Gustav from the east

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Gustav von der Osten (also: Gustav Heinrich vd Osten ; born April 19, 1866 in Misselwarden  ; died November 9, 1923 in Hanover ) was a German historian , teacher , high school director and local researcher .

Life

Title page of the second edition on the history of the country sausages

Gustav von der Osten, who was born in the country of Wursten , attended the Domgymnasium Verden , which he left with the Abitur in 1885. He then studied history, German and ancient languages ​​at the universities of Jena , Berlin and Kiel University , where he received his doctorate in 1889. He then worked as an assistant teacher in various places, including from 1898 to 1900 in Otterndorf . During this period he wrote his main work History of the Land of Wursten , published in two volumes from 1900 to 1902 .

In 1906 Gustav von der Osten took over the position of director of today's Johann Heinrich Voß School in Otterndorf . On May 15, 1910, his son and later art historian Gert von der Osten was born to him and his wife Marie Böschen, daughter of a pastor in Mittelwarden, in Otterndorf .

During the First World War , von der Osten assumed the post of director of the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Gymnasium in Linden near Hanover in 1915 .

Gustav von der Osten was a leading member of the Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern founded by Hermann Allmers in 1881 . From 1921 he was chairman of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund .

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Posthumously , a memorial stone was set up in the Ricklingen city cemetery in honor of the home guardian .

literature

  • Otto Heinrich May , Edgar Kalthoff (eds.): Lower Saxon Life Pictures (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen , Volume 22, Part 1), Hildesheim a. a .: Lax, 1939, pp. 326-335

Fonts (selection)

  • On the constitutional and administrative history of the state of Wursten , supplement to the Easter program of the secondary school in Geestemünde, 53 pages, Geestemünde 1895
  • Schmeelke's visit to Salzmann in Schnepfenthal. A contribution to German educational and school history , Otterndorf: Hottendorff, 1910
  • Gustav von der Osten (author), Robert Wiebalck (collaborator): History of the country Wursten (= yearbook of the men from Morgenstern No. 25 for 1930/31 and 1931/32), with 2 cards, supplements and drawings by Wilhelm Frenssen, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Wesermünde: Verlag der Männer vom Morgenstern, 1932

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in the German biography
  2. ↑ n.v . : Osten, Gustav von der in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 30, 2014, last accessed on July 27, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Mlynek : Osten, Gustav von der , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 277
  4. ↑ Katja Brandt:  East, Gert Christian von der. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 611 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Osten, Gustav von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osten, Gustav Heinrich von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, teacher, high school director, local researcher and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Misselwarden
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1923
Place of death Hanover