August Merget

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Honor grave with a portrait medallion mergets on the grave stele; Cathedral cemetery in Berlin

August Merget (full name Johann Friedrich August Merget ; also Adalbert Merget ; * December 17, 1801 in Berlin , † July 11, 1877 ) was a German rector and Berlin seminar teacher .

Life

August Merget was the child of Reformed parents who, with their son, were members of the parish in the Berlin Cathedral . He first attended the elementary school associated with the community under the direction of Hartung in the Brüderstraße and was prepared for his confirmation by the court preacher Friedrich Ehrenberg . At the Joachimsthal Gymnasium he met Ernst Orth , the later pastor who, decades later, gave the funeral sermon for Merget.

After graduating from school in 1822, August Merget studied theology at what was then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, where he especially heard the lectures and sermons of Friedrich Schleiermacher and August Neander . Then Merget worked for several years as a private tutor in Berlin and in the province of Saxony “in the house of a respectable nobleman”. During this period he passed his theological exam and received his frequently used licentia concionandi .

After Merget was initially appointed rector of an elementary school in Berlin, he followed a call as a teacher at the Royal Seminary for City School Teachers in Berlin, where he gave religious instruction. On July 9, 1847, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV gave his approval by cabinet order to transfer the previous teacher August Merget "the interim management of the seminar for city schools [...]." After years of activity at the seminar, Merget was finally replaced by the Prussian Education Minister Friedrich Eichhorn appointed head of the educational institution.

After the revolutions of 1848 and 1849 , August Merget was transferred and from 1850 worked as director of the Royal Augusta School and the teachers' seminary, where he then worked for more than a quarter of a century.

For around two decades, Merget also served as the Berlin city school council. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the German Pestalozzi Foundation based in Pankow near Berlin.

In 1866 Merget published a history of German youth literature , the third edition of which was reprinted in 1967.

August Merget was a member of the Association for the History of Berlin . In his collection there is a carte de visite with a full-body portrait of the royal court photographers L. Haase & Co. from their studio at Grosse-Friedrichs-Straße 178.

The bitterness of Merget's life included the funeral of his son and, soon after, the death of his first wife. Eventually his eyesight became more and more clouded in both eyes; a doctor could probably only restore "a glimmer" of the previous vision. Merget was only able to continue teaching his students based on what he had learned because of his memory, which was described as extraordinary. One of them then became his "assistant" and second wife, with whom he had other children.

Shortly before a planned trip to Bad Wildungen , on the day of the funeral of one of his grandchildren planned for the afternoon, August Merget died.

Johann Friedrich August Merget was given a grave of honor at the " Domfriedhof II " in Berlin-Wedding , Müllerstrasse 72/73.

Fonts (selection)

  • Festival hymn book for the third jubilee of the Augsburg Confession . Berlin 1830. Available from W. Martius & Comp. Koster Street No. 17
  • Life descriptions and memorabilia from general world history to the Peace of Westphalia. With 1 copper . In: The German Child Friend, or collection of morally and useful entertaining and instructive youth writings. A family library for all estates / in connection with several educators ed. by K. Vogel. With coppers and woodcuts, Abth. 2, volume 2. Fleischer, Leipzig 1839
  • The life of Jesus in 55 New Testament stories, a book of edification for young people , with illustrations by Theodor Hosemann . Winckelmann, Berlin [1845]
  • Spiritual poems for children ... A. Merget Director, Berlin 1852
  • About educators, a word to communicate about profession, training and performance of the same. With an appendix, contains the admission conditions, etc. Reimer, Berlin 1853
    • ... with an appendix containing the admission requirements and the regulations for the discharge examinations at the Königl. Educational institute for teachers in Berlin . 2nd, improved edition. 1863
  • Local history of Berlin and the surrounding area. A textbook and reading book . Publishing house of the Plahn'schen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1858
    • Local customers of Berlin and the surrounding area. A text and reading book ... with a review of school use ... 2nd improved, revised edition. Publishing house of the Plahnschen Buchhandlung (Henri Sauvage), Berlin 1868
  • History of the Berlin School Teachers Association for German Elementary Schools 〈Older Berlin Teachers Association〉. A jubilation ... from A. Merget, Director of the Royal School for Teachers in Berlin , Berlin: Trowitzsch, 1863
  • History of German youth literature / by A. Merget ,
    • Main work. Plahn, Berlin 1867
    • Addendum. Plahn, Berlin 1873
    • second, very complete edition, enlarged with an addendum on folk writings, published by Plahn'schen Buchhandlung Henri Sauvage, Berlin 1877; Digitized via Google books
  • On the position of the evangelical teacher in relation to the recently emerged theological parties in his church . Ms. Schulze, Berlin 1868
  • Notes from school on the hymn book for evangelical congregations as a draft. Published by the Kgl. Consistory of the Province of Brandenburg, Berlin, 1869
  • Instruction to make the most necessary female handicrafts suitable for schools. Designed by the handicraft teachers at the royal Augusta School in Berlin. Edited [and with an introduction] by A. Merget . 3rd improved edition. Plahn, Berlin 1874
  • Little hymnology, hymnology for high schools . Plahn, Berlin 1876
  • Brief biblical studies for teachers at community schools and secondary schools for girls . 3rd, improved edition. Plahn, Berlin 1878

