Friedrich Ernst Feller

The whole of commercial arithmetic . Title page of the 1866 edition

Friedrich Ernst Feller (born April 1802 in Dresden , † September 5, 1859 in Gotha ; pseudonym Eugen Haag ) was a German pedagogue , business school teacher and author .

Life

Feller was born in Dresden in April 1802. He attended grammar school in Dresden and became an apprentice at WA Kaißner in Dresden. From 1823 to 1825 he was a cashier at CFB Zeis in Dresden. He then tried to prepare for university through private studies. In 1827 he passed his exams at the Thomas School and studied philosophy , education , mathematics and history .

1830 Feller teacher of French language at the high Princely State School in Gera , 1832 at the trade school in Leipzig and in 1839 a lecturer of English at the University of Leipzig had the winter semester 1839 to the winter semester 1847. Feller also to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1848 he took over the management of the business school in Gotha, which he held until his death.

The FA Brockhaus Verlag (Leipzig) named him in the ninth (1848) and tenth edition of its conversation lexicon as an employee.

Feller published numerous dictionaries and textbooks in German, English, French and Italian. His collaboration with Carl Gustav Odermann was important . After his death, Schieferdecker made a lithograph by Feller, a portrait of Dr. FE Feller, director of the public business school in Gotha , which was sold through the book trade by his publisher Otto August Schulz. His friend and colleague Odermann honored him with a dedication in 1859: Dr. Friedrich Ernst Feller, Director of the Gotha Business School, a sign of sincere respect and friendship.

Services

The Feller-Odermann was the most widely used arithmetic textbook in the German language of the 19th and 20th centuries. Probably the most famous reader of this book was Karl Marx .

Appreciations

" On September 6th in Gotha the director of the local commercial college Dr FE Feller, 58 years old ."

- cites New Yearbooks for Philology and Education. Founded by M. Johann Christian Jahn. Currently edited by Rudolph Dietsch and Alfred Fleckeisen, 29th vol., 79th vol. Leipzig 1859, p. 518.

" On September 5th to Gotha Dr. Ernst Feller, director of the local commercial college since 1818, previously teacher of commercial science a. of the newer languages ​​at the Leipzig Business School and since 1839 at the same time lector of the English language at the university, author of the publications "Archive of State Papers" 1830. 3. revised. 1843, "Exercices de la langue française" 1830, "Nouveaux exercices" etc. 1841. 2nd edition 1843, "Exercises of the Genius of the English language" 1838. 2nd edition 1853, "The whole of the merchants . Arithmetik "with CG Odermann 1842. 7th edition 1859, several dictionaries of the English, French and Italian languages ​​that have appeared in repeated editions and by others, formerly also collaborators in this journal, at the age of 58. "

- quoted from the Leipzig repertory of German and foreign literature. With the participation of the University of Leipzig, edited by Dr. EO Gersdorf, Volume 18, first volume TO Weigel 1860, Leipzig, p. 304.

“ The directors of the Public Commercial School in Leipzig, Daniel August Schiebe, Professor Drs, have made lasting merit in identifying and perfecting a suitable method for teaching commercial science. Carl Gustav Odermann and the teacher of this institution, Dr. Feller, later director of the business school in Gotha, her specialist publications were groundbreaking. Several of their commercial textbooks are still in use today for teaching commercial science at domestic and foreign commercial schools. As heads of commercial schools, these men endeavored to combine thorough instruction with practical exercises and thereby achieve a clear vision and good skill in the execution of commercial work with their students. "

- quoted from the report on the Public Trade College in Leipzig for the period from Easter 1878 to Easter 1897 . Hallberg & Büchting, Leipzig 1897, pp. 18-19.

