Hans Rudolf Schröter

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Hans Rudolf Schröter , also Rudolph , Hans von Schröter (born February 16, 1798 in Hanover , † August 24, 1842 in the mental asylum Sachsenberg near Schwerin ) was a German librarian and archaeologist.

Live and act

Schröter was the eldest son of the Danish war councilor Christian Heinrich (von) Schröter († October 14, 1829), who had owned a manor on Langensee near Bützow (now a part of Gülzow-Prüzen ) and a member of the Mecklenburg Patriotic Association since 1805 . The lawyer and Minister of State Wilhelm von Schröter and the painter Gottlieb Heinrich von Schröter were his younger brothers. He attended high school in Hildesheim and studied mathematics, history and modern literature at the Universities of Göttingen and Jena . In Jena he was a member of the original fraternity . After completing his studies, he worked until 1818 as a teacher at the Hundicke 's Educational Institute , the philanthropist at Vechelde Castle near Braunschweig. A study trip to Scandinavia followed. Here he learned the Finnish language and collected material for a collection of Finnish folk songs, which he published in 1819 in Uppsala in German. With this he stands at the beginning of a Romantic preoccupation of German philologists with Nordic folk poetry. Ferdinand Freiligrath and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read the new edition from 1834 together on their trip to the Rhine in 1842; this reading is believed to have inspired the form of Longfellow's epic The Song of Hiawatha .

After returning to Germany habilitated it to Michaelis in 1820 as a lecturer for modern literature and history at the University of Rostock . In the summer of the following year he was given the advisory professorship in lower mathematics ( arithmetic and geometry ); in March 1824 he was also appointed to the post of third academic librarian. Soon after his employment in Rostock, the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin entrusted him with the supervision of the grand ducal antiquity collection, which was located in Ludwigslust . Schröter arranged and described the collection for the first time and supplemented it with individual pieces that he had obtained from his own excavations. In August 1822 he completed the catalog of the collection, which at that time comprised 63 genres with 142 species and 1,751 individual items. With the support of the Grand Duke, he then planned a series of notebooks with descriptions and illustrations under the title Friderico-Francisceum or Grand Ducal Alterthümersammlung from the old Germanic and Slavic times of Mecklenburg zu Ludwigslust .

Mental Hospital Sachsenberg (1845)

Schröter was able to publish the first three issues, and of the last three, two were finished in print when a nerve attack hit him on December 4, 1825 . After years of interruption, Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff was supposed to complete the work from 1830 , but he died in the summer of 1832. Only Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch , who was Schröter's successor in overseeing the antiquity collection, was able to complete it in 1837. In the following years Schröter suffered from recurring sudden attacks and had to be retired at Johannis in 1836 and sent to the mental hospital in Sachsenberg near Schwerin.

Publications

2nd edition Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta 1834, published by GH von Schröter ( digitized Oxford ), ( digitized Harvard )
  • De Ragnaro Lodbrokio. Habil., 1820
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the pagan antiquities of Mecklenburg. in Freimüthiges Abendblatt 1821/22
  • Friderico-Francisceum or Grand Ducal Antiquities Collection from the old Germanic and Slavic times of Mecklenburg zu Ludwigslust. 1824
  • Contributions to the Mecklenburg history customer. First volume first issue (no longer published) Rostock and Schwerin: Stiller 1826 ( digitized copy of the University of California , ex library of the Mecklenb. Ritter- u. Landschaft ) therein:
Rostock Low German Chronicle from 1310 to 1314
Specimen Diplomatarii Rostochiensis 1268-1322
  • Life and regent history of Sr. Königsigl. Highness Friedrich Franz, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1827

literature

  • Heinrich Klenz:  Schröter, Hans Rudolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 567 f.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9087 .
  • Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815–1819. (= Treatises on student and higher education ; Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 . P. 77.

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Rudolf Schröter  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So after the entry in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium . Place and date of death is documented by an entry in the church register (Landeskirchliches Archiv Schwerin, church register office, tel. Wednesday June 15, 2012); incorrectly in ADB and at Grewolls as place of death: Rostock
  2. ↑ Finnish runes. Finnish and German. Upsala 1819
  3. ↑ Carola Häntsch: Finland in the focus of German philosophers , in Robert Schweitzer (ed.): Two hundred years of German enthusiasm for Finland: On the development of the German image of Finland since August Thiemes "Finland" poem of 1808: Contributions to the VII. International Symposium on German Culture and History in the European Northeast. (Series of publications by the Finland Institute in Germany 11) Berlin: BWV 2010, ISBN 9783830517467 , pp. 141–156, here p. 141
  4. ↑ See Samuel Longfellow: Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; with extracts from his journals and correspondence. Vol. II. Boston: Ticknor and Company 1886, p. 269
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Hans Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröter, Hans Rudolph; Schröter, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1842
Place of death Sachsenberg insane asylum near Schwerin