literature

  • Adolf Böhme: August Merget, Weiland director of the Royal Teachers' Seminar and the Augusta Schulze in Berlin . In: Deutsche Schulzeitung , born in 1877, No. 33 and 34. Oppenheim, Berlin 1877
  • August Merget, seminar director in Berlin, born December 17, 1801, died July 11, 1877. Memories of a friend . In: Schulblatt for the Province of Brandenburg . Schulze, Schmiedeberg 1877
  • Carl Bormann : August Merget, seminar director in Berlin . In: Schulblatt für die Provinz Brandenburg , 42nd year, Wiegandt and Grieben, Berlin 1877, issues 9/10, pp. 433–446; Digitized version of the library for research on the history of education (BBF)
  • Ernst Orth: Speech given at the coffin of the seminar director August Merget, on July 15, 1877 . In: Schulblatt für die Provinz Brandenburg , Berlin: Wiegandt and Grieben, 42nd year (1877), nos. 11/12, pp. 483–490, digitized via the BBF

Web links

Commons : August Merget  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the year 1838 was named for Merget's start of activity as rector of the seminar and probably referred to the beginning of Merget's seminar as a teacher; compare Archive for the History of Books , Vol. 27 (1986), p. 58; Preview over google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Goebel (ed.): Dieß writes to you from a loving heart. Letters from Sabine Diesterweg and her family . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen [2016], ISBN 978-3-8353-1928-8 and ISBN 3-8353-1928-0 , p. 327; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ Malte Dahrendorf: The girl's book . In: Gerhard Haas (ed.): Children's and youth literature. On the typology and function of a literary genre , Stuttgart: Reclam, 1974, ISBN 978-3-15-010246-6 and ISBN 3-15-010246-4 , pp. 264–288; here: p. 269; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Mushacke's German school calendar , 26th year, 2nd part: Historical-statistical and personal news. Compiled from official sources , Leipzig: Verlag von BG Teubner, (finished in print August 1877), pp. 153, 194; Digitized via Google books
  4. ^ Wolfgang Jacobmeyer : The German school history book 1700-1945. The first epoch of its genre history as reflected in the forewords (= history culture and historical learning , vol. 8), 1st edition, volume 1, Berlin; Münster: Lit Verlag, [2011], ISBN 978-3-643-11418-1 , p. 649; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ a b Karl Bormann: August Merget, seminar director in Berlin ... . In: Schulblatt für die Provinz Brandenburg , 42nd year (1877), Berlin: Wiegandt and Grieben, 1877, issues 9/10, pp. 433–446; Digitized version of the library for research on the history of education (BBF)
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ernst Orth: Speech given at the coffin of the seminar director August Merget, on July 15, 1877 . In: Schulblatt für die Provinz Brandenburg , Berlin: Wiegandt and Grieben, 42nd year (1877), nos. 11/12, pp. 483–490, digitized via the BBF
  7. ↑ Manfred Heinemann , Sylvia Schütze (Ed.): Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg. Complete Works , Department 2, Volume 24: Letters, Official Correspondence and Life Documents from the years 1832 to 1847 , Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-005682-1 and ISBN 3-05-005682-7 , p LXI; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ a b Archive for the History of the Book System , Vol. 27 (1986), p. 58; Preview over google books
  9. ↑ Annotated images under Historical Photographs / August Merget / Teachers' Seminar Director on the site diegeschichteberlins.de
  10. ↑ Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Domfriedhof II… In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
personal data
SURNAME Merget, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merget, Johann Friedrich August (full name); Adalbert Merget (wrong first name derived from the abbreviation "A.")
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rector and seminar teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1877