Adolf Brecher

Adolf Brecher (born June 24, 1836 in Aken (Elbe) , † November 21, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German educator and historian.

Life

Brecher attended the schools in Aken, Koethen , Wittenberg and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin . In 1857 he began studying theology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , where he acquired the right to publicly proclaim the word (licentia concionandi). He continued his studies in 1860 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where he concentrated primarily on philological and historical lectures. In the fall of 1861 he got a job as a collaborator in Greifenberg and shortly thereafter became a member of the Candidate Convict at the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg . In Halle he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1862 and passed his teaching degree (pro facultate docendi) at the university there.

At Easter 1864, Brecher became an assistant teacher at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Berlin and was given a full teaching position there in the autumn of that year. At Easter 1868 he switched to the Sophien-Gymnasium and Realgymnasium as a senior teacher , was also a history teacher at the Berlin Prussian War Academy and a member of the senior military examination commission. In 1877 he received the title of professor. Brecher had written numerous articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie and on the Encyclopedia of Modern History by Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Herbst (1825–1882). He also published maps on the history of Prussia, Saxony-Thuringia, Bavaria, southern Germany, Alsace and the Palatinate. Out of his conservative attitude, he became one of the signatories of the anti-Semitic counter-declaration against the Berlin Notabeln Declaration of November 12, 1880.

Works

• Representation of the territorial development of the Brandenburg-Prussian state from 1415 until now. Berlin 1868. (15th edition until 1897)
• The location of the Comitium and Hostilia Curia in relation to the Forum. Berlin 1870.
• Contributions to the literature of the Reformation period. Gotha 1872.
• Napoleon I and the attack of the Lützow Free Corps on June 17, 1813. Berlin 1897.
• New contributions to the correspondence between reformers and men close to them. In: Journal for historical theology (ZHTh). Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1872, Vol. 42, 3rd issue, pp. 323-411.
• Representation of the territorial changes in the countries of Saxony and Thuringia from the 12th century to today. Berlin 1888.

literature

• Anton Bettelheim: Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog. Volume 6, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1904, p. 520 (list of dead, column 16).
• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Giessen University Library, Giessen Electronic Library, 2008, (Preprint), Vol .: 2 (Baack - Buzello) ( online ).

Web links

Wikisource: Adolf Brecher  - Sources and full texts