Friedrich Gelbcke

Carl Friedrich Gelbcke (born March 1, 1842 in Saint Petersburg , † April 2, 1922 in Lippstadt ) was a German-Russian teacher .

biography

Gelbcke was the son of the German educator and writer Ferdinand Adolf Gelbcke . He received his education at the German St. Anne's School in Saint Petersburg and at the grammar school in Wittenberg and in 1860 came to study philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After completing his studies, he did his doctorate with his dissertation Quaestiones Valerianae (1865) at the University of Berlin as Dr. phil. and then worked first as an educator at the then important boarding school Hofwil near Bern .

When he returned to Saint Petersburg, he became a teacher at the German St. Anne's School, from which he moved to the third Russian grammar school in the city. In 1897 he became a school councilor and chairman of the examination committee in the St. Yellowcke's later tasks and stations were the position of the director of the Nischyn Lyceum in the then Russian governorate of Chernihiv and the position of the general school director of the Finnish teaching system.

Gelbcke translated and edited Friedrich Lübker's Reallexikon for Classical Antiquity for use in Russia. He was last Russian Really Secret State Council with the title of Excellency . Gelbcke founded as Old Mr. of his Corps the old men's senior Convent in Saint Petersburg. He was married to Hilda Brehme from Schernberg (Sondershausen) without children and passed his retirement in Lippstadt.

Honors

• Russian Order of Saint Anne I Class (1901)

literature

• Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 205 No. 655

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Schmidt: Program of the Gymnasium zu Wittenberg Easter 1858 , Wittenberg 1858, p. 44