Georg Heinrich Gündell

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Georg Heinrich Gündell (also: Georg Heinrich Gündel ; * March 23, 1772 in Hoya ; † April 17, 1835 in Wunstorf ) was a German clergyman, royal Hanoverian field provost at the garrison church in Hanover , superintendent in Wunstorf and local researcher on the history of the Guelphs .

Life

family

Georg Heinrich Gündell was a member of the von Gündell family, who came from Winsen an der Luhe , and was the son of Jacob Heinrich Gündell (* 1734; † 1821; 1786–1790 titular captain, 1791–1794 captain, 1795–1798 major in the 1st Infantry) Regiment) and Anna Catharia Lüderssen (1740-1825).

Gündell married his wife Mary Ann Housell (1780-1825) in Bath , England , in 1805 .

Career

Georg Heinrich Gündell was born at the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover in 1772 in the town of Hoya in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

He first studied in Verden and in Göttingen at the Georg-August University . After he had enrolled on May 5, 1791 to study theology, he studied in Göttingen in the winter semester 1792/93 from July 4, 1792 for a semester also experimental physics with the mathematician Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . In the previous semester his residence in Göttingen was first with Mr. "Captain Gündell" - probably his father - then with Tiddelbach in Groner Straße, then with Klenert am Papendiek and in the winter semester 1792/93 finally with widow Wettengel in Teichstraße. Gündell's diploma in theology was dated February 8, 1798.

During the French occupation he worked from March 17, 1804 under the Hanoverian Viceroy Adolph Friederich on the staff of officers in the Royal German Legion that against the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte fought as a brigade - army chaplain . His colleagues were temporarily Heinrich Friedrich Rambke and Friedrich Daniel Buchholz .

In the early days of the Kingdom of Hanover , Gündell took on the duties of an archdeacon in Dannenberg for a short time in 1816 , only to work in the same year and as the field provost of the royal army from 1816 to 1829 at the garrison church in Hanover. The composer Louis Spohr mentioned him in his letter sent from London to Wilhelm Speyer in Frankfurt am Main on April 17, 1820 .

At the Hanoverian garrison church on Schmiedestraße at the corner of Kniehauerstraße, Gündel was assisted in 1820 by organist Johann Heinrich Firnhaber and sexton Johann Heinrich Christoph Wolter, from 1822 also by collaborator Karl Reinecke for several years before he - after an interruption - from 1829 the Successor to Gündell as the first pastor of the garrison church.

Also in 1829 Georg Heinrich Gündell changed to the position of superintendent in the city of Wunstorf, where he died in 1835.

No writings seem to be known by Gündell, but he had "[...] with a lot of diligence for a noble person collected materials for a story of the princes from the house of Braunschweig and Lüneburg".

Honors

Georg Heinrich Gündell was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Guelph Order before 1837 .

literature

  • Heinrich Lathwesen: Wunstorf clergy in eight centuries. Biographical contributions to a church history , Wunstorf 1985, p. 42ff.
  • Hans Funke: Die Garrisonprediger in Hannover until 1866. In: Norddeutsche Familienkunde in connection with the Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde , Heft 1, 1988, pp. 262-274 (also Norddeutsche Familienkunde , Vol. 14 (1987); Vol. 14 = year 37, issue 1 from January – March 1988)
  • Mahrenholtz (4)
  • German Biographical Archive , Vol. 1, pp. 453, 44f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers , Vol. 2, Bremen: Carl Schünemann, 1823, p. 204; Preview over google books
  2. ^ A b c d Karl Traugott Goldbach (ed.): Gündel, Georg Heinrich in the Spohr Briefe database , published on behalf of the International Louis Spohr Society, [undated], last accessed on April 19, 2017
  3. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility , ed. with the support of the Royal Herald Office, Vol. 1, 1892, p. 179; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ a b c d e Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenbergs Hörer (= Lichtenberg Studies , Vol. 14), Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0015-6 and ISBN 3-8353-0015-6 , p. 257; Preview over google books
  6. ^ A b North Ludlow Beamish : History of the Royal German Legion , Part 2, Hanover: Verlag der Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1837, p. 16; Preview over google books
  7. ^ A b Franz Rudolf Zankl : Pastor Ernst Carl Friedrich Reinecke with his family. Oil painting. Around 1835 , in the latter. (Ed.): Hanover Archive , Sheet P 11
  8. ^ Royal Great Britain-Hanover State Calendar to the year 1821 , Nienburg 1821, p. 309; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Gündell, Georg Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gündel, Georg Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, field preacher of the Kings German Legion, royal Hanover garrison preacher and field provost
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoya
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1835
Place of death Wunstorf