Gotthilf Samuel Falbe

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Gotthilf Samuel Falbe (born April 11, 1768 in Woldenberg , † June 23, 1849 in Stargard ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director. He headed the Collegium Groeningianum in Stargard in Pomerania .

Life

Falbe was born in Woldenberg in the Neumark as the son of an arable citizen . His family is said to have been a knight once. He first attended the city school in Woldenberg and then moved in 1783 to the Friedrichswerder high school in Berlin , where the director Friedrich Gedike promoted him. From 1790 he studied, supported by scholarships, at the University of Halle . Here he studied Protestant theology , but also attended Friedrich August Wolf's philological seminar . From 1792 he attended Gedike's seminar for the education of learned schoolmen.

In 1793 he went to Stargard in Pomerania , where he became professor at the Collegium Groeningianum and sub-principal of the council school. In 1806 he was promoted to rector of both schools. When the Pomeranian government got its seat in Stargard, he also became a school councilor . In 1812, under his leadership, the Collegium, the Realschule and the Ratsschule were combined to form the “State and Gröning'schen Gymnasium”. Until his retirement in 1848 he headed the grammar school.

In addition to school service, he devoted himself to classical philology, but published almost only essays in school programs . In addition, he researched and published the history of the Stargard schools.

Falbe died childless in 1849. He used almost all of his fortune for benevolent purposes and for scientific work; it was run as the Falbesche Foundation . He left his extensive library and his manuscripts to his school.

Fonts

  • An attempt at a history of the illustrious Grönig Collegium . Stargard 1799 ( online ).
  • History of the high school and the schools in Stargard together with the two wills of the well-deserved mayor Gröning, the benevolent founder of the local high school . Stargard 1831 ( online ).

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II, Volume 4. Anklam 1868, pp. 799-803 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Falbe, Gotthilf Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Woldenberg
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1849
Place of death Stargard