Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Delbrück

Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Delbrück. Stone print from a daguerreotype dated March 25, 1844

Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Delbrück (born April 12, 1772 in Magdeburg , † January 25, 1848 in Bonn ) was a philosopher and rhetorician .

Life

Delbrück was the third son of the Magdeburg lawyer and councilor Friedrich Heinrich Delbrück (1736–1783). He attended the cathedral school in Magdeburg , which was under the direction of Gottfried Benedict Funk . From Easter 1790 he studied philology and philosophy at the University of Halle . His teachers during his four-year studies included Friedrich August Wolf , Johann August Eberhard and Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob .

After that, on the recommendation of Funk, he became the educator of two sons of Count Stolberg in Eutin . He got into a religious and political conflict with the Count that could not be compensated, so that he switched to a merchant in Hamburg and took over the position of private tutor. Here he met Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , the poet of the " Messiad ".

In 1795 he went back to his parents' house in Magdeburg and began to write his dissertation . On July 22, 1797 he received his doctorate at the University of Halle .

From Easter 1797 he was a member of the “teachers' seminar for learned schools” and in the autumn of that year he became “extraordinary collaborator” at the grammar school for the gray monastery . He taught propaedeutics , Latin and French, religion and exercises in the German language, since 1802 as a "professor". In Berlin he made friends with Philipp Buttmann , Johannes von Müller and Friedrich Schleiermacher .

In 1800 his brother Friedrich Delbrück was taken over by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed tutor of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm IV , which also made Ferdinand Delbrück the court's attention. The conflict between Prussia and France forced the Prussian court to move to Königsberg. In September 1809 Delbrück was appointed to the government council of the clerical and debt deputation of the East Prussian government in Königsberg .

In addition, on October 23, 1809, he was appointed associate professor in the philosophy faculty of the University of Königsberg . He gave lectures on aesthetic, philological and literary-historical issues. The activity in the school deputation encompassed the entire school system of the province and from 1811 the curator of the university, Landhofmeister Hans Jakob von Auerswald , elected him to the lecturing council for university affairs. During this time he gave lectures on the German language for the Crown Prince and Princess Charlotte . His public lectures focused on the aesthetics that inspired the poet Max von Schenkendorf to write a poem. In Königsberg he was related to Karl Dietrich Hüllmann , Johann Friedrich Herbart and Johann Georg Scheffner . In 1816 he became a school councilor in Düsseldorf .

On September 26, 1818 he was appointed full professor at the University of Bonn for rhetoric, beautiful literature and philology . In addition, he led (1819–1827) the commissariat of the Bonn grammar school and (1821–1824) the board of directors of the scientific examination commission. Delbrück wrote numerous writings during his time in Bonn. Goethe , whom he also got to know personally, valued his comments on poetry. One of his last works was a tribute to Hüllman.

Honors

• Corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences since June 25, 1812
• on July 21, 1847 honorary doctor of the "divine knowledge"
• 1847 holder of the "Red Eagle Order " 2nd class with oak leaves

Known listeners

In the winter semester of 1835/36 his public lecture “Aesthetics, ie doctrine of the essence of the beautiful with application to the performing arts, especially poetry, its various types and excellent works” was attended by the students Emanuel Geibel , Karl Grün and Karl Marx .

