Christian Bossler

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Christian Ludwig Boßler also Bossler (* 13. May 1810 in Darmstadt ; † 29. December 1877 ) was a German classical scholar , school professor and director of 1629 by Landgrave Ludwig V founded Ludwig George High School in Darmstadt.

Origin and life

family

Christian Ludwig Boßler came from the originally forested part of the South Hessian family Boßler and was born in Darmstadt as the son of the master shoemaker Georg Ludwig Boßler (1784–1863), a son of the hunter and riding owner Georg Konrad Boßler (1743–1793) from Reinheim , and his wife Dorothee Boßler b. Nold (1787–1855), a daughter of the shoemaker Christian Ludwig Nold, was born.

Since 1838 he was with Mathilde Hegar († 1895), the daughter of the Hesse-Darmstadt court medicus Dr. Johann August Hegar (1794–1882), married. With his wife he had two sons, Ludwig (1838-1913) and Karl Boßler (1840-1890), who were also high school teachers. Through his son Karl Boßler, Christian Ludwig Boßler was the grandfather of General Senior Physician Dr. Carl Boßler (* 1872; † 1951), who can be found in the master list of the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy . Christian Boßler was also the brother-in-law of the gynecologist Alfred Hegar , whose wife Eva Hegar comes from the Merck family.

Education

After Christian Boßler passed his Abitur at Ludwig-Georg-Gymnasium, he studied philology , antiquity and history from 1827 at what was then Ludwigs University in Gießen with Professors Friedrich Gotthilf Osann and Joseph Hillebrand . From 1828 to 1830 Boßler continued his studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with a focus on classical philology.

The circle of his friends in Göttingen closed around Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens , Ernst von Leutsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin . The professors who shaped Christian Boßler during his studies in Göttingen were Karl Otfried Müller and Georg Ludolf Dissen .

Two years later, Boßler moved to Berlin . There he immersed himself in the study of archeology . His professors there were among others Karl Lachmann , Heinrich Ritter and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel .

His doctorate as Dr. phil. with the dissertation: De gentibus et familiis Atticae sacerdotalibus , he submitted as Christianus Ludovicus Bossler on December 30, 1832 at the University of Giessen.

Teaching at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium

After completing his doctorate, Christian Ludwig Boßler became an assistant teacher at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium Darmstadt, the school where he himself had passed the Abitur.

In 1833 he was accepted as a full high school teacher in the college, followed on June 23, 1853 by being awarded the title of professor and on May 5, 1858 Christian Boßler was appointed director of the humanistic institution. He succeeded Julius Karl Friedrich Dilthey and remained as director of the traditional grammar school until January 3, 1876.

Among his many students were, for example, Chancellor Georg von Hertling and General Superintendent Wilhelm Baur , who described Christian Boßler as the best teacher he had at high school.

His former student Max Rieger also reported the following about Christian Ludwig Boßler's work as a teacher :

"What he had studied had become a personality-building power for himself: he was more than a philologist, he was a humanist."

- Max Rieger : Hessian Biographies - Volume 3, edited by Herman Haupt .

Maximilian Rieger, in turn, was a great-nephew of Friedrich Maximilian Klinger . His daughter Elisabeth married the pharmacist Emanuel August Merck . According to the results of family research from the Odenwald, Max Rieger himself has the mill owner Johannes Klinger from Pfaffen-Beerfurth and his wife Anna Barbara Boßler as ancestors.

Honors and medals

A scholarship at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium Darmstadt was named after Christian Ludwig Boßler . The auditorium of the grammar school was also adorned with a bust of the director Boßler, during whose term of office the number of students at the humanistic educational institute he ran tripled. His students called the learned high school director Dopp because of his well-groomed appearance , which refers to pomad pot.

On August 25, 1864, Boßler was awarded the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous with the rank of Knight's Cross, First Class. On his retirement , Professor Dr. phil. Christian Boßler was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Ludwig Order on January 3, 1876, in recognition of his achievements , which was considered the highest order decoration of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Publications

in order of appearance

  • De gentibus et familiis Atticae sacerdotalibus . Dissertation, CW Leske, Darmstadt 1833, ( OCLC 11079246 ).
  • Metric in examples; a reader for practicing the most common ancient rhythms and verse in Greek, Latin and German, for upper secondary school classes and for private study , G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1843, ( OCLC 24506187 ).
  • The Roman site near Vilbel and the mosaic floor discovered there in 1849 , Darmstadt 1862, ( OCLC 27478299 ).
  • Marcus Fabius Quintilianus Twelve Books Instructions for Eloquence , Volumes 1–12, Roman Prosaiker in New Translations, JB Metzler , Stuttgart 1863–1865, ( OCLC 953964273 ).

