Christian Gottlob Tröbst

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Christian Gottlob Tröbst (born July 25, 1811 in Apolda ; † April 3, 1888 in Weimar ) was a German theologian , philosopher , mathematician and first director of the secondary school in Weimar.

Life

Christian Gottlob Tröbst was the son of the Nadler Wilhelm Tröbst and the butcher's daughter Friederike Eleonora born. Bunch. He was baptized on July 28, 1811. First, he attended the public school in Apolda . The father made it possible for the gifted son to have private lessons in Latin and Greek at the same time, at great financial sacrifice .

At the age of almost 15, Tröbst was accepted into the lower secondary school of the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Weimar on March 30, 1826, after having passed the examination . At that time the city had around 9,700 inhabitants. Tröbst soon became top of the class, and at the end of the year Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was always allowed to hand over the school program for the new year. He passed his high school diploma at Easter 1833, six months early on the conference decision “because of talent”.

Immediately afterwards he began to study theology and philosophy at the University of Jena (then 6,300 inhabitants). He was boarder at the Privy Councilor Fries (1773–1843), who was a philosopher and professor of physics and mathematics. Tröbst had the postal address: the "Wedel'sche Gartenhaus" in Jena, "in the Colonie". He accepted a teaching position at the Zenker's Institute in Jena, a private school for boys and senior daughters.

On April 22, 1836 Trobst passed the candidate exam in theology ("Candit. Theol."). and from then on was counted among the candidates for the Weimar Preaching Office. He gave sermons in the Garrison Church and in the Herder Church in Weimar. He switched to the Herzog'schen Anstalt , another private educational institution in Jena on Wagnergasse (later: Stoy'sche boys' school). In 1837 he was ordained . He was employed as a collaborator at the main and city church in Jena, he gave sermons at the Herder Church in Weimar. He received two awards for “best sermon”.

Scientific work

In December 1833 the private lecturer in mathematics Carl Heinrich Anton Temler died in Jena . His last manuscript, a textbook on plane and physical trigonometry , was completed by Tröbst, among others , through Jakob Fries . It was published in 1838 by the Jena book publisher Hochhausen and cost “1 Thlr. 18 Gr ".

Tröbst wanted to start his studies with the Dr. phil. to lock. This was only possible with the help of financial support from the school authorities. In December 1838 Christiano Aenodeo Troebst, Apoldano were awarded the Doctoris Philosophiae Honores . His work is written in Latin.

1840 Troebst published as "Christian Gottlob Troebst, Doctor of Philosophy and teacher at the secondary school to Jena" another checked logarithms of sine , tangents , and secants with the Opus Palatinum compared and tested according to the differences . Six years later there was a second edition. In 1956 there was still a copy in the Jena University Library with the name of one of the buyers: Walter von Goethe .

In 1839 he made the acquaintance of Stepan Sabinin (1789–1863), 22 years his senior , the confessor of the Grand Duchess of the Duchy of Weimar, the Tsar's daughter Maria Pavlovna . Tröbst and Sabinin planned to make some of the works of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin known in Germany. Sabinin translated "Queen of Spades", Tröbst did the editing and the foreword. The work was published by Verlag Hochhausen, Jena.

Head of House in Moscow

Sabinin helped Tröbst to become a private tutor in Moscow , in the family of General Schöppingk, whose father was well acquainted with Goethe in Leipzig. Tröbst met with Schöppingk in Dresden , the joint departure to Moscow took place on June 4, 1840, the trip lasted 22 days. Trobst was now 29 years old. His student Dmitrij (1823–1895) was 17 years old. At that time Moscow had about 349,000 inhabitants, around 40 times more than Weimar. Since his arrival Tröbst kept a diary that has largely been preserved.

On October 15, 1840 Tröbst passed the examination at Moscow University as "governor", d. H. Head of House. He made the acquaintance of other German tutors whom Tröbst called "Germans of our Gelichters", including Ludwig Haake from East Friesland and Friedrich Bodenstedt from Peine (later ennobled as an important Slavist)

On October 9, 1840, his father Wilhelm Tröbst died in Apolda.

