Christian Wilhelm Bernhardt

Christian Wilhelm Bernhardt (born March 17, 1815 in Aschersleben , † November 9, 1891 in Wittenberg ) was a German educator and local researcher.

Life

Bernhardt had attended high school in Halberstadt and began studying mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1834. On May 3, 1838, he passed his state examination there and worked for five years as a teacher of mathematics at the royal pedagogy in Halle (Saale) . After he had acquired the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy, he moved to the Lyceum in Wittenberg as a teacher at Easter 1855. Here he received the title of professor on April 30, 1862, and in 1857 became the prorector of the Wittenberg educational institution. On his 50th anniversary in 1888, he received the Red Eagle Order, 4th class, and retired in the same year.

From his pen come some writings that show their relationship to his new Wittenberg homeland as a member of the first Wittenberger Heimatverein. One example is the work on one of the greatest sons of Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni . His work on the Wittenberg Tribulation from 1814 and on the Wittenberg educational establishment should also be mentioned in this context.

Works

• Magia naturalis by Johann Baptist Porta. In: Program of the high school in Wittenberg. Wittenberg 1845 ( online )
• Luther's three hundred year death celebration. Wittenberg 1846
• Wittenberg Fifty Years Ago: The History of Its Siege and Capture (January 13, 1814). Wittenberg 1864 ( online )
• The infinite according to the gradation of the cosmic view. Wittenberg 1852
• Dr. Chladni, the acoustician. Wittenberg 1856
• Seneca’s view of the universe represented according to its “naturales quaestiones”. Wittenberg 1861 ( online )
• Philipp Melanchthon as a mathematician and physicist. Wittenberg 1865 ( online )
• Keppler's theory of the forces of the universe. (Physika coelestis.) Wittenberg 1872
• The high school in Wittenberg from 1520 to 1868. In: Festschrift to celebrate the inauguration of the new high school building in the high school in Wittenberg. Wittenberg 1888
• List of students who have left the Wittenberg grammar school with a certificate of maturity since Easter 1817. In: Festschrift to celebrate the inauguration of the new grammar school building in Wittenberg. Wittenberg 1888
• The bull of excommunication Leo X against Luther. Based on the original text of the edition dated July 17, 1520 in the Luther House in Wittenberg. Wittenberg 1891

literature

• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Giessen University Library, Giessen Electronic Library, 2008, (Preprint), Vol. 2 (Baack - Buzello), p. 239, ( Online )
• Festschrift for the bicentenary of the Francke Foundations and the Latin Secondary School on June 30th and July 1st, 1898. Book printer of the orphanage, Halle, 1898, p. 190