Hugo Jentsch

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Hugo Jentsch

Emil Moritz Hugo Jentsch (born September 20, 1840 in Luckau ; † May 29, 1916 in the Rockwinkel Sanatorium near Bremen ) was a German high school teacher, regional historian and researcher of prehistory.

life and work

Hugo Jentsch was born the son of the preacher Moritz Jentsch and attended high school in his hometown of Luckau. In 1859 he began studying theology and philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, which he completed in 1866 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. completed. After the state examination for the higher subject and the probationary year in 1868 at the Gymnasium in Küstrin , he became a senior teacher at the Gymnasium in Guben in 1869 , where he taught until he retired in 1913.

Jentsch wrote many local history essays and in 1884 was one of the founders of the Lower Lusatian Society for Anthropology and Antiquity . He became its deputy chairman and from 1892 to 1916 its chairman. He built up a collection of prehistoric finds at the grammar school in Guben, which were transferred to a municipal antiquities collection in 1900. Since 1913 it was exhibited in a museum, of which he became director. In recognition of his merit, the square in front of the building was called “Jentsch Square” (today (ul.) “Basztowa”, Gubin ). He also received the Order of the Crown III. Class and the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with a bow . Since the 1990s, a street in Guben, Reichenbacher Berg residential complex, has been called "Hugo-Jentsch-Straße".

As early as 1875, a few years after it was founded in 1869, he became a member of the Berlin Anthropological Society . Since 1890 he was a corresponding member of the Association for the History of Berlin . He was also a member of the "Provincial Commission for the Preservation of Monuments in the Province of Brandenburg", the executive committee of the Association for Heritage Preservation for the Frankfurt administrative region , honorary member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences (1904), the Society for Anthropology and Prehistory of Upper Lusatia , the Brandenburgia , the association for the history of Sorau , the association for local history of the Berlin history association and the historical association of Frankfurt (Oder).

Works

  • Aristotelis ex arte rhetorica quaeritur quid habeat Cicero. Dissertation, Schade, Berolini 1866.
  • Johann Franck von Guben. König, Guben 1877.
  • The prehistoric antiquities from the urban and rural district of Guben. 5 parts, Guben 1883-1892.
  • The grave field near Sadersdorf in the Guben district and the youngest Germanic era in Lower Lusatia. Koenig, Guben 1896.
  • Church memories from Guben's pre-Reformation period. Albert Koenig, Guben 1901.
  • History of the Gymnasium zu Guben up to the establishment of real classes i. J. 1833. Koenig, Guben 1912.
  • The Royal Evangelical Teachers' College in Marienburg from 1813–1913. Shepherd, Breslau 1913.
  • Karl Gander (using the preliminary work by Jentsch): History of the city of Guben. Magistrate, Guben 1925; Reprint: Institute for Urban History of the Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster 1980, ISBN 3-921616-69-7 .

literature

  • Karl Gander and Franz Weineck : Professor Dr. Hugo Jentsch. In: Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen. Volume 13, 1914–1917, Guben 1917, pp. I – XI (necrology with portrait photo) and pp. 330–340 (compilation of his more than 200 essays)
  • Karl Gander: Memories of Professor Dr. Hugo Jentsch. In: Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen. Volume 29, Guben 1941, pp. 155-162
  • Richard Jecht : In: New Lusatian Magazine . 1916, Volume 92, pp. 238-241
  • Eduard Götze: In: Journal for Ethnology. 1916, Volume 48, p. 117
  • August Petermann (Ed.): Dr. A. Petermann's communications from Justus Perthes' geographical institute . Perthes, Gotha [and a.] 1916, portrait photo on plate 38
  • Alfred Götze : In: Prehistoric magazine. Volume VII, 1916, pp. 234-235
  • Gerhard Gunia: Jentsch, Hugo. In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon (= individual publication by the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV, Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , p. 196.
  • Hugo Mötefindt: In: German history sheets . Volume 17, Issue 7, pp. 195-198

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personal data
SURNAME Jentsch, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jentsch, Emil Moritz Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German researcher of prehistory
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckau
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1916
Place of death Rockwinkel Sanatorium near Bremen