Georg Ermel (pedagogue)

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Georg Ermel

Georg Ermel also: George (* February 2, 1659 in Calau ; † February 4, 1745 in Grimma ) was a German educator and philologist . Ermel was the rector of the Saxon Princely School in Grimma for 26 years .

Life

Ermel came from a middle-class Calau family that was represented on the city council several times in the 17th century and provided two mayors. His father Christian Ermel, who had not been able to study in Calau , which was particularly hard hit by the Thirty Years' War , sent Georg to the prestigious Görlitz high school Augustum , which at the time was under the direction of Christian Funcke, a member of the Fruitful Society . After graduating from school on May 15, 1677, Ermel went to study in Leipzig, where he had to earn his living “as a poor person” with language lessons for other students, as the historian Samuel Grosser noted.

In the winter semester of 1681 he was enrolled to study theology and philology at the University of Leipzig . Here, among others, Adam Rechenberg was his teacher, under whom he defended the historical treatise De Veterum Christianorum Doxologia in 1684 . In addition, on October 16, 1688, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Wittenberg . Ermel stayed in Dresden from 1684 to 1688, won over the church councilor Samuel Benedict Carpzov , a member of the senior consistory since 1681, as his advocate and in 1688 took the position of a third teacher at the electoral Saxon state school in Grimma . In 1700 Ermel was promoted to vice rector and in 1710 to rector. After a total of forty-eight years of service, he was retired from his employment on August 20, 1736 and his vice-principal Heinrich August Schumacher succeeded him in office.

Georg Ermel was a member of the Sophian Preacher Society in Dresden from 1684 to 1737. In this society, which was founded in 1665, evangelical personalities were active as preachers , holding sermons regularly on Saturdays in the Dresden Sophienkirche (until 1737) and then in the Frauenkirche.

family

Ermel was married to Dorothea Huhn (born November 20, 1674 in Grimma; † July 9, 1723 ibid), daughter of the Grimma mayor Christian Huhn († May 13, 1716). Of their nine children, three boys and one girl reached adulthood:

  • Johann Friedrich Ermel (born June 21, 1696 in Grimma; † January 15, 1764 in Dresden), who made a name for himself as the court physician of the Electorate of Saxony. His son Friedrich August Ermel (born August 3, 1740 in Dresden; † April 7, 1812 there), was a doctor of law and mayor of Dresden.
  • August Christian Ermel (born April 22, 1698 in Grimma; † February 5, 1763 there), studied philosophy and law and between 1746 and 1761 was partly associate and partly ruling mayor of Grimma.
  • Georg Siegismund Ermel (born September 3, 1702 in Grimma; † July 28, 1774 there), was a merchant and head of the municipal treasury in Grimma.
  • Henriette Dorothea Ermel (born March 26, 1712 in Grimma; † October 20, 1776 ibid) married Carl Christoph Wendt (born January 14, 1705 in Grimma; † February 6, 1784 ibid), bailiff on June 13, 1737 in Grimma and administrator of the Princely School. Two iron tombstones in the Grimma cemetery church of the Holy Cross remember both people.

Ermel's brother Paul Ermel (born June 27, 1679 in Calau; † April 10, 1756 in Forst) was an auditor and organist of the town church of Forst (Lausitz) for over forty years .

Confusion due to identical names

The fact that we now know three people by the name of Georg Ermel , all of whom came from Calau, all of whom held the title of “Rector” at least for a time, and who all lived in close proximity around the middle of the 17th century leads to confusion and incorrect biographies guided. They are:

  • Georg Ermel (1659–1745), the rector of the Princely School in Grimma treated here
  • Georg Ermel (1617 / 18–1685), archdeacon of the monastery church in Cottbus.
  • Georg Ermel (around 1600 to after 1667), cantor and rector as well as councilor in Calau, author of the first known Wendish ABC booklet.

Works (selection)

Fonts
  • Periodikon, sive de periodo interpungenda. Leipzig 1711

Note: Ermel is not the author of a treatise de Syllogismis ascribed to him by Adelung .

Others

literature

  • Johann Christoph Adelung : Ermel, (George,). In: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general lexico of scholars, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Vol. 2, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1787, Sp. 916. ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Gottlob Siegismund Ermel: M. George Ermel. In: Old and new from the electoral Saxon city of Grimma. Part 1, Leißnig 1792, p. 18. ( Digitized version of the StaBi )
  • Samuel Grosser : Georgius Ermelius. In: Lausitzische Merckworthiness [...]. David Richter, Leipzig and Budissin 1714, 4th part, p. 180. ( Digitized version of the BSB )
  • Wilhelm Kosch, Bruno Berger, Heinz Rupp: Ermel, Georg. In: Deutsches Literaturlexikon: biographical-bibliographical manual. Vol. 4, Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1972, p. 437.
  • Eduard Wunder : M. Georgius Ermel. In: Illustris Moldani dedicati ante hos CCIC annos memoriam anniversariam […]. Grimma 1849, pp. 11-12.

Maintaining the Ermel tradition in Grimma

In the auditorium of the St. Augustin grammar school in Grimma there is a historical oil painting showing Rector Ermel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Christian von Schmidt: Chronicle of the Creyß-Stadt Calau in Marggrafthum Nieder-Lausitz, together with its statutes, recesses, privileges and other old documents. Driemel, Lübben 1758, p. 118. ( digitized version of the SUB )
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Merbach: History of the district town of Calau in the Markgrafthume Niederlausitz. Driemel, Lübben 1833, p. 254.
  3. ↑ Michael Ermel: Confusion about three Saxon-Lower Lusatian personalities of the 17th century named Georg Ermel . In: New Archive for Saxon History (NASG) Volume 86, 2015, p. 203.
  4. ↑ Georg Erler: The younger matriculation of the University of Leipzig 1559-1809, edited as a person and place register and supplemented by additions from the doctoral lists. Verlag Giesecke & Devrient, 1909, 2nd volume, p. 95.
  5. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 2. Halle (Saale), 1952, p. 102.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Gottlob Peck: Reliable news from the […] members who have been accepted into the Sophianische Prediger-Gesellschaft zu Dreßden since 1655th to 1741st. Dresden 1741, p. 13. ( digitized version of the SLUB )
  7. ↑ Johann Siegmund Heinsius: Historical draft of the religious and church essence to Forst in the Niederlausiz [...]. JT Sieffardt, Pförten 1758, p. 135 f.
  8. ↑ Otto Fischer: Ermel, Georg. In: Evangelical pastor's book for the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation. Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, 1941, Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 185.
  9. ↑ Michael Ermel: Confusion about three Saxon-Lower Lusatian personalities of the 17th century named Georg Ermel . In: New Archive for Saxon History (NASG) 86th Volume, 2015, pp. 199–208.
  10. ↑ Eduard wonder: Illustris Moldani dedicati ante hos annos CCIC memoriam anniversariam [...]. Grimma 1849, p. 12.
  11. ^ Christian Gottlob Lorenz: The city of Grimma in the kingdom of Saxony. Dyk'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1856, p. 289 f.
  12. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Portrait of the Rector George Ermel. In: Descriptive representations of the older architectural and art monuments in Saxony. 19. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma, Verlag CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden, 1897, p. 108.
  13. ↑ Sarah Schrempel: The picture dispute between the high school St. Augustin and the district museum Grimma. Grimma 2013, p. 65. ( Online PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Ermel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermel, George; Ermelius, Georgius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Calau
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1745
Place of death Grimma