Daniel Zander

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albrecht Friedrich Daniel Zander (born April 3, 1823 in Stargard ; † February 16, 1905 in Potsdam ) was a German teacher, musician and historian .

Life

Daniel Zander was born as the son of the Stargarder master cloth maker Christian Friedrich Zander and his wife Regina Maria, geb. Kaiser, daughter of a local blacksmith.

From 1837 to 1843 he attended the teachers ' college in Mirow as a "free student" . After a long time as a private tutor in Pomerania, he studied church music in Berlin with Adolph Bernhard Marx . In 1850 he became a teacher at the Höhere Töchterschule in Neustrelitz. As the successor to Johann Carl Nicolaus Messing (1800–1870), the Grand Duke appointed him music teacher at the Carolinum grammar school there at Easter 1863 , combined with the office of cantor at the two Neustrelitz Protestant churches and that of the castle church organist.

In 1855, Zander in Neustrelitz was one of the co-founders of a choral society for church music , from which the Grand Ducal Palace Church Choir emerged. As a cantor at the Neustrelitz Castle Church , he performed his own compositions. For his musical merits he was honored in 1868 with the title of Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz Music Director. On October 9, 1900, he received the honorary title of (high school) professor for his 50th anniversary in service.

Zander was married to the landlord's daughter Wilhelmine Karoline Juliane, born in 1859. Schumann (* 1834). His son Adolf Zander (1860–1945) was later councilor and mayor of (Burg) Stargard. One daughter, Margarete (* 1868), lived married in Potsdam. Zander spent the last months of his life with her after retiring (1901 or 1904). At his own request, he was buried in the cemetery of his hometown on February 19, 1905 after a mourning service in the Stargarder Rathaussaal.

Zander was the author of an extensive regional study of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , which quickly became an important standard work on the southeast Mecklenburg region.

Compositions

  • The country life. Cycle of 12 songs with a connecting declamation . Poemed by JFG Rieck, composed by AFD Zander. Neustrelitz 1852
  • Open the gates. Choir for three boys' voices .
  • Bright int dark . Text: Klaus Groth
  • Words from Psalm 14 for a voice with organ accompaniment .

Fonts

  • Colorful billers ut min 'Kinnerjohren. Von Eenen, who wanted to know his name for himself. Neustrelitz 1876.
  • The French War of the year 70 and 71 for young and old. Neustrelitz 1878.
  • Kaiser Willhelm. Low German epic. Neustrelitz 1879.
  • Material on regional studies of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 2 volumes. Neustrelitz 1889. ( digitized version )

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 8, 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, p. 64 ( digitized version )
  • German Literature Lexicon . Volume XXXVI, 3rd edition, Berlin / Boston 2017, Col. 656 f., ISBN 978-3-11-036192-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His year of death is not: 1904; not his place of death: Neustrelitz
  2. ^ Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz Official Gazette for Legislation and State Administration 1863, p. 18
  3. ↑ His grave has since been leveled.
  4. ↑ (Johann Friedrich) Gottlieb Rieck (1816-1858), also a seminarist from Mirow and Zander's schoolmate there, was sexton at the Neustrelitz churches and teacher at the elementary school there.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Zander, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zander, Albrecht Friedrich Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, musician and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1905
Place of death Potsdam