Gustav Wustmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gustav Wustmann (before 1910)

Gustav Moritz Wustmann (born May 23, 1844 in Dresden , † December 22, 1910 in Leipzig ) was a German classical philologist , grammar school teacher , town historian , language curator and archivist .

Life

Gustav Wustmann (around 1900)

Gustav Wustmann, son of an official , attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden from 1854 to 1862 after the garrison free school . He then moved to Leipzig, where he studied classical philology at the university there until 1866 and received his doctorate with a thesis on the Greek painter Apelles . Immediately after passing the state examination , Wustmann initially worked briefly as a trial and assistant teacher at the St. Thomas School before he was transferred to the St. Nicholas School as a full high school teacher in the same year .

In 1881 he left the Nikolaischule as a senior teacher to take over the management of the Leipzig Council Archives and the local city ​​library on October 1st. Wustmann had already worked as a voluntary secretary in the city ​​library since 1871; a first application in the city ​​archives , in which he suggested scientific supervision of the archives, was rejected in 1876. In 1882 he also took over the chairmanship of the Society for the History of Leipzig for nine years . In 1897 Wustmann was appointed professor. Until his death after a serious bowel operation, Gustav Wustmann headed both the archive and the city library of Leipzig.

Gustav Wustmann married Marie Aumüller in 1870 and had four sons and a daughter with her, including the music researcher and cultural historian Rudolf Wustmann (1872–1916). The family lived in a house in Gohliser Schillerweg.

plant

Gravestone of Gustav Moritz Wustmann (originally in the New Johannisfriedhof , now in the Lapidarium of the Old Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig)

After Gustav Wustmann had worked for the magazine Die Grenzbote since 1879 . Journal for Politics, Literature and Art had appeared with articles in which he criticized the linguistic style of German daily newspapers, he published all kinds of language stupidities in 1891 . Little German grammar of the doubtful, the wrong and the ugly . The book, which was published in numerous editions, achieved a high level of awareness.

During his time as head of the Leipzig city archive and the city library, Wustmann published numerous scientifically sound but easily readable books and articles on the city's history. As far as the quality of his regional and urban historical writings is concerned, the publications are generally recognized as being among the fundamental sources on the history of Leipzig and its surroundings.

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions to the history of painting in Leipzig from XV. until the XVII. Century (= contributions to art history. 2). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1879, SWB online catalog 095232079 .
  • From Leipzig's past. Collected essays . [3 volumes]. Grunow, Leipzig 1885–1909 ( Volume 1  - Internet Archive , Volume 2  - Internet Archive , Volume 3  - Internet Archive ).
  • When the grandfather took the grandmother. A song book for old-fashioned people . Grunow, Leipzig 1886 ( archive.org ). 5th edition, edited by Anton Kippenberg and Friedrich Michael : Insel, Leipzig 1922 ( archive.org ); New publication as Insel-Taschenbuch No. 903: Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-32603-0 .
  • Sources on the history of Leipzig. Publications from the archive and the library of the City of Leipzig . [2 volumes]. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889–1895 ( digitized version ).
  • (Ed.): Leipzig through three centuries. An atlas on the history of the Leipzig cityscape in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, DNB 361913214 .
  • All kinds of language stupidities. Little German grammar of the doubtful, the wrong and the ugly. A help book for everyone who uses the German language publicly . Grunow, Leipzig 1891. Further, improved and increased editions during his lifetime: 2nd edition 1896; 3rd edition 1903 ( digitized version ); 4th edition 1908 ( digitized version ). - Reprint of the 3rd edition: Kessinger, Whitefish MT 2008, ISBN 978-1-4367-6436-0 .
  • The proverbial idioms in German vernacular explained according to meaning and origin. JA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1894 (completely revised edition of the work first written by Wilhelm Borchardt in 1888; further, improved editions during his lifetime), DNB 450557766 (7th edition).
  • Picture book from the history of the city of Leipzig for old and young . Zieger, Leipzig 1897 ( digitized version ); Reprint: Reprintverlag, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 978-3-7463-1655-0 .
  • History of the city of Leipzig. Volume 1. Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1905, DNB 368730905 .
  • The Leipzig copperplate engraving in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries (= New Year's sheets of the library and archive of the city of Leipzig. 3). Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1907, DNB 1003583644 .

literature

  • Jacob Minor: All kinds of rough language. A polite reply. Cotta, Stuttgart 1892 ( archive.org ).
  • Julius Vogel: Gustav Wustmann . In: Leipziger Kalender , 9th year of Richter, Leipzig 1912, pp. 71–85.
  • Ernst Kroker , Paul Benndorf : The association for the history of Leipzig in the first fifty years from 1867 to 1917 (= writings of the association for the history of Leipzig. 12). Leipzig 1917, DNB 363917810 .
  • Bernd Weinkauf : Epilogue . In: Gustav Wustmann: Picture book from the history of the city of Leipzig for young and old . Reprint of the original edition Leipzig 1897. Reprintverlag, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 978-3-7463-1655-0 , pp. III-V.
  • Axel Frey: To the Leipzig city librarian and first director of the council archive Gustav Moritz Wustmann on his 150th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 40 (1994), No. 2, DNB 012642665 , pp. 361-363.
  • Andreas Höhn: author, book jester, archivist - on the 100th anniversary of Gustav Wustmann's death. In: Leipziger Blätter No. 57, 2010, pp. 62–63.

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Wustmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anett Müller: The founding of the city archivist and statistical office of the city of Leipzig . In: Archives - networks of the present, bridges between past and future. Colloquium on the 125th anniversary of the Leipzig City Archives . Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007, p. 131.
  2. ^ Walter Fellmann : The writings of the association . In: 125 Years of the Leipzig History Association 1867–1992 (= publications of the Leipzig History Association. NF 1). Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1992, p. 14.
  3. ^ Siegfried Hoyer: Wustmann, Gustav Moritz . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  4. ↑ Andreas Höhn: Author, book jester, archivist - On the 100th anniversary of Gustav Wustmann's death. In: Leipziger Blätter, No. 57, 2010, pp. 62–63.
  5. ^ Gottfried Fischer : Sprachpfleger Gustav Wustmann (1844-1910). The exact one . In: Wiener Sprachblätter. Journal for good German , 3rd year, 2002, p. 76 ff. ( Online ( Memento from April 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )).
personal data
SURNAME Wustmann, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wustmann, Gustav Moritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German city historian, language nurse, high school teacher and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1910
Place of death Leipzig