Johann David Polchow

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Johann David Polchow (born November 13, 1732 in Parchim ; † September 5/6 , 1801 in Genin ) was an Evangelical Lutheran preacher and school reformer.

Life

Johann David Polchow was the son of the pastor at St. Marien in Parchim and superintendent of the Mecklenburg district of Jakob Bernhard Polchow (1700–1756). The Göttingen repetent and Lüneburg pastor Christian Peter Polchow († 1770) was his brother; his sister Esther Eva Elisabeth (* 1734) was the mother of the pharmacist David Peter Hermann Schmidt (1770-1856).

From 1749 he studied theology at the universities of Rostock and Jena , where he also received his doctorate in theology in 1754 under the chairmanship of Johann Christoph Köcher .

In 1758 he became a private teacher in Lübeck in the house of the family of the later Lübeck mayor Rodde . In 1765 he got a job as a preacher at St. Georg in Genin, at that time a chapter church village of the Lübeck cathedral chapter within the Lübeck Landwehr . The lasting importance of Polchow lay in his efforts to reform the school system in the Lübeck monastery and the corresponding improvement in teacher training in the monastery, which were suggested by the Brandenburg pedagogue, philanthropist and landowner Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow at Reckahn Castle . For this purpose he set up a teachers' library. The school in Genin had a model character in its time and was considered exemplary in the sense of a modern rural school system at the time of Polchow's work.

In 1790 he gave an incunabula that he had come into his possession ( Birgitta of Sweden : Revelationes , Lübeck: Bartholomäus Ghotan 1492) from the library of St. Anne's Monastery , the Rostock University Library . Another volume from this donation was an extensive theological collective manuscript from the second half of the 15th century, which probably came from southern Germany and Silesia.

Fonts

  • De unctione Christi , dissertation 1754
  • Letters, syllabir and number board. Lübeck 1784
  • Common syllabary table, according to which our children get the first instructions for reading, understanding High German and thinking. Goettingen 1785
  • About the people and primers for more fruitful teaching in elementary schools: his worthy friend and patron, the noble bored and honorable Mr. Adolph Rodde, noble merchant and merchant in the imperial and salvation. Roman Empire free the city of Lübeck on the day of the wedding of the same with the ... Agneta Maria Hartmann to the benevolent memory , Green , Lübeck 1786
  • Did our region win with the introduction of Christianity under Otto the Great and Duke Henrich the Lion? : after congratulating Mr. Franz Bernhard Rodde, fourth mayor of the city of Lübeck , Green, Lübeck 1789
  • Geniner Syllabir Primer , 1790
  • Instruction for the teachers at the capitular schools of the Hochstift Lübek , 1793

literature

  • Berend Kordes : Lexicon of the now-living Schleswig-Holstein and Eutinian writers. Schleswig 1797, pp 267 -269
  • Dietrich Wölfel: Polchow, Johann David in Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 7, pp. 169–171
  • Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten: Biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 , Books on Demand, 2009, p. 295 ( digitized version )
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7711 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes , Volume 2, pp. 750/751
  2. ↑ Beatrix Bäumer:  Schmidt, David Peter Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 180 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Entry in the incunabula catalog of German libraries online, accessed on March 6, 2016; Signature: Fm-4
  5. ↑ UB Rostock Ms.theol. 3; Kurt Heydeck: The medieval manuscripts of the Rostock University Library. Pp. 137-143 online
personal data
SURNAME Polchow, Johann David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran preacher and school reformer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Parchim
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1801 or September 6, 1801
Place of death Genin