Antonin Lego

Antonín Lego (born May 30, 1801 in Zbiroh , Bohemia, † April 7, 1878 in Žižkov ) was a Czech teacher, musician and composer.

Life

Antonín Lego was the third of six children from the second marriage of Franz Johann Lego to Ludmilla Palek. He graduated from the parish school in Zbiroh with his father and in 1816, as a 15-year-old boy, came to the city secondary school of the kk Zbiroh school institute for prospective school teachers. The certificate of this course was written in German and is dated December 31, 1816 and has the following assessment of his teaching qualification: "Excellent for a teacher at a Bohemian parish school".

From January 1, 1817 to October 28, 1821 he worked as an assistant teacher in Zbiroh. On March 11, 1823, according to the decree of the kk Oberkammeramt in Zbiroh, he was appointed "provisional" of the local school, after which he was a school assistant at the parish school in Cerhovice / Zerhowitz until January 19, 1824 . Lego then began teaching in Zdice and finally, according to the decree of the Zbiroh City Office of February 15, 1825, he got a job as a school assistant from October 1, 1825 to 1828 in Zbiroh.

From 1828 to 1829 he was a teacher in Volduchy / Wolduch and from 1829 to 1836 a teacher in Lhota pod Radčem . On January 26, 1830, he married Marie Veronika Velwarsky in Lhota pod Radčem with whom he had 12 children: Anna (* 1831; † 1832), Josefa (* 1832; † 1832), Johann Wenzel (* 1833; † 1906), Albine Franziska (* 1835), Ignaz (* 1837; † 1915), Antonín (* 1839; † 1901), Josefa (* 1841), Karl (* 1843), Marie (* 1845), Franz (* 1847; † 1911) , Anna (* 1849) and Mathilde (* 1856).

From 1836 to 1844 he was a teacher in Strašice and from 1844 to 1871 a teacher in Mýto v Čechách. He retired on August 23, 1871 after 55 years of teaching. He then moved to Žižkov, where he died of pneumonia on April 7, 1878.

Lego also worked as an organist and was involved in expanding the curriculum at the school in Mýto v Čechách to include geography and history. His compositions include school and funeral chants, funeral marches and song compositions.

Song compositions

• In the morning a little bird praises the Lord
• When I was a tender little student
• Spring has come
• To you students!
• I surrender under your protection
• The unfathomable providence

literature

• Baptismal registers of the parish of St. Nicolai zu Zbiroh, Folio 31
• Extract from the Zbiroh parish marriage registers from April 24, 1878
• Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the reign of Franz Josef I , published in Rokitzan in 1898
• Commemorative book for the 50th anniversary of the school in Mýto v Čechách from August 25, 1907, (translation from Czech)
• Decree of employment by the Prince Archbishop Consistory in Prague of April 11, 1844 as a teacher in Mýto v Čechách
• History of the city of Zbiroh (Czech)
• Otto's Konversationslexikon (Ottův slovnik naučy) year 1900 volume 15

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mìsto Zbiroh ( Memento from January 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )