August Ferdinand Crüger

August Ferdinand Crüger

August Ferdinand Crüger (born July 25, 1795 in Stolp , † December 7, 1881 in Wellmitz ) was a German pastor and educator.

Life

August Ferdinand Crüger was born in Stolp in the Prussian province of Pomerania . He had been an orphan since he was five and was raised by Friedrich Schleiermacher . From 1804 to 1812 he lived in an orphanage in Oranienburg . In 1812 he moved to the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. He participated as a volunteer in the wars of liberation against Napoleon and was wounded in the Battle of Leipzig . From 1817 Crüger studied theology at the newly founded Berlin University . After completing his studies, he became rector and assistant preacher in Crossen in 1821 . In 1823 he began working as a senior teacher at the teachers' college in Neuzelle and was its director from 1824 to 1849. From 1850, Crüger was the secret government and school councilor in Stettin, responsible for teacher training institutions in the Pomeranian province. In 1871 he was awarded the star ( eagle ) for the Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern . He was buried in Neuzelle. His grave and headstone no longer existed, so that in 2011 he was given a new honorary grave on the 130th anniversary of his death.

Works

• Protestant creed from 1845 . Berlin: Stuhr 1845. ( digitized version )
• About teaching in the mother tongue . Frankfurt a. d. O. 1846.
• To the election of MPs to Frankfurt a / M. A word of thanks and confession to the elected electors of the Gubener, the Lübbener Land and part of the Lubus district . Frankfurt am Main 1848.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Schulblatt for the Province of Brandenburg. First and second issue . Wiegandt and Grieben, Berlin 1872, p. 4.
2. ^ Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia. Hertz, Berlin 1871, p. 634.
3. ↑ Devotion to the new honorary grave . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , December 7, 2011.