Georg Meisner

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Georg Meisner , also George , Meißner (born April 13, 1561 in Lübeck , † October 22, 1597 ibid) was a German educator.

Life

Georg Meisner was the son of the merchant Johannes Meisner, who died in Norway in 1566 . After 1567 his mother Sophia, b. Bardtmann, who died in Copenhagen, was brought up by his godparents. He visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . Even as a schoolboy, the mayor Hermann von Dorne appointed him to be the informator for his son of the same name . In 1584 Meisner accompanied him to study at the University of Rostock. On April 21, 1586, Meisner obtained the degree of master's degree in Rostock . In 1587 he went to the University of Wittenberg and in 1589 to the University of Marburg . Here he wrote an introductory poem for Otto Walper's Grammatica Graeca in 1590 ; he has also represented Walper at lectures and seminars. In 1591 he accompanied two Hessian noblemen to the University of Tübingen as court master .

In October 1592 the Lübeck Council appointed him sub-rector at the Katharineum in Lübeck. In the following year, 1593, he made sure that Walper, who had to leave Marburg for religious reasons, was appointed rector.

Plague cross from 1598

In 1597 Meisner fell victim to the Lübeck plague epidemic . The plague cross from 1598 on St. Lorenz Church still commemorates the 7,000 dead (around a third of the population of Lübeck at that time) . He was buried in the Petrikirche . His successor was Joachim Drenckhan .

Georg Meisner was married to Gertrud, b. Schellenberger, a daughter of the Lübeck council pharmacist David Schellenberger. The couple's son, David, graduated with a master's degree in Rostock in 1619 and became a pastor at the German Church in Stockholm .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ August Tholuck : The academic life of the seventeenth century with special reference to the Protestant theological faculties in Germany: according to handwritten sources. Anton, Halle 1853, p. 55
  4. ↑ Dominik Collet, Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen: Scenes of environmental history in Schleswig-Holstein: Workshop report: Graduiertenkolleg 1024 Interdisciplinary environmental history. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2013, p. 85 (digitized version)
  5. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Meisner, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meisner, George; Meissner, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1561
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1597
Place of death Lübeck