Christian Wilbrandt

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Christian Wilbrandt

Christian Wilbrandt (born March 15, 1801 in Neuenkirchen , † June 25, 1867 in Doberan ) was a German Germanist and liberal politician in Mecklenburg.

Life

As the son of a pastor, Wilbrandt attended the Fridericianum Schwerin . After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy at the new Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1823 he became a senior teacher at the grammar school in Heiligenstadt . Later he came to Schulpforta and in 1828 to the large city school in Rostock .

The University of Rostock appointed him in 1837 as professor of aesthetics and modern literature. In 1839 he founded the philosophical-aesthetic seminar. 1846-1848 he was rector of the university.

As co-editor of the liberal Mecklenburgische Blätter , he was part of the reform movement in Vormärz . In the election to the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives in October 1848, he was elected MP in the constituency of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 84: Speck. As vice-president of the assembly, he and his Rostock colleagues Karl Türk (legal history) and Julius Wiggers (theology) advocate a German republic. Because of his involvement in the German Revolution of 1848/49 , Wilbrandt was dismissed from university service on July 7, 1852 by the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II with the words: “I am dismissing you because you are involved in the movements of modern times lively involved in revolutionary relationships ... and gave the youth the most pernicious example. ” In May 1853, he was arrested and taken to the Bützow prison . In Rostock treason trial accused, he only came in 1855 on bail from custody free.

Works

  • Hildibraht and Hadhubraht: the fragment of an old German saga song. Rectorate program, Rostock 1846

literature

  • Heinrich Klenz:  Wilbrandt, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 476 f.
  • C. Schröder: Mecklenburg and the Mecklenburgers in beautiful literature . Berlin 1909, p. 264 ff.
  • Eckhard Oberdörfer: The second Wartburg Festival, the Rostock students and the university reform . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research , Vol. 45 (2000), pp. 73-90.
  • Walther Neumann (ed.): The large city school in Rostock in 3 1/2 centuries . Boldt. Rostock 1930, p. 126 (No. 78)
  • Julius Wiggers: Forty-four months in custody . Jumper. Berlin 1861 pp. 8, 85, 177 ff., 212, 240/241, 245
  • Julius Wiggers: From my life . Hirschfeld. Leipzig 1901, p. 154 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Wilbrandt, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, teacher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenkirchen near Zarrentin am Schaalsee
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1867
Place of death Doberan