle Land in the google book search
  2. ↑ Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its surroundings / by Ad. Storck In: ​​State and University Library Bremen
  3. ^ Views from Bremen / Anton Radl and Storck, Adam, In: State and University Library Bremen
  4. ↑ Heinz Günther Böse, Philip Adam Storck, educator, journalist and writer from Traben-Trarbach in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Storck, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Storck, Philip Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Traben-Trarbach
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1822
Place of death Bremen