Gustav Koepke

Georg Gustav Samuel Köpke (born October 4, 1773 in Medow ; † June 28, 1837 in Berlin ) was a German educator , philologist and theologian, director of the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin and from 1830-1832 one of Otto von Bismarck's teachers .

Life

Gustav Köpke was the son of the evangelical pastor Samuel Anastasius Christoph Köpcke in Medow near Anklam , and Johanne Salome, née. Hasselbach. He attended the Latin school in Anklam and from 1788 the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. In 1791 he went to the University of Halle to study theology. However, his financial means were only sufficient for two years of study and attendance at a philological college with Friedrich August Wolf . Although his interest had shifted from theology to philology, in order to satisfy his father, he took the exam pro licentia concionandi before the Faith Commission in Stettin .

Mediated by Johann Heinrich Ludwig Meierotto , Friedrich Gedike accepted him into the educational seminar for learned schools. From 1793 he taught at the Köllnische Schule , which at that time was attached to the grammar school for the Gray Monastery. In 1797, at Gedike's suggestion, he was elected the ninth full teacher at the Gray Monastery and confirmed as a “ collaborator ” after an examination by the spiritual “Immediat Examinations Commission” .

He was on May 9, 1798 Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Halle doctorate . On September 6, 1800 he was appointed full professor and prorector of the Berlin and Köllnische schools. This improved his income situation in the following years, so that he no longer had to give private lessons and write newspaper articles. From 1810 to 1828 he taught German at the newly founded General War School , and from 1816 also the history of old and new literature. During the wars of liberation he led a composition of the Landsturm as captain .

In the years 1816/1817 he was a member of the scientific commission at the Consistory in Berlin for pedagogy. On June 1, 1821, he was appointed co-director "cum spe succendi" of the grammar school at the Gray Monastery. He became a member in 1824 and was director of the royal scientific examination board for history and geography from 1826 to 1831. The University of Heidelberg made him a doctorate in theology on December 8, 1827, which was the prerequisite for the sole directorate at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, which he took over on October 6, 1828.

In 1831 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class, for which he was awarded the ribbon in 1835. He died in 1837 after a brief illness, his grave was in the St. Marien and St. Nikolai Cemetery I in the Prenzlauer Berg district .

family

Gustav Köpke married Henriette Rohleder († January 9, 1835), daughter of a superintendent, on August 5, 1802. Of their five children, two sons and two daughters survived their parents. One son, Gustav Anton Heinrich Köpke (1805-1859), was a privy councilor, chief auditor and musician; the other, Ernst Siegfried (1813–1883) worked as a teacher. His daughter Emilie Antigone (born May 26, 1803, † January 10, 1871) was married to Leopold von Caprivi (1797-1865).

Works

• About the warfare of the Greeks in the heroic age. In addition to an appendix containing the most distinguished tactical inventions of the post-Homer era , Berlin 1807.

• On the question: Should Greek language instruction precede Latin in our learned schools; or the other way around? In: Archiv deutscher Nationalbildung 1, no. 4, 1812, pp. 485–508 ( digitized version ).
• De Statu Et Condicione Christianorum Sub Imperatoribus Romanis Alterius Post Christum Seculi. Dissertatio Inauguralis, Berlin 1828, 50 p. (= Theol. Dissertation, Heidelberg 1828; also printed: Program of the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grau Kloster, Berlin 1828).

literature

• Johann Gustav Droysen : Nekrolog . In: Supplement to the Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schehrten Dinge (Spenersche Zeitung) No. 157, July 8, 1837, pp. 1a – 2a [published anonymously].
• Theodor Heinsius : Necrology of the director at the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grau Kloster, Mr. Georg Gustav Samuel Köpke, Doctors of Theology and Philosophy, Knight of the Red Eagle Order, third class with the ribbon, born. October 4, 1773, d. June 28, 1837, in the 64th year of life and 44th year of office , Berlin 1837 [= separate print from the state newspaper no. 202, 1837; also in: Program of the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grau Kloster 1838, pp. 1-8].
• Ernst Köpke:  Köpke, (Georg) Gustav (Samuel) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 667-670.
• Entry . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 15, Part 2, 1837, pp. 664–668

Web links

• Works by and about Gustav Köpke  in the German Digital Library
• Literature about Gustav Köpke in the state bibliography MV