Christian Gottfried Poser

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Christian Gottfried Poser, lithograph by Jacob Jensen Hörup (1843)
Curator's house at St. Katharinen; Posers apartment was on the cloister ( handling ) behind

Christian Gottfried Poser (born May 1, 1771 in Lübeck , † beginning of November 1852 there ) was a German educator and Freemason.

Life

Christian Gottfried Poser was a son of the brewer Johann Gottfried Poser and his wife Anna Catharina, geb. Cook. He studied Protestant theology at the universities of Jena and Leipzig . Fifteen relevant entries in his family book (friendship album) preserved in the Lübeck City Library testify that he was involved in the move of Jena students to Nohra (Grammetal) in 1792 . In protest against the relocation of the military to their city in the wake of the student unrest triggered by the chocolateists , a large part of the students from Jena moved to Nohra, the first place outside of the principality, to fight for their rights here on July 19, 1792 . After the Weimar ministers fulfilled their demands, they moved back to Jena. In addition to attending theological courses, he conducted literary and physical studies.

After completing his studies, Poser returned to Lübeck, where he was appointed a candidate for the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs . As was customary at the time, he initially worked as a teacher, which became his life's work. When his friend Carl Friedrich Christian von Großheim opened a private school in 1800, Poser got a job as a teacher here. In the following year, on September 7, 1801, he was appointed collaborator at the Katharineum in Lübeck . In 1802 he gave his eligibility for the ministry entirely on when he next Johann Niklas Bandelin a staff college was the real branch of the school, in the course of the school reform of the rector Friedrich Daniel Behn newly established public school . Poser became her formative teacher over the next 40 years. In 1806 he witnessed the battle of Lübeck and the occupation of the city by French troops; he was ambushed and looted on the street. His students included Emanuel Geibel , Carl Friedrich Wehrmann , Ernst Deecke and Wilhelm Mantels . He mainly taught science, but also geography and history. On his initiative, physical teaching aids and instruments were acquired for the first time, including a monumental frictional electric machine mentioned as early as 1808 . Several times he gave popular science lectures in the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , for example in 1814 on cement copper , in 1815 on vapors and in 1816 on the magnet . He also served the non-profit organization as head of their swimming school from 1802. His “instructive collection” on physics, compiled “with scientific diligence and personal knowledge”, became so popular that it was mentioned in a travel guide in 1814.

Poser's deteriorating eyesight forced him to retire from teaching in 1841. On the fiftieth anniversary of his appointment as a collaborator, however, his numerous students in 1851 once again had an opportunity to honor Poser. He stayed in his official apartment at the school in the former St. Catherine's monastery; the address book for 1852 is still number 651 as his apartment , in contact with St. Catharinen .

Poser was involved as a Freemason for decades . For many years he was master of the chair of the second Lübeck Johannisloge Zur Weltkugel, founded in 1779 . Under his leadership, the lodge acquired the property at Mengstrasse 7 and built its own lodge house there, which was expanded several times in the following decades. In 1838, at the Saecular celebration of the introduction of freemasonry in Hamburg , the Hamburg Lodge Absalom appointed him an honorary member.

In 1805 Poser's first marriage had Anna Margareta, b. Barnieske married. However, she died in childbed in 1806 . In 1807 he married the pastor's daughter Sara Elisabeth Schroedter in Ratekau . The daughter Wilhelmine (born September 8, 1806) from his first marriage married the council syndicate Heinrich von der Hude .

He was buried in the Burgtorfriedhof in field G 2, the corporate grave of the Katharineum.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stations of life essentially according to the Vaterstädtische Blätter (lit.)
  2. ↑ Ms. Lub. 786, entry in the Repertorium Alborum Amicorum Studbook database , accessed on June 10, 2020
  3. ^ Richard Schmidt: Festschrift for the four hundredth anniversary of the Katharineum in Lübeck 1531 to 1931. Lübeck: Rahtgens 1931, 100
  4. ^ History of the scientific collection of the Katharineum. In: Das Katharineum 9 (1957), issue 28, p. 1f ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Georg Behrens: 175 years of charitable work. Lübeck 1964, p. 46
  6. ^ Heinrich Christian Zietz : Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its surroundings. Friedrich Wilmans , Frankfurt am Main 1822, p. 357
  7. ↑ Brief description of the free Hanseatic city of Lübeck, with special regard to its useful institutions: initially intended for strangers and travelers. Lübeck: Michelsen 1814, p. 146
  8. ↑ See also the so-called professors' apartments in: Richard Schmidt: Festschrift for the four hundredth anniversary of the Katharineum in Lübeck 1531 to 1931. Lübeck: Rahtgens 1931, pp. 93–98
  9. ↑ Secular celebration of the introduction of Freemasonry in Hamburg. Hamburg 1838, p. 110
  10. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeckische Ratslinie 1814–1914 , Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1915. Commons digitized , p. 31
  11. ↑ Chronological register of the funerals 1853/53, archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , accessed on ancestry.com on June 10, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Poser, Christian Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and freemason
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH November 1852
Place of death Lübeck