Adolf Tellkampf

Bust of Adolf Tellkampf in the foyer of the Tellkampf School in Hanover

Johann Dittrich Adolf Tellkampf (born May 23, 1798 in Hanover ; † March 9, 1869 there ) was a German mathematician and educator . He was the founding director of the higher middle school in Hanover, which from 1868 became a secondary school of the first order and later a secondary school . This is how today's Tellkampf School developed .

life and work

As a teenager, Adolf Tellkampf took part in the wars of liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte's troops at the age of 16 . From 1818 he began studying mathematics at the University of Göttingen , where he a. a. studied with Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut . In the second year of his studies he became a pupil of Carl Friedrich Gauß through a private course on spherical and theoretical astronomy . In 1821 he successfully processed a prize assignment from the philosophical faculty, submitted the result as a dissertation and received his doctorate in March 1822.

After working as a private lecturer in Göttingen from 1822 to 1824 , Tellkampf took over a position as a mathematics teacher at the grammar school in Hamm in 1824 . In 1834, the high school councilor responsible for Hamm brought Tellkampf to Hanover as the founding director of the new high school that was to be created. In contrast to the humanistic Ratsgymnasium , the new school should focus on business studies, mathematics and natural sciences.

Tellkampf was appointed professor in 1834 and devoted all his energy to his life's work, building up the new school founded in 1835. In the annual reports of the school he published his pioneering treatises on the pedagogy of chemistry and physics, in which he wanted to see experiment and mathematics equally taken into account. On May 3, 1854, the representative new school building was moved into on Georgsplatz in the vicinity of the former court theater, in which Tellkampf worked until his death in 1869.

Tellkampf wrote numerous writings and textbooks, including a pre-school for mathematics , which appeared in five editions between 1829 and 1856.

Honors

Grave in the Engesohde city cemetery

• The honorary grave Tellkampfs found on the city cemetery Engesohde in Hanover.
• Tellkampfstrasse in the Hanover district of Oststadt , named posthumously after him in 1892 , was closed in 1955.
• In 1950 the bust of Tellkampf was created by the sculptor and former pupil of the Tellkampf School Friedrich Adolf Sötebier for the Tellkampf School in Hanover . It is in the school foyer.
• In 1956 the Tellkampf School on Altenbekener Damm in Hanover was named after Tellkampf.

Publications (selection)

• Historiae criticae variarum opinionum, quae circa corporum formam fluidam aut firmam hucusque in lucem prodiere . Prize award Göttingen 1821.
• Dissertatio de instituendae militiae principiis . Dissertation Göttingen 1823.
• Representation of the mathematical geography with special consideration of geographical location . Hahn, Hanover 1824.
• Mathematics preschool . Rücker, Berlin 1829; 2nd edition 1835; 3rd edition 1842 ( digitized version ); 4th edition 1847 ( digitized version ); 5th edition 1856 ( digitized ).
• The higher citizen school in Hanover described after ten years of existence by the director of the same Prof. Dr. A. Tellkampf. Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1845 ( digitized version ).
• The conditions of the population and the life span in the Kingdom of Hanover contribute to the statistics of Germany . Helwing, Hannover 1846 ( digitized version ).
• Physical studies. A series of scientific treatises . Rümpler, Hannover 1854 ( digitized version ).
• Irmgard. A poem in 12 songs . Rümpler, Hanover 1850; 2nd edition 1851; 3rd edition 1856 ( digitized ).
• Astrea. Letters to a lady about astronomy . Rümpler, Hanover 1853 ( digitized version ); 2nd edition 1858 (under the pseudonym FE Bernhardi).
• About the subjective measurement of time in German music and poetry ( annual report of the higher citizen school in Hanover 1857 ). Hanover 1857.
• The higher bourgeois school in Hanover described on the occasion of its 25th anniversary on October 9, 1860 by the director of the institution Dr. A. Tellkampf. Culemann, Hannover 1860 ( digitized version ).
• The French in Germany. Historical pictures . Rümpler, Hannover 1860 ( digitized version ); 2nd edition 1861; 3rd edition 1864.
• Johann Kepler, the founder of the newer astronomy ( annual report of the higher citizen school in Hanover 1862 ). Hanover 1862 ( digitized ).
• Review of the development of the school up to the present ( program of the first-order secondary school ). Hanover 1868.

literature

• Karl Karmarsch : Obituary, the professor and director Dr. Dedicated to Adolf Tellkampf, died March 9, 1869 . Eulemann, Hanover 1869.
• Moritz Cantor :  Tellkampf, Johann Dietrich Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 558.
• Erich Rosendahl : Adolf Tellkampf as a poet . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 2, 1933, pp. 318-320.
• Herman Mayer: Adolf Tellkampf and his school . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 6, 1953, pp. 365-386 ( digitized version ).
• Rolf Bennefeld (ed.): Adolf Tellkampf 1798–1869 . Tellkampfschule, Hanover 1998.
• Klaus Mlynek : Tellkampf, Johann Dittrich Adolf . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 357 and others; Online in Google Book Search
• Klaus Mlynek: Tellkampf, Johann Dittrich Adolf . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 618.

Web links

• Works by and about Adolf Tellkampf  in the German Digital Library
• Adolf Tellkampf in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Website of the Tellkampfschule Hannover

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcements No. 202 of December 1, 2009 pp. 3–7 ( Memento of the original of March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 911 kB) of the Association of Alumni of the Tellkampfschule (formerly Realgymnasium) zu Hannover e. V .; Announcements No. 204 of December 1, 2010, pp. 8–10 ( Memento of the original of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.9 MB) of the association of alumni of the Tellkampfschule (formerly Realgymnasium) zu Hannover e. V.