Friedrich Apfelstedt

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Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Apfelstedt (born November 20, 1811 in Wiedermuth , † January 12, 1892 in Sondershausen ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Großfurra and local history researcher in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

Life

childhood and education

Friedrich Apfelstedt was born in 1811 as the son of the teacher Johann Friedrich Carl Apfelstedt and his wife Johanna Dorothea Marie (née Klee). From 1825 to 1827 he attended school in Greußen and from 1827 to 1832 the grammar school in Mühlhausen . From 1832 he studied theology in Jena. He completed his exams in Sondershausen in 1835 and 1844.

Professional career and work

In 1835, Apfelstedt first became a private tutor and teacher at a private school in Ebeleben ; from 1842 he was an assistant teacher in Sondershausen. There he worked as a preacher and catechist at the penitentiary from 1845 , and in 1848 teacher at the advanced training school. He was ordained as a deacon in Sondershausen in 1849 . His activity at the Church of St. Trinity ended at the end of April 1852 after he had expressed sympathy for Princess Mathilde during the negotiations for the princely divorce with other special houses . The prince banned him from preaching in Sondershausen and transferred him to Großfurra, where he was introduced as vicar on October 3, 1852. He stayed there as a pastor from 1855 until his requested retirement on October 1, 1880.

Despite these discrepancies, Apfelstedt was appointed to the founding committee for the Princely Altherthumsverein at the end of 1852 , and on May 28, 1853, was formally signed up as a full member; he remained so until the end of his life. For the antiquity association and with its support, it became effective primarily through a series of fundamental publications. Today he is considered one of the most important historical researchers of the 19th century in Northern Thuringia.

After 1880 Apfelstedt moved back to Sondershausen. In June 1882 he was appointed head of the State Archives. He developed a new, appropriate order for the extensive archive, which became a stable basis for his successors.

family

In Ebeleben he married Dorothea Wilhelmine Caroline Hupe (* 1819) on March 26, 1845 , the daughter of the businessman Johann Conrad Hupe from Ebeleben and his wife Johanne Henriette Wilhelmine (née Ulm). With her he had seven children who were born in Sondershausen or (after 1852) in Großfurra:

  • Victor Wilhelm (1846–1847)
  • Max Wilhelm (1847–1935), pastor in Ebeleben
  • Paul Alexander (* 1849)
  • Helene Auguste Louise (1851–1884) ∞ Großfurra 1871 Günther Christian Friedrich Preuß, teacher in Ebeleben
  • Ernst Otto (1853–1937), pastor in Rohnstedt
  • Marie Therese (* 1856)
  • Berthold Friedrich Hermann (* 1859)

Works (selection)

  • The introduction of Luther's Reformation in the Schwarzburg lands: with hints of Christian beginnings there. Sondershausen 1841.
  • Fragment of the home history of Schwarzburg. In: Program of the Princely. Realschule, the higher girls’s school and the community schools in Sondershausen. Easter 1852. pp. 3–21.
  • Local history for the residents of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. 3 booklets. Eupel, Sondershausen 1854–1856 (digital copies: Book 1 , Book 2 , Book 3 ).
  • Local history for the residents of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Additions and supplements to the family table of the kevernburg-Schwarzburg house as a supplement to the 3rd part of local history: History of the Fürstlich-Schwarzburg house. Eupel, Sondershausen 1883.
  • Descriptive representation of the older art monuments of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Under the auspices of the Prince. State government issued by the Prince. Schwarzburg. Antiquities Association. First booklet: The subordination. Sondershausen 1886. Second volume: The supremacy. ibid. 1887. Digitized .
  • The house of Kevernburg-Schwarzburg from its origins to our time is shown in the family tables of its main and secondary lines and with biographical notes on the most important members of the same . Thüringer Chronik-Verlag HE Müllerott, Arnstadt 1996, ISBN 3-910132-29-4 (first edition: Bertram, Sondershausen 1890, reprint).

literature

  • Uwe Grandke, Frank-Joachim Stewing: The holdings of “special houses documents” in the Thuringian State Archives in Rudolstadt. In special houses contributions. Püstrich. Journal for Schwarzburg culture and regional history. No. 8, 2004. pp. 56-80.
  • Christa Hirschler: From the workshop. First notes on a portrait of Princess Mathilde von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1814–1888). In special houses contributions. No. 4, 1998. pp. 89-121.
  • Contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde. By Th. Irmisch. [Ed. by Gustav Wilhelm Hallensleben.] Second volume. Sondershausen 1906.
  • Jochen Lengemann: Friedrich Apfelstedt. In memory of the Schwarzburg pastor, regional historian and historian. In special houses contributions. Püstrich. Journal for Schwarzburg culture and regional history. Issue 7, 2003. pp. 6-9.
  • Bernhard Möller: Thuringian Pastors' Book . Volume 2: Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . 1997, ISBN 3-7686-4148-1 . (Pp. 38, 62, 63, 74)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hirschler p. 106f.
  2. ↑ Der Deutsche 1880 No. 231 .
  3. ^ Contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde. Volume 2, pp. 96f.
  4. ↑ Der Deutsche 1882 No. 131 . Until then, the archive was headed by the deputy archivist, Chancellery Günther Setzepfand (address book Sondershausen 1882 p. 66 and 55 ).
  5. ↑ Gradke and stewing S. 67-69.
personal data
SURNAME Apfelstedt, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apfelstedt, Heinrich Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor (Evangelical Lutheran) and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiedermuth
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1892
Place of death Sondershausen