Eduard Friesland

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Eduard Friedrich August Friesland (* 21st February 1841 in Braunschweig ; † 17th April 1911 in Hannover ) was a German school teacher , philologist , geographer and traveler.

Life

Friesland, the son of a senior postmaster in Bremen , spent his youth in Bremen and presented a “ rite ” high school diploma from Bremen for matriculation . He joined the Hannovera fraternity in the summer semester (SS) of 1860 , was second charged there in the summer semester of 1861 , first charged in the winter semester of 1861/62 and later as secretary . From 1860 he studied Ancient languages and geography first at the University of Göttingen , in Berlin and then at the University of Halle and was at Easter 1864 in hall with the dissertation specimen Quaestionum Pindaricanum to Dr. phil. PhD .

From Easter 1864 to Easter 1865 he headed the private boys' school in Teterow in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , was appointed assistant teacher at the grammar school in Bremen on Easter 1865 and later acquired the qualification for the higher subject by passing the examination before the scientific examination committee. Since the grammar school professor at the old grammar school in Bremen and there most recently the second man after the director. He taught Latin , Greek and geography .

He was retired at Easter 1908, at which time he was a widower and accepted an invitation from his son Gustav Friesland, who was in Hong Kong , to visit him. He drove from Genoa via Suez and Ceylon to Hong Kong, where he was his son's guest from December 18, 1908 to February 26, 1909, then traveled through northern China and Japan , returned to Hong Kong and drove (together with his son) on April 22, 1909 with the German imperial mail steamer Prinz Sigismund via Manila , the German colonies in New Guinea and the Carolines , to Australia , later from there via New Zealand , Fidji , Hawaii , Vancouver and the American continent back to Europe. He has written a comprehensive report about his trip around the world.

Back in Germany he moved to live with a son in Hannover-Kirchrode , where he died on April 17, 1911. He was buried in the Stöcken cemetery .

Works

  • Quaestionum [quaestiones] Pindaricanum specimen , philosophical dissertation (Latin), Halle (Saale): Ploetz 1864
  • Contributions to the history of geographical literature in Germany. , in the program of the secondary school in Bremen, Bremen: Dubbers 1870. (digitalized)
  • Teaching staff of the Bremen grammar school, which emerged from the scholarly school at Easter 1858 and was split up at Easter 1905 , in the program of the Bremen Hauptschule, Bremen 1905. (digitalized)
  • From my trip around the world. Memories of Prof. Dr. Eduard Friesland. Edited from the author's estate by Gustav Friesland, Hong Kong , Hanover, Norddeutsche Verlagsanstalt O. Goedel, 1912

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 36
  2. ↑ The above information comes from the same travel report.
  3. ^ Lothar Koch: Bremen. Old high school. Dechanatstrasse 4.Report on the 1911 school year . Bremen 1912, p. 3 , above ( uni-duesseldorf.de [accessed January 12, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Friesland, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friesland, Eduard Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1911
Place of death Hanover