Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl

Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl at the piano, 1838

Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl (born December 10, 1782 in Peine ; † April 6, 1849 in Braunschweig ) was a German specialist in German studies , educator , musicologist and conductor .

Life

The son of a preacher first attended school in Peine and in 1796 moved to the Katharineum in Braunschweig. From 1805 to 1808 he studied theology in Göttingen , where he also heard philosophy and education from Johann Friedrich Herbart , as well as philology from Christian Gottlob Heyne . He also studied music theory, piano and organ with the Bach admirer Johann Nikolaus Forkel († 1818). In 1808, on Herbart's advice, he went to Hofwil , Switzerland, where he became a teacher of German language and literature at the newly founded Fellenberg Institute. He also directed the musical life of this school and the community.

University professor in Braunschweig

In 1816 he moved back to Braunschweig, where he taught at the Katharineum. After receiving his doctorate in 1821, he received an extraordinary professorship for philosophy and fine sciences at the Collegium Carolinum , which was converted into a full professorship in 1825. In 1828 he took up additional teaching activities at the Obergymnasium, where he taught German language and literature, mathematics and philosophy.

Musician and musicologist

Griepenkerl founded a singing academy in Braunschweig, which under his direction mainly performed Bach's chorales and his Mass in B minor . He was one of the organizers of the Braunschweiger Musikfest in 1836, 1839 and 1841. Griepenkerl was in friendly contact with important musicians of his time, such as Zelter , CM von Weber , Spontini , Spohr , Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Together with Ferdinand August Roitzsch (1805–1889) he published a critical edition of JS Bach's piano and organ works from 1837 onwards. He wrote the text for a great opera Pino di Porto by the Brunswick court music director Georg Müller ; however, it was unsuccessful.

family

The older son Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl (1810–1868) was a playwright, storyteller and university professor at the Collegium Carolinum, the younger son Erich (1813–1888) Braunschweig Chamber President. His son Otto Griepenkerl was a doctor in Königslutter and a paleontologist.

Works

• Textbook of Aesthetics , 2 volumes, Braunschweig 1826
• Textbook of Logic , Braunschweig 1828, new edition 1831
• Letters to a younger learned friend about philosophy and especially about Herbart's teachings , Braunschweig 1832
• Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions for the organ. Critically correct edition by Friedrich Conrad Griepenkerl and Ferdinand Roitzsch. Leipzig in the Bureau de Musique by CF Peters, 10 vols. From 1837.

literature

• Walter Asmus:  Griepenkerl, Friedrich Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 58 ( digitized version ).
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 223-224 .
• Carl von Prantl:  Griepenkerl, Friedrich Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 654 f.
• Eberhard Rohse : Griepenkerl, Friedrich Konrad. In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 55 .

Historical references

• General Literature Newspaper (1822)

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andreas Waczkat: Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl (1782–1849) (PDF)