Friedrich August Wiedeburg

Friedrich August Wiedeburg (born April 15, 1751 in Querum , † August 13, 1815 in Helmstedt ) was a German educator and philologist.

Life

Friedrich August Wiedeburg was a grandson of the professor of theology and mathematics Christoph Tobias Wiedeburg (1647-1717), who taught at the University of Helmstedt .

He visited the Anna-Sophianeum in Schöningen and then went to study theology at the University of Helmstedt in 1771 and from there to the University of Jena . After receiving his doctorate in 1775, he held lectures on Latin and Greek writers as an associate professor of philosophy in Jena.

When the rector of the Helmstedt city school, Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein , was appointed vice rector of the Hamburg Johanneum in 1777 , Friedrich August Wiedeburg applied for the position of rector and was introduced to this position in 1778 by the general superintendent Johann Kaspar Velthusen . In the same year he also applied for an extraordinary professorship in philosophy at the University of Helmstedt. He expressed to Minister Julius Justus von Floegen that he wanted to set up a “philological institute” which “... could be all the more useful if those members who decided to be future school teachers were given the opportunity to do so in the local school Attending classes and giving classes yourself ”. At the end of 1778 he was not only appointed associate professor, the school system was also redesigned according to his plan: the five-class city school was divided into two institutions; the three lowest classes continued to exist solely as a city school, in which, in addition to knowledge of bourgeois life, the beginnings of Latin were taught; the top two classes were transformed into a school of scholars , the pedagogy , which was only intended for those students who wanted to study. This pedagogy was combined with a philological seminar, which it served as a training school, under a director.

On September 29, 1779, the philological-pedagogical institute for the training of highly qualified teachers was opened under the direction of Friedrich August Wiedeburg. In addition to the actual school sciences, the curriculum included philosophy , education and encyclopedic knowledge of all other sciences. The training was expanded to include pedagogy , methodology and the classical writers, which he gave in free lectures for the seminarians. The students of the pedagogy were able to pass through the institution in six to eight years; They had to be eleven to twelve years old at the time of admission and have some knowledge of Latin. Foreign students could live on the pedagogy itself or in the city under the supervision of the teachers. A commission appointed by Duke Charles I was responsible for the external affairs of the institute .

From 1779 to 1810, 82 seminarians taught at the pedagogy, many of whom later found excellent positions: Dietrich Joachim Theodor Cunze (1760–1822), Rector of the Anna-Sophianeum in Schöningen ; Georg Anton Christoph Scheffler (1762–1825), director of the Martino-Katharineum Braunschweig ; the theologian Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider (1771–1849); Johann Heinrich Philipp Seidenstücker (1765–1817) Rector of the Archigymnasium in Soest; Heinrich Kunhardt (1772–1844), Vice Rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck ; Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842), professor at the University of Halle and one of the most important scholars of the Semitic languages, especially Hebrew ; Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864), President of the École des langues orientales vivantes ; Friedrich Reinhard Ricklefs (1769–1827), Rector at the Old High School in Oldenburg .

In 1783 Friedrich August Wiedeburg became a full professor at the University of Helmstedt and followed in 1793 Johann Christian Wernsdorf (1723–1793) as professor of rhetoric and poetry.

Friedrich August Wiedeburg's academic lectures were closely related to his work in the seminar; he read about logic and metaphysics , psychology and pedagogy , as well as about the classic school writers, most of whom he also had covered in seminars. But he also attached great importance to maintaining his mother tongue, which he did not neglect in class either.

The University of Helmstedt was closed by order of King Jérôme Bonaparte in December 1809 at the end of the winter semester 1809/1810 in May 1810, this also affected the institute founded by Friedrich August Wiedeburg, which was converted into a grammar school (today: grammar school Julianum ), whose director he was until his death. Students at the Helmstedt grammar school were the later church historian Ernst Henke (1804–1872) and Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens (1809–1881), director of the Georgianum grammar school in Lingen.

Friedrich August Wiedeburg was married to Sophie (* unknown; † 1804), née Rücker, daughter of a country clergyman from Weimar. Together they had two daughters and three sons; of these are known by name:

• Justus Theodor Wiedeburg (born October 6, 1782; † February 2, 1822), successor to his father as director of the Helmstedt high school;
• Johann Christoph Theodor Wiedeburg (* 1786; † April 13, 1805), law student;
• Karl Albrecht Wiedeburg (born October 9, 1788; † January 12, 1812), teaching at the pedagogy in Helmstedt.

Trivia

There was a close friendship with the church historian Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke .

Memberships

In the 1780s Friedrich August Wiedeburg became head of the ducal German society at the Julius Karls University in Helmstedt.

Awards

In 1799 he was appointed councilor in recognition of his services .

