Hermann Altgelt

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Johann Hermann Altgelt (born June 18, 1795 in Krefeld , County of Moers , Kingdom of Prussia ; † December 10, 1871 in Düsseldorf ) was a German Protestant theologian and military chaplain , teacher at a military school , private tutor and educator of Prince Alexander of Prussia , Prussian government - and school councilor as well as author and editor of theological and regional historical writings. From 1867 to 1870 he was chairman of the board of directors of the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Life

When Altgelt was born in 1795 as the second of three sons of the Krefeld pastor Karl Philipp Altgelt (1752–1801) and his wife Anna Elisabeth, née Schultheiß (1763–1819), who was born in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) , Krefeld was his native town Part of the Left Bank of the Rhine occupied by France in the First Coalition War . In 1812 he began to study Protestant theology, whose stations were the universities of Utrecht , Berlin and Halle an der Saale . In 1815 he left the University of Utrecht, where he had studied the theology of the " Reformed religion " with the Bernardinum scholarship , and served as a lieutenant in the 1st Rhenish Landwehr Regiment . After the wars of liberation he continued his studies. In 1818 he passed his first theological exam.

At first he worked as a private tutor in Düsseldorf. In 1820 he got a job as a Protestant field chaplain in the 14th Division of the Prussian Army . He performed the service at the garrison church in Düsseldorf . At the same time he became a teacher at the military school in Düsseldorf. In 1825 he was  appointed director of studies under Otto August Rühle von Lilienstern . In the same year Friedrich von Prussia , a nephew of King Friedrich Wilhelm III , introduced him . and division commander in Düsseldorf, as a private tutor to his first-born son Alexander. An application for the office of a preacher in the Protestant community in London and as a secretary at the British Museum failed in 1822.

On May 21, 1823 he married Laura Antonie de Greiff (1798–1845), a daughter of the Krefeld silk manufacturer Johann Anton de Greiff (1765–1835), who gave birth to seven children: August Hermann (1824–1865, master builder at the Berlin police headquarters, later Government and Building Councilor as well as director of the Telegraph Directorate in Berlin), Friedericke Laura Antonia (1826–1894, 1845 soprano singer at the Niederrheinischer Musikfest in Düsseldorf, from 1851 wife of Georg Hasenclever ), Laura Elisabeth Antonia (1827–1863, fiancée from 1848 by Martin Gropius , his wife from 1855), Ernst Hermann (1832–1878, sympathizer of republican and free-thinking ideas, 1851 emigrant, 1854 founder of the city of Comfort / Texas ), Theresa Antonie (1837–1910, wife of William David, a pastor of the Exeter Cathedral ), Carl Anton Hermann (1839–1890) and Bertha Augusta (* 1842). After the death of his first wife, Altgelt married Bertha Scheibler (1806–1883, widow of the textile manufacturer and Chamber of Commerce President Johann Adam Quirin Croon, 1788–1854, and daughter of the dye works owner Johann Heinrich Scheibler, 1768–1818) on May 16, 1857.

After Altgelt left the Prussian army in 1828, he was given a subordinate position in the royal government in Düsseldorf in 1829 . In 1830 he rose there as a representative of the government and school council Karl Wilhelm Kortüm (1787-1858). As such, he acquired responsibility for elementary and higher education as well as the cult of the Jews in the Düsseldorf administrative district. In the same year he published his first work on the three hundredth anniversary of the Confessio Augustana : 1. Petri III. 15. But be ready at all times to take responsibility everyone, the reason calls for the hope that is in you. A sermon in celebration of June 25, 1830 . In 1832 Altgelt was promoted to the rank of government and school council by his employer - after years of professional and denominational concerns. In addition, he was given responsibility for the Düsseltal rescue facility for orphans . In 1837 he was at the head of a "provisional curatorium" involved in founding the Luisenschule in Düsseldorf. He understood their educational program as a "soul-building facility". In 1841 his responsibility was extended to the entire Protestant school system in the administrative district. Probably in the same year he published the collection of the legal provisions and regulations of the elementary school system in the districts of the Königl. Government of Düsseldorf, along with a historical introduction to the administration of public education, from the times of Elector Carl Theodor, up to the year of death of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. In 1843 his employer warned him after signing a petition against the ban on the Rheinische Zeitung . In 1845, Altgelt's responsibility was expanded to include supervision of the factory schools as well as the property, endowment and buildings of the Protestant schools. In that year he published the history of the Counts and Lords of Moers . Because of his contacts with liberal circles, his employer rejected the idea of appointing Altgelt as the censor of the government district. In 1862 he was promoted to the secret government and school council. At that time he lived in a house at Königsallee 24. In 1865 he retired.

