Colmar Schumann

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Franz Colmar Schumann (1906)

Franz Colmar Schumann (born April 28, 1844 in Magdeburg , † November 16, 1912 in Lübeck ) was a German teacher and Germanist.

Live and act

Colmar Schumann was a son of Magdeburg tax secretary Emil Theodor Schumann (born July 4, 1814 in Plänitz , † May 24, 1873 in Lübeck ) and his wife Wilhelmina Charlotte, née Ney. His grandfather Johann Gottfried Schumann († after 1829) was a preacher in Wusterhausen. He attended a seminar preparatory school and the Royal Cathedral High School in Magdeburg . From 1863 to 1867 he studied Classical Philology and German Philology in Berlin. At the same time he worked as an assistant at the stenographic bureau of the Prussian state parliament. During his studies he became a member of the old Berlin fraternity Alemannia in 1863 and of the Germania Berlin fraternity in 1865 . He spent the year 1868 as a one-year volunteer with the military service with the Guard Fusilier Regiment in Berlin. In 1869 he passed the grammar school teacher examination in Berlin in the subjects of German, Greek and Latin. In the same year he got a job as a teacher at a grammar school in Schleusingen .

In 1872 Schumann moved to Burg (near Magdeburg) as a high school teacher . On April 3, 1872, he married Eva Blanka Adelaide Müller in Wusterhausen (born June 22, 1848 in Wusterhausen; † January 21, 1873 in Burg (near Magdeburg)). The couple had a daughter Anna Blanka (born January 13, 1873, † July 31, 1873 both in Burg near Magdeburg); the girl only survived her mother for six months. On February 7, 1874, he married Minna Auguste Karig in Rietzel (born March 10, 1849 in Schiepzig ; † July 31, 1914 in Lübeck). From this marriage came the children Walter, born on July 12, 1874 in Burg; Elfriede (born July 6, 1880 in Lübeck, † June 18, 1859 in Lübeck) and a son who became a pastor. At Easter 1879 Schumann was appointed senior teacher and professor at the Katharineum in Lübeck . He taught in particular in the upper classes and, in addition to his subjects, taught French, English, history, geography and religion.

At Easter 1906, Schumann's teaching ended prematurely due to illness.

Working as a Germanist

In addition to teaching, Schumann researched linguistics and folklore. He dealt with the maintenance of the German language and examined in particular the dialect of his hometown and its local peculiarities. In 1887 he founded a local branch of the General German Language Association in Lübeck . The association wanted to replace common foreign words with German terms. From 1890 Schumann headed the Lübeck local group of the General German School Association for the Preservation of Germanness Abroad .

In his scientific work, Schumann oriented himself on Berlin German studies in the sense of Karl Müllenhoff . He first collected old traditions, which he later interpreted and then presented comprehensively in the historical context. This has resulted in numerous publications that present philologically exact documents on the history of Lübeck's language development.

Fonts

  • The field names or coupling names of the Lübeck state area. Lübeck: Borchers 1892 ( digitized version )
  • Folk and children's rhymes from Lübeck and the surrounding area: Contributions to folklore. Lübeck: Coleman 1899 ( digitized version )
  • Lübeck game and puzzle book. New contributions to folklore. Lübeck: Borchers 1905
  • The vocabulary of Lübeck: sample of systematic research into a dialect language area. Strasbourg: Trübner 1907 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 367-368.
  • Gisela Jaacks : Schumann, Colmar . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 8. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1987, pp. 327-328.
  • City Papers, No. 14, Lübeck, April 1, 1906 and No. 8, Lübeck, November 24, 1912.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal register for Planitz
  2. ↑ Death book, Lübeck
  3. ↑ Marriage register for Wusterhausen
  4. ↑ Death entry, Wusterhausen
  5. ↑ Marriage register, Rietzel
  6. ^ Citizens' Book, Lübeck
  7. ^ Citizens' Book, Lübeck
  8. ↑ Death book, Lübeck
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Colmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumann, Franz Colmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1912
Place of death Lübeck