Johann Friedrich Christoph Meyer

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Johann Friedrich Christoph Meyer (born August 4, 1792 in Schwerin , † before July 18, 1852 in Redefin ) was a German educator.

Life

Meyer was the son of the ducal lackey Gabriel Martin Meyer. The family moved to Ludwigslust in 1796 , where he received his first schooling from 1708. From 1806 to 1808, he attended in 1704 by Christoph gene switches from Breitenau founded Latin school in Ploen , the Breitenau MOORISH Gestift (also Breitenavianum ) to which today the tradition of the Gymnasium Schloss Plon back. From 1808 to 1810 he attended the cathedral school in Schwerin . In 1811 he began studying theology at the University of Jena and was one of the founders of the Corps Vandalia Jena. In 1812 he moved to the University of Berlin and got in touch with Friedrich Ludwig Jahn . In the Wars of Liberation 1813–1815 he was a member of the Lützow Free Corps . From 1816 he completed his theology studies at the University of Rostock. In 1817 he became a teacher at the cathedral school in Schwerin, which was renamed Fridericianum Schwerin in 1818 . In 1818 he became vice principal of the school of scholars in Ludwigslust and in 1821 its rector. In 1827 he became a member of the board of trustees of the local teachers' college. Meyer became a Mecklenburg school council in 1831 with an official seat in Schwerin and served at the instigation of church circles until his retirement on November 7, 1851. He died under circumstances that were never cleared up. His body was found on June 18, 1852 in a forest near Redefin, according to another source on the Redefin racecourse, and buried on July 20, 1852 in Hagenow .

Meyer was a member of numerous clubs and societies. Since 1834 he was a Freemason member of the Schwerin lodge Harpocrates zur Morgenröte and a founding member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. In 1835 he became a member of the Patriotic Association in Mecklenburg.

The grain oak with the Schnelles weapon and the memorial plaque from 1845 (around 1900)

In 1845 he held the ceremonial address at the commemoration of the liberation fighter Gottlieb Schnelle ("sword celebration") at Theodor Körner's grave in Wöbbelin .

literature

  • Friedrich Carl Wex : On the history of the Schwerin school of learning. A reference to the three-hundred-year anniversary to be celebrated on August 4, 1853 , Schwerin 1853, p. 68
  • 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. 6588 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gymnasium Schloss Plön: Website with information on the history of the school
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 130 , 15
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Stephan Sehlke: Das Geistige Boizenburg: Education and the educated in and from the Boizenburg area from the 13th century to 1945 , BoD - Books on Demand, 2011, p. 21
  5. ^ Friedrich Brasch: The grave at Wöbbelin or Theodor Körner and the Lützower. Schwerin: Stiller 1861, p. 230
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Johann Friedrich Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Friedrich Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH before July 18, 1852
Place of death Redefin