Friedrich Koldewey (educator, 1866)

Ernst August Friedrich Theodor Koldewey (born March 16, 1866 in Wolfenbüttel , † December 25, 1940 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German pedagogue, high school teacher and historian.

Koldewey, son of the high school teacher Friedrich Koldewey (1839–1909), attended high school in Wolfenbüttel, Holzminden and Braunschweig . From 1885 to 1888 he studied theology and philology in Göttingen and Jena . In Jena he was awarded a Dr. phil. and for Lic. theol. doctorate and passed the two theological exams (1888 and 1890). From 1889 he was active in the school service, first in Stadtallendorf (1889–1890), then as rector of the city school of Königslutter (1891–1894). From 1894 he was director of the grammar school in Bad Harzburg, today the Werner von Siemens grammar school .

He was a co-founder of the Braunschweigisches Landesverein für Heimatschutz .

Publications (selection)

• Exorcism in the Duchy of Braunschweig since the days of the Reformation. Wolfenbüttel 1893 (= dissertation) (full text) .
• School regulations of the city of Königslutter. In: Communications from the Society for German Education and School History 3, 1894, 198–203.
• Johannes Monheim and the Cologne people. The first dispute between Jesuitism and Protestantism; a study of church history. Wolfenbüttel 1998. Also in: Journal for Scientific Theology, Volume 42 = NF 7 (1899) pp. 106-138 (full text) .
• Justus Georg Schottelius . A contribution to the history of German studies. Wolfenbüttel 1899.
• “Peace victory: a game of joy” by Justus Georg Schottelius 1648. Niemeyer, Halle 1900.
• Overview of the prehistory of the Progymnasium. Bad Harzburg 1901.

literature

• Friedrich Ehrhardt: Names from the Harzburg history: Professor Dr. lic. Friedrich Koldewey. In: Uhlenklippen Spiegel issue 29, 1994, pp. 9-13.
• Franz Koessler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Band: Kaak - Kysaeus . Giessen University Library, Giessen 2007 (full text) .