Carl Christian Heubach

Award-winning treatise by Carl Christian Heubach, 1791

Carl Christian Heubach (born October 21, 1769 in Grünstadt ; † September 16, 1797 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German pedagogue , classical philologist , laureate of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and a French government official.

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Carl Christian Heubach attended high school in his hometown Grünstadt and was a student of Karl Christian Heyler there . He studied philosophy at the University of Göttingen and submitted a Latin treatise on the police in ancient Rome , which was awarded the prize of the Göttingen Royal Academy in 1791. In the same year he went to the grammar school Philippinum Weilburg as a collaborator (assistant teacher) , where he taught Greek and introduced new teaching methods. In September 1792 he moved to his former grammar school in Grünstadt as vice-principal .

The invasion of the French revolutionary troops during the First Coalition War completely changed his life; it led to the termination of the educational career and ultimately to premature death.

On March 10, 1793, a freedom tree was erected in Grünstadt by order of the revolutionaries . The Grünstadt vice-rector gave a speech on this less out of conviction than at the urging of government commissioner Johann Christoph Bleßmann . When the French withdrew from Grünstadt on April 1st due to the war, Carl Christian Heubach joined them, as he otherwise feared reprisals. In Strasbourg he became secretary in the administration of the Bas-Rhin department , then he had to supervise German prisoners of war and traveled with them through France. Finally, he was in charge of accounting in the De Dietrich family's ironworks in Niederbronn-les-Bains . After that, Carl Christian Heubach acted as an interpreter under Jean Baptiste Holtz at the general administration of the occupied areas on the left bank of the Rhine in Trier . In the spring of 1797 he stayed in his home town of Grünstadt because of family matters and wanted to travel from there to Bad Kreuznach. He was arrested by roving hussars of the Imperial Army near Dalsheim . Although the French general Charles Nicolas Oudinot protested against the measure and demanded the immediate release of Heubach, he was abducted to Worms , Mainz , Mannheim , Cannstatt and finally to Heidelberg , from where he was, after about seven weeks, in the frame of the pre-peace of Leoben was returned to the French outposts. Since then he has worked as a secretary for the French district government in Bad Kreuznach. Here he died after a few months, at the age of only 27, presumably as a result of illnesses which he had contracted during his internment.

He became acquainted with the scholars Christian Gottlob Heyne and Christian Gottfried Schütz , and a letter to the latter has been preserved in print.

literature

• Samuel Baur : General historical concise dictionary of all strange people who died in the last decade of the eighteenth century , Ulm, 1803, 5th part, column 477; (Digital scan)
• Nicolaus Gottfried Eichhoff: History of the Herzoglich Nassauisches Landesgymnasium in Weilburg , Weilburg, 1840, p. 192; (Digital scan)
• Obituary, in: National-Zeitung der Deutschen , 1797, column 375 u. 376 of the year; (Digital scan)

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Der Anzeiger: a daily newspaper for justice, the police and all civil trades , year 1791, columns 471 u. 472 of the year; (Digital scan)
2. ↑ Digital view of the award-winning paper
3. ^ André Bandelier: Jean-Baptiste Holtz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 28, 2006 , accessed June 30, 2019 .
4. ^ Friedrich Karl Julius Schütz : Christian Gottfried Schütz: Presentation of his life, character and merit, together with a selection from his literary correspondence , Volume 1, p. 175 u. 176, Halle, 1834; (Digital scan)