Carl Leverkühn

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Carl Georg Christian Leverkühn , later also Karl Leverkühn (born January 20, 1823 in Peine , † November 25, 1906 in Hildesheim ) was a Privy Councilor , educator and school councilor .

Life

Leverkühn attended the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim, where he graduated from high school . He then studied theology , philosophy and natural sciences at the universities in Göttingen and heard lectures from Professor August Tholuck at the theological faculty of the University of Halle . After completing his studies, he took a position as private tutor on the island of Zingst . He also worked at an upscale private school in Hamburg . In 1848 he moved to Hanover at the Royal Court School in the position of main teacher and in 1851 he took a position in the school teacher seminar in Hanover, which he held until 1856.

From mid-1856 Leverkühn worked as a preacher in the penal institution in Hameln and in 1860 became a member of the Royal Consistory in Hanover and high school inspector for the Lüneburg district . On May 24, 1873 he was appointed to the government and school council. In 1885 Leverkühn was entrusted with the management of the school administration of the Hildesheim administrative district and in the same year was promoted to a privy councilor. On December 1, 1898, Leverkühn celebrated his 50th anniversary with the company. With effect from January 1, 1900, he was given the rank and title of a privy councilor a. D. (out of service) retired.

From 1875 to 1897, Leverkühn was the editor of the Hannoversche Volksschulbote, the specialist journal “Der Schulbote” and published a repeatedly published book about elementary schools in Hanover.

Honors

In 1893 the Hildesheim School Museum, founded in 1891, was named "Leverkühn Foundation" by the teachers' association. In addition, Leverkühn was awarded several medals because he campaigned, among other things, for the promotion of the deaf and mute. In 1898 he received the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the loop. He was also the holder of the Bulgarian Order of Civil Merit . He received this medal on the occasion of a visit by the future Bulgarian King Ferdinand I to his home in Hildesheim on July 28, 1898, accompanied by the Bulgarian Prime Minister Stoilow and his brother Paul. Lunch was taken by the Bulgarian delegation at Leverkühn's house.

family

Leverkühn came from the Lower Saxon family Leverkühn / Lieberkühn, which is proven as early as 1667 with Hermann Levekoen in Braunschweig . The main line begins with Caspar Leverkühn (* around 1680), farm owner in Schwicheldt . His great-grandfather Hans Leverkühn (1708–1787) and his grandfather Heinrich Leverkühn (* 1748) were also the owners of the farm in Schwicheldt. Leverkühn was the son of the shoemaker and businessman Jürgen Heinrich Leverkühn (1781–1846) and his wife Marie Sophie Christine born in 1810. Gieseke (1790-1881). Leverkühn had an older brother, Christian Leverkühn († 1845), buy and trader in Russia .

Leverkühn married Louise Rosine Wilhelmine Grisebach (1823–1905), daughter of the royal Hanoverian general auditor Rudolf Dietrich Grisebach (1773–1837) and his wife Dorothea Eleonore Rosine Louise born in Hanover in 1860 . Meyer. Leverkühn's wife was a sister of the botanist August Grisebach (1814–1879). The couple had four children, u. a .:

Fonts (selection)

  • The elementary schools in the Consistorial district of Hanover including the civil, middle, higher daughter and private schools. Communications about them; the elementary schools in the Landdrostei district of Hildesheim. (= Primary schools in the Consistorial District Hanover: Laws and Mittheilungen. Volume 2.) Helwing, Hanover 1878, OCLC 256441752 .
  • 1877-1885. (= Laws, ordinances and announcements. Volume 2: Elementary schools in the Consistorial District Hanover: Laws and communications. Volume 1.) Helwing, Hanover 1885, OCLC 257810195 .
  • With Gustav Spieker: The general provisions of October 15, 1872 together with examination regulations and the decrees on school supervision in Prussia. Manz, Hannover-Linden 1891, OCLC 257803023 .

literature

  • Adolf Baring : The Baring family, especially the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms. In: German Roland book for gender studies. Published by the “Roland” association for the promotion of the core, coat of arms and seal customer EV, Volume 1, Dresden 1918, pp. 211–219 (g. Note: 81: Leverkühn [on p. 117] uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  • Jörg Barkhoff: Leverkühn, Carl Georg Christian. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 379 .
  • Hanoverian primary school messenger. Property of the school museum (Leverkühn Foundation) in Hildesheim. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, OCLC 724995085 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Jörg Barkhoff: Leverkühn, Carl Georg Christian. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 379 .
  2. ^ Court and State Handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover . Berenberg, Hannover 1861, p. 596 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11040888-9 ( opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de ): "Carl Georg Christian Leverkühn, senior school inspector (for people's school supplies)."
  3. ↑ School museum on hildesheimer-geschichte.de.
  4. ^ Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia 1898, p. 800.
  5. ^ Genealogy of Adolf Baring in the Dresden City Wiki .
personal data
SURNAME Leverkühn, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leverkühn, Carl Georg Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Privy Councilor and Pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Torment
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1906
Place of death Hildesheim