Carl Heinrich Dettmer

Carl Heinrich Dettmer (born May 13, 1811 in Lübeck ; † June 4, 1879 there ) was a German educator and politician.

Life

Carl Heinrich Dettmer was a son of the businessman Johann Karl Heinrich Dettmer and his wife, a daughter of the preacher Ostermeyer at the Petrikirche in Lübeck . Since he often suffered from dangerous diseases in his childhood, he received private lessons for a long time. From Easter 1821 he visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . In 1829 he passed the scholarship exam, the local forerunner of the Abitur . He received the Schabbel scholarship and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Jena , Heidelberg , Berlin and Göttingen .

In Jena he joined the fraternity in early 1830 . From Heidelberg he took part in the Hambach Festival in 1832 . His fraternity endeavors led to an interrogation before the Berlin Superior Court in the winter of 1832/33 , but initially without further consequences. After a year in Göttingen (from Easter 1833 to Easter 1834) Dettmer returned to Lübeck and passed the candidate exam here on September 12, 1834 before Senior Hermann Friedrich Behn . As early as September 24, 1834, however, he was placed under house arrest due to a requisition ( request for legal assistance ) from the federal central authority in Frankfurt am Main . On October 20, he had a first interrogation before the Senators Johann Joachim Friedrich Torkuhl and Friedrich Wilhelm Grabau , after which he was arrested and imprisoned in the royal stables .

On September 19, 1835, he was released on bail. The verdict then passed from Berlin was for several years of imprisonment , which was reduced to one and a half years of imprisonment, taking into account the pre-trial detention, and converted to house arrest after an appeal was lodged. In February 1838 the Senate released him from this remainder of the sentence on health grounds. On the intercession of Syndic Carl August Buchholz , King Friedrich Wilhelm III. pardon him .

Since his liberation, Dettmer had given private lessons in Greek and also taught young Englishmen in German. In the summer of 1837 he took German lessons at the v. Großheim School . On February 17, 1838, he was accepted by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Kiel on the basis of his doctoral thesis published in Göttingen in 1834. phil. PhD. At Easter 1838 he opened with the Scottish high school teacher Robert Peacock (1796-1880), who later became his brother-in-law, a boarding house in the Bernstorff Curia (today Ernestinenschule ) on Koberg and also became an assistant teacher at the Katharineum. He got a permanent job as a collaborator at the Katharineum at Easter 1841, but the boarding school closed in 1844. In 1854 he was elected fourth senior teacher during the reform of the Katharineum, in 1856 second senior teacher, in 1859 fifth and in 1862 fourth professor. Although not originally a philologist, he had a special talent and preference for teaching Greek.

For 25 years, from 1846 to 1871, he was a member of the board of the Lübeck school teacher seminar. Since 1874 he was a member of the high school college and was a member of the examination committee for teachers.

As a member of the Friends of Jung-Lübeck , he took over the editing of the Neue Lübeckische Blätter in 1841 and led it until 1851. In 1847 he was on the committee for the General German Singing Festival in Lübeck. In 1848 he was elected to the Lübeck citizenship and belonged to it until 1867, with the exception of the years 1853 to 1855. He was also a member of various commissions and deputations and from 1867 a member of the board of directors of the St. Marien parish . Since 1838 he was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities ; from 1869 to 1875 he was a member of its board.

Since 1840 he was with Caroline, geb. Reuter married. The family had lived in the house at Johannisstrasse 22 (today Dr.-Julius-Leber-Strasse 48) since the 1850s , where his colleague Johannes Classen had previously lived. Of the couple's eight children (1861), Hermann Dettmer (* July 21, 1846) became a classical philologist and from 1867 was a member of the Philological Association ( Bonner Kreis ) founded by Franz Bücheler . In 1869 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. However, he died on July 29, 1870 as a candidate for teaching in Hohen Viecheln . The daughter Caroline (* 1851) married the Munich publisher Friedrich Adolf Ackermann in 1873 .

Fonts

• De vi quam e zoe aionios apud Ioannem obtineat. Goettingen 1834
• Outline of German grammar for the English. 1839.
• To Tacitus. (Comments on Tacitus Agricola.) Lübeck 1850. pp. 22-27. (Lübeck Gymnasium program.)
• Vocabulary for auxiliary Greek lessons along with tasks for oral and written exercises. Brunswick 1852.
• The Thorsperre in Lübeck. A historical account. (Congratulations on the 50th anniversary of Mayor Roeck.) Lübeck 1864.
• The local scholarships. (Congratulations on the election of Senator Dr. W. Plessing.) Lübeck 1867.
• Professor Gustav Evers. A life sketch. Lübeck: Rohden 1859
• Dr. phil. Franz Christian Reuter. A picture of life. Lübeck 1877. pp. 51-55. (Lübeck Gymnasium program.)

literature

• August Sartori : Professor Dr. Carl Heinrich Dettmer. A picture of life. Lübeck: Borchers 1880 (program Lübeck Gymnasium 1880)
• Franz Kössler: Personal encyclopedia of teachers of the 19th century: professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825-1918 with lists of publications Volume 4: Daase - Dzialas, Giessen 2007 full text

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein State Archives , Section 47.7 No. 19
2. ^ Album of the Bonner Kreis 1854-1906. Printed as handwriting [Bonn 1906], p. 16 no. 91.
3. ↑ See Hermann Dettmer's curriculum vitae in his doctoral dissertation: De Hercule Attico , Bonn 1869, p. 73 File: Vita Hermann Dettmer.png .