August Christian Adolf Zestermann

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August Christian Adolf Zestermann (born January 10, 1807 in Wilka , Oberlausitz ; † March 17, 1869 ) was a German art historian and educator .

Life

Zestermann learned in Zittau. From 1825 he studied at the University of Leipzig and obtained his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1832 he became a teacher at the Thomasschule in Leipzig . In 1868 he became a professor there. He did research in the field of Christian antiquity. Zestermann published in the New Yearbooks for Philology and Pedagogy .

He was a member of the German Society for the Study of Patriotic Language and Antiquities in Leipzig and a corresponding member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz, the Instituto di Correspondenza Archeologica in Rome and the American Ethnological Society in New York. He was also an honorary member of the Lausitzer Preacher Society . He was accepted into the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms and held various lodge offices there.

Works

  • The ancient and Christian basilicas are shown according to their origin, formation and relationship to one another . (1847)
  • De basilicis. libri tres , a Regia Academia Literaria, quae in Belgio floret, praemio ornati. Brussels (1847)
  • Systematic presentation of the development of architecture in the Upper Saxon countries . (1852)
  • Speech in honor of Dr. Carl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius . (1861)
  • The pictorial representation of the cross and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ developed historically . (1867)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Zestermann, August Christian Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilka
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1869