Works

• Archives of government papers for bankers, merchants and capitalists; along with the necessary notes on the calculation of government papers and the state of government debt . Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1830 digitized
• William Shakespeare : King Henry IV. Drama in two parts. With critical, historical, but especially with explanatory notes for use in higher educational institutions . Baumgärtner's bookstore, Leipzig 1830
• Exercices du génie de la Langue française. An exercise book for those who want to familiarize themselves with the spirit of the French language and fix it in the rules of grammar. With regard to the Hirzel grammar, edit. Sauerlander, Aarau 1830
• Concise German-French dictionary for correspondents, contains commercial words and idioms . Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1831
• Concise German-English dictionary for correspondents, contains commercial words and idioms, 400 different expressions, starting and ending letters and the necessary geographical notes . Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1832
• Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare. With explanatory notes, an explanation and a dictionary Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1833 Digitized
• Archive of the government papers, containing the origin, the arrangement and the current condition of the government bonds together with the necessary notes on the calculation of the government effects and the transactions occurring therein . 2. completely redesigned. Ed. Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1834 digitized , digitized
• Exercise in translating from German into French. An addition to any French language teaching. From Dr. De Félice and Dr. FE Feller, teachers at the public commercial college in Leipzig . Georg Wigand , Leipzig 1836
• Practical mercantile correspondence. A collection of modern letters of business, with notes critical and explanatory, an analytical index, and an appendix, containing pro forma invoices, accounts-sales, bills of landing, and bills exchange by William Anderson. Provided with business and language explanations . Scherbarth, Gera 1836
• Complete pocket dictionary of the four main European languages. According to the best resources, Dr. Johann August Diezmann . German-English-French-Italian part. Second new through. Reprinted by FE Feller . Baumgärtner's bookstore, Leipzig 1836
• Universal encyclopedia of commercial sciences, containing: coin, measure and weight, bills of exchange, government paper, banking and stock exchange; the most important of higher arithmetic, Contor science, commodity science and technology, trade history, trade geography and statistics, maritime affairs, economics and finance, trade law etc. etc .. Edited by August Schiebe in association with Dr. Bender, Dr. Bülau, OL Erdmann, Dr. Feller (...) u. A. 3 vol., Friedrich Fleischer / Schumann Brothers, Leipzig / Zwickau 1837–1839
• England's legislation in the case of cases by M. Straffort-Carey, Advocat in London and M. Fölix, Advocat at the Cour Royale in Paris. German edit by Dr. FE Feller, teacher at the public trade school in Leipzig . JC Hinrichsschen Buchhandlung publishing house, Leipzig 1837
• Banking in relation to the Kingdom of Saxony . Public commercial training institute, Leipzig 1838 (invitation to the examination in the public commercial training institute in Leipzig 1838)
• A few words about life insurance . Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1839
• Pocket book of the English pronunciation and reading in progressive exercises, including the pronunciation of accents and numbers according to a special table consisting of interesting anecdotes and fragments from the best authors, initially with interlinear translation by S. Johnson. Especially redesigned for Germany. u. complete. 2., verb. Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1840
• The whole of commercial arithmetic . For use for commercial, real u. Trade schools, as well as self-teaching for businessmen in general; with addendum by FE Feller and CG Odermann. Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1842
• About the banks. (From a Swedish prince) . German by EF Feller, Dr. phil. Teacher at the public trade school and lector publicus at the University of Leipzig. Ernst Goetz, Leipzig 1843 digitized
• Archive of government papers containing the origin, the establishment and the current condition of the government bonds, together with the necessary notes on the calculation of the government securities and the transactions occurring therein . 3. completely redesigned. Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1843
• Actien-Archiv, or, handbook for the Actien-Börse containing the necessary information about the origin and existence of the most famous Actien-companies, ed. FE Feller. Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1844 digitized
• Dinarbas. A tale. Being a continuation of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia by Dr. Johnson. With sheet music and a dictionary by Dr. FE Feller, teacher at the trade school in Leipzig. Nordhausen and Leipzig . Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1844
• Exercises for translating from German into French in grammatical order. An addition to any French language teaching. By F. Courvoisier and Dr. FE Feller, teachers at the public trade school in Leipzig . 2nd edition CJ Klemann 1845
• The whole of commercial arithmetic. For use for commercial, real u. Trade schools, as well as self-teaching for businessmen in general; with addendum by FE Feller and CG Odermann. 2. very verb. u. Probably edition Georg Wigand, Leipzig 1846
• The state paper and stock exchange contains information about all known state, provincial, city and civil bonds, about Pfandbriefe and stocks of all kinds, together with the latest lists of state finances Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1846 digitized
• New English-German and German-English pocket dictionary ... edited by Dr. JA Diezmann, FE Feller and JH Kaltschmidt. Stereotype output . 2 vol., Leipzig 1846
• JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight, the exchange, money and fund course, etc. for bankers and merchants, ed. by FE Feller, and provided with new coin tables by HC Kandelhardt . 17th edition, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1848
• Practical mercantile correspondence. A collection of modern letters of business, with notes critical and explanatory, an analytical index, and an appendix, containing pro forma invoices, accounts-sales, bills of landing, and bills exchange by William Anderson. Provided with business and language explanations by FE Feller. 2nd edition, Kanitz, Gera 1848
• The whole of commercial arithmetic for commercial, secondary and industrial schools as well as self-teaching for businessmen in general by FE Feller and CG Odermann . 3., verm. And verb. Edition Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1851
• The whole of commercial arithmetic for commercial, secondary and trade schools as well as for self-teaching for businessmen in general by FE Feller and CG Odermann . 4th, verm. And verb. Edition Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1853
• English language manual. According to a new plan edited by Dr. FE Feller. 2nd edition. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1853
• Exercise book for German - English commercial correspondence. A collection of 20 series about related businesses . Baumgärtner's bookstore, Leipzig 1853
• Exercises on the Genius of the English language. An exercise book for higher school classes and for independent further training after having enjoyed lessons . 2. verb. u. Probably edition Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1853
• New pocket dictionary English and German, to which is added a pocket companion for travelers, containing a collection of conversations, a geographical vocabulary and a table of coin, etc. (English-German Deutsch-englisch). 2nd vols. 3rd edition. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1854
• The whole of commercial arithmetic for commercial, secondary and industrial schools as well as self-teaching for businessmen in general by FE Feller and CG Odermann. 5., verm. And verb. Edition Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1855 digitized
• A few words about note banks . Hugo Scheube, Gotha 1856
• The whole of commercial arithmetic. For use for commercial, real u. Trade schools, as well as self-teaching for businessmen in general; with addendum by FE Feller and CG Odermann. 6. presumably and with consideration of the in German coin and. Weight system changes that have occurred verb. Edition Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1856
• New pocket dictionary English and German, to which is added a pocket companion for travelers, containing a collection of conversations, a geographical vocabulary and a table of coin, etc. 2. Vols. (English-German Deutsch-Englisch) . BG Teubner, 4th ed. Leipzig 1856
• Exercise book for German-English correspondence. A collection of twenty series about related businesses . Baumgärtner's publishing bookstore, Leipzig 1857
• A New pocket dictionary english, german and french, containing all the words indispensable in daily conversation admirably adapted for the use of travelers . 3 vols. 6th edition BG Teubner, Leipzig 1857
• JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight, exchange, money and fund currencies, etc. together with an alphabetical index of the action companies. Edited by Dr. FE Feller and FW Grimm. Provided with new coin tables by C. Neubauer . 18th edition Georg Reimer, Berlin 1858 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München online
• Dizionario Italiano - Tedesco e Tedesco - Italiano. Concise dictionary of the Italian and German languages . Second edition. 2 Th. BG Teubner 1859
• The whole of commercial arithmetic. From Dr. FE Feller and Dr. CG Odermann. For commercial, secondary and industrial schools, as well as for self-teaching for businessmen in general. 7. Increased edition and partly revised as a result of the changes in the coinage and weight system . Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1859
• Key to commercial correspondence, German-English-French. A collection of commercial sample phrases from all branches of business, in addition to the expressions used in accounting by Dr. Johann Georg wing. 3rd ed. Verm. And verb. From Dr. FE Feller . J. Kinklhardt, Leipzig 1860

