Gustav Queck

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Gustav Queck (born March 18, 1822 in Zadelsdorf in Thuringia , † 1897 in Treptow an der Rega ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Gustav Adolf Queck (that's the full name; later he was limited to the nickname Gustav) was the son of the school teacher Johann Gottlob Queck and Maria Elisabeth born. Table village. From 1833 he attended the Rutheneum high school in Gera and studied classical philology and theology at the University of Jena from 1841 to 1845 . A formative academic teacher was Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand , who encouraged Queck to do scientific work. Queck later published a biography of his teacher after his death (1851) . He became a member of the philological seminary at an early age and was later its senior for two years. From 1844 he taught at the newly founded educational institution of Karl Volkmar Stoy . In the same year he won the prize of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena with his font De Euripidis Electra . The font was also accepted as a doctoral thesis . In 1845 he also won the Lynker scholarship and gave a speech on the theologian Martin Chemnitz in the university church , which was printed in the same year.

On July 1, 1845 Queck began teaching as a collaborator at the Princely School College in Sondershausen . His practical experience and professional aptitude enabled him to forego the usual probationary year. In October 1850 he was appointed senior teacher and at Easter 1853 professor. During his 21 years at the Sondershausen High School, Queck continued his scientific work. He published stylistic studies on Livy , an annotated school edition of Caesar 's De bello civili and a critical complete edition by the poet Publius Papinius Statius . For the 300th anniversary of the University of Jena, he wrote an article about the relationships between the higher schools and the university.

In the autumn of 1848 Queck successfully applied for a mandate in what was called the “ Landtag appointed to agree the constitution ” of the principality . In 93 meetings from the beginning of June 1849 to mid-March 1850, the state parliament (following the initiative of the state government) created a new state constitution and electoral code that were appropriate to the revolution of 1848.

In November 1861 Queck applied to be a city councilor in Sondershausen; he was elected for six years from early 1862.

When the management of the Arnstadt high school became vacant at the beginning of 1866, Queck did not succeed in moving up there and he resigned from his position at the end of March. When he was released, he was awarded the gold medal for merit in art and science.

At Easter 1866 Queck left Sondershausen and went to the Prussian school service in Pomerania . He became the first full teacher and prorector at the municipal grammar school in Pyritz . On October 1, 1867, he was appointed rector of the newly founded Progymnasium in Dramburg , which opened on October 10. Queck headed this institution for 25 years. During this time he accompanied the construction of the new school building, which was inaugurated on October 18, 1869 and contained apartments for students, teachers and an official apartment for the rector. A year later the Progymnasium was promoted to grammar school and Queck to the director. On September 16, 1879 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. Shortly after the 25th school anniversary, Queck retired on October 1, 1892. On this occasion he received the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class. Queck spent his old age in Treptow at Rega , where he died a few years later.

Gustav Queck married Ida Johanna Rosetta Schubert (* 1825) on October 3, 1847 in Markvippach , a daughter of the administrator and manor owner August Schubert and his wife Amalie Wilhelmine nee. Steinert. One of the couple's sons was the high school teacher Georg Queck (* 1850).

Fonts (selection)

  • De Euripidis Electra . Jena 1844 (dissertation)
  • De Martino Chemnitio Theologo Brunsvicensi; oratio quam ad memoriam Augustanae confessionis pie recolendam ex lege beneficii Lynckeriani die XXX. m. Maii a. MDCCCXLV in templo Paulino academico habuit . Jena 1845
  • Contributions to the characteristics of Livy . Sondershausen 1847 (school program)
  • Ferdinand Gotthelf hand after his life and work . Jena 1852 ( digitized version )
  • C. Julii Caesaris Commentariorum de bello civili libri tres. Explained for school use and provided with references to the grammars of Putsche and Zumpt . Jena 1853
  • Second contribution to the characteristics of Livy . Sondershausen 1853 (school program)
  • Publius Papinius Statius . Two volumes, Leipzig 1854
  • De quadam gymnasiorum et literarum universitatum inter se necessitudine . Sondershausen 1858 (school program)
  • De Madvigii emendationibus Livianis disputatio . Sondershausen 1861
  • Report on the establishment and opening of the Progymnasium along with two speeches . Dramburg 1868 (school program)
  • The inauguration of the new school building on October 18, 1869 . Dramburg 1870 (school program)

literature

  • Annual report on the Prince. Schwarzb. Gymnasium in Sondershausen, to announce the public examination of the same on March 30, 1846 . Sondershausen 1846, p. 28.
  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 450.
  • Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Leipzig 1882, p. 216.
  • German literary newspaper . Volume 18, No. 15, April 17, 1897, p. 593.
  • Günther Lutze: On the school history of the city of Sondershausen. Supplement to the annual report of the Prince. Gymnasium and the Fürstl. Realschule zu Sondershausen for the period from Easter 1904 to Easter 1905. Sondershausen 1905 (program no. 864 ), p. 34.
  • Jochen Lengemann (collaboration: Karl-Heinz Becker, Jens Beger, Christa Hirschler, Andrea Ziegenhardt): Landtag and regional representative of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1843–1923. Biographical manual. Jena 1998. ISBN 3437353683 . (P. 232f .: Short biography of Gustav Queck, with portrait.)

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Queck  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deviating year of birth 1821, as in the annual report Sondershausen 1846, repeated in Lutze 1905 and Lengemann 1998. The correct year of birth (in Eckstein and Pökel) is confirmed by an official document, the personal form (see web links).
  2. ↑ See minutes of meetings 1849 ( digital version ). Queck was elected as a deputy member of the state parliament committee. The committee remained in office until the next state parliament.
  3. ↑ See the supplements to the protocols ( digitized version ) and Lengemann p. 28f. The task of the next Landtag, to which Queck was no longer a member, was to abolish as many of these achievements as possible.
  4. ↑ in direct public election according to the three-class electoral law of 1857 ( town regulations §§63ff. ).
  5. ↑ Der Deutsche 1861 No. 137 .
  6. ↑ Der Deutsche 1866 No. 6 .
  7. ↑ In Bruno Huschke's words: “[Queck] celebrated the year 1848 with many other young hearts as the dawn of a new, happy time and, according to his enthusiastic temperament, repeatedly expressed this feeling in public meetings. [...] the ruling lord never forgave such things . [...] the Minister von Keyser had received such a harsh rejection from the prince at the first hint [the vacancy was filled by Queck] that he could not dare to come back to the suggestion. ”( Lebensbilder from Schwarzburg-Sondershausen: Das Gymnasium , in Der Deutsche 1904 No. 156.)
  8. ↑ Der Deutsche 1866 No. 35 .
  9. ↑ with a friendly farewell: Der Deutsche 1866 No. 38 .
  10. ^ Annotation of death and thanks in Der Deutsche 1864 No. 29 ; Registration office information in No. 31 .
personal data
SURNAME Queck, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Queck, Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Zadelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH 1897
Place of death Treptow at Rega