Gustav Lahmeyer (teacher)

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Friedrich Gustav Lahmeyer (born May 5, 1827 in Hanover , † January 8, 1915 in Kassel ) was a German high school teacher. The classical philologist became known through his school text editions of Cicero .

Life

Gustav Lahmeyer, son of the organist and music teacher Johann Friedrich Lahmeyer , visited the Lyceum in his hometown and studied classical philology in Göttingen from 1845 . In 1848 he was one of the founders of the Hannovera fraternity . In the winter semester 1848/49 he completed his studies with the state examination , and then earned his Dr. phil.

Afterwards he was a collaborator (comparable to a teacher) in the higher education service and from 1853 a senior teacher at the Lyceum in Hanover, which he had already attended as a pupil. He started a quick career as a high school teacher and school councilor. As early as 1856 he became the vice-principal at the Johanneum grammar school in Lüneburg , 1866 director at the grammar school Lingen and two years later director at the grammar school Andreanum in Hildesheim. In 1869 he was a member of the first Hanover regional synod .

In 1873 he was appointed to the provincial school council for Schleswig-Holstein and director of the scientific examination committee for the higher teaching post in Kiel . When these authorities were moved to the city of Schleswig in 1879 , he moved there. In 1882 he was a member of the second general synod in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1883 Lahmeyer was transferred to the Provincial School College for the Province of Hesse-Nassau in Kassel . The following year he also took over the position of director of the educational seminar for higher schools in this province. In 1898 he also became director of the examination office for candidates for the higher teaching post of the province of Hessen-Nassau in Marburg . In 1901 Lahmeyer was appointed "Really Secret Upper Government and School Council" and director of the provincial school council in Kassel. He retired in 1904 at the old age of 77.

Lahmeyer is known as the publisher of school books with texts by Cicero at BG Teubner Verlag (Leipzig 1857, 1862, 1866).

Honors

  • 1888 Awarded the title of a secret councilor
  • 1899 D. theol. hc from the University of Kiel
  • 1904 honorary member of the Provincial School Council Hessen-Nassau
  • 1907 Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class (with diamonds on the occasion of his 80th birthday)

Publications (selection)

  • De libelli Plutarchei qui de malignitate Herodoti inscribitur et auctoritate et auctore, "Typis et impensis Dieterichianis". Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Göttingen 1848 (dissertation).
  • Orationis de Haruspicum Responso Habitae Originem Tullianam . Göttingen 1850 ( digitized ).
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Ad T. Pomponium Atticum de senectute liber qui inscribitur Cato Maior declared for school use . Teubner, Leipzig 1857 ( digitized version ).
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis de amicitia liber, qui inscribitur Laelius, declared for school use . Teubner, Leipzig 1862.
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato Maior de Senectute . Teubner, Leipzig 1866, 4th edition 1877 ( digitized version ).
  • The inauguration of the new school building [of the royal. Andreanums] . Hildesheim 1870.

literature

  • Handbook on the Royal Prussian State. 1874-1904
  • German Biographical Lexicon. Biographical manual of contemporary German men and women. Schulze, Leipzig 1905, p. 830.
  • German Biographical Yearbook. Transition Volume I: 1914-1916. DVA, Stuttgart a. a. 1925, p. 333.
  • Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity Hannovera zu Göttingen 1848–1998 . Düsseldorf 1998
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , p. 219.
  • Franz Kössler: Lahmeyer, Gustav . In: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 with lists of publications. Volume: Labs - Lyon. Giessen electronic library 2008, p. 17 ( preprint University of Giessen ).

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personal data
SURNAME Lahmeyer, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lahmeyer, Friedrich Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1915
Place of death kassel