Carl Weerth

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Carl Weerth

Carl Weerth (born January 23, 1812 in Detmold ; † November 23, 1889 ibid) was a German high school professor, founder of the Lippisches Landesmuseum and co-founder of the Natural Science Association for the Principality of Lippe .

Life

Carl Weerth was born on January 23, 1812 as the first of five children of the Detmold general superintendent Ferdinand Weerth . After graduating from the Leopoldinum , where he made the acquaintance of Ferdinand Freiligrath , he began studying theology at the University of Göttingen in 1830 . He passed the theological exam in 1834 at the University of Bonn . Carl Weerth then moved back to his homeland and he became a collaborator at the Detmold Seminar, an institution where his father was also teaching at the time.

Even during his theology studies, Weerth was interested in natural science, a subject that he took up again after the death of his father and in which he received his doctorate in 1837 or 1838 with the thesis "The Origin of Human Races: An Experiment".

In 1835, Weerth was able to convince the Detmold court advisor Karl Piderit to propose the establishment of the Natural Science Association for the Principality of Lippe at a gathering of 40 dignitaries interested in natural science in Detmold's town hall . Later Carl Weerth also became chairman of this association. The purpose of the natural science association was to set up and manage a "natural history collection". The collection, which was initially housed in the rooms of the grammar school on Leopoldstrasse, was to form the basis of the Lippisches Landesmuseum.

From 1837 Weerth worked as a teacher at his former school, the Leopoldinum, first as an assistant teacher, later as a high school teacher for mathematics and, above all, natural sciences. During his time as a teacher he made numerous trips throughout Europe, sometimes accompanied by his brother Georg , who also introduced him to Karl Marx in London .

For his work, Carl Weerth was awarded the title of professor in 1868, and in 1873 he received the Princely Lippian Cross of Honor, 2nd class.

Despite a stroke in 1884, from which Carl Weerth never fully recovered, he ran the museum until his death on November 23, 1889. He was succeeded by his nephew and long-time assistant Otto Weerth .

Works

  • The Origin of the Human Races: An Attempt. Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, Lemgo 1839 ( LLB Detmold )
  • The development of the human races through the influences of the outside world. Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, Lemgo 1842 ( Bavarian State Library )
  • The household of nature; with preferential consideration of the position of man in it. Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, Lemgo / Detmold 1845 ( ULB Münster )
  • Suggestions about the course of development of the newer natural philosophy. Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, Detmold 1856/57
  • The natural science museum in Detmold. Detmold 1862
  • The human eye. Detmold 1867

literature

  • Wilhelm Hansen : The cultural history collections of the Lippisches Landesmuseum - their origins and their beginnings (=  Lippische messages from history and regional studies . 54th volume). 1985, ISSN  0342-0876 , p. 11-84 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Weerth - A Lippe scholar. Retrieved September 8, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Fritz Bolhöfer: Weerth school: Ferdinand Weerth. Retrieved September 8, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Weerth, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school professor, founder of the Lippisches Landesmuseum
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1889
Place of death Detmold