Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch

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Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch (around 1875)

Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch , also: Carl Masch , Karl Masch , sometimes wrong: Gottlieb Matthäus Carl Masch (born August 4, 1794 in Schlagsdorf ; † June 28, 1878 in Demern ) was a German theologian, rector, pastor, heraldist , numismatist and Historian .

Life

Citizens' school in Schönberg
Village church Demern (2009)

Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch came from an important old Mecklenburg pastor family. His grandfather, Andreas Gottlieb Masch (the elder, 1724–1807) was superintendent of the Stargard church district and a passionate historical researcher. His father, Friedrich (Ludwig Christian) Masch (1765–1838), was a pastor in Schlagsdorf , and his mother, Mrs. Sophia Eleonora Henriette, née. Simonis (1766–1834) a pastor's daughter.

Masch attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1813 and then studied Protestant theology in Kiel and Göttingen . He became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen. He later continued his studies in Kiel. For several years he worked as a private tutor before he came to the new community school in Schönberg (Mecklenburg) in 1826 , where he became rector in 1830. The school building, which was new at the time, is now used by the primary school on Oberteich . In 1838 he became pastor at the village church of Demern , where he worked until his death in 1878. In 1848 he was a member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives for the constituency of Mecklenburg-Strelitz / Principality of Ratzeburg 2 (Demern).

With more than 150 publications, Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch is one of the most important Mecklenburg regional historians of the 19th century. He was particularly interested in numismatics and heraldry. With 215 pictures of the coat of arms of the Mecklenburg nobility, he published the Mecklenburg coat of arms in 1837 .

Masch was a member of many learned societies and associations. In 1874 he became a knight of the House Order of the Wendish Crown . A special honor was the title of archivist , which Mecklenburg-Strelitz only awarded once.

Masch was married three times and had a son, Carl Friedrich Christian Masch (* 1827), who later became a pharmacist in (Bad) Sülze .

As a special curiosity, Masch stated in his will that he wanted to be buried along with his extensive library. So you dug your grave in the Demern cemetery much deeper than usual and finally put your coffin in the pit, which was already abundantly filled with books.

Works

  • Introduction to the genealogies of the princely houses of Europe and description of their coats of arms. F. Asschenfeldt, Lübeck 1824.
  • History of the Diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Asschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835 ( digitized ).
  • Mecklenburg Coat of Arms. Lithographs by Johann Gottfried Tiedemann. Lithographic Institute, Rostock 1837–1839 ( digitized version ).
  • History and documents of the von Kardorff family. Stiller in Comm., Schwerin 1850 ( digitized version ).
  • The Grand Ducal Antiquities and Coin Collection in Neustrelitz. Guide to the visitor of the same. [Sl] 1842
  • Laws, ordinances and orders issued for the Principality of Ratzeburg. L. Bicker, Schönberg 1851 ( digitized version ).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gottlieb Matthias Karl Masch  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About him - cf. ADB: Masch, Andreas Gottlieb . - A correction to ADB: Masch, Gottlieb Matthias Karl mistakenly calls his grandfather his great-uncle. However, there is no doubt about Masch's parentage. See the information on the father in Georg Krüger: The pastors in the Principality of Ratzeburg since the Reformation . Schönberg, 1899 ( digitized version ), p. 48, and the information on Masch himself, ibid. P. 35.
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 41
  3. ^ Matriculation in Kiel on May 6, 1813
  4. ↑ Franz Stadtmüller : Supplements to the corps inventory of Vandalia Göttingen in: Yearbook Einst und Jetzt Volume 12 (1967), pp. 92–95 (p. 95, No. 121)
  5. ↑ Masch was married to a granddaughter of the Mecklenburg pastor and enlightener Gottlob Burchard Genzmer (1716–1771). The question remains to what extent Masch came into possession of the Genzmer estate, which has been missing for more than two centuries (including autographs by Samuel Buchholtz , Johann Georg Krünitz , Carl von Linné , Friedrich Nicolai , Johann Joachim Winckelmann , Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and many others), which was last located in the possession of Masch's father-in-law. Perhaps Masch is also resting on these documents?
personal data
SURNAME Masch, Gottlieb Matthias Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Masch, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German numismatist, heraldist, genealogist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlagsdorf
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1878
Place of death Demern