Johann Carl Daniel Curio

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Johann Carl Daniel Curio; contemporary portrait.

Johann Carl Daniel Curio (born November 3, 1754 in Helmstedt ; † January 30, 1815 in Hamburg ) was a German educator , private teacher, publicist and co-founder of the oldest teachers' association that still exists today.

Life

Curio bust (1911) by Edmund Beckmann, entrance to the Curio House

Curio was born out of wedlock and grew up in the orphanage in Helmstedt. He attended the Latin school in his home town from 1769 to 1772. He then moved to the Johanneum in Hamburg. In 1775 he attended the academic high school there . During this time he belonged with Johann Arnold Günther and Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer - both were later involved in the Patriotic Society of 1765 - of the Friendship Literary Society in Hamburg . In the same year he returned to Helmstedt and began studying theology and philology for four years . The course was followed by a five-year activity as a private tutor from 1780. Then he received a teaching post at the Martineum grammar school in Braunschweig . In 1793, however, he was removed from office. The reason for this is unclear, but it is believed that the dismissal was related to the large-scale school reform of Johann Heinrich Campe in the Duchy of Braunschweig . In 1795 Curio found a job as a school assistant at the Fahrenkrögerische Pensionanstalt , a formerly known private school in Hamburg. He stayed in Hamburg and in 1804 he built his own teaching and education institute for boys . In the following year he was the initiator, co-founder and chairman of the Society of Friends of the Fatherland School and Education System , which has formed the Hamburg regional association of the Education and Science Union since 1948 .

Curio was also active as a writer and publicist. The journal Hamburg und Altona existed from 1801 to 1807, from 1805 he was its editor and also wrote for the paper. The content included current topics from both cities. The magazine was also a forum for various reform proposals in the spirit of the Enlightenment .

The words Curios from 1803, daring for the time and often quoted since then, are famous:

We have no nobility, no patricians, no slaves, not even subjects ourselves.
All real Hamburgers know and have only one stand, the stand of a citizen.
We are all citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

Curio himself had never acquired Hamburg citizenship and was therefore not entitled to take up self-employment, purchase real estate or take part in the elections for citizenship .

Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

Curio was married to Maria Catharina, geb. Weigel. A common daughter was Auguste Amalie Christiane (1788-1854). She married David Christopher Mettlerkamp in 1805 .

Honors

In Hamburg, in the area of ​​the Ohlsdorf Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, there is a collective grave ("pedagogues") in honor of Johann Carl Daniel Curio and others. The Curio House in Hamburg, built between 1908 and 1911, got his name.

Works

For a list, see Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Volume 1, Abatz - Dassovius, Hamburg, 1851, pp. 616–619

literature

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Remarks

  1. ^ Address 1815: "Curio, JCD scholar, teaching and pension institution for male youth, kl. Reichenstrasse no. 6 P. 1 “in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library
personal data
SURNAME Curio, Johann Carl Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Curio, Carl Daniel; Curio, Johann Karl Daniel; Curio, Karl Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg teacher, private teacher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1815
Place of death Hamburg