Gotthilf August Benjamin Schierenberg

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Gotthilf August Benjamin Schierenberg (born March 18, 1808 in Horn , † October 21, 1894 in Lucerne ) was a German businessman, local researcher, amateur archaeologist and author as well as mayor of Horn and several times a member of the Lippe state parliament.

As a local researcher and amateur archaeologist, Schierenberg devoted himself in particular to the Externsteinen, on which he published numerous non-academic writings that did not even come close to scientific methods - some of which were self-published. The following was written about Schierenberg: "He became the horror of the philologists and the historical associations of his time and, for his part, complained bitterly about the treatment he had received in the final chapter of the above-mentioned book: The Martyrdom of a Dilettante."

August Schierenberg was married to Louise, born in 1857. Des Coudres († around 1875), who until 1863 ran a private school for girls in the Weißer Hirsch am Großer Hirschgraben in Frankfurt am Main . In 1891, a foundation established by Schierenberg managed to build a nursery for small children ( Karolinenanstalt ) in Horn. The building is now a listed building.

Works

  • The Romans in the Cheruscan Country. Frankfurt am Main 1862
  • Secretiora Germaniae or Germany's sacred mountains - fragmentary contributions to the (so-called) Nordic legend of the gods and the German hero legend. Detmold: Böger, 1872
  • A historical walk from Tropaea Drusi over the Exterstein to the Idistavisus campus. Detmold 1875
  • The Externstein at the time of paganism in Westphalia. Detmold: self-rel. of the author [u. a.], 1879
  • The riddle of the Varus battle or how and where did the legions of Varus perish? Frankfurt a. M.: [Staudt], 1888
  • The Ariadne thread for the labyrinth of the Edda or the Edda a daughter of the Teutoburg Forest. Frankfurt a. M.: Reitz & Köhler in Comm., 1889
  • The gods of the Germanic peoples or Vom Eddarausch the Scandinavians and their Katzenjammer (a voice from the Teutoburg Forest). Detmold: Schenk in Comm., [1894]

literature

  • Hermann Jellinghaus : A. Schierenberg (obituary). In: Korrespondenzblatt des Verein für Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung 18.1 (1894/95), pp. 1–5 ( Google Books ; limited preview)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www2.llb-detmold.de/Autoren/Schi_G.pdf
  2. ^ City of Detmold: Saxony and Franconia in Lippe. ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed 2017, from Erich Kittel : Heimatchronik des Kreis Lippe. 1978, p. 37 and Klaus Kösters : Myth Arminius: the Varus battle and its consequences. 2009, page 258 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lippe-owl.de
  3. ↑ Jens Buchner (Ed.): Stadtgeschichte Horn 1248–1998 (=  special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe . Volume 53 ). Hütte-Verlag, Horn-Bad Meinberg 1997, ISBN 3-922417-13-2 , p. 112 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schierenberg, Gotthilf August Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, local researcher, amateur archaeologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH horn
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1894
Place of death Lucerne