Carl Hunnius

Carl Abraham Rudolf Hunnius (born June 24, 1873 in Maholm , Estonia , † April 25, 1964 in Wyk auf Föhr ) was a German theologian , philologist and educator .

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Carl Hunnius was born in Maholm in 1873 as the son of Pastor Frommhold Hunnius. He spent his school days at the Gouvernementsgymnasium in Reval , at the Volckschen private high school in Dorpat and at the municipal high school in Libau , where he graduated from high school in 1893. He then studied theology in Dorpat until 1898. There he became a member of the Baltic student union Estonia , which he headed in 1897 as a senior . In 1899 he took his exams. From 1900 to 1904 he studied first in Strasbourg , then in Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1904 . He also studied Syriac , Arabic , Old and Middle Persian and published the previously indecipherable Parisian manuscript of the Syriac Alexander song attributed to the Syrian bishop Jakob von Sarug (451-521). In the following years, Hunnius taught as a teacher at the German church schools in Saint Petersburg and as a librarian at the Imperial Academy of Sciences there .

From 1907 Hunnius was director of the state school of the Courland Knighthood in Mitau , which existed until 1919. In 1910 he married the Mitau banker's daughter Else Westermann. They had four children: Otto (killed in World War II ), Elisabeth, Irmingard and Waltraut. Irmingard Hunnius married the doctor Fritz Nödl , 1960–1980 full professor of dermatology at the Saarland University, Waltraut Hunnius married the constitutional and international law specialist Hermann von Mangoldt . With his family, Hunnius fled to Miedzyzdroje in Pomerania , where he founded the Baltic School Miedzyzdroje for the children of his fellow countrymen who had fled , to which the Baltic Sea Boarding School Dune Castle , founded by the Baltic Red Cross, was soon affiliated. At the end of 1944, the school was nationalized as a National Socialist German home school, which only existed for a few months. In March 1945 he fled to Wyk auf Föhr , where, together with Walther von Roth, he founded the Carl Hunnius School named after him as the first secondary school in Wyk auf Föhr and the associated Carl Hunnius boarding school. In 1949 the high school was taken over by the state of Schleswig-Holstein as a state high school. Up until old age, Hunnius wrote theological writings and led lecture circles. He died in 1964 and was buried in the cemetery of St. Nicolai in Boldixum, where his grave still exists today (2011).

Hunnius was a descendant of the physician Carl Abraham Hunnius (1797-1851) and a distant cousin of the writer Hermann Hesse , with whom he was in correspondence in the 1950s.

Works

• The Syrian song of Alexander. Goettingen 1904.
• My memories. Series of publications by the Student History Association in the CC . Starnberg 1976.

literature

• Timeline. Personal details. In: THE TIME. No. 27, July 2, 1953 (on his 80th birthday).
• Friederike-Juliane Cornelßen and Christoph-Friedrich von Lowtzow: The Carl Hunnius boarding school in Wyk auf Föhr. Example of boarding school education in the post-war period. Pinneberg 2001.
• Gerhard Brugmann: Misdroy - Wyk - Hemmelmark. Three Christian conservative boarding schools. Buchholz 2001.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Hunnius, Carl. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

References and comments

1. ^ Later Eilun Feer Skuul