Order of Constantists
The Order of Constantists was a student order between 1777 and 1809.
history
The order was founded on February 23, 1777 in Halle and fought against the Unitist order there from the beginning . He appeared in numerous other university cities, such as Altdorf , Erlangen , Frankfurt an der Oder , Göttingen , Heidelberg , Helmstedt , Leipzig , Marburg , Rostock , Vienna , Wittenberg and Würzburg ; However, its daughter box in Jena was of greatest importance, and it quarreled in particular with the three other local orders, the Amicists , Unitists and the Harmonists . Only in 1792 the four orders were able to come to an agreement, when it came to fighting a traitor named Polizio.
In the years 1800, 1806 and 1809 the individual daughter lodges gradually dissolved.
regional customs
The order has the motto : Vivant fratres Constantia conjuncti (VFCC) and, among other things, a circle consisting of the triple letter "f" ( fff ) with an attached or looped C , which stands for floreant fratres fideles or floreat foedus fratrum constantiae .
Known members
- Hans Georg von Hammerstein-Equord (1771–1841), Westphalian general
- Jakob Herrmann , German administrative officer
- Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771–1849), German botanist and physician, President of the District Council of Middle Franconia
- Georg Heinrich Masius (1771–1823), German physician and professor at the University of Rostock
- Christian Friedrich Mühlenbruch (1785–1843), German legal scholar
- Adam Elias von Siebold (1775–1828), German gynecologist and university professor
- Gustav Friedrich Wiggers (1777-1860), German Protestant theologian and university professor at the University of Rostock
literature
- Ernst Deuerlein : News from the Constantist Order , in: "Wende und Schau" Kösener Jahrbuch, 2nd part 1932, Frankfurt am Main 1932, pp. 98–193
- Erich Bauer : The Constantist Order in Frankfurt / Oder and its members . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 6 (1961), pp. 150–166.
- Erich Bauer: The laws of the Rostock Order of Constantists from 1796 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 19 (1974), pp. 55-72.
- Karl Hoede: Guys out. As a reminder of the origins of the old boyhood . Frankfurt am Main 1962, pp. 45-46, 55.
- Ernst Meyer-Camberg : The members of the Constantist Order in Erlangen and Altdorf 1792–1795 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 54-59.
- Walter Richter: Origin and expansion of the Order of Constantists [1777–1805] . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 23 (1978), pp. 48-90.
- Walter Richter: The Order of Constantists in the course of the zeitgeist . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 116-165.
Web links
- Literature by and about the Order of Constantists in the catalog of the German National Library