Trobst made the acquaintance of Prince Plato Meschtschersky . This placed him as a tutor to the Soymonoff family, also in Moscow. He took up his position on April 15, 1841. His student was Nicola, the 16-year-old son of the landlord. His sister Catherine de Soymonoff was as old as Trobst. A lifelong love relationship developed.

On the estate of Countess Cantakuzin, Tröbst discovered three unprinted poems by the German freedom poet Theodor Körner in the estate of Elisa von der Recke . He reported about it himself in the Weimar Sunday newspaper in 1855 . He made the acquaintance of a friend of his student Nicola: it was 13-year-old Lev Tolstoy . When Tolstoy, already famous far beyond Russia's borders, came to Weimar in 1861, he first visited Tröbst and only then the Grand Duke.

Return to Germany

Through an indiscretion, Soymonoff's parents learned of their daughter's relationship with the German tutor. Tröbst had to leave the house and thus Moscow without notice. He returned to Weimar on Ascension Day in 1846.

From June 24, 1846, he had an apartment in Maua , Bachgastrasse, in the former Meister's house at the butcher's abbot. Tröbst preached repeatedly in Apolda during this time. There they would have liked to have him as superintendent . But Tröbst refused, he saw his destiny more as an "educator and shaper of youth" and strove for a corresponding position in Weimar.

In July 1847 he got a job as a teacher at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium Weimar . The starting salary was 300 thalers, "that's not much". He lived "Am Kettenberg F 60". Weimar now had around 13,000 inhabitants (including 1,267 servants and 1,507 handicraft workers and apprentices). Trobst entered the Masonic Lodge Anna Amalia to the three roses .

In the spring of 1850, the now 39-year-old Tröbst was engaged to the widow Anna Elisabeth Motz from Bad Salzungen , who was six years his junior . Her husband, the camera candidate (i.e. civil servant candidate of a princely chamber) Johann Friedrich Motz, had died six years earlier. Elisabeth was the fourth child and second daughter of the late master butcher Johan Heinrich Bachmann and his wife Anna Katharina Luther, a distant descendant of Martin Luther's wife Katharina von Bora .

Trobst acquired house No. 26. on Erfurter Strasse in Weimar. (This was renumbered to house No. 13 in 1877.)

Tröbst has himself portrayed by the painter Friedrich Martersteig (1814–1899), who was born in Weimar . Martersteig becomes professor and member of the Berlin Academy in the same year .

The wedding ceremony took place on August 18, 1850 in the Protestant church in Bad Salzungen by the "Archdiakonus" Ansfeld. The first child, a boy, née on May 7, 1851, dies on the same day. On August 5, 1852, Elisabeth gave birth to another son, Heinrich Woldemar. He later became a professor at the grammar school in Hameln. The daughter Marthe was born on December 22nd, 1853. She dies a year later in a crib accident. The fourth - and last child - Karl Ludwig Paul was born on April 7, 1859 in Hameln. Later he was a well-known lawyer in Weimar.

In order to improve the finances, Tröbst also has to take on retirees, u. a. the art student Emile Gallé (1846–1904), later world famous for his art glasses. In the almost two years that Emile spends in the house on Erfurter Straße, a close friendship develops between Tröbst's son Woldemar and Emile, but also between their parents. The friendship also proved itself in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71: When Woldemar was wounded in the battle of Wörth , the Gallés took the friend / foe from the German hospital to nurse him back to health.

Literary works

  • 1848: the second volume with translations of the Pushkin novella "The Captain's Daughter".
  • 1853: published by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Weimar) "The North Pole or the history of the strangest journeys that have been made to the northernmost countries from the earliest times until now, namely the islands of Nova-Zembla and Spitzbergen. Edited for young people from Lebrun and original works , by Dr. Ch. G. Tröbst, high school professor in Weimar ".
  • 1854: (also with Voigt): "The Martyrs of Freemasonry Spain in 1853". 1856: The German adaptation of the "Windsystem" from Lartigue

A little later: a "popular representation of the solar system and the laws of its movements" after the Dutch emperor.

