Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros

Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros (born October 8, 1752 in Stralsund , † October 8, 1807 in Greifswald ) was a German philologist and high school teacher. He reformed the Greifswald city school and thus laid the foundations for a modern citizen school .

Life

The son of Friedrich Christoph Warnekros, Altermann of the brewery company , attended school in Stralsund and studied from 1772 at the University of Göttingen . At the University of Greifswald , he was in 1776 for Doctor of Philosophy PhD and was there some time as a lecturer busy. He gained general recognition for his writings Draft of the Hebrew Antiquities (1782) and The Spirit of Shakespear’s (1786).

After three unsuccessful applications for permanent employment at the university, he took over the rectorate of the Greifswald city school from Theophilus Coelestinus Piper in 1783 . With the support of the Greifswald citizenship and the Swedish Pomeranian government in Stralsund, he managed to reform the run-down school against the resistance of the Greifswald council. The old Latin school was transformed into a civic educational institution that met the new requirements. The number of pupils rose from 16 in 1783 to 101 in 1800. During his tenure, the new large city school was inaugurated in 1799, today the picture gallery of the Pomeranian State Museum .

Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros was honored by the King of Sweden with the title of professor in 1805 . He died in 1807 during the occupation of Swedish Pomerania by French troops. The Warnekros teaching regulations remained in place until 1816.

Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros was not married. His brother was the lawyer David Wilhelm Warnekros .

literature

Theodor Pyl : Warnekros, Heinrich Ehrenfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 175.
Helmut Beug: Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros and the Pomeranian intellectual history in the second half of the 18th century. Dissertation, Adler, Greifswald 1938.

Web links

Literature about Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros in the state bibliography MV
Writings by Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros in the joint union catalog

Individual evidence

^ Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel , Johann Wilhelm Sigismund Lindner: The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Vol. 16, 5th edition, Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1812, p. 51 ( digitized version )
^ Lutz Winkler: Cantors and city music in the second half of the 18th century in Greifswald. In: Joachim Kremer, Walter Werbeck (Hrsg.): The cantorate of the Baltic Sea region in the 18th century: preservation, expansion and dissolution of a church music office . Greifswald contributions to musicology 15. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86596-060-3 , p. 160-161 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Warnekros, Heinrich Ehrenfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH	October 8, 1807
Place of death	Greifswald

[1] Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel , Johann Wilhelm Sigismund Lindner: The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Vol. 16, 5th edition, Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1812, p. 51 ( digitized version )

[2] Lutz Winkler: Cantors and city music in the second half of the 18th century in Greifswald. In: Joachim Kremer, Walter Werbeck (Hrsg.): The cantorate of the Baltic Sea region in the 18th century: preservation, expansion and dissolution of a church music office . Greifswald contributions to musicology 15. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86596-060-3 , p. 160-161 ( digitized version ).