Adolf Facius

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Adolf Facius, around 1850

Adolf Facius (* 1803 ; † 1872 ) was a German Protestant deacon , teacher and founder of a higher educational institution in Apolda .

Live and act

Facius was ordained a deacon after appropriate training. He worked as a teacher in high schools. In 1834 he and Friedrich Stier took over a private institute in Jena. Later he went to Apolda and in the middle of the 19th century also founded a higher education institution here, from which the Grand Ducal Saxon Wilhelm and Louis Zimmermann Realschule emerged , which then became a grammar school and later the Geschwister-Scholl- Oberschule .

During his time in Apolda, he designed a decorative city ​​coat of arms for the then flourishing city , which is still in use today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Kehrbach, History of Teaching and Education, p. 215, after http://www.archive.org/stream/jahresberichtef04berluoft/jahresberichtef04berluoft_djvu.txt
personal data
SURNAME Facius, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deacon, teacher and school founder
DATE OF BIRTH 1803
DATE OF DEATH 1872