Jürgen Friedrich Ahrens

Jürgen Friedrich Ahrens (born October 2, 1834 in Sarlhusen , † July 14, 1914 in Malente ) was a German teacher and local poet .

Life

He grew up in Aukrug -Bünzen as the son of a master distiller . The tight economic situation in the parental home, in which six children had to be looked after, made it necessary for Jürgen Friedrich Ahrens to make a living as a shepherd boy. In Bad Segeberg he attended the teachers' seminar after school and from 1857 worked as a teacher in Holstein , including in Itzehoe and Kiel . From 1873 he was the full-time director of the trade school in Kiel.

For a long time he was a member of the board of the German Trade Teachers Association. In addition to his poems, Ahrens wrote books for advanced training and trade schools, wrote about the use of machines in companies, about teacher training , teaching students to work independently, handicrafts, hiking trips and about Schleswig-Holstein's history.

By 1903, Ahrens had built up the trade school in his 30 years as director in such a way that the number of teachers increased from 9 to 80, the classes from 10 to 88 and the number of students from 273 to 2336. He retired in the fall of the same year.

Works

• Field bloom. Low German poems. Richter, (Hamburg 1874); IV, 132 pp.
• with Klaus Groth and Willem Schröder : Greetings to the members and friends of the Low German Association of Leipzig. Offered on January 6, 1875. Leipzig 1875; 19 pp.
• with Daniel Bartels, August Bielfeld and others: Plattdeutsche Gedichte zum Declamiren. Hamburg 1876; III, 176 pp.

literature

• Entry "13 Ahrens, Jürgen Friedrich" in: Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to 1866 / collected a. ed. by Eduard Alberti . First division: AL. Kiel, Maack, 1867, p. 5
• Entry “Ahrens, Jürgen Friedrich” in: Teachers as writers. Handbook of the literary teachers, with biographies and details of their literary products / zs.gest. by H. Kühn. Leipzig: Siegismund & Volkening, 1888, p. 6
• Entry "Ahrens, Jürgen Friedrich" in: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 1. 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, p. 38, left column. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
• Heinrich Lund: Jürgen Friedrich Ahrens in: Die Heimat, Kiel, 1914, 24, No. 10
• Wischer, Fritz: Jürgen Friedrich Ahrens as poet in: Moderspraak 21 (1934) 10, pp. 149–151
• Köster, Klaus: Jürgen Friedrich Ahrens in: Moderspraak 21 (1934) 10, p. 148
• Heinrich Asmus, Werner Hauschildt, Peter Höhne: Update of the "History of the Aukrug " from 1978 and supplements, Aukrug 1995

Web links

• Jürgen Friedrich Ahrens in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)