Ferdinand Schmidt (Author)

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Ferdinand Schmidt, 1870. Graphic by Hermann Scherenberg.

Ferdinand Friedrich Schmidt (born October 2, 1816 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † July 30, 1890 in Berlin ) was a German writer and educationalist .

Life

He spent his youth in Neuzelle , where his father held the post of corn clerk. At the age of 15 he became a private tutor at a forest ranger's farm near Neuzelle. When his father died in 1834, he first had to return to his parents' house. Then he attended the teachers' college in Neuzelle to train to be a teacher. In 1837 he was employed in the Berlin community school service and taught at the school for the poor .

Schmidt published an appeal in the Berlin magazine Die Biene asking for book donations for a public library , whereupon he was given 218 volumes. Since 1845 Schmidt emerged with numerous popular and youth publications, first in the journal Die Biene and then in the German Youth Library , which were intended to raise the level of education of the lower classes, but also to increase their national feeling. In 1846 he founded the association for the benefit of the working classes in Berlin after a meeting in the "Tivoli" on Kreuzberg ( Viktoria-Quartier ) . He published textbooks for school lessons and a book on Prussian history. When he was to be promoted to head teacher because of his services, the responsible provincial school council set the condition that Schmidt was no longer allowed to publish. Schmidt refused and remained a simple teacher.

Ferdinand Schmidt died in Berlin in 1890 at the age of 73. He was buried in the local St. Elisabeth cemetery on Ackerstrasse . The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

as an author

  • Prussian patriotism for school and home . Wroclaw 1846.
  • Schiller . A picture of life for young and old . Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1859.
  • Oswin or the school of life. a narrative . 3rd edition Voigtländer Verlag, Kreuznach 1882.
  • The Thirty Years War . Berlin 1864 (2 volumes).
  • Guide to Brandenburg-Prussian History . Friedberg & Moser publishing house, Berlin 1865.
  • Alexander von Humboldt . A picture of life for young and old . Berlin 1869.
  • Oranienburg and Fehrbellin. A historical painting from the reign of the Great Elector . 9th edition, Berlin SW, published by Neufeld & Henius

as a processor

  • The most beautiful fairy tales, legends and sagas of the German people. Collected for school and home from the works of our most excellent poets . Krüger Verlag, Berlin 1851.
  • Homer 's Odyssey . 14th edition. Oehmigke Verlag, Berlin 1855.
  • Homer's Iliad . The Trojan War . Verlag Mohr, Berlin 1857.
  • Gods and heroes . Stories from ancient Greek times . Berlin 1857.
  • Prussia's history in words and pictures. A house book for everyone . Berlin 1864/74 (2 volumes).

literature

  • Ferdinand Schmidt, folk and youth writer. On the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a writer, Easter Mass 1870 . Kastner, Berlin 1870.
  • Max Kretzer : Ferdinand Schmidt . In: National-Zeitung of October 2, 1886 (morning edition), pp. 1–2.
  • Hermann Jahnke : Ferdinand Schmidt. A picture of his life and his work as a youth educator, popular educator and writer. Festschrift for his 70th birthday . Sensenhauer Verlag, Berlin 1886.
  • Heinrich Pröhle :  Schmidt, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 719-721.
  • Article " Ferdinand Schmidt " in: Illustrirte Zeitung , Vol. 54 (1870), p. 267.
  • Max Kretzer: Ferdinand Schmidt . In: National-Zeitung Volume 39 (1886), No. 561 of October 2, morning edition, pp. 1–2.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Berlin X a, No. 1155/1890
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 134.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Ferdinand Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and public educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1890
Place of death Berlin