Christian Scherling

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Johann Christian Scherling (born December 13, 1812 in Spielberg (Lanitz-Hassel Valley) ; † December 28, 1903 in Lübeck ) was a German educator, textbook author and music official.

Life

Johann Christian Scherling attended the Domgymnasium in Naumburg (Saale) until he graduated from high school in Easter 1833. He studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Halle . From Michaelis 1835 to Easter 1836 he was an assistant teacher at the Latina of the Francke Foundations . At Easter 1836 he moved to the Katharineum in Lübeck as a collaborator . He worked here for 48 years. He taught math and physics. After Carl Mosche's death in 1856, he also led the school's singing lessons until 1878. He was also responsible for building up the physical teaching collection. For the first time, Scherling acquired demonstration equipment such as drop machines, swing machines, steam machines and electrifying machines. In 1859, with the help of the Senate, he succeeded in acquiring a Uranorama , a model of the starry sky 85 cm in diameter and 2 m high with a pictorial representation of the constellations, which was still available in 1957 and exhibited in the Holsten Gate . At Easter 1854 he was promoted to senior teacher. At Michaelmas 1862 the Senate appointed him professor. He retired at Easter 1884.

Scherling wrote a whole series of school program treatises from his specialist field as well as textbooks, of which his basic plan for experimental physics for higher education institutions was the most successful and had a sixth edition even after his death. He also commented on questions of school policy, especially secondary school .

Scherling was socially committed in many ways. He was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , gave several lectures there, was on the board of the vocational school and the teachers' seminar operated by the society at the time, and temporarily took over the singing class established in 1849. From 1841 to 1852 there was a Geognostic Association for the Baltic States in Lübeck , whose secretary was Scherling. The political situation after the suppression of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising let the association go down. Rather unusual for a teacher, he was a member of the North German Pharmacists' Association.

His special passion was singing and civil choral music. Scherling was a founding member and longstanding board member of the Lübecker Liedertafel from 1842 and of the Musikverein founded in 1844, which organized the Lübeck Symphony Concerts. Just two years after it was founded, the Liedertafel was able to hold a North German Singing Festival with 400 participants on June 30th and July 1st, 1844. Scherling led the spiritual concert of the festival in the Katharinenkirche . In 1846/47 he was one of the driving forces in the Liedertafel who succeeded in organizing the General German Singing Festival with 2200 guests from June 26 to 29, 1847 in Lübeck - a major civic national event in Vormärz together with the Germanistenag . Scherling was President of the Festivities Section in the Festival Committee. At the regional and national level, Scherling was the president of the North German ( Lower Saxony ) Singers' Association from its foundation in 1862 to 1893 and from 1871 to 1882 as the spokesman for the entire German Singers Association.

His own arrangements for mixed and male choir were primarily aimed at patriotic songs. A critic of his handling of the watch on the Vosges characterized this as "successful noise piece of chauvinistic Teutonism ".

Ernst August Scherling was his son.

Works

  • Contribution to the simplification of the lesson in the letter arithmetic in secondary and higher middle schools. Lübeck: Schmidt 1836
  • The rules of the calculation of alligations or admixtures, derived from algebraic considerations. Lübeck: Schmidt 1836
  • Guide to teaching physics: for secondary schools and higher middle schools. Lübeck: Rohden 1840
  • Textbook of general arithmetic for the upper grades of high schools. Lübeck: Rohden 1841
  • Geometrical problems that can be solved with the help of algebra without using goniometry. Lübeck: Schmidt 1842
  • Attempt to provide guidance on how to determine the rocks occurring in the South Baltic countries through your own investigation. Lübeck: Schmidt 1845
  • Guide to teaching general arithmetic for higher secondary schools as well as for the lower and middle classes of grammar schools. Second edition reworked into a textbook and exercise book, with an appendix containing the mathematical tables necessary for school. Lübeck: Asschenfeldt 1852
  • Textbook of geometry, for use in teaching in grammar schools and higher middle schools. Lübeck: Asschenfeldt 1854
  • Our secondary school, what it was, has become and must be. Lübeck: H. Schmidt 1865
  • The Archimedean spiral line: Freely edited and annotated after Rivaltus a Flurantia and Venatorius. Lübeck 1865
Digitized , British Library
  • The expansion of the Lübeck secondary school. Lübeck: Borchers 1869
  • Preschool and the beginnings of descriptive geometry: a course for the secunda of a first-order secondary school; with 155 woodcuts. Hanover: Hahn 1870
Digitized version , Göttingen University Library
  • Outline of experimental physics for higher educational institutions. 2., ext. u. verb. Ed., Leipzig: Haessel 1871, 3rd ed. 1874
Hans Rühlmann (Ed.): Chr. Scherlings Grundriß der Experimentalphysik. 6th edition for high school students, Haessel, Leipzig 1904 ( digitized UB Leipzig).

Compositions

  • German Fatherland Song. Poemed by C. von Großheim, set to music for 4-part male choir, in the folk tone by Chr. Scherling. The yield is intended for Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck: FW Kaibel 1848
  • The watch on the Vosges, poem by G. Mühl from Strasbourg. For a singing voice composed by Ludwig Liebe. For male choir with instrumental or pianoforte accompaniment arranged by Chr. Scherling in agreement with the composer. Leipzig: Seal 1874
Digitized , British Library

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog. 8 (1903), col. 99 *
  2. ↑ Ad explorationem publicam progressuum ... in Schola Cathedr. Numburgensi ... instituendam ... invitat ( school program ) 1833, p. 21
  3. ↑ Festschrift for the bicentenary of the Francke Foundations and the Latin Secondary School on June 30 and July 1, 1898. , p. 161 No. 45
  4. ^ Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The worldly music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, p. 283
  5. ^ History of the scientific collection of the Katharineum. In: Das Katharineum 9 (1957), issue 28, p. 1f ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ See Johann Hennings: Music History Lübeck I: The worldly music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, pp. 171ff. and exemplified shear compact report on the program year 1861/62, in Lübeckische sheets 4 (1862), pp 320 -322
  7. ^ Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The worldly music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, p. 244
  8. ↑ Looking back at the General German Singing Festival in Lübeck from June 26th to 29th, 1847: With three lithographs. Lübeck: GC Schmidt Sons 1847 ( digitized version ); on the political environment, see Dieter Düding: Organized social nationalism in Germany (1808–1847). Significance and function of gymnastics and singing clubs for the German national movement , Oldenbourg, Munich, Vienna 1984 (= Studies on the History of the Nineteenth Century , Vol. 13), ISBN 978-3-486-51631-9 , p. 254
  9. ↑ Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung 8 (1873), p. 85
personal data
SURNAME Scherling, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherling, Johann Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, textbook author and music official
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Spielberg (Lanitz-Hassel Valley)
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1903
Place of death Lübeck