Bernhard Olivier Frank

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Bernhard Olivier Frank (born June 25, 1758 in Zarnekow ; † November 4, 1833 in Bobbin ) was a German Lutheran clergyman and local researcher. His collection of antiquities was famous beyond the borders of New Western Pomerania .

Life

Bernhard Olivier Frank first attended the city school in Wolgast , then from 1774 the council school in Greifswald . In Greifswald he lived in a house with the principal of the council school Theophilus Coelestinus Piper . On March 7, 1766, Frank enrolled at the University of Greifswald , two years later, after a long stay in his father's house, he moved to the University of Göttingen .

Frank returned home in 1780 and a little later took a position as private tutor with Pastor Johann Christoph Baier in Bobbin on Rügen . There he was preparing for his future ministry at the same time.

In 1790 he made a trip to Sweden to visit relatives. There he made the acquaintance of various scholars in Stockholm and Uppsala , which led him to study natural history. He became known and recommended to the authorities through his repeated excursions, which served to expand his geological and mineralogical knowledge. One of his patrons was Count Magnus Fredrik Brahe , who called him to the pastor's office in Bobbin in 1791 after Pastor Baier had died. From November 1, 1791 until the end of his life, Frank was pastor at St. Pauli Church .

In addition to his spiritual office, Frank primarily dealt with the natural history and geology of the island of Rügen. He was one of the first to compile an extensive collection of rocks, fossils , amber and archaeological finds, which he organized according to scientific criteria. For many travelers of his time, a tour of the collection was a stop on their visit to Rügen. The collection was mentioned repeatedly in travel reports. Visitors included Wilhelm von Humboldt (1796) and Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1816). The young Friedrich von Hagenow was encouraged to collect fossils himself during a visit in 1816. After the death of Bernhard Olivier Frank, the collection was sold to London .

Frank published on geological, natural and cultural-historical topics in Christian Ehrenfried Weigel's “Magazine for Friends of Nature Teaching” and in the “Greifswald Academic Archive”.

His son Karl Wilhelm Frank went to sea and later became a pastor in England .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hansdieter Berlekamp: From the work of Friedrich von Hagenow . In: Greifswald-Stralsunder Jahrbuch , vol. 1, Petermänken, Schwerin 1961, p. 9
  2. ^ Albert Leitzmann (ed.): Wilhelm von Humboldt's diaries . First volume 1788–1798, B. Behr's, Berlin 1916, pp. 259–298, ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert: The acquisition from a past and the expectations of a future life . Vol. 3, 1st department, Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1856, pp. 133-137 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Hamburger Literary und Kritische Blätter , Hamburg 1856, p. 546 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Bernhard Olivier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Zarnekow
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1833
Place of death Bobbin