Fonts (selection)

• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Erdmann Gotthelf Neumeister; Felix Fickelscher: To the noble-born and well-born Mr. Erdmann Gotthelff Neumeister, from Hamburg ie GG u. beautiful W. praiseworthy devoted to his admission into the ducal German society of Jena. Jena printed by Felix Fickelscherr 1776.
• Funeral speech for Henning Dietrich Gether, law student, d. May 8, 1777 . Jena Fickelscherr 1777.
• Thank God Timotheus Michael Kühl; Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Gollnerische bookshop; Tramburg's bookstore; Johann Christoph Strauss: Look Beyond the Grave Speech, given when entering German society in Jena. Hamburg Tramburg Jena Strauss 1777.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Gottlieb C Heller: About the study of the German style from a lecture in the ducal German society at Jena; along with an advertisement of the author's academic lectures in the upcoming winter half-year. Jena Heller 1777.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Gottlob Timotheus Michael Kühl: About the influence of the heart on the fine arts, especially those who spoke when Mr. Gottlob Timotheus Michael Kühl from Hamburg was accepted into the ducal society of Jena; The 29th of the winter month 1777 . Jena Strauss 1777.
• Something to clear up some passages in Virgil's shepherd poems: when the gentlemen obediently invited patrons and friends of the local city school to a public examination and speech exercise. Helmstädt Kühnlin 1778.
• About the spread of good taste in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel under the government of the Most Serene Prince and Mr. Karl's formerly reigning Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg [et] c. spoke in memory of the Duke of the highest blessing in the name of the ducal German society at Helmstädt on May 12th, 1780. as the day of the academic funeral ceremony . Helmstedt: Kühnlin 1780.
• Principles, plan, discipline and teaching method for the Ducal Pedagogical Institute in Helmstädt. Helmstädt: orphanage bookshop, 1781.
• Remarks on the character of Neoptolemus in the Philoctetes of Sophocles. Helmet Stadium, 1782.
• From the first apology of the Augsburg Confession based on a manuscript from the University Library at Helmstädt: Along with a summary of the lessons which were given in the Ducal Pedagogy at Helmstädt. Helmstädt: Johann Heinrich Kühnlin, 1782.
• The ducal German Society of Helmstädt celebrates the high birth festival of the Most Serene Prince and Mr. Karl Georg August Hereditary Prince of Braunschweig and Lüneburg on the 8th Hornung, 1782, through Christian Daniel Voss, who in the larger theological lecture hall gives a public lecture on the threefold power of poetry will hold. Helmstädt: Kühnlin, 1782.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Heinrich Christoph Liebau: The Herzogliche Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Helmstädt celebrates its foundation festival on the 20th of the fallow month of 1782. In the morning at 10 o'clock in the larger theological lecture hall by Heinrich Christoph Liebau from Braunschweig who is the most praiseworthy devoted to philology and educational art, who gives a public lecture on the fine arts as an aid of the educator will consider. It is preceded by the message of the current organization of society. Helmstädt: Kühnlin, 1782.
• Investigation of the question: To what extent can it be prevented that those who do not devote themselves to studying who do not contribute to it can be prevented? And invitation to a speech exercise to be held at the Ducal Pedagogy in Helmstädt on the 2nd of Easter month 1783. Helmstädt: Kühnlin 1783.
• Georg Calixt; Friedrich August Wiedeburg: D. Georg Calixt's speech at the foundation festival of the Julius University on October 15, 1627 on the right instruction of the youth. On the occasion of an invitation to celebrate this very festival on October 15, 1784 by the Ducal Pedagogy in Helmstädt. Helmstädt Leuckart Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Library 1784.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Johann Christoph Stockhausen: Mementos of the Ducal German Society of Helmstädt to its members who were lent in 1784, especially to the merits of their first overseer, Mr. Johann Christoph Stokkhausen. A lecture given on the 8th Jenner, 1784 [!]. Helmstädt Schnorr 1785.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Ludwig Georg Heinrich Evers: The Herzogliche Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Helmstädt celebrates its foundation festival on the 20th day of the fallow month of 1785 by Mr. Ludwig Georg Evers from the Lüneburg language of the society, who will speak publicly about the improvement of the mother tongue as a means of promoting the general enlightenment of a nation. Preprinted is: In memory of the Ducal German Society of Helmstädt to its members who were lost in 1784, in particular to the merits of their first overseer, Johann Christoph Stokkhausen. A lecture given on the 8th of Jenner, 1785. Helmstädt: Schnorr, 1785.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Georg Franz Winckelmann: The Herzogliche Deutschen Gesellschaft zu Helmstädt celebrates its eighth and thirtieth foundation festival on the 20th day of the fallow month 1786 by Mr. Georg Franz Winkelmann from the Bremen scholarship of God and the beautiful sciences zealous member of the society which in the morning ... about the most perfect beauty in the liberal arts especially poetry will speak publicly Ask this solemnity to honor Friedrich August Wiedeburg of the Society Overseer. Helmstädt Schnorr 1786.
• The laws of society reissued. Helmstädt: Schnorr 1786.
