Hans Meyer (pedagogue)

Hans Meyer (also: Hans Georg Meyer and Hans-Georg Meyer as well as Hans Georg Christian Meyer * November 11, 1849 in Berlin ; † January 5, 1913 there ) was a German educator and school professor, poet , linguist and writer .

Life

For the 100th birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1897 privately issued Mercur card with two stanzas from Meyer's song Wilhelm der Grosse. Song of the Germans ;
Printing: A. Molling & Comp. , Hanover , dated January 1, 1900 to the Kestner Museum

Hans Georg Christian Meyer was born in 1849 as the son of a carpenter working in Berlin. He attended the grammar school to the gray monastery , where he passed his Abitur in 1869. At the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Leipzig and Munich he attended philosophical, historical, geographical, cultural and historical lectures before 1872 , the university in Halle (Saale) visited, where he received his doctorate in 1874 for his dissertation on Leibniz and Baumgarten as the founder of German aesthetics .

In 1876 Meyer completed his probationary year and passed the teaching examination. From the following year 1877 he began with the title Dr. phil. as a senior teacher at the gray monastery grammar school.

From 1890 Meyer was one of the first summer visitors to the small town of Neuglobsow in the Mark Brandenburg , where he soon went on annual “singing trips” with the school choir of his high school. Most of the songs he sang himself, while the setting came from his friend, the school director Ludwig Bellermann .

In 1894 Meyer, who taught history in particular, was given the title of professor.

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the deceased German Emperor Wilhelm I , who was elevated to "Wilhelm the Great" during the centenar celebrations in Berlin from March 21 to 23, 1897, Meyer composed the music for various voices by the composer Theodor Krause The song Wilhelm der Grosse was published by CA Challier & Co. in Berlin in March 1897 . Song of the Germans , beginning with the verse

"He came a hundred years ago
Who, at God's call , created a fatherland
with German heroes
..."

which was later spread in other school books.

In addition to his song poems, the school professor created stories and worked as a translator of Homer's writings .

One of Meyer's honors is the award of the Red Eagle Order, fourth class .

After his sudden death in Berlin, Hans-Georg Meyer was buried in accordance with his wishes in the Neuglobsow cemetery, where his tombstone with a relief plate has been preserved. It shows a mother handing her son a laurel wreath with the Latin inscription “Res severa verum gaudium” (“Serious thing is true joy”).

Works (selection)

• Leibniz and Baumgarten as the founders of German aesthetics. Inaugural dissertation, which with the approval of a high philosophical faculty of the united Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg ... , Halle: Plötz'sche Buchdruckerei, [1874]; Digitized version of the Austrian National Library
• Remarks from the age of beautiful sciences (= scientific supplement to the program of the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster , program number 51), Berlin: R. Gaertner Verlagbuchhandlung Hermann Heyfelder, 1886; Digitized version of the university library of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• Textbook of history for the lower and middle classes of higher educational institutions , 4 booklets, Berlin: Springer, from 1888:
  • Book 1: Ancient History. With an outline of the old geography , 1888 (7th edition, 1905)
  • Booklet 2: German History in the Middle Ages , 1888 (4th edition 1904)
  • Issue 3: German History in Modern Times , 1889
    • 2nd edition under the title German History from the Reformation to Frederick the Great , 1894 (3rd edition 1901)
  • Booklet 4: German History from Frederick the Great to the Present , 1889 (3rd edition 1905)
• Formation and emphasis of compound words in German , Berlin 1911
• Eros and Psyche. A poem , Berlin: Siegismund, 1899
• Translation of Homers
  • Odyssey , 1905
  • Iliad , 1907
• The correct Berliner in words and idioms , started by Hans Meyer, continued by Siegfried Mauermann and edited and supplemented for the 10th edition by Walther Kiaulehn, Munich; Berlin: Biederstein-Verlag, 1965

literature

About the song He came a hundred years ago :

• Lutz Engelskirchen: Monument in the political space. The Kaiser Wilhelm monument in the Deutsches Eck in its century , inaugural dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Faculty of History of the Ruhr University Bochum; Bochum: Ruhr University Bochum, 2013; as a PDF document from the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library [undated], last accessed on January 18, 2019
2. ↑ Wolfgang Jacobmeyer : The German School History Book 1700 - 1945 . The first epoch of its genre history as reflected in the forewords (= history culture and historical learning , vol. 8), 1st edition, vol. 1, Berlin; Münster: Lit Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11418-1 , p. 1090 (especially note 438); limited preview in Google Book search
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Klaus-Dieter Behnke: Neuglobsow am Stechlinsee. History and stories , 1st edition, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-0626-7 and ISBN 3-7528-0626-5 , p. 19; limited preview in Google Book search
4. ↑ ^{a b} Karl Julius Müller: The Berlin centenar celebration for Kaiser Wilhelm the Great from March 21 to 23, 1897. Memorandum. By resolution of the board of directors for the civil centenary celebration in Berlin , Berlin: Verlag der Aktien-Gesellschaft Pionier, [1897], pp. 12, 13, 15, 120
5. ↑ Musical-literary monthly report on new music, musical writings and illustrations , Volume 1897, Issue 4, Leipzig: Hofmeister, p. 173; Digitized via ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
6. ^ German reading book for agricultural winter schools , agricultural schools and rural advanced training schools (= agricultural teaching books , vol. [28]), edited by Max Hollmann, senior teacher in Thorn and Paul Knak, teacher in Wittstock, according to the decree of the Minister for Agriculture of October 30, 1895 , 2nd, reviewed edition, Berlin: P. Parey, 1900, p. 144; limited preview in Google Book search
7. ↑ handwritten journal article as a scientific supplement to the annual report of the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grau Kloster; Heidelberg University Library , August Grisebach estate preserved, signature Heid. Hs. 3717 E 1.2 ; can be found via the Kalliope network via DE-611-BF-6368