Carl Wilhelm Sellin

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Carl Wilhelm Sellin (born June 3, 1793 in Tribsow ; † September 10, 1850 in Ludwigslust ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and seminary director.

Life

Sellin was the son of the master tailor and school owner Joachim Sellin. From April 1812 he attended the school teacher seminar founded in Stettin in 1811 under Justus Günther Graßmann . Due to the effects of the siege of Szczecin in 1813, the seminar was dissolved. Sellin temporarily became private secretary in Cammin and joined the Pomeranian Landwehr on December 27, 1813 . He quickly became a non-commissioned officer and a hospital inspector in Szczecin. There he fell ill with nerve fever ; recovered, he was promoted to captain d'armes .

In 1814 he took his leave and went back to the seminary. In 1816 he switched to the Marienstiftsgymnasium . At Michaelmas 1820 he was able to start studying Protestant theology at the University of Halle , which he then continued at the University of Berlin . Through Graßmann's mediation, Ludolph von Beckedorff gave him a position as a seminar teacher in Potsdam .

1830 building of the teachers' college in Ludwigslust

When the Mecklenburg Domanial teachers' seminar in Ludwigslust was reorganized according to the Prussian model and needed a director for the first time, Sellin received this appointment. From 1830 to July 14, 1839 he headed the seminary. Then he was appointed to their board of trustees and pastor of the first parish at the city ​​church Ludwigslust . Since 1835 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

He was married to Emma, ​​born in 1830. Seiler (1807–1877), a daughter of Pastor Seiler in Vehlefanz ( Oberkrämer ). The couple's numerous children included the high school teacher Carl (Adolph Franz Friedrich Wilhelm) Sellin (* 1833), the merchant Theodor Sellin (1835–1856), the pastor in Dassow and church councilor Wilhelm (Christoph Elias Bernhard Donatus) Sellin (1838–1931 , Father of the Old Testament writer Ernst Sellin ), colonial director Albrecht (Wilhelm) Sellin (* 1841), Gotthilf Sellin (1844–1921), historian, teacher and Esperantist, as well as the sisters Emma and Johanna Sellin.

His grave in the Ludwigslust cemetery was adorned with a sandstone monument with the dedication The Grateful Zöglinge , which was erected for him by the Mecklenburg teachers he had trained.

Works

  • First reading book for elementary schools in Mecklenburg. Rostock: Adler (first edition by his predecessor Carl Griewank under the title: Small reading book, initially intended for the seminar in Ludwigslust , Adler, Rostock 1825)
  • The Ludwigslust school teacher seminar to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the reign of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz. Schwerin: Kürschner 1835
  • Various articles in the school paper for the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Strelitz from 1834 on.

literature

  • Obituary from Minter in Mecklenburgisches Schulblatt by Wächtler and Wilbrandt 1850, No. 47 f.
  • Friedrich Walter: Our regional clergy from 1810 to 1888: biographical sketches of all Mecklenburg-Schwerin clergy. Self-published, Penzlin 1889, p. 161
  • 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. 9374 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Later on the district of Cammin i. Pom. proper; today Trzebieszewo
  2. ↑ Before there were only inspectors.

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personal data
SURNAME Sellin, Carl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sellin, CW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and seminar director
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Tribsow
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1850
Place of death Ludwigslust