Andreas Tamm
Johann Andreas Tamm (born January 1, 1767 in Merseburg , † July 29, 1795 in Görlitz ) was a lawyer and school rector and member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz.
Life
After private tuition by his father and attending the cathedral high school in Merseburg, Andreas Tamm studied law in Leipzig from 1783 to 1789 and then went to the Zeitz electoral justice office as a registrar . At the beginning of 1790 he became court master of the 5-year-old hereditary count and later Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau at Muskau Castle . However, in October 1790, his mother had Tamms transferred to the Muskau city school as rector . He and his family were unable to survive there economically and moved to Görlitz as a lawyer, where he died on July 29, 1795 after a short period of employment.
In 1791 the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences appointed him a full member. In their periodical, the Lusatian monthly , his article appeared in 1792: "Still something about serfdom, subservience and non-permanent goods in Lusatia". In it he analyzed the feudal conditions in northern Upper Lusatia on the basis of his own observations and criticized it in a juridically sound manner, which was previously unheard of in its uncompromising nature. This article and the diary-like notes of the Sorbian half- farmer Hanzo Njepila from the village of Rohne in Muskau are the only direct written evidence to date of this de facto serfdom in the areas of the Old Kingdom east of the Elbe at the end of the 18th century. In addition, he submitted various works on the reform of contemporary pedagogy in the Rousseauian sense, which were suppressed because of their equally open criticism, but whose example was demonstrably effective within society.
For the originally alien field of education, Tamm showed a natural talent. His insufficient income forced him to take private lessons. Among his students were the later superintendent Johann Gottfried Petrick and the Muskau poet and composer Leopold Schefer , Pückler's childhood friend and later general inspector. The latter two have pointed repeatedly and with affection to Tamm's enduring influence on her.
literature
- Bettina Clausen , Lars Clausen : Capable of anything. An attempt at a socio-biography to understand the poet Leopold Schefer , volume 1, chap. PRO MEMORIA Andreas Tamm [first detailed appreciation]. Bangert & Metzler, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-924147-09-4
- Bernd-Ingo Friedrich: Johann Andreas Tamm. 1767-1795. An outsider of the Enlightenment. Hofmeister to Count von Pückler. Teacher of the poet and composer Leopold Schefer. Biography and documents [first monograph], Regia Verlag, Cottbus 2007, ISBN 978-3-939656-19-7
- [The biography also in:] Lětopis . Journal for Sorbian Language, History and Culture , vol. 53, 2006, no. 1, pp. 18–34.
- Bernd-Ingo Friedrich : “The anti-Jahn. For clean science. As a supplement to the dissertation: 'From robot to school prophet. Hanso Nepila (1766–1856) 'by Peter Milan Jahn'. Neustadt ad Orla: Arnshaugk Verlag 2018. ISBN 978-3-944064-98-7 . - At the center of the general reply is Jahn's misrepresentation of Tamm's work “Another thing about serfdom, subservience to hereditary goods and looted goods in Upper Lusatia”. See also the discussion page.
See also
Web links
- Bernd-Ingo Friedrich : Johann Andreas Tamm, an outsider of the Enlightenment ( Memento from August 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tamm, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tamm, Johann Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1767 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merseburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1795 |
| Place of death | Goerlitz |