Gustav Friedrich Ramtour

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Gustav Friedrich Ramtour (born December 22, 1798 ; † around 1858 in Breslau ) was a German preacher , theologian , philosopher , educator and head of a teaching and educational institution in Breslau.

origin

Gustav Friedrich Ramtour was born in 1798 (or 1796) as the first of five children of Huguenot-born Adolf Ramtour in Breslau (or in the area around Breslau). From around 1814/1815 the father worked in the office of a royal court or in a military office in Wroclaw. According to his son, the father gave up his post due to excessive demands, war events, his good-naturedness and false friends. Adolf Ramtour was sued around 1818/1819 and sentenced to one year imprisonment (from 1820) at the Breslau town hall on condition that he was able to support himself from his own resources during this time. After the arrest (around 1821), a breast disease developed into dropsy of the breast . He died in poverty around 1821 and was buried without a church burial.

The origin of the Ramtour family cannot be clearly proven in terms of name geography, linguistics and genealogy. The family name can be derived from the German name Ramthor / (from) Ramdo (h) r or from the French name Ram (e) court or from Rambour .

Life

Gustav Friedrich Ramtour attended primary school in Breslau from around 1804 to 1807 and a grammar school from around 1807 to 1812. In the years 1812 and 1813 he broke off an apprenticeship as a businessman and an apprenticeship as a retailer and became a clerk at a Wroclaw judicial commissioner.

At times he was employed as a clerk at the Higher Regional Court in Poznan and as an officer in the office of the Royal Court in Breslau . From around 1813 to 1815 he worked as a military officer or dietarius in a military office. Around 1820 he regulated the official registry of a former religious education teacher and became an assistant and sexton at an elementary school (adjuvant post). From 1820/1821 he continued to take on debts that he was unable to repay until the writing of his autobiography (1833).

Around 1820 Ramtour was looking for the Secret Cabinet Councilor of King Friedrich Wilhelm III in Potsdam . up and described his financial needs. He promised to stand up for him with the king. A few weeks later the University of Breslau was ordered by royal order to support Ramtour in studying theology and philosophy. Around 1824 he passed his exam re-examination with "good". After unsuccessful applications for ordination at the general substitute in Breslau, he took up the second pastor's position and the post of deacon and rector in Trachenberg around 1831 (until around 1837). In 1833 he published the autobiographical work " Path to the Preaching Office or Fates of Everyday Life ", from which some "indecisions" were removed by the censors . From 1836 onwards he presented numerous “examiners” to the public who were heavily criticized by famous educators such as Adolph Diesterweg . He was a member of the Freemason lodge "Friedrich zum Golden Scepter" in Breslau and since 1848 at the latest the head of a private teaching and educational institution for boys in Breslau, which he had founded himself.

Works

  • My way to the ministry or fates in everyday life , Breslau 1833
  • Speech at the inauguration of the new Protestant burial ground in Trachenberg , Breslau 1834
  • Doesn't every evangelical clergyman have to wish for the sake of religion and his own dignity that his income be fixed? In: Schlesische Provinzialblätter: No. 101/1835, pages 557-566; No. 102/1835, pages 11-16, 115-121. Wroclaw.
  • Eighty and eighty geographic lessons or the first course in the description of the earth: a preparation and review booklet for pupils of the two lowest grammar school classes and larger community schools , Glogau, Flemming 1836.
  • The examiner in the German language: a preparation and review booklet for lessons in the German language / Gustav Ramtour. In addition to an introduction by Ms. Nösselt , Breslau, Hentze 1838
  • The examiner in Brandenburg-Prussian history , Breslau 1839
  • Forget-me-not , Faithful , prayer on New Years morning . In: Honor wreath for Joh. Wilh. Oelsner: Masonic poems from the archives of the Friedrich Lodge on the Golden Scepter in the Oriente in Breslau, pp. 134, 135 and 250, Breslau 1843
  • Translation of the work On the great teaching art of Comenius . In: Writings of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture, pages 50–54, Breslau: 1844

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlesisches Writer Lexicon: or bio-bibliographical index of the Silesian writers living in the second quarter of the 19th century / Nowack, Karl Gabriel. - Wroclaw. - 1836-43 (6 vol.), Vol. V, p. 136f. In most libraries, however, 1796 is given as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Klawitter, Gabriel: History of the censorship in Silesia. Breslau 1934. p. 193.
personal data
SURNAME Ramtour, Gustav Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German preacher, theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH around 1858
Place of death Wroclaw