Heinrich Spanuth

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Heinrich Spanuth (born June 16, 1873 in Hanover , † October 25, 1958 in Hameln ) was a German religious educator and historian. He is considered one of the most important researchers of the Pied Piper legend and the history of the city of Hameln.

Life

His parents were the Schulenburg pastor (1883–1911) Peter Heinrich Friedrich "August" Spanuth (1845–1915) and Maria Margarete "Grete", née. Hache (-1949). The grandparents were Heinrich Wilhelm Spanuth (1811–1872) and Sophie Wilhelmine Katharine, b. Volker (1819-). The younger of his eight siblings were Gottfried Spanuth (1882–1965) and Friedrich Spanuth (1886–1976). Together with Gottfried, he created the Span Uth family book for the first time in 1912 .

Spanuth attended the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim and then studied theology and philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen and Marburg . After passing the theological and rector exams in 1900, he became rector in Dorum and Eldagsen. In 1906 he was appointed senior teacher at the teachers' seminar at the Viktoria-Luise-Schule in Hameln. After further studies in history and German and the teaching examinations in religion, Hebrew and history, Spanuth took over the management of the school in 1911 after the death of the headmaster, on April 16, 1912 as the new senior school director. He ran the school until March 10, 1933, when he was given early retirement for political reasons. Since then he has devoted himself entirely to researching the history of the town and the local area, in particular the investigation of the Pied Piper legend. In the 1930s and 1940s he managed the Hameln City Archives and headed several departments of the local history museum. He also acted as a curator for soil monuments and was a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and an honorary member of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund. In 1956 Heinrich Spanuth received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class .

The Pied Piper Legend

In 1936, Spanuth found in a Lüneburg manuscript the oldest description of the Pied Piper events from around 1430/50, written in Latin prose. After years of preoccupation with the legend, in 1951 (at the age of 78) he wrote The Pied Piper of Hameln: The Becoming and Meaning of an Old Legend , which was accepted as a dissertation by the University of Göttingen and led to his doctorate.

Works

  • Preparations for Protestant Religious Education , 6th edition 1917
  • The parables of Jesus for the classroom , Verlag Zickfeldt Osterwieck 1918
  • The life of Jesus and the story of the first apostles and Paul (participation), Verlag Zickfeldt Osterwieck 1920
  • What do we know about Jesus? , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 1926
  • Legends and pious songs on sacred history , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 1928
  • Workbook on biblical studies for the middle school level , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 1926
  • Preparations for Protestant religious instruction, Verlag Zickfeldt Osterwieck
  • Religion and Life , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen
  • Final biblical studies , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen
  • Co-editor of the workbooks for Protestant religious instruction
  • Biblical stories and pictures from the history of Christianity , Göttingen 3rd: 1929, 4th: 1932
  • The life of Jesus on the basis of the synoptic Gospels for religious instruction in German and Protestant viewed , 1936
  • History of the city of Hameln , Seifert Hameln 1955
  • 400 years of the Hameln Abbey House , CW Niemeyer Hameln, 1958
  • Monuments and historical sites in Hameln , CW Niemeyer Hameln 1971 (4th edition)
  • The Pied Piper of Hameln: On the development and meaning of an old legend, dissertation , CW Niemeyer Hameln 1951, 4th edition 1985, ISBN 3-87585-073-4
  • Spanuth's guide through the Pied Piper City of Hameln , new edition 1986, ISBN 3-87585-039-4

literature

  • M. Oppermann: Heinrich Spanuth to the memory , in vol. 6 (1959), p. 110 of Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/hausarbeit/lim/16922.html
personal data
SURNAME Spanuth, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious educator and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1958
Place of death Hamelin