Bremen German Society
The Bremische Deutsche Gesellschaft (also Bremische Teutsche Gesellschaft ) was a patriotic linguistic and learned society in Bremen in the 18th century, which, in the spirit of the Enlightenment , aimed to maintain history, literature, rhetoric and poetry “for the benefit of the people”.
The Bremen German Society was founded by twelve students from the Illustre grammar school under the direction of Samuel Christian Lappenberg , sub-principal at the Bremen Cathedral School , on February 1, 1748, based on the model of the German Society established in Leipzig in 1727 . The number of members grew to almost 70 people, almost all of whom came from learned circles. They met first in the commercial building and later in the old stock exchange . Between 1767 and 1771 the Society published the Bremen-Lower Saxony Dictionary in five volumes, and also published a series of lectures by the well-known Bremen scholar Johann Philipp Cassel . Among their sponsors was Volkhard Mindemann , who was Bremen's mayor from 1749 until his death in 1781 .
In 1793 the Bremen German Society was dissolved.
Publications
- Bremen-Lower Saxony dictionary . ( Digitized version )
literature
- Conrad Iken : To the public inauguration of the Bremen German Society, which it celebrated on the 21st of the fallow month 1752 . Meier, Bremen 1752. ( digitized version )
- Franz Weber: The Bremen German Society 1748-1793. Greifenhagen: Kundler [1910], zugl. Königsberg, Univ., Diss., 1910
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- The club in Bremen . 1783-2008 . Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7961-1935-4 .