August Kippenberg
August Kippenberg , completely Carl Friedrich Hermann August Kippenberg , (* March 21, 1830 in Adenstedt ; † July 28, 1889 in Bad Rehburg ) was a German teacher and school founder ( Kippenberg-Gymnasium in Bremen) who promoted the education of the female population.
biography
Kippenberg was the son of the surgeon Friedrich Kippenberg (1801–1831) from Adenstedt, whose ancestors came from the mining town of Bad Grund (Harz) . How it came to the connection with Meta Adelheid Carstens (1800–1865) from Bremen is unknown. After the death of her husband, the mother returned to Bremen , where, with the help of her relatives, she ran a linen, ticking and earthenware shop at the Liebfrauenkirche .
At the age of 16 in 1846 Kippenberg was already an assistant teacher - without having received any training - at a private school in Bremen. After attending the Bremen teachers' seminar and other teaching activities at the Liebfrauenschule and an elementary school in Bremen Neustadt , the responsible senator appointed him head of the free school in Schmidtstrasse in 1858 .
Since there was no regular training for prospective teachers in Bremen, Kippenberg decided to run a private teachers' seminar in addition to his regular job. From 1859 it is possible to speak of a private Kippenberg teachers' seminar.
In 1862, Kippenberg, together with his second wife Johanne Kippenberg, expanded the seminar into a teaching institution for adult daughters and teachers' seminar . Due to the double burden, he resigned from the civil service in 1869 and took over another girls' school. After a school fire, he managed to acquire a larger building on the Wall in 1869 .
In 1872 August and Johanne Kippenberg received the concession to set up a secondary school for girls, which in the following years became the largest private secondary school for girls in Germany. At the same time he wrote books (including about the life story of the Bremen teacher Betty Gleim ) and published an extremely successful multi-volume German reading book for secondary schools in Germany.
Kippenberg became a member of the Freemason Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm for Eintracht in Bremen in 1881 .
In 1888 Kippenberg fell seriously ill and died in 1889 while taking a cure in Bad Rehburg.
After his death, his wife Johanne Kippenberg continued to run the school for 15 years until his son Dr. Hermann August Kippenberg took over this in 1904 and transferred it to a state high school, which later became the Kippenberg grammar school.
progeny
10 children:
- Friedrich Kippenberg (born April 29, 1866 - † February 8, 1911 in Bremen), Dr. med., gynecologist in the St. Josephs monastery in Bremen
- Hermann August Kippenberg (1869–1952), educator, headmaster of the Kippenberg School in Bremen
- Anton Kippenberg (1874–1950), publisher, Insel-Verlag Leipzig
- Anna Wegner born Kippenberg: One of your sons is Max Christian Wegner (1893–1965), publisher
Works
- Betty Gleim - A life and character picture , Bremen 1882
- Esaias Tegnèr , Bremen 1884
- German Reader for Higher Girls' Schools , 6 vol. Up to 46th edition, Bremen 1885–1928
literature
- Georg Bessel, 100 years of the Kippenberg School 1859–1959 , Bremen 1959
- Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Kippenberg-Gymnasium, Bremen 1984
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kippenberg, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and school founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adenstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1889 |
| Place of death | Bad Rehburg |