Tomb of Hermann Altgelt and his family in the Golzheimer Friedhof in Düsseldorf

Through his position as a private teacher at the Düsseldorf court of Prince Friedrich of Prussia, Altgelt came into contact with leading personalities from the city and region from the mid-1820s. A friend was the teacher and literary historian Karl Hoffmeister . His circle of friends also included the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath and the writer, theater manager and district judge Karl Immermann , whose “useless society” he joined. In 1864/1865 he served as chairman of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . Altgelt was also a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde in Leiden, the district association for the welfare of the working classes and the historical association for the Lower Rhine . In 1867 the Düsseldorf government under Friedrich von Kühlwetter entrusted him with management functions at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , when its director Eduard Bendemann fell ill. In this function, Altgelt was confronted in a letter of protest from 38 artists to the Prussian Ministry of Culture on June 23, 1869, alleging that he “had the predominant and exclusive management of the artistic side as well and unites the artistic direction and training of budding artists exert such a significant influence that the views of established artists cannot come into their own. ”On July 13, 1870, Altgelt resigned from the chairmanship of the board of directors of the Düsseldorf Academy.

In 1815 he received a Royal Medal for his military services. Prussia also awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class . The Bergisches Geschichtsverein made him an honorary member. Altgelt's tomb is located in the northern part (field X) of the Golzheimer Friedhof in Düsseldorf.

Fonts

  • 1. Petri III. 15. But be ready at all times to take responsibility everyone, the reason calls for the hope that is in you. A sermon in celebration of June 25, 1830 . Carpenter, Düsseldorf 1830.
  • Collection of the legal provisions and regulations of the elementary school system in the districts of the Königl. Government of Düsseldorf, along with a historical introduction to the administration of public education, from the times of Elector Carl Theodor, up to the year of death of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. 2nd edition, Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1842 ( digitized version ).
  • History of the Counts and Lords of Moers . Boetticher'sche Buchhandlung, Düsseldorf 1845 ( digitized version ).
  • March 25, 1702. A memorandum in memory of the 150 years ago taking possession of the county of Moers by Friedrich I, King of Prussia . Filder Buchdruckerei, 1852.
  • The moral consciousness of the present and Friedrich Wilhelm III. King of Prussia. For the best of the evangelical hospital and catering facility in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 1866.

literature

  • Wolfgang Krall: “There is progress in school!” Life and work of the Rhenish school councilor Johann Hermann Altgelt . Dissertation at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 1994, Contributions to historical educational research, Volume 14, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 1995 ( table of contents ).

Web links

Commons : Johann Hermann Altgelt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Dammer (Ed.): Meyer's German Yearbook . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen 1872, p. 384 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Karl von Lützow (ed.): Journal for visual arts . Verlag EA Seemann, Leipzig 1872, p. 129 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Jochen Gruch: The Protestant Pastors in the Rhineland from the Reformation to the Present (= Writings of the Association for Rhenish Church History 175), Volume 1 (A – D), Bonn 2011, No. 143
  4. ^ Wijnand Maarten Schinkelshoek: The Stipendium Bernardinum illuminated from all sides (Het Stipendium Bernardinum) . Dissertation at the Theological Faculty of the Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church), Bennebroek / Budapest 2012, Appendix p. 23, No. S0254 ( PDF )
  5. ↑ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf District , No. 73 of November 25, 1820, p. 518
  6. ^ Adelbert Natorp : History of the evangelical community in Düsseldorf . In: Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): History of the city of Düsseldorf in twelve treatises. Commemorative publication for the 600th anniversary . Verlag von C. Kraus, Düsseldorf 1888, p. 142 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ Speech of the go. Government and school council Altgelt . In: The Luis School in Düsseldorf. Inauguration of the building erected for this evangelical secondary school for girls. June 30, 1863 . Voß, Düsseldorf 1863, p. 10 ( digitized version )
  8. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf , 1863, p. 3
  9. ^ Wolfgang Hütt : Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1869 . VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 273
  10. ^ Karl Woermann : On the history of the Düsseldorf art academy. Outline of their last decade and memorandum for the inauguration of the new building . Voss, Düsseldorf 1880, p. 8 ( digitized version )
  11. ^ Historical tomb of the Altgelt family , website in the portal postmortal.de , accessed on October 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Altgelt, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altgelt, Johann Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and military chaplain
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld , County of Moers , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1871
Place of death Dusseldorf