Heinrich Philipp Sextro

Heinrich Philipp Sextro , also: Sextroh (born March 28, 1746 in Bissendorf near Osnabrück , † June 12, 1838 in Hanover ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Tomb in the garden cemetery

The pastor's son spent childhood and youth in Osnabrück. In 1765 he began studying theology in Göttingen . In 1767 Sextro was appointed deputy headmaster of a school in Hameln . In 1772 he became rector of the Lyceum in Hanover. In 1779 he took over the ministry of St. Albani in Göttingen. In 1784 he gained an extraordinary professorship for theology at the local university. In 1788 he finally took over a full professorship at the State University of Helmstedt (Academia Julia). At the same time he was abbot of the Mariental monastery , general superintendent and first pastor at the Stephanikirche in Helmstedt . At his instigation, two so-called industrial schools were built in Hanover (from 1790) . In 1798 he was appointed consistorial councilor and first court and palace preacher in Hanover. From 1798 to 1804 he was also superintendent of Hoya-Diepholz .

From 1811 Philipp Heinrich Sextro was listed as a white horse in the membership lists of the Freemason Lodge Friedrich .

Sextro's efforts to care for the poor and industrial schools are of constant importance. Together with Ferdinand Kindermann and Joachim Heinrich Campe , he is considered to be the founder of the latter in Germany.

Sextro's tomb can be found in the garden cemetery in Hanover.

Honors

The Sextrostraße , which was laid out in the Hanoverian district of Südstadt in 1865, was named after the castle preacher , according to the Hanoverian history sheets of 1914, "who did a great job of establishing the asylum for the blind".

Works

About the education of youth to industry. A fragment. Göttingen 1785 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library ).
Honores in Theologia Svmmos Viro Reverendo Et Excellentissimo Iohanni Friderico Klevker ... Helmstadii 1791 digitized

literature

Friedrich Rupstein : Dr. Heinrich Philipp Sextro, formerly Ober-Constitorial-Rath, first court and palace preacher etc. in Hanover. A memorial of his life and his charitable foundations. Hanover 1839 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library ).
Paul Zimmermann : Sextro, Heinrich Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 77-79.
Karl-Franz Göstemeyer: Pedagogy and Social Synthesis. On the dialectic of the formation of mankind and society in Hobbes, Sextro and Jachmann. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-8204-5182-X .
Hinrich Hesse: Heinrich Philipp Sextro. In: The grave inscriptions of the Gartenkirchhof in Hanover , special print from the magazine of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony. Vol. 44, 1939, pp. 235-290.
Heinrich Holze: Between studies and parish office. The emergence of the preacher's seminary in the Guelph principalities at the time of the Enlightenment (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony. Vol. 25). 1985.
Karl-Friedrich Oppermann : Sextro, Heinrich Philipp. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 333; online through google books
Karl-Friedrich Oppermann: Sextro, Heinrich Philipp. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 563f.

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Philipp Sextro in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ See the farewell speech of the Lyceum director Johann Daniel Schumann : Program in which Quintilian's thoughts about public schools are examined. Schlueter, Hanover 1779 (digitized version) .
^ Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Dr. theol. Philipp Heinrich Sextro . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover . Self-published, Hannover 2015, p. 124
^ Karl-Friedrich Oppermann: SEXTRO… (see literature).
^ Helmut Zimmermann : Sextrostrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahn, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 227.

personal data
SURNAME	Sextro, Heinrich Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bissendorf
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1838
Place of death	Hanover

[1] See the farewell speech of the Lyceum director Johann Daniel Schumann : Program in which Quintilian's thoughts about public schools are examined. Schlueter, Hanover 1779 (digitized version) .

[2] Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Dr. theol. Philipp Heinrich Sextro . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover . Self-published, Hannover 2015, p. 124

[3] Karl-Friedrich Oppermann: SEXTRO… (see literature).

[4] Helmut Zimmermann : Sextrostrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahn, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 227.