Carl Michael Wiechmann

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Carl Michael Wiechmann , also Karl Michael Wiechmann and with the addition of the ownership name Carl Michael Wiechmann-Kadow (born March 15, 1828 in Rostock ; † December 31, 1881 ibid) was a German landowner, farmer and local researcher.

Life

Carl Michael Wiechmann was the son of a Rostock senator. Orphaned at an early age, he attended the large city school in Rostock , leaving it in 1842 to do an agricultural apprenticeship. He then studied at the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy and the University of Tübingen . Since this step was not approved by his relatives, he returned to Rostock in 1847. In 1848 he acquired the Kadow (Mestlin) hereditary leasehold with 200 hectares of land, which he farmed with an inspector for 25 years. In the list of victims of the Church of Techentin in 1851, 18 people were counted on his estate. Since 1848 Wiechmann has also participated as a landowner in the Sunday meetings in the rectory at Techentin as the spiritual center of the area with the local pastor Johann Carl Riedel, who came from Laage. As in church, the men and women kept to themselves when talking. In addition to Pastor Birkenstädt from Mestlin and the provost Zander from Woosten , who only spoke Low German, the tenants of the estates Vimfow , Sehlsdorf , Zidderich, Klein Pritz, Hof Hagen and Dabel were present. In addition to the monastery forester Kobrow from Mestlin and Sehlsdorf, the Dobbertiner chief forester sang together with the clergy as a musically educated man. About Dr. Wiechmann from Kadow reported the son of Pastor Riedel in 1907 as professor and director of the surgical clinic in Jena: He, Wiechmann was educated and rich, was very nervous and a morphinist, his beautiful wife came from Rostock and the two late-born children, a daughter and a son, came from the inspector. In any case, Wiechmann is a brilliant man .

In 1873 he sold the estate in Kadow and moved to Rostock. After a lengthy cure in Karlsbad in 1878, he was reluctant to continue his scientific work there.

More important than his agricultural activity was that as a collector and researcher. He collected old, rare woodcuts, copperplate engravings and prints. Since 1855 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and since 1866 in the Association of Friends of Natural History and from 1868 to 1873 its secretary and took care of the publication of the archive. From 1869 he was also a full member of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology and took an active part in the work of these associations. In the natural history field, his research into conchylia in the Sternberg rock was significant. Several conchylia from the Sternberg rock bear his name, such as Stenomphalus Wiechmani von Koenen and Turbonilla Wiechmanni Speyer.

In 1858 he obtained a new edition of Joachim Slüter 's oldest Rostock hymn book from 1531 and the catechism from 1525, which was also attributed to Slueter. The Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin thanked him on August 22, 1858 for the dedication of the reprint and left him As a sign of recognition in the field of Mecklenburg literature and hymnology, present the magnificent work Die Domkirche zu Schwerin and its inauguration . After the publication of the first volume of Mecklenburg's Old Lower Saxon Literature in 1864, the Grand Duke awarded him the silver medal of merit for art and science donated by Friedrich I with the ribbon, and at the same time the philosophical faculty of the University of Rostock awarded him the honorary doctorate at the request of Karl Bartsch .

In addition to the Mecklenburg book history, he also researched Lübeck's book history. In the magazine for Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde he published about the Lübeck bookseller Paul Knufflock and about Lübeck's older book printer history.

His main work was a regional bibliography aimed at completeness of the books published in Low German in Mecklenburg up to the beginning of the Thirty Years War , a regional forerunner of the Low German bibliography by Conrad Borchling and Bruno Claussen . After Wiechmann's death, the third volume was edited by the university librarian Adolph Hofmeister (1848–1904), Adolf Hofmeister's father .

He was appointed a corresponding member by the Association for Hamburg History in 1858, the Société Malacologique de Belgique in Brussels in 1867, the German Malakozoological Society in 1869, the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna in 187, the Association for Natural History in Fulda and Offenbach in 1873. As a full member He was appointed to the Scholars' Committee of the Germanisches Museum in 1867. He contacted numerous scholars, visited many libraries and had amassed an extensive collection of materials. Wiechmann had lively scientific exchange and in some cases also personal contacts with Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch (Schwerin), Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch (Schönberg), Ernst Deecke and Wilhelm Mantels (Lübeck), Gottfried Kosegarten (Greifswald), Ernst Heinrich Zober (Stralsund), Johannes Geffcken and Johann Martin Lappenberg (Hamburg), Petzholdt (Dresden) and Hoffmann von Fallersleben .

Honors

Publications

  • A miracle in the church in Moisall near Bützow from 1594. 1857.
  • Contributions to the older printing history of Meklenburg along with a compilation of the previously described Meklenburg printing monuments. 1857.
  • Two unknown Lübeck prints . 1858.
  • The procession in Lübeck in 1503 and the letters of indulgence from the cardinal legate Raimund . 1858.
  • The sixteenth century Meklenburg shape cutters. 1858.
  • Joachim Slüter's oldest Rostock hymn book from 1531 and the catechism from 1525, which can be attributed to it. 1858 ( digitized version , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek )
  • The dispute between the Protestant preachers in Rostock in 1531. 1589.
  • Spiritual songs based on the motto of Mecklenburg princes . 1859.
  • The ten commandments in the chapel at Pudagla on the island of Usedom . Communicated according to a record from 1548. 1859.
  • The small corpus doctrinae of Matthias Iudex. Schwerin: 1865 ( digitized copy of the Harvard University Library , ex Rostock school library)
  • Mecklenburg's Old Lower Saxon literature. A bibliographical repertory of the Lower Saxon or Low German books, ordinances and pamphlets printed in Meklenburg from the invention of the art of printing up to the Thirty Years War.

Literature and Sources

literature

  • Adolf Hofmeister: Outline of life and index of his writings. In: Mecklenburg's Old Lower Saxony literature. Volume 3, pp. 2-11.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10813 .
  • Günther Peters, Andrea Matischewski, Dieter Garling: Mestlin. Chronicle of a Mecklenburg village. Mestlin 2001.

Printed sources

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ B. Riedel: Economic and traffic conditions in the vicarage in Techentin 1850-1860 . Records of the Techentin church in the rectory in Mestlin. Jena, July 30, 1916.
  2. ↑ Adolp Hofmeister: Mecklenburg altniedersächsische literature . Schwerin 1885, p. XI.
  3. ↑ According to the original prints, published verbatim in 1858 in Schwerin, Druck und Verlag Dr. FW Bärensprung, 155 unpaginated sheets and 92 pages
  4. ^ Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. 2 (1867) issue 3, pp. 347-354.
  5. ↑ MJB Vol. 22 (1857), pp. 263-267.
  6. ↑ MJB Vol. 22 (1857), pp. 252-262.
personal data
SURNAME Wiechmann, Carl Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiechmann, Karl Michael; Wiechmann-Kadow, Carl Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, farmer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1881
Place of death Rostock