Heinrich Gloël

Heinrich Gloël [ ɡloəl ] (born July 22, 1855 in Körbelitz near Magdeburg , † January 16, 1940 in Wetzlar ) was a German grammar school teacher ( philologist ) and Goethe researcher .

Live and act

Heinrich Gloël was born in 1855 as the son of a pastor in Körbelitz and attended high school in Magdeburg; his brother was the Erlangen university professor Johannes Gloël . From 1875 to 1880 he studied philology in Halle and Berlin . In Halle he received his doctorate in 1879 with the font De interpolatione Hippolyti fabulae Euripideae in Latin. He did his legal clerkship at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin and was finally appointed head teacher . From 1884 to 1900 Gloël taught at the grammar school in Wesel on the Lower Rhine .

As part of a teacher exchange, Heinrich Gloël came to the Royal Prussian grammar school in Wetzlar. A teacher from Wetzlar had been transferred to Wesel for health reasons, so Gloël was transferred to Wetzlar in return. In 1901 he received the title of high school professor and was also the school director for a year from 1919 to 1920 before he retired.

Gloël dealt with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and in particular his stay in Wetzlar as an intern at the Imperial Court of Justice during his school service . The estate of Johann Christian Kestner was an important source of his research work . He also founded the Wetzlar History Association and the Goethe Lotte Association . In order to promote adult education in the city, he also founded the Wetzlar city library and the city museums.

Gloël was married and had three children.

honors and awards

Heinrich Gloël was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science by Adolf Hitler on December 24, 1936 . He also received honorary citizenship of the city of Wetzlar. Today an entry and exit road in the Wetzlar core city bears the name Gloëlstrasse .

literature

• Herbert Flender: Professor Gloël and the Goethe-Lotte-Verein . Goethe research in Wetzlar from 1900–1940. Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Wetzlar. Wetzlar 1983.
• Herta Virnich: Letters from Heinrich Gloël's engagement time . In: Wetzlarer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Messages of the Wetzlarer Geschichtsverein . 43rd volume. Wetzlar 2007, p. 57-204 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Gloël in the catalog of the German National Library