Franz Obert

Franz Obert as pastor

Franz Obert (born October 6, 1828 in Taterloch , Transylvania , † September 9, 1908 in Kronstadt ) was a Transylvanian-Saxon evangelical pastor, writer , school reformer and politician .

Life

Obert was born as the son of pastor Daniel Obert (1793-1860) in Taterloch. After attending grammar school in Mediasch , he began studying law at the law academy in Cluj and, from 1847, Protestant theology, philosophy and history in Leipzig , where he became a member of the Violetta Leipzig fraternity (1847) and the Dresden fraternity of Dresden (EB 1900) has been; In 1901 he became an honorary member of the Frankonia Graz fraternity . In 1848 he took an active part in the revolutionary struggles in Saxony (Leipzig), where he had ties to "Young Germany" and was a member of the "Leipzig Democratic Student Committee, together with Carl Schurz . As secretary of the student parliament in Eisenach in 1848 (Second Wartburg Festival), he signed As president of the Leipzig student body, he issued an "appeal to the citizens of Leipzig" with an invitation to participate in a funeral service in honor of Robert Blum, who was shot in Vienna, whereupon he was temporarily arrested and by the Leipzig consul on behalf of the Austrian envoy in Dresden , Count Franz Seraphicus von Kuefstein , warned and admonished to cease his political activities. He had to leave Germany and then worked as a journalist in Vienna . In 1852 he became a teacher at the grammar school in Mediasch, in 1860 pastor in Schaal , 1869 in Wurmloch , around 1874 in Hetzeldorf and from 1881 to 1907 parish priest in Kronstadt.

From 1861 Obert published the “Schul- und Kirchenzeitung”, from 1866 the “Schul- und Kirchenbote”, which he himself directed for 23 years. He wrote pedagogical writings, curricula and organized teacher training. In Hetzeldorf he introduced the advanced training school, the school garden and the volunteer fire brigade and also implemented the construction of a train station. In 1870 he founded the Transylvanian-Saxon teachers' association and, as its chairman, was committed to educating girls. In 1883 he pushed through that women could teach as teachers.

Obert was a member of the Transylvanian state parliament from 1863 to 1866 and a member of the Reichsrat from 1864 to 1867 . There he belonged to the group around Carl Giskra and applied for a law on the responsibility of ministers. From 1872 to 1876 he was a member of the Saxon Nations University . In 1898 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin.

Publications

• Stephan Ludwig Roth. His life and his writings. Vol. 1: Stephan Ludwig Roth's life. Vienna 1896
• Therese Jikeli. Outlines of the life of a Saxon woman , 1896
• Hermann von Salza and the settlement of Burzenland in 1905

The following works by Adolf Schullerus were published posthumously by Obert:

• Romanian fairy tales and legends from Transylvania collected and translated into German, Sibiu 1925
• Fourteen eulogies , Halle 1927

literature

• Obert, Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978,ISBN 3-7001-0187-2, p. 195.
• C. Göllner:  Obert Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 195 f. (Direct links to p. 195 , p. 196 ).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 235-236.
• Eduard Morres: Dr. Franz Obert, his life and work: Festschrift for the celebration s. 100th birthday.
• Fritz Keintzel-Schön: Franz Obert and the quality changes of the Transylvanian-Saxon village school . 1963
• Reusch, Werner: Cronik of the Leipzig fraternity Dresdensia , Ratingen 2009
• Reusch, Werner: Regular role of the B! Dresdensia Leipzig from 1853–1899 , Giessen 2006