Cornelius Appel

Cornelius Appel

Cornelius Appel (born May 13, 1821 in Aabel , † March 25, 1901 in Hjallese Sogn ) was a Danish teacher and pastor .

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Cornelius Appel was a son of the teacher Hans Jepsen Appel (1787–1872) and his wife Kirsten Marie, née Appel (1786–1858). He trained as a teacher from 1839 to 1841 in Langby near Grenaa . In 1842 he got a job as a teacher in Laurup , 1844 in Loit and 1837 in Bodsbüll . During this time he occupied himself, who felt “ pietistically locked up”, with the works of Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig , which moved him very much and which he regarded as liberating.

In 1851 Appel moved to a new job in Tondern . From 1858 he gave writing lessons at the teachers' college there. Several of the students, whom he also met privately, later fought for Denmark in the German-Danish War . In terms of language policy, he initially followed Theodor August Jes Regenburg's strict stance , although under the influence of Søren Kierkegaard and Grundtvig, he relaxed it , but considered the pronounced language rescripts to be fundamentally useful. Together with other teachers, he campaigned for this policy in a meeting that met in Lügumkloster . The participants of the meeting were therefore also known as the "monastery brothers".

After the German-Danish War , Appel was released in 1864. Until 1885 he succeeded Ludvig Schrøder as head of the Rødding Højskole Adult Education Center in Rødding . In his pedagogical work he followed the concepts of Christians Kold and preferred free schools to state schools. He saw public schools as artificial and rejected their "pedagogical erudition".

In addition to the educational work, Appel was involved in the free church community, in which followers of Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig met outside the Danish People's Church and whose pastor H. Sveistrup was dismissed in 1867. In 1874 Pastor Vilhelm Birkedal ordained Appel pastor.

Appel received an offer to move into the Reichstag as Hans Andersen Krüger's successor , but refused. In 1889 he ended his activities in Rødding for health reasons and handed over his pastor's position to his former student N. Lycke. He then moved into an apartment on Fyn that had been given to him by friends , where he died on March 25, 1901.

family

Appel was married to Anne Kjerstine Lorentzen (1829–1869). The couple had six children, including their son Jacob Christian Lindberg Appel (1866–1931), who headed a university and was Danish Minister of Education from 1910 to 1913 and Minister of Education from 1920 to 1924. In his school regulations for the German-speaking minority living in North Schleswig from 1920, he took up the ideas that his father had worked out with the "monastery brothers".

literature

• Asger Nyholm: Appel, Cornelius . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 47-48