Heinrich Alexander Seidel

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Heinrich Alexander Seidel
(1811–1861)

Heinrich Otto Alexander Georg Seidel , also Heinrich Seidel (born February 2, 1811 in Goldberg , † January 30, 1861 in Schwerin ) was a German pastor and writer.

Life

Heinrich Alexander Seidel was born as the son of the physician Heinrich (August) Seidel and his wife Amalie, b. Hermes born. After attending the first grade of a preparatory school for the grammar school, he attended the grammar school Fridericanum in Schwerin from the age of eleven . Seidel then studied theology from 1830 to 1833 at the universities in Rostock and later in Berlin, where he was shaped by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg . He then worked as a private tutor in Dobbin near Krakow am See . From 1839 to 1851 he was pastor in Perlin near Wittenburg .

In 1851 he was appointed pastor primarius at the Schwerin Schelfkirche St. Nikolai by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II . There he was also division preacher and from 1856 garrison preacher in the rank of captain at the Werder barracks and from 1852 to 1856 pastor of the Schwerin insane sanatorium Sachsenberg . He was a supporter of the conservative politics of the Oberkirchenrat President Theodor Kliefoth , with whom he had already attended high school. In 1856 he was awarded the " Prussian Rothe Eagle Order ". As early as 1859, however, he had to resign from his position as divisional preacher due to illness.

Seidel was also active as a writer, in addition to ecclesiastical writings, he wrote popular books and was the editor of several collections of poetry. He was the founder of a library for the Evangelical Lutheran congregations in Schwerin, which was named Seidelscher Verein in his honor. Shortly before the age of 50, he died on January 30, 1861 in Schwerin after a long illness of a lung disease. His grave is in the old Schelf cemetery , today the Schelfpark on Werderstrasse in Schwerin.

family

On October 8, 1841, he married Johanne Auguste Römer (1823-1896), the daughter of a landlord from Hof ​​Pogreß near Wittenburg.

The family had six children:

  • Heinrich Seidel (1842–1906), engineer and writer
  • Werner Seidel (1845–1883), captain
  • Frieda Seidel (1846–1898)
  • Clara Seidel (1848–1879), from 1873 wife of the legal historian and canon lawyer Rudolph Sohm
  • Hermann Seidel (1856–1895), physician and surgeon
  • Paul Seidel (1858–1929), Dr. jur., art historian, director of the Berlin Hohenzollern Museum .

Seidel was the grandfather of the pastor and writer Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel , the writer Ina Seidel , the writer Willy Seidel and the actress Annemarie Seidel . Ina Seidel's son, his great-grandson Christian Ferber (1919–1992), actually Georg Heinrich Balthasar Seidel, also worked as a writer and journalist.

Works (selection)

  • Cross and harp. A collection of sacred poems , 1839
  • Paul. Spiritual poem in ten songs , 1845
  • From the church. Zeitgeichte , 1845
  • Gottlieb Treu, Bergkaten's day laborer. An edifying story, told especially for the north German farmer , 1848
  • Balthasar Scharfenberg or A Mecklenburg Village Two Hundred Years Ago , 1851, 4th edition, 1892
  • The Mecklenburg-Schwerin church hymn book. A critical historical treatise , 1852
  • Proverbs and verses of songs on the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Catechism , 1852, 11th edition. 1881

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The order of the baptismal names follows the baptismal entry in the church book of the Goldberg parish.
  2. ↑ February 2, 1811 as his birthday is documented by an entry in the church book of the Goldberg parish. Deviating information, especially February 4, 1811 ( Landesbibliographie MV ) are definitely wrong.
  3. ^ Heinrich Seidel: From Perlin to Berlin. Chapter 4 Gutenberg-DE project
  4. ^ Paul Zimmermann : Hermann Seidel †. In: Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Vol. 1, No. 7, November 24, 1895, p. 53 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ Andreas Thier:  Sohm, Gotthard Julius Rudolph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 539-541 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ 160.8.3. Römer-Seidel, Johanne at Genealogie Becker - private genealogy site
  7. ↑ See literature: Grete Grewolls:
personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Heinrich Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidel, Heinrich Alexander Georg Otto (full name); Seidel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldberg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1861
Place of death Schwerin