literature

• New episode. No. 9. Antiquarian bibliography of the book and antiquarian shop of Otto August Schulz in Leipzig. Containing the posthumous commercial science library of Dr. FE Feller, Director of the Gotha Public Business School, as well as a selection of writings from various other subjects of literature . Gotha 1859
• Dr. FE Feller and Dr. CG Odermann. The whole of commercial arithmetic. For commercial, real u. Commercial schools, as well as self-teaching for businessmen in general. Edited by Dr. Carl Gustav Odermann. Director of the public commercial college in Leipzig . 9th, reworked for Th. u. Probably ed. Leipzig: Otto August Schulz 1864 digitized
• The whole of commercial arithmetic. From Dr. FE Feller and Dr. CG Odermann. For commercial and real schools as well as for self-teaching for businessmen. For the third time increased and improved edited by Dr. Carl Gustav Odermann. Director of the public commercial college in Leipzig . Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1866
• The whole of the commercial arithmetic of Dr. FE Feller and Dr. CG Odermann. For the sixth time, Dr. Carl Gustav Odermann, director of the public commercial college in Leipzig. Thirteenth as a result of the reorganization of the German coinage system, completely redesigned. Edition Otto Aug. Schulz, Leipzig 1876
• The whole of the commercial arithmetic of Dr. FE Feller and Dr. CG Odermann. Edited for the 8th time. by Carl Gustav Odermann . 15. verb. Edition Otto Aug. Schulz, Leipzig 1886
• Selection of German commercial letters for trainees, with a French and English translation of the more difficult expressions and phrases that appear in the letters. From August Schiebe. For the eighth time verb. ed. by Carl Gustav Odermann . 9th edition JM Gebhardt Leipzig 1890
• Announcements about the establishment and establishment of the business school in Gotha. Written by Carl Wolfrum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this institution . Engelhard-Reyher, Gotha 1868
• Eduard Bernstein : Intimate letters from Ferdinand Lassale to parents and sister . Berlin 1905, p. 18
• Feller and Odermann. The whole of commercial arithmetic. 18th edition, completely revised by A. Adler and Br. Kampf . Schulz Verlag Schiller, Leipzig 1906
• Friedrich Ernst Feller, Karl Gustav Odermann: Commercial computing. Teubner, Leipzig 1943
• Economic computing. Feller, Odermann. Arranged by Arthur Mende . Edition B for the business school. Volk u. Knowledge / BG Teubner, Berlin / Leipzig 1948
• Soviet science. Social science contributions , Berlin 1969, p. 22
• Economics. Feller-Odermann. By Albrecht Gareis. 2. Parts . 42nd edition. Heckner, Wolfenbüttel 1979
• Boris Rudjak / Maja Dvorkina: Karl Marx inherits the library from Wilhelm Wolff , 1864. On the history of the libraries from Marx and Engels. In: Contributions to post-March research . Contributions by Günther Höpfner, Waltraud Seidel-Höppner, Boris Rudjak / Maja Dvorkina, Trier 1994 (writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus No. 47), pp. 187–246
• Annette Vogt: Emil Julius Gumbel (1891-1966). The first editor of Karl Marx's mathematical manuscripts . In: MEGA Studies 1995/2, Berlin 1996, p. 383
• Repertory of the letters from the Walter de Gruyter archive by Otto Neuendorff and Anne-Katrin Ziesak . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, p. 746
• The Leipzig Public Trade College 1831–1950. Festschrift for the 170th anniversary of its foundation. Edited by the Sächsisches Wirtschaftsarchiv e. V. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2001 (= publications of the Saxon Economic Archives, Volume 2)
• August Beck :  Feller, Friedrich Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 614.