  • 1860: "The Sun State of Tomaso Campanella", published in two program treatises of his secondary school. In the Brockhaus from 1865, 11th edition, as in the following editions up to the XIV. From 1898 as a reference to the keyword Campanella: (see Tröbst, der Sonnenstaat des Campanella, Weimar 1860 ...)

In addition, GT writes for the "Weimar newspaper" and is later also editor for the messenger of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein.

  • Easter 1857: GT takes over his new position "as 1st director" of the new secondary school. (Today: Falk School).

Charitable and other activities

Trobst was a member of the Weimar Association for Inner Mission and "for the rescue and upbringing of morally endangered, neglected and abandoned children". He was also a member and editor of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein, founded in 1832. During two electoral terms he was a member of the parish council of the city of Weimar, a member of various scientific associations.

Contact with scientists and scholars of his time

Tröbst had personal or letter contact with the following personalities:

  • Germanist Oskar Schade (1826–1906)
  • Ornithologist Ludwig Brehm (1787–1864), father of Alfred Brehm, who became famous for his "animal life" .
  • Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), philologist, fairy tale researcher and one of the famous "Göttingen Seven".
  • Adolf Stölzel , lawyer (1831–1919) is one of them. In 1872, Stölzl was appointed Chamber Court Councilor and Lecturing Councilor in the Prussian Ministry of Justice.
  • Ernst von Wildenbruch (1845–1909)

Resumption of relationship with Catherine

In July 1865 Tröbst, now 54, received a letter from an acquaintance in Moscow. She informs him that Catherine de Soymonof is still unmarried. The connection is resumed. There is lively correspondence. In September 1869 Catherine came to Weimar, she lived in the "Hotel Ziegler". There is a visit to Haus Tröbst. In her first letter after her departure it says: "Now I owe Weimar the happiest hours of my life and the most precious memories."

Afterwards there is regular correspondence between Tröbst in Weimar and Catherine in Moscow / Kazan, which results in a kind of journalistic collaboration. The correspondence is now owned by the Tröbst family. Letters from Catherine to her mother, in which Tröbst is mentioned, were (as of 2007) in the Moscow State Archives, two oil portraits of the 28-year-old Catherine in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

In July 1871 Catherine visits Weimar again, this time accompanied by Prince Meschtscherski. Tröbst's wife died on January 17, 1873, Catherine came from Moscow "to comfort her friend". At the end of 1873 Tröbst resigned from the lodge because it was no longer the "place of peace and tranquility" that he had imagined. The application for retirement from school service is refused, it should be discussed again in the school authorities after Christmas. In October 1876 Tröbst submitted a second application for retirement, which was then granted "in the interest of the school until Easter 1877". Tröbst receives an address of appreciation from the city authorities, he is awarded the Weimar House Order by the White Falcon .

Catherine died in Kazan in 1879. In 1880 Tröbst sells the house on Erfurter Strasse and buys a new building on Watzdorfplatz (today: Buchenwald-Platz). The house was bombed shortly before the end of World War II.

death

Tröbst died on April 3, 1888, at the age of 77. The 17-year-old Momme Nissen , who later became famous and has been a student at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School Weimar since 1885 , makes a drawing of Tröbst on his death bed. In the six-column obituary of the Weimarische Zeitung of April 14, 1888, after a detailed appraisal of Tröbst, it says: "This is how a rich life came to an end, a good part of which was only labor and work for others."

Plaque

The burial took place in the historical cemetery in Weimar, to the left of the avenue that leads to the princely crypt . The grave is leveled with many others after World War II. After the fall of the Wall, a memorial plaque will be placed on the right side of the wall of the historic cemetery, about 50 meters from the entrance on Trierer Straße.

The inscription reads:

* Troubled

  • first director
  • of the Realgymnasium
  • to Weimar
  • July 25, 1811
  • † April 3, 1888

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also mention in Brockhaus and Meyer's Conv. Lexicon 19th century under PUSCHKIN
  2. ↑ see v. Bodenstedt's memories from my life , published in 1888 , in which GT is mentioned several times.
  3. ↑ Tolstoy's diary
personal data
SURNAME Tröbst, Christian Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Weimar pastor and teacher, director
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Apolda
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1888
Place of death Weimar