Ernst Christoph Böttcher

Ernst Christoph Böttcher (born September 7, 1697 in Groß Lafferde ; † January 9, 1766 in Hanover ) was a German merchant , founder of the Royal Evangelical School Teachers' College and patron .

Life

In 1733 Böttcher bought the house at Kramerstrasse 1 to open his silk shop there

Ernst Christoph Böttcher was born in the Baroque period and at the beginning of the Electorate of Hanover as the son of a farmer, innkeeper and imperial postman in Groß Lafferde, into whose family the later pastor Johann Heinrich Böttcher was born. Ernst Christoph was actually supposed to become a pastor, but instead he went to Braunschweig in 1716 to do an apprenticeship as a merchant at the local silk merchant Nettelbeck. After working later in Hanover at Kramerstraße 2 for the silk merchant Heinrich Schmale, Böttcher first acquired the citizenship of the city of Hanover on July 27, 1729 , in order to acquire the building at Kramerstraße 1 in 1733 , where he then opened his own silk shop.

In 1751, Böttcher founded his teacher training college with a free school in the Aegidienneustadt established at the time (bottom right on the map) ; City map of Hanover around 1750 by Matthäus Seutter after Tobias Conrad Lotter

Having become wealthy through the trade in the luxury goods silk, the Pietist- influenced Böttcher had a house built at Große Aegidienstraße 15 , at the so-called “dog market” in Aegidienvorstadt , which was managed by the city architect Ernst Braun and in particular the fortress builder Georg under Mayor Christian Ulrich Grupen Friedrich Dinglinger created the first city expansion of Hanover. There Böttcher founded and donated the Hanover teachers ' college in 1751 , which, with the associated free school, became his whole life. On January 19, 1762, he confirmed all his donations and other foundations to the Hanover consistory .

The theologian Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten is considered to be the co-founder of the school teacher seminar .

Ernst Christoph Böttcher remained unmarried throughout his life and was buried in the St. Nikolai cemetery in 1766 .

The Royal Evangelical School Teacher Seminar , which was founded by Böttcher at the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover under King George II, who resided in London, is now part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover following a change of name and location .

Honors

The Böttcherstrasse , which was laid out in the Herrenhausen district of Hanover in 1897, posthumously honored the "founder of the school teachers' seminar" by giving it a name.

See also

• Exhibition When the Royals came from Hanover . Hanover's ruler on England's throne 1714–1837 as part of the Lower Saxony State Exhibition 2014

literature

• Christian Jakob Wagenseil : Ernst Christoph Böttcher . In: The Walk of Providence or Will the Human Race Get Better or Worse? , Leipzig: Friedrich Gotthold Jacobäer, 1789, p. 22f .; online through google books
• Brief history of the latest school service improvements in the Königl. Braunschweig-Lüneburg Churlanden. In: New Hanoverian Magazine of January 2, 1792, Hanover: Georg Christoph Schlüter , 1793, columns 1–16; online through google books
• Gottfried Heinrich Böttcher : Böttcher and Goetten, the founders of the Hanoverian school teacher seminar. I. Ernst Christoph Boettcher. A biographical sketch . In Johann Christoph Salfeld (Ed.): Contributions to the knowledge and improvement of the church and school system in the Royal Braunschweig-Lüneburgschen Churlanden , 4th volume, 1st issue, Hanover: Gebrüder Hahn, 1802, pp. 271ff .; Digitized in the collection of the Berlin State Library
• Johann Heinrich Böttcher : 6. Böttcher builds and donates the free school and the school teacher seminar in Hanover 1751 , in which: Böttcher and his foundations. A ceremony to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the school teacher seminar and its free school. (Hanover, September 16 and 17, 1851.) Presented to the fellow citizens and pupils of the founder. Compiled by Pastor Böttcher zu Kirchrode from the founder's written estate . (With a portrait, the seal and Böttcher's handwriting.) (The surplus is intended for the school teacher orphan fund.) , Hanover: Carl Rümpler, 1851; Digitized version of the library for research on the history of education (BBF)
• Burchard Christian von Spilcker : continuation. School teacher seminar and seminar school . In: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the royal residence city of Hanover , Hanover Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1819; 259-268; online through google books
• Karl Ludwig Grotefend:  Böttcher, Ernst Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 201.
• Helmut Zimmermann : The Hanoverian portraits second series. Illustrated by Rainer Osswald , Hanover: Harenberg, 1984, ISBN 3-89042-008-7 , p. 19ff.
• Dirk Böttcher : BÖTTCHER, (2) Ernst Christoph . In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 62; online through google books
• Dirk Böttcher: Böttcher, (2) Ernst Christoph . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 73.

Web links

• Letter from Ernst Christoph Böttcher to Carl Crusius dated March 14, 1755 in the possession of the Francke Foundations in Halle
• Joachim Lampe: Ernst Christoph Böttcher. A biographical sketch from Low German Pietism , foreword to an announced “main text” on the alfredampe.jimdo.com page , last accessed on July 10, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Dirk Böttcher: BÖTTCHER, (2) ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Karl Ludwig Grotefend : Böttcher ... (see literature)
4. ↑ Dirk Böttcher: Böttcher, (3) Johann Heinrich. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 73
5. ↑ Wolfgang Eriksen, Adolf Arnold (Ed.): Hanover and its surrounding area. Festschrift to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Geographical Society in Hanover 1878-1978 (= yearbook of the Geographical Society in Hanover 1978), Hanover: Geographical Society in Hanover , p. 190; Preview over google books
6. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Soft image development . In: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Monuments of the "old" Stadtgebiet Hannover , Hannover: Selbstverlag der Provinzialverwaltung, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151 -1 ), pp. 22-40, here v. a. P. 31f.
7. ^ Johann Christoph Salfeld : Dr. Gabriel Wilhelm Gotten. A biographical attempt in which (ed.): Contributions to the knowledge and improvement of the church and school system in the Königlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgschen Churlanden , fourth volume, third booklet, Hanover: Gebrüder Hahn, 1802, pp. 301–424; Digitalisat the Berlin State Library
8. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Böttcherstrasse . In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 44