Heinrich Ernst Rassmann

Heinrich Ernst Raßmann (born February 11, 1734 in Stapelburg ; † December 31, 1812 ) was a German teacher, librarian, occasional poet and pastor.

Life

Heinrich Ernst Raßmann was the son of Pastor Johann Caspar Raßmann from Stapelburg in the county of Wernigerode . In 1750 he went to the Lyceum in Wernigerode and from 1753 he attended to study theology at the University of Halle with Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten . He finished his studies at the University of Leipzig and initially became a teacher at the Graflich-Stolbergischen orphanage in Wernigerode on Lindenallee below Wernigerode Castle . Later he was appointed vice rector at the Wernigerode Lyceum. In 1763, Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode made him an offer to take over the position of Count Librarian at Wernigerode Castle, which Raßmann gratefully accepted. He gave up the teaching profession and from then on only worked for the Stolberg family. As a librarian, he not only earned great merit as director of this collection and at the same time enriched his extensive knowledge, but was also always busy with advice and deeds about his well-deserved and large-scale master. He demonstrated his great fondness for them in particular through his numerous occasional poems, which he presented to him on the most varied of occasions and which also arouse interest in that they show how his son inherited his poetic ability from his father. His position enabled him to raise a family; he married Charlotte Stolle from Stadthagen . Her son was the encyclopaedist and bibliographer Friedrich Raßmann .

When the ruling count died in 1771, he remained in office and from then on served his son, the Pietist Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode and his son Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . When he received a better-paid job offer from Halberstadt in 1783 , after twenty years he left the count's service and became rector of the Martinischule in Halberstadt. In 1788 he took over the office of preacher at the Martinikirche. In 1793 he became a member of the ecclesiastical provincial examination committee. In 1796 he was awarded the title of Prussian Consistorial Assessor.

After his wife died in 1804, he married a second time at the age of 70. In 1810, at the age of 76, he retired. Two years later he died on New Year's Eve.

Fixed addresses, festival poems and dedications (selection)

• To my most noble princess on the day of the marriage of the same woman daughter with the most noble Printzen of Anhalt-Cöthen . Struck, Wernigerode 1766.
• To the Lord given to us again by God, at the very same first return to the library . Struck, Wernigerode 1767.
• Most insubordinate congratulations to the governing Herr Hochgräfl. Grace on the occasion of the marriage of the very same Lord's grandson of Count Christian Friederich, with the high-born Countess Auguste Eleonore, born Countess zu Stolberg . o. O. 1768.

literature

• Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann :  Raßmann, Heinrich Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 337.
• Friedrich Raßmann: Heinrich Ernst Raßmann. Necrological sketch . In: Friedrich Raßmanns Leben und Nachlaß , Münster 1833, pp. 85-101.
• Christian Keßlin: News from writers and artists in the county of Wernigerode . Bänsch, Magdeburg 1856, pp. 108-109.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann : Raßmann, Heinrich Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 27 (1888), p. 337.
2. ^ Friedrich Raßmann: Heinrich Ernst Raßmann, necrological sketch . In: Friedrich Raßmanns Leben und Nachlaß , Münster 1833, pp. 85–101, here p. 88.
3. ^ Friedrich Raßmann: Heinrich Ernst Raßmann. Necrological sketch . In: Friedrich Raßmanns Leben und Nachlaß , Münster 1833, pp. 85-101, here p. 92.