Hermann Ernst Rumpel
Hermann Ernst Rumpel (* 1734 in Erfurt ; † 1794 ibid) was a German lawyer , librarian , headmaster and university professor .
Life
His father Johann Georg Rumpel (1694-1773) came from Salzungen , had at the Erfurt University law student and was then Stadtsyndicus and director of the Academy of Sciences of Erfurt .
Hermann Ernst also studied law at the universities of Erfurt and Jena. In 1759 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur.
From 1758 to 1778 he was rector of the Evangelical Ratsgymnasium .
In 1759 he became a member of the Leopoldina and custodian of the Leopoldina library under Johann Hieronymus Kniphof . After Kniphof's death he became his successor as librarian, and in 1766 his brother Ludwig Friedrich Eusebius Rumpel became the new custodian .
In 1765 Hermann Ernst was appointed professor of law at the University of Erfurt, and in 1767 he became a full professor. In this function, he supervised Karl Wilhelm Nose's thesis in 1782 . In 1786 Karl Theodor von Dalberg commissioned him with an expert opinion on the Stotternheimer Saline for the extraction of rock salt , which was only carried out there from 1828.
After his death in 1794 he was buried in the Erfurt University Church of St. Michaelis . The tomb still exists today.
Fonts
- In Platonis Dialogum, Qui Crito Inscribitur, Quaedam Disserit, Et Ad Panegyrin , Gymnasii Senatorii Peracto Examine Auctumnali, Erfurt October 12, 1768, 8 pp.
- Some considerations about public education and its improvement: An invitation to a speech exercise and doctorate for some students of the Evangelical High School , Gradelmüller Verlag, Erfurt 1774, 11 pp.
- Considerations about the sundials together with the improvement of the Creutz-shaped clock , Verlag Georg A. Keyser, Erfurt 1784, 24 pp.
- The necessary changes to the laws, Verlag Georg A. Keyser, Erfurt 1792, 38 pp.
- About caring for the poor in the country and releasing the Betteley , Verlag Georg Adam Keyser, Erfurt 1791, 22 pp.
Awards
- The Rumpelgasse in Erfurt was named after him.
literature
- Johann Friedrich Herel : Memorandum to Mr. D. Hermann Ernst Rumpel , Verlag Georg Adam Keyser, Erfurt 1794, 24 pages
- Mücke, Marion; Schnalke, Thomas: Briefnetz Leopoldina: The correspondence of the German Academy of Natural Scientists around 1750 , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020105-5
- von der Pfordten, Dietmar: Great thinkers of the University of Erfurt , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-510-9
- Lehmann, Heidrun: Buried and rediscovered , Thüringer Allgemeine, Erfurt, August 7, 2015
Web links
- Uni Bonn: Diploma for Carol. Guil. Nose
- Memorandum to Mr. D. Hermann Ernst Rumpel of the Right Public Ordinary Teachers to Erfurt of the Electoral Academy of Useful Sciences there ... in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Diploma for Carol. Guil. Nose digital collections of the University of Bonn
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rumpel, Hermann Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, librarian, headmaster and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1794 |
| Place of death | Erfurt |