Hans Gardthausen
Hans Gardthausen (born October 22, 1776 in Jevenstedt , † November 4, 1845 in Kappeln ) was a German teacher, customs administrator and writer.
Live and act
Gardthausen attended the seminar for school teachers from 1792 to 1795 under the direction of Heinrich Müller . He then worked in Copenhagen as a private tutor with Countess Constance Bernstorff, née Knuth-Gyldensteen. In 1797 he was the first teacher to change to a free school that the "Society of Voluntary Poor Friends" had created in Kiel . In addition to teaching, he wrote the non-fiction book “New Hesperides” in 1802 and, between 1802 and 1804, a four-volume manual for teachers. He held these books in the style of enlightenment-ultilitarian teaching.
From 1801 Gardthausen studied law and camera science at the University of Kiel. Here he met Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch and August Christian Niemann . The late Enlightenment advised him to translate the "Historisk-statistisk Skildring af Tilstand i Danmark og Norge i ældre og nyere Tider" of the Danish Rasmus Nyerup from 1803 into German. Gardthausen published this in 1804 as the "Cultural History of Denmark".
After completing his studies, Gardthausen worked from 1804 as a volunteer at the Rent Chamber in Copenhagen. In 1806 he moved to the German Chancellery as the auditor for city accounting . In 1809 he went to Kappeln as a customs administrator. At his own request, he received the position of court actuary from the Gottorf senior management. He was thus responsible for administrative, judicial and police matters. Because of these numerous tasks, he had a far-reaching influence on the development of Kappeln. In 1813 he was appointed to the Chamber Council and in 1828 to the Real Judicial Council.
Works
Gardthausen especially created occasional poetry and translations from Danish. He translated works by Bernhard Severin Ingemann and Adolph Wilhelm Schack von Staffeldt . In 1811 he was one of the editors of the paperback “Verona”, which was published in Altona . From 1823 to 1826 he wrote the almanac "Eidora", with which patriotism should be promoted in the interests of the state as a whole. The author praised Christian ideals of virtue, transfigured forms of rule of the Middle Ages and rural patriarchal living conditions. He wanted to ideally defuse social and national problems of his time. So he turned from the Enlightenment, to which he had previously belonged, and to the militant neo-Lutheranism of Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg .
family
Gardthausen married Friedericke Justine Elisabeth, née Gardthausen (born May 24, 1785 in Gieschenhagen ; † July 29, 1826 in Kappeln) on May 15, 18150 . Her father Christian Liebmann Gardthausen (1747–1811) worked as a dentist in Segeberg and was married to Anna Christine Elisabeth, née Lundt (1764–1850). From this marriage the daughter Holdy Anna Constantia (1811-1848) emerged, who became the mother of the writer Julius Stinde .
After the death of his first wife, Gardthausen married Juliana Maria Christina, née Gardthausen, on May 14, 1828 (born March 25, 1790 in Gieschenhagen; † May 29, 1871 in Kappeln). This was a sister of his first wife. The marriage remained childless.
The writer Gustav Gardthausen came from an extramarital relationship with a woman with the surname Thyberg, married Collin .
literature
- Christian Tilitzki : Gardthausen, Hans . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 8. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1987, pp. 146-148.
References and comments
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gardthausen, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, customs administrator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jevenstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1845 |
| Place of death | Kappeln |