literature

in order of appearance

  • Eduard Mushacke: German university and school calendar - for the period from October 1, 1871 to March 31, 1873 . The astronomical and ecclesiastical calendar, Volume 21, Verlag Wilhelm Schulze, Berlin 1872, p. 275 ( digitized version ).
  • IV. On the chronicle of the grammar school . In: Program of the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Darmstadt . Darmstadt 1875–1876, p. 15 ( digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Baur: Memoirs - With introduction and explanations by Karl Esselborn . Self-published by Baur, Darmstadt 1911, p. 293 ( digitized version ).
  • Max Rieger: Under the Diltheys Directorate 1840–1845 . In: School memories of former Darmstadt high school students - On the triple centenary of the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium . Published by Karl Esselborn , Wintersche Buchdruckerei, Darmstadt 1929, ( OCLC 174395430 ), pp. 236–242.
  • Karl Esselborn: Dilthey. - Bossler. In: Hessian Biographies , Volume 3. Edited by Herman Haupt, Dr. Sänd Verlag, Walluf near Wiesbaden 1973, ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , pp. 109-113.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Esselborn, Georg Lehnert: Hessian biographies . Ed .: Herman Haupt. Unchanged reprint of the 1934 edition. Volume 3 . Dr. Martin Sendet oHG, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , p. 109-110 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Stuckert: Reinheimer house spaces within the formerly fortified city and their owners . Ed .: Evangelical Church Community Reinheim. Reinheim 2008, OCLC 263434037 , p. 98 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Karl Esselborn, Georg Lehnert: Hessische Biographien . Ed .: Herman Haupt. Unchanged reprint of the 1934 edition. Volume 3 . Dr. Martin Sendet oHG, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , p. 110 .
  4. ↑ Eduard Mushacke (Ed.): German school calendar for 1873 . XXII. Vintage. II. Part. Wilhelm Schulze, 1873, ZDB -ID 2959628-2 , p. 72, 268 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Dr. Paul Wätzold: Master list of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education - on behalf of the medical department of the Royal War Ministry using official sources . Springer-Verlag , Berlin / Heidelberg 1910, p. 392 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Karl Hegar: Alfred Hegar, his descent and his family . In: German Medical Weekly . 2003, DNB  1168420601 , p. 62 .
  7. ↑ Karl Esselborn, Georg Lehnert: Hessian biographies . Ed .: Herman Haupt. Unchanged reprint of the 1934 edition. Volume 3 . Dr. Martin Sendet oHG, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , p. 111 .
  8. ^ Winfried Becker : Georg von Hertling 1843-1919. Youth and self-discovery between romance and Kulturkampf . Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-7867-0882-7 , p. 29 .
  9. ↑ Karl Esselborn, Georg Lehnert: Hessian biographies . Ed .: Herman Haupt. Unchanged reprint of the 1934 edition. Volume 3 . Dr. Martin Sendet oHG, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , p. 112 .
  10. ↑ Karl Esselborn, Georg Lehnert: Hessian biographies . Ed .: Herman Haupt. Unchanged reprint of the 1934 edition. Volume 3 . Dr. Martin Sendet oHG, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , p. 113 .
  11. ^ Rieger, Friedrich Maximilian Heinrich Leonhard. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  12. ^ Heinrich Wolf: Family Book Reichelsheim 1643-1875 . Ed .: Andreas Stephan. 1st edition. tape 2 - With Pfaffen-Beerfurth, Reichelsheim, Rohrbach, Unter-Easter and the directories. GENDI-Verlag, Otzberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-946295-61-7 , p. 969 f .
  13. ↑ Marcel Boßler: The famous Sturm und Drang poet Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger from Frankfurt with clear Odenwald roots . In: Hessian Family History Association e. V. (Hrsg.): Hessische Genealogie . Volume 3, Issue 2, 2020, ISSN  2626-0220 , p. 28 .
  14. ↑ Karl Esselborn, Georg Lehnert: Hessian biographies . Ed .: Herman Haupt. Unchanged reprint of the 1934 edition. Volume 3 . Dr. Martin Sendet oHG, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , p. 111, 113 .
  15. ↑ Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt , Verlag der Großherzoglichen Invalidenanstalt, Darmstadt 1876, p. 56 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Bossler, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boßler, Christian Ludwig (full name); Bossler, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and director of the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt, founded in 1629 by Landgrave Ludwig V.
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1877
Place of death Darmstadt