Hinrich Middeldorpf

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Hinrich Middeldorpf (born August 2, 1788 in Hamburg , † January 21, 1861 in Breslau ) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau.

biography

Hinrich Middeldorpf came as the son of the Hamburg merchant Hinrich Middeldorpf and his wife Caroline Philippine born. King to the world. In his hometown he attended the Johanneum School of Academics . His classmates included August Neander and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense . After graduating, he began studying theology at the University of Helmstedt and the Georg-August University in Göttingen . His teachers included Christian Gottlob Heyne , Daniel Alexander Eichhorn , Arnold Heeren , Gottlieb Jakob Planck and Georg Ludolf Dissen .

On April 2, 1810 , Middeldorpf received his doctorate in philosophy in Helmstedt . Through the mediation of Wilhelm von Humboldt, he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in oriental languages at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in the same year .

As early as 1811 he became an associate professor of theology at the new Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University. In 1812/13 he was the first curator at the Wroclaw University Library . In the Wars of Liberation in 1813 he was field preacher and in 1815 he traveled to the Rhenish and Belgian hospitals as a provincial deputy to care for the wounded. At the end of 1815 as full professor and in 1816 as doctor of theology in Breslau. For the year 1822/23 he was elected rector of the university .

Since 1823 director of the seminary for learned schools , he was appointed to the consistory in 1828 and appointed senior consistorial councilor in 1848. From 1826 to 1829 he was a member of the scientific examination committee. For many years he was director of the institution for the deaf and dumb.

Memberships

Freemasons
Honorary Master of the Johannisloge "Horus" in the Order of Breslau
Chief Master of the "Inner Orient" at the same
assigned Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Silesia .

family

From his marriage to Caroline Emilie geb. Schiller from Breslau, closed on August 25, 1816, stated:

  • Michel Henrich Clemens (* 1817), left as a Prussian lieutenant a. D. Europe and has been missing in Texas since 1844
  • Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf (1824–1868), secret medical advisor and professor at the University of Breslau
  • Franz Constantin Middeldorpf , Prussian forester , author, including instructions on forest division, appraisal, value calculation, book, registry and business management , Springer Verlag, 1868
  • Heinrich, died young in Rio de Janeiro
  • Marie Beatrix († 1845 as a result of the consequences of the birth) married the royal justice commissioner Joseph Nitsche († 1848) in Breslau on May 12, 1844 , their son Hinrich Nitsche (1845–1902) grew up in the house of Hinrich Middeldorpf

Hinrich's half-sister Henriette (1779-1851), who emerged from the father's first marriage to Maria Magdalena Sillem, married Caspar Lengerke (1770-1852). Their son was the agricultural writer Alexander von Lengerke (1802-1853).

Works

  • Nahum, translated from Hebrew and explained . Hamburg 1808
  • with Johannes Gurlitt and Karl Sieveking: Two samples of German speeches given by students in the Johanneum . 1808
  • Commentatio de institutis literariis in Hispania quae Arabes auctores habuerunt . Dieterich 1810
  • Symbolae exegetico-criticae ad librum Ecclesiastis . 1811
  • Curae hexaplares in Jobum . Pressburg 1817
  • with Heinrich Friedrich Elsner: Paulus Apostolus et Jesaias Propheta inter se comparati . 1821
  • Commentationis de Prudentio et theologia Prudentiana . 1826
  • Variae lessons e cod. N. Ti. Seideliano jam Francofurti ad V. asservato
  • Letter to Mr. Julius Müller, Protestant pastor in Schönbrunn, regarding his assessment of the writing of a Catholic clergyman and a review caused by it . Wroclaw 1827
  • Codex Syriaco-hexaplaris . Berlin 1835
  • with Joseph Bripius and Friedrich Haase: Carmen de laudibus S. Alexii . 1861

Known students

  • Johann Gottlieb Kunisch (1789-1852) was a German high school teacher at the Collegium Fridericianum in Breslau, author and editor.

literature

  • Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried:  Middeldorpf, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 710 f.
  • Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . Prepared on behalf of the Association for Hamburg History; 5th volume Maack-Pauli, Hamburg 1870; Pp. 290-292
  • State Archives Hamburg, 662-1 / 53 v. Lengerke, No. 14, 15

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  2. ↑ Martin Riesebrodt:  Lengerke, Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 206 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Middeldorpf, Hinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Middeldorf, Heinrich; Middeldorp, Heinreich; Middeldorpf, Johannes Henricus; Middeldorpf, Henricus; Middeldorph, Henricus; Middeldorph, Heinrich; Middeldorph, Hinrich; Middeldorpfius, Henricus; Johannes H .; Middeldorf, Hinrich; Middeldorf, Henricus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and theologian; University professor in Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1861
Place of death Wroclaw