Web links

• Overview of Friedrich Ernst Feller's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1839 to winter semester 1847)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emil Weller : Lexicon Pseudonymorum . 12th edition Regensburg 1886, p. 243.
2. ↑ In the obituary of the widow he is referred to as being 58 years old , in the officially printed civil status advertisements in the Gothaischer Tageblatt of September 9, 1859, it says “57 years old”. Information from the Gotha City Archives from August 17, 2010. August Beck: Feller, Friedrich Ernst (ADB. Vol. 6, p. 614), who assumes 1800 as the year of birth, is refuted.
3. ↑ Gera. From the state of the Princely State School, the Director, Schulrath Dr. Purely to celebrate Henry's Day (...). At the beginning of this year, Friedrich Ernst Feller from Dresden was employed as a teacher of the French language . In: New year books for philology and pedagogy or critical library for schools and teaching . BG Teubner and F. Claudius 1831, Leipzig, p. 116.
4. ↑ Dr. Friedr. Ernst Feller in Leipzig. In: General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. Conversations Lexicon. Ninth original edition in fifteen volumes. Fifteenth volume. Vittel to Zwolle . FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig, 1848, p. XVII and list of employees (...) Director Dr. Friedr. Ernst Feller in Gotha . In: Conversations Lexicon. Tenth edition. Fifteenth volume. Second division. W to Zwolle, with addendum and universal register. General German Real Encyclopedia for the educated classes. Conversations Lexicon. Tenth, improved and increased edition. In fifteen volumes. Fifteenth volume. Second division. W to Zwolle, with addendum and universal register . FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1855, p. XXIV.
5. ↑ Bibliographical yearbook for the German book. Art and map trade. Measurements catalog Michaelis 1859 . Eduard Avenarius, Leipzig undated, p. 306.
6. ^ Carl Gustav Odermann: Practical instructions for single and double bookkeeping. For commercial schools as well as for prospective business people . Barth, Leipzig 1859, p. III digitized
7. ↑ Marx read his book "The Whole of Commercial Arithmetic" in the 7th and 10th editions (1859 and 1866) and between 1869 and 1878 dealt with it several times. RGASPI, Moscow Fond 1 opis 1 delo 6469. In the possession of Karl Marx. See MEGA ² Division IV. Vol. 32, No. 417, p. 266 with underlining. See also IISG Marx Engels estate B 113 (Karl Marx, [Heft CV], "1869 I Heft", pp. 109-138. Commercial invoice (textbook) , B 114 and B 142) and MEGA ² section II. Vol. 14 , Pp. 155-162.
8. ↑ Vol. 3, p. V: Among the various subjects that occur in the plant, there are some that were only dealt with by a single employee, while others, on the other hand, are distributed among two or more employees in order to promote printing more quickly had to. For example, Professor Bülau has delivered all the articles on economics and finance; Dr. Feller worked on those about bonds, banks , stock exchanges , paper money , as well as the theoretical part of coins , the article items , the commercial court , the chamber of commerce and many others in the commercial field. S. VI: belong to the letter T, with the exception of the article wool , which Dr. Feller delivered exclusively to. The article wool is on pp. 475–482 in the third volume.
9. ^ Only item 1 forbidden from 4th edition 1935 onwards. Digitized
10. ↑ "I. Arithmetic. 1. “The Influence of the Discount Rate on the Exchange Rate. II. Payment of bills of exchange. III. Percentage calculation and discount ”. 50 pp. German; the largest part are arithmetic calculations. ”Probably related to Feller / Odermann 1859
11. ↑ Contains thirteen letters from FE Feller (1848–1858).