Andreas Grüning

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andreas Grüning (born September 28, 1756 in Selker Mühle, Selk ; † March 27, 1821 in Ottensen ) was a German educator and calligrapher .

Life

He was a son of the teacher Andreas Joachim Grüning, who died in Altona in 1799. Friedrich Grüning (1763-1842), who also became a teacher, was his younger brother. Andreas Grüning was a teacher for religion, writing and arithmetic in Altona from 1780 . In 1782 he became a member of the Kunstrechnungs-Societät in Hamburg (since 1877: Mathematical Society in Hamburg ) and the Societät der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Amsterdam . In 1792 he opened a commercial school in Hamburg, Große Bleichen , and became its head. On November 1st, 1808, he was appointed professor of calligraphy and mathematics in Mecklenburg (Rostock?) . In 1810 he retired from the school business and took a trip to Venice . After his return he lived in Hamburg as a private citizen for two years, three years in Wedel and five years in Ottensen, where he died. Johann Thomas Hagemann made the copperplate engravings for his exercise books .

From 1802 to 1806 he was a member of the Freemason Lodge at the Golden Ball in Hamburg. A rift with the then master of the chair ( Johann Friedrich Basilius Wehber-Schuldt 1773-1840) led to an internal process and his exclusion in 1806, which was discussed in several writings in the following years.

He was married to Catharina, born in 1781. Martens. The couple had 5 children: Andreas (from 1815 Hanseatic consul in Christiania , † 1842), Johann Friedrich, Christian Ludwig (architect, † 1814 at Lazarettfieber , Maria Cathrina Mathilde and Johanna Christiana.

Works

  • Lessons in the 4 species. Arithmetic book for children. Altona 1783; 6th edition Hamburg 1805; 7th edition 1816; 8th edition 1818
  • French reader. 1798. 2nd edition 1820
  • L'Ecole Francoise; the French school. A reading book for beginners in 4 parts. Hamburg 1799. 2nd edition 1805
  • Preparatory writing exercises. 3 volumes Hamburg 1792
  • French grammar for Germans, with examples, elevations and rehearsals for applying the rules. Hamburg 1800; 5th edition 1818
  • French ABC, spelling and reading book for Germans with instructions for use in schools. Hamburg 1800; 3rd edition 1816
  • The English large and small alphabet for writing students for tracing, as well as for type engravers and type painters, with two basic features, in an oblique size of two to five inches. In addition to a description of the relationship between the letters. Hamburg 1804
  • Detailed message from my business school. Hamburg 1805
  • (Ed.) Luther, an ode by JA Cramer, Königs. dan. Court preacher, later mayor of the University of Kiel. Hamburg 1805
  • Practical arithmetic book about the Hamburg Prize Court, with examples, exercises and samples for applying the rules. Hamburg: Perthes and Besser, 1st part, 4th edition Hamburg 1810
2. Part about the Hamburg money and exchange course. 2nd edition Hamburg 1816
  • Exercises in handwriting. The English cursive. Three booklets containing: the first booklet, the large or round, the second, the middle, and the third, the small or letter-hand. Hamburg 1810
  • Exercises in handwriting. The German cursive. Hamburg 1810
  • Preparatory writing exercises for beginners, with and without a teacher. 3 booklets. Hamburg 1810
  • English grammar for Germans, with examples, exercises and rehearsals for applying the rules. Hamburg 1810 (The theoretical part is from Dr. W. Müller). second edition 1816
  • Hamburg letter holder for merchants. Hamburg: Perthes and Besser 1803; second improved edition 1816
  • ABC, spelling and reading book, with short instructions for learning to read and 1 copper, on which 30 of the most famous animals are depicted. Second edition Hamburg 1820

literature

  • Andreas Grüning in: Detlev Lorenz Lübker, Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828 , Aue, 1829, p. 198, no. 408 ( digitized version )
  • Andreas Grüning in: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 2, Hamburg 1854, p. 632, no.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to other information on September 29, 1756 to Husum Schröder (1854, lit.)
  2. ↑ Festschrift of the Mathematical Society in Hamburg 1890, p. 94, no. 76
  3. ^ Wilhelm Graupenstein : History of the St. Johannis Lodge to the golden ball in Hamburg. Hamburg 1870, p. 174 No. 237
  4. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ↑ See Wilhelm Graupenstein : History of the St. Johannis Lodge to the golden ball in Hamburg. Hamburg 1870, p. 82f
  6. ↑ Cf. Georg Kloß : Bibliography of Freemasonry. Frankfurt am Main 1844, p. 224, No. 2958, 2959, 2960
  7. ↑ Hamburg and Altona: a magazine on the history of the time 1806, intelligence paper No. X (report on the silver wedding, digitized ))
  8. ↑ Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexicon Hamburg 1854, pp. 95f

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Grüning, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and calligrapher
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Selker mill, Selk
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1821
Place of death Ottensen