Christian Rudolf Karl Wichmann

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Christian Rudolf Karl Wichmann (born March 29, 1744 in Hanover ; † December 10, 1800 in Celle ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and educator . He founded and directed the Wichmann School of Education in Celle.

Life

Christian Rudolf Karl Wichmann was a son of the court surgeon Johann Philipp Konrad Wichmann (1715–1763) in Hanover and his wife Catharina Eleonore (1710–1782), widowed Gladbach, a daughter of the superintendent Johann Georg Lodemann in Osterode . The physician Johann Ernst Wichmann was his older brother.

He attended school in Hanover and, as a royal scholarship holder, from 1759 to 1761 the Ilfeld monastery school . Determined for the spiritual office, he studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen . Then he was Hospes (seminarist) in the Loccum monastery under the abbot Christoph Heinrich Chappuzeau . He received his first position at the Blumlager Church of St. Georg in Celle. From 1780 he worked at the Neuenhauser Church for 20 years .

Wichmann represented the ideas of the Enlightenment in his administration . He managed from old customs, provided a better arms-care and led the children friend of Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow and the health Catechism one as textbooks in Celle. From 1782 he ran an educational institute, which developed from small beginnings into a nationally known institute. Wichmann gave all his strength to the company, which was also supported by the king with a grant of 550 thalers. He was supported by his wife and a number of teachers, including Wilhelm Benjamin Gautzsch , Karl Gotthold Lenz and Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil . Georg Christian von Wangenheim and Franz von Knigge were among the students at the institute . However, in 1799, a year before his death, he had to close the institution for health reasons.

He was married to Catharina Dorothea, b. Lassius († 1806). Of the couple's eight children, the eldest son Franz (1776–1850) became a councilor at the Higher Appeal Court in Celle ; the second son Friedrich Georg Christian (1779–1861) professional officer, most recently colonel , and governor (educator) of Princes Ernst and Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ); Luise (1784–1814) married Franz Passow . The painter Adolf Friedrich Georg Wichmann and the astronomer Moritz Ludwig Georg Wichmann were grandchildren.

literature

  • Nekrolog der Teutschen for the nineteenth century. Volume 3, 1805, pp. 219-222

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of all the pupils of the Ilfeld Pedagogy since its foundation. Program of the Royal Pedagogy in Ilfeld 1853 ( digitized version ), p. 65
  2. ↑ Bernhard Körner (Ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien 14 (1908), p. 511 f
personal data
SURNAME Wichmann, Christian Rudolf Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1800
Place of death Celle