Albert Woldemar Hollander

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Albert Woldemar Hollander (born September 11th July / September 22nd  1796 greg. In Riga , Livonia Gouvernement ; † March 6, 1868 in Birkenruh ( Bērzaine ), today in Cēsis in Latvia ) was a German-Baltic pedagogue.

Life

Albert Woldemar Hollander came from a Riga patrician family. He first attended the Gray Monastery in Berlin and then the Riga Gymnasium. From 1815 to 1819 he studied theology and philology in Dorpat , Jena and Berlin. He was a follower of Schleiermacher's theology . During his studies he became a member of the original fraternity in 1816 and of the old Berlin fraternity in 1818 . As a member of the fraternity he took part in the Wartburg Festival in 1817 . Hollander visited the institute of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Switzerland. Impressed by him, he founded a large school and educational institution in Birkenruh in Livonia in 1825, the later state high school in Birkenruh . He ran it for 43 years. The University of Jena awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1850 . Hollander died as a result of a cold that he caught while rescuing a person who was frozen to death.

literature

  • Julius von Eckardt:  Hollander, Albert Woldemar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 749.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 385.
  • Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , pp. 75-76.

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personal data
SURNAME Hollander, Albert Woldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1868
Place of death Birch rest near Cēsis , Livonia