Bernhard Dächsel

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Otto Bernhard Dächsel (born September 24, 1823 in Naumburg (Saale) , † April 19, 1888 ) was a royal Prussian judicial councilor in Sangerhausen .

family

Dächsel comes from an old Oberlausitz pastor's family and was the son of Karl Dächsel (1790-1858) and his first wife Ernestine Kupfer (1792-1825).

Father Karl Dächsel was the godfather of Elisabeth Nietzsche , the sister of the later philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche , in 1846 . In his second marriage on May 20, 1827, he married Friederike ( Riekchen ) Nietzsche (* 1793), the half-sister of Friedrich and Elisabeth's father Ludwig Nietzsche. As a result of this second marriage, father Dächsel had become the uncle of the Nietzsche children. Nietzsche wrote about his move to Naumburg (Saale) in 1850 after his father's death in his youthful publication From my life : “Uncle Dächsel, Aunt Riekchen and Lina were waiting for us in Naumburg. The lodging that had been reserved for us was in Neugasse and belonged to the rail freight forwarder Otto. ”The Dächsel family was also related to the poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) through common ancestors .

Otto Bernhard Dächsel was married to Bertha Rausch (born April 8, 1833 in Düben ; † 1892).

His brother was the well-known theologian and pastor August Dächsel and his son the theologian Theobald Dächsel .

Life

Dächsel lived in Sangerhausen, lived temporarily in Nordhausen in Thuringia , but then moved back to Sangerhausen.

He was appointed official guardian of the children Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) and Elisabeth Nietzsche (1846–1935) after their father had died in 1849 . Otto Bernhard Dächsel was friends with his father Ludwig Nietzsche.

On December 18, 1863, guardian Dächsel agrees that Nietzsche may begin studying philology and theology .

In 1884/1885 Justizrat Dächsel supported the philosopher in legal disputes with his former publisher Ernst Schmeitzner . Nietzsche was very grateful for this help and sent him a present through his sister Elisabeth. After Dachsel's death in 1888, he wrote to his mother: "I am very saddened by the death of my old guardian."

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From my life on Wikisource
  2. ↑ Weimar Classics Foundation, Signature GSA 100/876
  3. ↑ Weimar Classic Foundation, signature GSA 71 / 362.1
  4. ^ Letter of April 26, 1888
personal data
SURNAME Dächsel, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dächsel, Otto Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Council of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1888