Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

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Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff (born May 27, 1789 in Hamburg-Kirchwerder , † July 14, 1832 in Lübeck - Israelsdorf ) was a German teacher , librarian and polyhistor .

Life

After attending the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg , he mainly studied in Leipzig and for one semester in Berlin Protestant theology . In 1813 he became an eyewitness to the Leipzig Battle of the Nations and recorded his experiences in a diary published later.

Grautoff was first court master of Count Solms-Laubach in Leipzig and Baruth / Mark , where he fell ill with typhus .

Recovered, Grautoff received his doctorate in Wittenberg and came to Lübeck as a theology candidate. Here he decided to go to school and became a teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck . He mainly taught religion, geography and ancient languages, and later also history.

With the position of 3rd professor at the school, which Grautoff received in 1819, the management of the city ​​library was also connected , as had been the case since 1620 . Grautoff went to great lengths to reorganize the library, which had been lying idle for a long time during the Lübeck French era . This also included looking after the city's coin collection.

Grautoff died at the age of 43, probably partly caused by the long-term effects of typhoid fever.

His successor in school and library was Ernst Deecke , who, like Grautoff, was one of the founders of the " Neue Lübeckische Blätter ".

Grautoff's grandchildren included the art historian Otto Grautoff and the journalist Ferdinand Grautoff .

Works

With his geographical tables (1832), Grautoff created a geography textbook that is frequently reissued . He combined his local history and numismatic research in the unfinished history of the Lübeck Münzfuss .

Grautoff's main work is inspired by the beginning of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , which he enthusiastically supported. So he started a large-scale edition of the Lübeck Chronicles in Low German , but was only able to complete 2 volumes up to the reading master Detmar due to illness , which cover the period from the High Middle Ages to 1485.

In 1836 his historical writings from the estate appeared in three volumes, which also contain his diary entries from 1813.

Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff Foundation

2001–2012 there was a dependent foundation in Lübeck, founded under the umbrella of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . The Foundation, whose initial capital was donated by Gerhard Ahrens has helped the City Library in the restoration of such pieces by war-related outsourcing and deportation as looted art in the Soviet Union in the 1990s, mainly from Armenia and Georgia, restituted were. Among the first beneficiaries of the foundation were - appropriate to the namesake - the Rehbein Chronicle (a twelve-volume manuscript from 1629) and the handwritten Lübeck chronicles by Hermann Korner and Reimar Kock .

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