Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius
Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius , nickname Wilhelm Gesenius (born August 3, 1825 in Halle (Saale) , † March 11, 1888 in San Remo ) was a German Anglist .
Life
Gesenius grew up as one of ten children of the well-known orientalist Wilhelm Gesenius in Halle and completed his high school education at the pedagogy of the Francke Foundations in Halle. He had the same nickname as his father ( Wilhelm ), but later called himself Friedrich Wilhelm in public and as an author . It is not known whether his father also gave him a nickname like his eldest sister Caroline ("Miss Genesis"). From 1843 he studied English at the University of Leipzig . He became active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig and distinguished himself as a senior . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . There he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1847/48 he served in the Prussian Army in Halle . After language studies in Paris in 1849 he stayed in London from 1850 as a teacher of the sons of Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell . In 1853 he went to Stettin , where he initially worked as a teacher at the Friedrich Wilhelm School, a secondary school . In 1857 he founded a secondary school for girls in Stettin . He headed the Gesenius Higher Girls' School named after him for 30 years. Sick of the lungs since the beginning of 1888, he sought a cure in San Remo . There he died at the age of 62. He was buried in Stettin.
The new philologist and pedagogue Gesenius is considered to be the pioneer of modern foreign language teaching in Germany. His English textbooks also introduced the literature, history and geography of Great Britain; they appeared in numerous editions and for decades, even after his death, were decisive for school instruction in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
literature
- Ludwig Fränkel: Gesenius, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 679-683.
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the historical commission for Pomerania . Series V, vol. 40). Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 177-178.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 149/349
- ↑ Doctoral thesis: De lingua Chauceri, Dissertatio grammatica .
- ↑ a b c Personal files in the archive of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gesenius, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gesenius, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Anglist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1888 |
| Place of death | San Remo |