Heinrich Hattemer

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Heinrich Hattemer (born July 3, 1809 in Mainz , † November 11, 1849 in Biel / Bienne ) was a linguist and literary scholar who was actively involved in the revolution of 1848/49 in Switzerland and Baden.

Life

Heinrich Hattemer was the son of Jakob Hattemer, who was born on December 11, 1781 in Gau-Algesheim and died in Mainz in 1814, and of Klara Josepha geb. Haas, who came to Mainz from Hattenheim in the Rheingau as a child and died in 1836. During his studies, Hattemer became a member of the Old Giessener Burschenschaft Germania in 1830 and was therefore included in the "Alphabetical directory of those persons against whom investigations have been made according to the acts of the Central Authority regarding revolutionary activities." After studying Philology in Giessen, the State University of Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt , with Friedrich Gotthilf Osann and Friedrich Jakob Schmitthenner , Hattemer became private tutor, then professor at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt , headed by Julius Friedrich Karl Dilthey . “Suspected of political and religious freedom” (Ludwig Tobler), he went to Switzerland with his siblings Matthias and Therese in 1836 after their mother's death.

Stations in Switzerland: Professor of German and Latin at the Cantonal School in St. Gallen, 1842–1848 teacher of Latin at the Progymnasium in Biel, 1848 collaboration on a newspaper for German refugees in Switzerland, expulsion from the canton of Bern for violating Swiss neutrality , Participation in the struggle for the Baden Republic as a staff secretary in the People's Armed Forces of Johann Philipp Becker , who had also moved to Switzerland two years after Hattemer. After the failure of the Baden revolution, Hattemer returned to Biel, where he died in 1849.

Heinrich Hattemer was married to Lina Schröder. Her children were firstly Henriette (1836–1917), secondly Amalie (1841–1892) and thirdly Hermann Josef (1844–1932). Another child, Thusnelda, had died young.

Henriette Hattemer was married to the Swiss linguist and folklorist Ludwig Tobler (1827–1895); both founded the private girls' school "Im Morgenthal" in Zurich-Hottingen. The youngest daughter of Ludwig Tobler and Henriette Tobler-Hattemer was the pianist and music teacher Mina Tobler .

Works

Hattemer's scientific work is evidenced by his works:

  • Memorials of the Middle Ages. St. Gallen's old German language treasures, 3 volumes, St. Gallen, Scheitlin, 1844–49; Reprint, 3 volumes, Graz, Academic Printing and Publishing Company, 1970.
  • About the origin, meaning and spelling of the word Teutsch, along with some additions, dedicated to his friend Joh.Ph. Becker in Biel, Schaffhausen, Brodtmann, 1847.

His political convictions are documented in the book "Speech of a German Republican Abroad to His Compatriots at Home" published in Biel in 1848

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrichs, Heinz F .: The “Black Book” of the federal central authority on revolutionary activities 1838–42, in: Hessische Familienkunde, Volume 1, Issue 2–3, December 1948, pp. 29–54.
  2. ^ Gau-Algesheim. Historisches Lesebuch, 1999, pp. 74–79.
personal data
SURNAME Hattemer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Linguist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1849
Place of death Biel / Bienne