Gotthilf Samuel Hecker

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Gotthilf Samuel Hecker (born February 17, 1753 in Stargard in Pomerania ; † May 9, 1825 there ) was a German schoolboy and theologian .

Hecker came from a large family; he was the sixth of his parents' 13 children. His father was Andreas Petrus Hecker , born in Werden an der Ruhr , brother of the school reformer Johann Julius Hecker , in whose spirit he founded the Stargarder Realschule in 1759. Before he died in 1771, he was the last archdeacon at the Marienkirche in Stargard .

Gotthilf Samuel Hecker attended the Vangerowsche Realschule in his home town of Stargard and then the Collegium Groeningianum and studied philosophy and theology at the University of Halle from 1771 to 1774 under Nösselt , Johann Ludwig Schulze and Gottlieb Anastasius Freylinghausen .

In 1774 he returned to Stargard and took over a teaching position at the secondary school. In 1780 he became a teacher at the royal high school in Berlin and the associated pedagogy. After three and a half years he returned to his hometown, where he worked at the secondary school from 1784 to 1812, where he was then rector. He was also pastor at the Stargard prison and teacher at the Collegium Groeningianum, where he taught Latin and Hebrew , among other things . On September 24, 1824 he celebrated his 50th anniversary in office before he died a year later in Stargard.

Works (selection)

  • Message from the Vangerow secondary school in Stargard . 1759. (This paper was continued in 1760 and 1770)
  • CV of seelig. Mr. Friedrich R. Vangerow etc. along with a message from the secondary school . 1760.

literature

  • Gotthilf Samuel Falbe: Gotthilf Samuel Hecker, prorector of the Stargarder Gymnasium, shown after his life and work . 1825.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Nekrolog der Deutschen (Friedrich August Schmidt, ed.). 3rd volume, 1st issue, Ilmenau 1827, pp. 503-527.
  2. ↑ Hugo Bloth: "Building a bridge between the Burg- and Gröning'schen Gymnasium in Essen and Stargard for more than 150 years. In: Festschrift 150 Jahre Burggymnasium Essen. Essen 1974. P. 32f.
personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Gotthilf Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1825
Place of death Stargard in Pomerania