Bernhard Thiersch

Bernhard Thiersch monument in Kirchscheidungen

Johann Bernhard Thiersch (born April 26, 1793 in Kirchscheidungen ; † September 1, 1855 in Bonn ; pseudonyms: Robert Walthers , Th. Reisch ) was a teacher in Prussia . In 1830 he composed the Prussian national anthem, the Prussian song .

Life

Bernhard Thiersch was born on April 26, 1793 in Kirchscheidungen as the youngest son of a village mayor and a pastor's daughter. The philologist Friedrich Thiersch is one of his siblings . Bernhard Thiersch attended the Schulpforta high school and then studied classical philology in Halle and Leipzig . In 1812 he was one of the founders of the Corps Saxonia Leipzig . He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. and from 1817 worked as a teacher at the Friedrichsschule Gumbinnen . By meeting the divorced Catharina Wilhelmine Sophie von Wiersbitzki born there. Mandel married, he became the stepfather of Otto von Corvin . The following year he moved to Lyck , then in 1823 as a senior teacher at the cathedral grammar school in Halberstadt .

In September 1833 he succeeded Johann Wilhelm Kuithan and became director of the Dortmund City High School . He set up special real classes from Quarta onwards to meet the interests of the early industrial bourgeoisie. He implemented the standardizations in the curriculum desired by the Prussian religious administration. Against the prohibition of the council of the city of Dortmund, he described the former imperial city Archigymnasium as royal Prussian and introduced a new seal with the Prussian eagle. During the March Revolution in 1848 he was involved in the Constitutional Club, to which mostly members from the bourgeoisie belonged. His superiors tolerated this membership, but resented him that the students of the city high school took part in the revolutionary machinations. When the rumor arose that Thiersch was having an affair with his convicted laundress Caroline Engel, he was forced to push for his retirement. He was retired on January 1, 1855. He died that same year on the night of August 31st to September 1st in Bonn at the age of 62.

Act

Thiersch, a native of Saxony , whose home district became Prussian in 1815, has been enthusiastic about Prussia since the wars of liberation . He wrote numerous patriotic songs and poems. The most famous of these is the Prussian hymn from 1830 ("I am a Prussian, do you know my colors?"). About this song there was a debate with Hoffmann von Fallersleben , the poet of the Deutschlandlied .

Thiersch's political conviction and the recommendation of his brother helped him to get the position of director in the Prussian city ​​of Dortmund , where, as expected, he became involved in the interests of the school authorities.

Thiersch also worked as a local researcher. This commitment was also rooted in his patriotism. He joined the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Research into Antiquity and joined the Association for History and Antiquity in Westphalia in Dortmund. He published several sources from the Dortmund city archives, which had hitherto been neglected, but sometimes handled the material carelessly.

Honors

Thiersch grave in the old cemetery in Bonn

King Friedrich Wilhelm IV had a memorial for Bernhard Thiersch erected in the Bonn cemetery. His hometown Kirchscheidungen also honored him with a marble obelisk. A street in Dortmund is named after him. In Halberstadt, a street was named after him after the fall of the Wall.

Works

• Bernhard Thiersch: original figure of the Odyssey . Unzer, Königsberg 1821.
• Bernhard Thiersch: About the age and fatherland of Homer . Halberstadt 1824.
• Bernhard Thiersch (Ed.): Aristophanes Comoediae . 1 and 6. Genther, Leipzig 1830.
• Bernhard Thiersch: Thesmophoriazusen . Halberstadt 1832.
• Songs and poems by Dr. Bernhard Thiersch, published by his friends in and near Halberstadt for himself. Delius, Halberstadt 1833.
• Bernhard Thiersch: The organization of the grammar schools according to Lorinser's view . Dortmund 1836.
• Bernhard Thiersch: History of the free empire city of Dortmund . Krüger, Dortmund 1854.
• Numerous publications on the Westphalian Feme such as
  • Bernhard Thiersch: Prohibition of Duke Heinrich the Red of Bavaria by the secret eight in Westphalia. A complete Vem process is shown according to newly discovered documents . Bädeker, Essen 1835.
  • Bernhard Thiersch: The main chair of the Westphalian Vemgergericht on the Königsstuhl in front of Dortmund. According to newly discovered documents . Krüger, Dortmund 1838.
  • Bernhard Thiersch: The Femlinde near Dortmund . Bauer, Dortmund 1849.

literature

• G. Adnau: Bernhard Thiersch . In: Dortmund magazine . No. 1 , April 1909, p. 11 ff .
• G. Adnau: Bernhard Thiersch . In: Dortmund magazine . No. May 2 , 1909, p. 1 ff .
• Jochen Löher: Authoritative state thinking or progressive-democratic sentiment - the Dortmund high school 1848 . In: Historical Association for Dortmund and the County of Mark (ed.): Home Dortmund . No. 2 . City Archives, 1998, ISSN  0932-9757 , p. 26th ff .
• Jochen Löher: On the way to the Prussian educational institution - the grammar school from 1830 to 1850 . In: Hanswalter Dobbelmann, Jochen Löher (Hrsg.): A common school for young people . Dortmund 1998, p. 61 ff . (Festschrift 450 Years of the Dortmund High School).
• Heinrich Pröhle:  Thiersch, Johann Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 4-6.

Web links

Wikisource: Bernhard Thiersch  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Bernhard Thiersch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johann Bernhard Thiersch in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists. 154, 1910, 22
2. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Sarholz: Thiersch, Bernhard . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 3 . Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-88474-954-4 , p. 194 ff .