Friedrich Erdmann Petri

Samuel Friedrich Erdmann Petri (born October 20, 1776 in Budissin , † June 11, 1850 in Fulda ) was a German theologian, teacher and author.

Life

Petri studied theology and philosophy in Leipzig from 1796 to 1799 and received his doctorate there. From 1803 he took up his work as a teacher at the school teachers' seminar in Dresden . He soon became deputy director of the school teachers' seminar in Dresden-Friedrichstadt . On March 20, 1805, the Prince of Fulda, Hereditary Prince Wilhelm I (Netherlands), appointed him professor of history and the German language at the newly built high school in Fulda. At the end of 1806 he was also appointed pastor of the Protestant parish, founded in 1802, with around 300 Protestant (Calvinist) believers. He also worked as a garrison pastor. The prince also entrusted him with teaching his second son, Prince Friedrich. Under the Grand Duke of Frankfurt, Karl Theodor von Dalberg , Petri was appointed provincial commissioner of the two evangelical consistory in Fulda and Hanau and inspector of the evangelical churches and schools in the Fulda department. In 1813 Petri was given the title of councilor. From 1824 he was inspector of the school teachers' college, in 1826 he rose to become a member of the school board. In 1834 he became Metropolitan and inspector of the Protestant schools in the administrative districts of Fulda and Hünfeld . In the autumn of 1835 Petri retired as a professor and in 1839, meanwhile as consistorial councilor, he was relieved of his position as pastor in Fulda.

He wrote several foreign dictionaries and textbooks on literary history.

Works

• Identical and similar words in the German language, compiled for youth and self-teaching , Friese, Pirna 1807. Digitized
• Concise manual of foreign words in German written and colloquial language, for understanding and avoiding those, more or less, dispensable interference , 4th edition, Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Dresden, 1823. Digitized
• Outline of the poetry teaching for scholarly schools , Etlinger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Würzburg, 1834. Digitized
• Preschool of the literary history of Greeks, Romans and Germans , 2nd edition, Luckhardt'sche Hof-Buchhandlung, Cassel, 1837.
• National Calendar of the Germans, or Diary of German History up to the End of 1827 , 2 vols., First edition Ernst Klein, Leipzig 1828

literature

• Karl Goedeke : Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. Volume 3, Ehlermann, Dresden 1863, p. 1267.
• Anke Heie: German foreign word lexicography between 1800 and 2007. Walter de Gruyter, 2012, p. 175, ISBN 978-3-11-028267-2 .
• Michael Mott : The evangelical church council and Professor Friedrich Erdmann Petri, called "Bautz" or "Fapi", was small in stature, very docile and humorous and endowed with a huge memory / Goethe called him the "Little Schnurbezel"; in: "Fulda Heads" or "People of Our Home" (Vol. I), Fulda 2007; ISBN 978-3-7900-0396-3 .