• Humanistic magazine for non-profit entertainment and especially in relation to academic studies. Helmstädt: Fleckeisen, 1787–1794.
• Invitation to the fortieth foundation celebration of the Herzogliche Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Helmstädt on the 22nd day of the fallow month 1789. through a speech about the loss of poetry in the formation of prose and the spread of literature in general. The accusations that Plato makes against the poets are provisional set one another . Helmstädt Kühnlin 1789.
• To celebrate the happy return of the Most Serene Prince and Mr. Karl Georg August Hereditary Prince of Braunschweig and Lüneburg with Mrs. Friederike Louise Wilhelmine, the Princess of Orange and Nassau, in a public meeting on November 17th, 1790. Julius August Remer will describe what Friedrich August Wiedeburg is inviting Head of the Ducal German Society. Helmstädt: Leuckart, 1790.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Theodor Georg August Roose; Johann Heinrich Kühnlin: Invitation to the fortieth foundation celebration of the Herzogliche Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Helmstädt on the 20th day of the fallow month 1792. by Mr. Theodor Georg August Roose from Braunschweig, the most praiseworthy medicinarian who gave a public lecture in memory of two immortalized carriers, Arnold Conrad Schmidt and Karl Christian Gärtner will hold. Along with a few preliminary remarks about the relationship between poetry and the spread of the literary taurus. Helmstädt Kühnlin Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Library 1792.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Johann Nikolaus Bischoff: The Ducal German Society will seek to express its joy through Sr. Serene Highness of the ruling Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, a happy return from the Rheine to Braunschweig and the happy present in Helmstädt, and Professor Johann Nikolaus Bischoff as an honorary member of the Society give a speech about the current France's human rights, to which Friedrich August Wiedeburg of the Ducal German Society invites head. Helmstädt Fleckeisen 1794.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Röpke: The Herzogliche Deutschen Gesellschaft zu Helmstädt celebrates its foundation festival on the 21st day of the fallow month of 1784. Through its secretary the Mr. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Röpke from Braunschweig of the scholarship of God and the beautiful sciences gloriously devoted and of the Ducal Philological-Pedagogical Institute member of which one Will give a lecture on the purpose of eloquence as the determining factor in the theory of this art. It is preceded by the first part of a treatise on the learned lectures of the Greeks and Romans. Helmstädt Kühnlin 1784.
• A lecture in which the joy of the Brunswick people today is compared with the joy of the Romans when Trajan returned from the Rhine . Helmstädt: Fleckeisen, 1794.
• Christoph August Bode, professor of oriental languages ​​at the University of Helmstedt. (Memorandum). Helmstedt 1796.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Christoph Matthias Seidel: Character traits Mr. Christoph Matthias Seidels Doktors b. R. Mayor and Syndic of the city of Helmstädt and oldest member of the Ducal German Society there after his death on February 27, 1797, the Duke. Presented to German society for permanent memory. Helmstädt Fleckeisen Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Library 1797.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Heinrich Kunhardt: The Herzoglich Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Helmstädt celebrates its foundation festival on June 26th 1797 through its secretary Mr. Heinrich Kunhardt Doctor of World Wisdom and Magister of Liberal Arts Adjunct of the Philosophical Faculty, who will talk in the large academic lecture hall about the relationship between science and morality. Helmstädt Fleckeisen Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Library 1797.
• Constitution and methods of the Philological-Pedagogical Institute at Julius Karls University for the practical training of public school teachers and private educators. CG Fleckeisen, Helmstedt (Helmstaedt), 1797.
• About the previous connection between the pedagogy at Helmstädt and the university and the hoped-for expansion of it as a Lyceum. Helmstädt Leuckart 1810.
• Invitation to an examination and speech exercise to be held with the pedagogists in Helmstädt on April 10th, 1811, together with the list of lessons from Easter to Michaelmas of this year and some other news relating to this teaching and education institution. Helmstädt: Leuckart, 1811.
• Continued news from the Pedagogy at Helmstädt and an invitation to an examination and speech exercise to be held there on September 25, 1812. Helmstädt: Leuckart, 1812.
• Friedrich August Wiedeburg; Karl Albrecht Wiedeburg: Necrology on the deceased second teacher at the pedagogy in Helmstädt; along with other news relating to pedagogy. Helmstädt: Leuckart, 1812.
• The celebration of the happy return Sr. Durchl. Friedrich Wilhelm regier. Duke of Brunswick in his states. An overview of the literary has been sent in advance. u. artistic loss, which the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel suffered in the years from 1806 to 1813. Helmstädt 1814.

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Derda : Wiedeburg, Friedrich August, Prof. Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 652 .
• Wilhelm Stalman:  Wiedeburg, Friedrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 376-379.

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Helmstedt - Homepage. Retrieved June 19, 2018 . 
2. ^ ADB: Wiedeburg, Friedrich August - Wikisource. Retrieved June 19, 2018 .