Christian Gottlieb Röckner

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Christian Gottlieb Röckner (born May 5, 1766 in Bladiau near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia , † June 1, 1828 in Marienwerder ) was a Protestant theologian.

family

Christian Gottlieb Röckner, the eldest son of Joachim Christoph Christian Roeckner (born December 17, 1742 in Heiligenbeil; † August 17, 1818 at Gut Bilshöfen in Thierau ), became an economics commissioner (state civil servant who is entrusted with handling agricultural matters), Landowner, land sworn (expert who is called in to agricultural reports) and free schooltop (exempt from the usual burdens) in Bladiau and his wife Maria Dorothea (born October 28, 1749 in Bladiau; † May 17, 1826 on the Bilshöfen estate in Thierau), a daughter of George Schmidt (1710–1764), a student from Kulm and a state jury member in Bladiau, born. His siblings were:

  • Johann Christoph Roeckner (born December 9, 1768 in Bladiau; † January 19, 1770 ibid);
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Roeckner (born March 19, 1773 in Bladiau; † March 8, 1849 in Hermsdorf , Heiligenbeil district ), 1808–28 owner of the noble Bilshöfen estate, 1827 owner of the Hermsdorf mill;
  • Christoph Ferdinand Roeckner (born March 1, 1776 in Bladiau, † May 29, 1840 in Königsberg ), judge and city judge in Königsberg;
  • Marie Louise Roeckner (born March 1, 1776 in Bladiau; † August 17, 1826 in Moritten near Kreuzburg , East Prussia ).

His first marriage was to Barbara Elisabeth (* 1774; † October 29, 1795 in Königsberg), née Siegfried. In his second marriage he married Karoline Dorothe Roeckner. They had three children together:

  • Johannes Roeckner (born March 25, 1817; † unknown);
  • Marie Roeckner (* unknown; † 1857);
  • Siegfried Julius Roeckner (born March 14, 1816; † unknown).

Life

Christian Gottlieb Röckner attended the school in Heiligenbeil, where his great-uncle Arend was the principal. From Easter 1783 he studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the Albertus University in Königsberg . During his studies he made friends with Georg Heinrich Ludwig Nicolovius , who later became real. Go Oberregierungsrat ; this friendship lasted until his death. In 1787 he accepted a position as court master in Liebstadt (East Prussia) . After completing his academic career, he was elected field preacher of the regiment in 1788 , which was first stationed in Braunsberg and later came to Thorn . He took part with his regiment in the Polish campaign in 1794, during the Kościuszko uprising .

In 1802 he made a trip through France and met Napoleon Bonaparte in Paris . From there he traveled on to Switzerland . He stayed mainly in Neuchâtel and got to know Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . He then traveled on to Italy to visit Lake Maggiore , Verona , Padua , Venice , Rome and Trieste . In Rome he had an audience with Pope Pius VII. He traveled on to Vienna and, on his return to Thorn, visited his friend Georg Heinrich Ludwig Nicolovius in Eutin. On his return he carried a collection of engravings and paintings that he had acquired along the way.

In 1806 Friedrich Wilhelm III appointed him . (Prussia) to succeed Johann Gottfried Kletschke (1748–1806) as field provost of the army. This meant that he accompanied the royal family to Königsberg and Memel when they had to flee from the Grande Armée . This brought him into close contact with the advisory group of King Friedrich Wilhelm III .; so he met regularly with Theodor von Schön , Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein , Gerhard von Scharnhorst , August Neidhardt von Gneisenau , Johann Wilhelm Süvern and his friend Nicolovius, who were striving for the Prussian reforms . Until 1808 he was chaplain to the guard . In 1810 he gave the office of field provost to Friedrich Wilhelm Offelsmeyer (1761–1834).

In 1809 he accepted the country parish in Pobethen in Samland , which he had been promised long before. In addition to his spiritual duties in the parish and the church in Pobethen , he dealt with the reform of the elementary school system . In 1810 he was invited to a conference of clergy and teachers at the normal institute (responsible for the organization of elementary schools and teacher training) in Königsberg, which dealt with the introduction and dissemination of the elementary teaching method, because he met Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi during his stay in Switzerland and suggested reforming the school system according to his ideas. He was commissioned to stay at Pestalozzi's institute for a few months and to prepare an official report. This report later led to an improvement in the elementary school system in Prussia.

In 1810 he was appointed to Marienwerder as the first pastor, superintendent and member of the royal government with the title of government director and consistorial councilor. He remained in the latter position when the royal consistory was formed in Gdansk in 1816 . In 1812 he provided new apprenticeship positions at Marienwerder grammar school . During the Reformation celebrations in 1817, he was able to repair the cathedral (Marienwerder) and erect a memorial for those who died in the Wars of Liberation .

Freemasons

He was a member of the Masonic Order and Master of the Chair in a Lodge.

Honors

  • Iron Cross (1816)
  • D. theol. hc of the University of Königsberg, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Reformation (1817)

Fonts

  • Letter from Christian Gottlieb Roeckner to Baron von Knobelsdorf . Thorn, 1806.
  • Speech at the last meeting of the clergy and school administrators in the Normal Institute in Königsberg : on June 28, 1810. Königsberg, 1810.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal for the Marienwerder administrative region . Government Official Gazette, 1828 ( google.de [accessed July 27, 2020]).
  2. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1831 ( google.de [accessed February 12, 2018]).
  3. ↑ The German Biographical Archive (DBA) names the year of death "1828 (na1818)".
  4. ↑ GEDBAS: Joachim Christoph (Christian) Röckner. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Gottlieb Roeckner 1766-1828 - Ancestry. Retrieved February 12, 2018 (American English).
  6. ^ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: Fourth volume: Letters from the years 1798 to 1805 . Ed .: Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich. Walter de Gruyter, 1954, ISBN 978-3-11-005494-1 , p. 115 ( google.de [accessed on February 12, 2018]).
  7. ^ Erich Donnert : Central, Northern and Eastern Europe . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 1997, ISBN 978-3-412-14799-0 , p. 817 ( google.de [accessed on February 12, 2018]).
  8. ^ Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, Michael Sikora, Tilman Stieve: Head of the military reorganization: (Prussia 1808-1809) . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2002, ISBN 978-3-412-20066-4 , pp. 118 ( google.de [accessed on February 12, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Johann David Erdmann Preuss: Friedrich the Great: A life story . Nauck, 1833, p. 91 ( google.de [accessed on February 12, 2018]).
  10. ^ New library for pedagogy, school systems and the entire latest pedagogical literature in Germany . tape 2 . Wagner, 1811, p. 156 ( google.de [accessed on February 12, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Ernst Gottlieb Bengel (Ed.): Archives for theology and its newest literature, second volume - first part . 1816, p. 805 ( google.de [accessed on February 12, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Röckner, Christian Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran clergyman, field provost of the Prussian army
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Bladiau
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1828
Place of death Marienwerder