Works

• About humanity . Wedge, Leipzig 1796
• Examples of an analytical method in grammatical lessons in Greek . Wedge, Leipzig 1796
• Homeri religionis quae ad bene beatque vivendum heroicis temporibus fuerit vis . Keil, Magdeburg 1797 digitized version
• The beauty, an investigation . Sander, Berlin 1800 digitized
• Lyric poems with explanatory notes; along with an examination of the beautiful and a treatise on the principles of explanation and recitation of lyric poetry. 1st volume Oden by Klopstock . Sander, Berlin 1800
• A feast. Speeches and conversations about poetry . In the secondary school bookstore, Berlin 1809
• Never despair, requires and gives strength of soul . Berlin 1809
• Memorial speech for Paul Sarpi, given at the previous benefactor's festival . Dieterici, Berlin 1810
• Views of the world of mind . W. Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg 1811
• Talking caused by the events of the time. Read in the royal German society at Königsberg in Prussia . Nicolovius, Koenigsberg 1813
• Explanations of the royal ordinances on the Landsturm . Königsberg 1813 pamphlet
• Sermons with regard to the ecclesiastical zeitgeist and the history of the fatherland, delivered from 1814 to 1816 . Berlin 1816
• Socrates . Reflections and investigations . Cologne 1816
• About the celebration of the Reformation. To celebrate the third coming of the same. An invitation to the evangelical church . Cologne 1817
• On the connection of the scientific spirit with that of piety in teaching the youth. A speech given at the instigation of a Schulfeyerlichkeit in the Königl. High school in Düsseldorf, December 30, 1817 . Carpenter, Düsseldorf 1818
• On the toil of a life consecrated to the sciences. A school speech . Düsseldorf 1818
• Plato . A speech given in Bonn on April 22nd, 1819 at the opening of his lectures on Plato's doctrine of divine and human things . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1819 digitized ; Digitized
• Christianity, reflections and inquiries . 1st and 2nd book. 3 parts. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1822–1827 Third part digitized
• Philipp Melanchton , the faith teacher. A polemic . 3 parts. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1826-1827
• Doctrines, advice, and questions about the education and instruction of youth for use in his academic lectures on pedagogy . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1823 digitized
• Magdeburg. A speech . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1823
• About the means to counteract the pernicious tendencies of the time among school children . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1825
• Defense of Plato . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1828
• Xenophon . To save his honor . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1829
• Speeches by Ferdinand Delbrück. Collected according to the sequence of times . Vol. 1. From the years 1807-1813 eight previously printed speeches, revised and annotated , Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1831 digitized
• Philosophy. A speech given in Bonn on May 17th, 1832 at the opening of academic lectures of philosophical content; Submitted to print by the author for occasional notification to weighed and unweighed . Bonn 1832
• Learning and wisdom. Two speeches. Held in Bonn in 1833, one on May 4th at the opening of academic lectures of philosophical content, the other on August 31st at the end of the same . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1833
• Outline of an instruction for the proper establishment of academic life and study . Bonn 1835
• Happy prospects, with which the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität begins its 34th semester. An academic speech . Weber, Bonn 1835
• The academic duel. A speech . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1836
• The eternal Schleiermacher: a contribution to the just appreciation of the same presented to his admirers . On commission from Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1837 digitized
• One more word about mixed marriages in relation to the Cologne question. From a Protestant . Anton, Halle 1838
• De Conviviis Platonis et Xenophontis , Ind. Lertt. Bonnae 1839
• Results of academic research . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1843
• The entry of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm's University in Bonn into its second quarter of a century. A speech to the Academic Feyer of the same given on October 18, 1843 on behalf of the Rector and Senate by Dr. Ferdinand Delbrück, Full Professor of Fine Literature and Philosophy . Georgi, Bonn 1843
• The folk song. What is the German Fatherland? Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1846
• Results of academic research . 2 vols. Ed. Alfred Nicolovius . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1843–1848 2nd volume digitized

literature

• On the reputation of the Holy Scriptures and their relation to the rule of faith in the Protestant and in the ancient Church. Three theological letters to Prof. Delbrück in relation to his polemic, Phil. Melanchton, the faith teacher of Karl Heinrich Sack , Karl Immanuel Nitzsch and Friedrich Lücke . In addition to a letter from Mr. D. Schleiermacher about the passages in the pamphlet that concern him . Weber, Bonn 1827
• Delbrück (Johann Friedrich Ferdinand) . In: Conversations Lexicon of the latest times and literature in four volumes . First volume A to EFA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1832, pp. 582-583 digitized
• Alfred Nicolovius : Dr. Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Delbrück . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . 26th year 1848. First part. Weimar 1850, pp. 110-115 digitized
• Alfred Nicolovius: Ferdinand Delbrück. An outline of life . Bonn 1848 digitized
• Carl von Prantl :  Delbrück, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 36 f.
• Otto Wenig: Directory of the professors and lecturers of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818-1968 . Bonn 1968
• Delbrück, (Johann Friedrich) Ferdinand . In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Edited by Walther Killy . Vol. 3, Saur, Munich 1995, pp. 474-475
• Guido Heinrich: Delbrück, Johann Friedrich Ferdinand. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , pp. 127-128.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homeri religionis quae ad bene beatque vivendum heroicis temporibus fuerit vis . Magdeburg 1797.
2. ^ Goethe to Carl Friedrich Zelter August 26, 1809.
3. ↑ On the memory of Karl Dietrich Hüllmann . Veit, Berlin 1846.
4. ↑ Manfred Schöncke: 'A happy year in Bonn'? What we know about Karl Marx's first year at university . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 199 4, Argument 1994, p. 239 ff.