Andreas Schleiermacher

Andreas Schleiermacher (born February 6, 1787 in Darmstadt , † August 13, 1858 in Auerbach (Bensheim) ) was a German orientalist and librarian .

Life

Andreas August Ernst Schleiermacher was born in February 1787 as the second eldest son of Ernst Schleiermacher and his wife Henriette von Hesse in Darmstadt. His father had been cabinet secretary at the court of the Darmstadt Grand Duke since December 1779. In this function he played a key role in building up the art and natural objects collections in Darmstadt.

Andreas Schleiermacher studied theology and oriental languages ​​in Giessen, Göttingen and Paris from 1803 to 1805. In 1808 he returned to Darmstadt and became an assessor at the court library and the museum that was under construction. In 1811 he became court librarian and second museum director as his father's deputy. The court library had only been significantly expanded a few years before with around 4,000 printed works from the holdings of Baron Adolf von Hüpsch from Cologne .

Andreas Schleiermacher completely reorganized the holdings of the court library and compiled a systematic catalog of such quality as hardly any other large library at the time. In addition, the stocks of almost all areas have been significantly expanded. In 1817 the court library was opened to the Darmstadt population.

In 1821 Schleiermacher was also chief finance officer and in 1830 he was given the position of secret cabinet secretary. With that he had achieved the same position as his father decades earlier. As the successor to his brother Johann Schleiermacher, Ludwig II (Hessen-Darmstadt) appointed him director of the court museum in 1844. He headed this museum, which was also housed in the castle, for ten years until his retirement in 1854.

Andreas Schleiermacher died in Auerbach near Bensheim in August 1858. The prince camp Auerbach had been the summer residence of the Landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt for decades. Schleiermacher was married to Louise Caroline Maurer (1793–1867) since 1812. The marriage resulted in five daughters.

Honors

• 1834: Privy Council of State
• Dr. phil. E. h.

literature

• Article Ernst Christian Friedrich Adam Schleiermacher in: Darmstädter Stadtlexikon, Stuttgart 2006, p. 784f.
• Hessian State Museum Darmstadt. Museum guide , Regensburg 2015.
• University and State Library Darmstadt (Ed.): Neue Mitte (n). The library buildings of the Technical University of Darmstadt , Darmstadt 2014.

Web links

• Works by and about Andreas Schleiermacher  in the German Digital Library