Carl Stephan (chronicler)

Carl Friedrich Stephan (* December 24, 1837 in Laucha an der Unstrut ; † April 24, 1927 there ) was a chronicler of the city of Laucha.

Life

Carl Friedrich Stephan was the son of Benjamin Friedrich Stephan (April 16, 1809 - March 31, 1890) and Emilie Liberta Scharf (December 17, 1814 - April 8, 1881). He was born in Laucha an der Unstrut in house no. 159 (today's Herrenstrasse 6).

He learned the craft of watchmaking and married his first wife Johanna Auguste Taube on April 16, 1863, who after the birth of their twin daughters shortly after their children (Marie Anna & Anna Marie April 24, 1865 - June 19 and 21, 1865) on April 10 July 1865 died of childbed fever on her 26th birthday . After the year of mourning was over, he married the sister of his first wife Johanna Maria Taube, who gave him seven children, four of whom reached adulthood.

Carl Stephan was one of the first, more recent chroniclers of the city of Laucha and is still an honorary citizen . In many hours of diligent work, as a voluntary city archivist, he collected everything he could find about the city's history, and thus established the basis of today's handwritten city chronicle. He recorded many orally transmitted events in writing and thus made a contribution to the historical heritage of the city. He also published several essays in which he described the fate of his hometown and its inhabitants.

Honors

The city of Laucha named a street after him in his memory and made him an honorary citizen.

Works

• From Laucha's past . In: Home calendar for the district of Querfurt ... [further data unknown]
• The landslide near Dorndorf in 1651 , retold from older sources by C. Stephan in 1922,
• Ms. Welsch: Laucha at the time of the 30 Years War according to archival sources, presented by Carl Stephan , Laucha (Unstrut): Heise, 1932

literature

• Ms. Welsch, Rector: From Laucha's past, self-published by the city of Laucha, printed by J. Herm. Heise Laucha / Unstrut, published for the Heimatfest 1927