Gustav Cordgia

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Carl Gustav Kordgien (born January 3, 1838 in Fischhausen / East Prussia , † October 3, 1907 in Hamburg ) was a German and Romanist in Buenos Aires and Hamburg.

Life

Kordgien was a son of Carl Kordgien, who was chief inspector in Grünhof in 1838 , and in 1858 of a particular in Königsberg , and his wife Auguste nee. Podlech. After graduating from the Collegium Fridericianum Michaelis in 1858, he studied law and camera science and new languages ​​at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In the winter semester of 1858/59 he joined the Corps Masovia . After the first state examination, Kordgien worked for some time as a trainee lawyer in Königsberg. In 1865 he went to Argentina . In Buenos Aires he became a teacher and later director of the German secondary school Vorwärts . From 1870 to 1875 he taught as a professor of German language and literature at the University of Buenos Aires . He later returned to Germany and from 1879 until the end of 1906 he headed the Commercial Science Institute in Hamburg with great success . Numerous merchants and industrialists learned Spanish and Portuguese in this institute for language and business studies. So that they could use both languages ​​in practice, Kordgien wrote a number of language books, some of which were repeatedly reprinted by large publishers.

Kordgien married Antonie (Antonia?) Krauss on June 1, 1865 in Buenos Aires (born May 18, 1844 in Bremen). The couple had two daughters and a son.

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  • Klaus Bürger : Carl Gustav Kordgien . In: Old Prussian Biography, edited by Ernst Bahr and Gerd Brausch on behalf of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research. Marburg / Lahn 1995.
  • German Contemporaries Lexicon, Leipzig 1905, Col. 783
  • Who is it , 3rd edition, 1908, p. 729
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Vol. 31 (1909), Col. 876 f.
  • Teachers and high school graduates of the Kgl. Friedrichs College of Königsberg i. Pr. 1698-1898 . Reprint of the Königsberg 1898 edition in Hamburg 1969, p. 38 (special publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia 10)
  • Complete directory of German-language literature 1700–1910 , Vol. 79 (1983), p. 84
  • Hamburg State Archive , newspaper clippings collection A 760

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 89/586
  2. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823-2005 . Potsdam 2006
  3. ↑ So far it has not been possible to clarify which writings Kordgien published as "Otto Peregrinus". The pseudonym is also listed in the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Cordgia, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kordgien, Carl Gustav (full name); Peregrinus, Otto (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Germanist, Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischhausen , Samland, East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1907
Place of death Hamburg