Johann Friedrich Gentzen

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Johann Friedrich Gentzen (born March 24, 1796 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ; † April 16, 1871 in Neustrelitz ; full name: Johann Friedrich Gustav Gentzen ) was a German fraternity and librarian .

Life

Johann Friedrich Gentzen was the son of the carpenter Michel Gustav Gentzen . He attended the school of scholars in Friedland and began studying Protestant theology at the University of Berlin in 1815 . In 1816 he moved to the University of Jena and was here Member of decisively by his countrymen Heinrich Arminius Riemann and Karl Horn founded Urburschenschaft . In 1817 he was one of their heads and took part in the Wartburg Festival.

After further studies at the University of Kiel and his exams, he first worked as a private tutor and then as a teacher in Eutin . In 1826 he went to the Carolinum grammar school (Neustrelitz) as a collaborator . From 1826 to 1833 he was the first teacher at the elementary school and from 1833 at the secondary school in Neustrelitz, where Heinrich Schliemann was his student. For health reasons Gentzen had to give up teaching in 1838. He was editor of Neustrelitzer newspaper and of the Grand Ducal intelligence expedition published Mecklenburg-Strelitz Government sheet Officieller Gazette .

Palais Bassewitz, seat of the Grand Ducal Library and the collections from 1842 to 1920

In 1842 Grand Duke Georg appointed him overseer [d. H. Head] of the Grand Ducal Library, the Numismatic Collection and the collection of the obotritisch -wendischen Antiquities ( Georgium ) in Neustrelitz, at the same time (now part of the building complex own new home in the former Palais Bassewitz in Tiergartenstraße Landessozialgericht Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ) received. Gentzen held this office until 1869 and systematically expanded the collections. In addition to the brothers Ernst and Franz Boll in Neubrandenburg and the Rühlower pastor Friedrich Theodor Sponholz (1777–1862), Gentzen was one of the early protagonists of south-east Mecklenburg regional historical research around the middle of the 19th century. The archaeological collections of his Grand Duke experienced a brief heyday, diplomacy experienced an unprecedented popularity. During his tenure, the library received a printed systematic catalog for the first time. All of this ended almost precisely when Gentzen resigned from all offices in 1869 after Ján Kollár's failed edition project on the so-called Prillwitz Idols (or did his employer retire him?).

Gentzen had been married to Dorothea Henriette Friederike since 1829, a daughter of the postmaster Ludwig Barnewitz (1784–1811) who had previously worked in Neustrelitz. Five sons and one daughter are known. All sons died while their father was still alive; the last, a sailor, was murdered by beach robbers in 1859 after a shipwreck.

Gentzen's last years of life were accompanied by increasing health problems.

Gentzen's estate went to the grand ducal library [later: Landesbücherei Neustrelitz] and, as a result of its dissolution in 1950, it came to the Schwerin state archive . The remains of the antiquities collection that were preserved after great losses in the war in 1945 are now part of the collections of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The series of Prillwitz idols , which were once united in the Georgium, are now part of the collection of the Mecklenburg Folklore Museum Schwerin-Mueß .

Works

  • List of those objects by which the Georgium and the Grand Ducal Numismatic Cabinet were increased in the year from Michaelis 1842 to 1843, with details of where they were found and the kind senders. 1843
  • Second register of acquisitions for the collection of local antiquities and the coin cabinet in the period from Michaelis 1843 to the end of 1844. 1844
  • Catalog of the Grand Ducal Library in Neustrelitz. 3 parts in 1 volume. GF Spalding, Neustrelitz 1862

literature

  • 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. 3192 .
  • Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 76.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Keil, Robert Keil: History of the Jenaischen student life from the establishment of the university to the present (1548-1858). Leipzig: Brockhaus 1858, p. 366 (wrongly from Friesland instead of Friedland )
  2. ↑ For the background, see Rudolf Virchow's report in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 10 (1878), p. 264 ff
  3. ↑ See the greeting letter from Heinrich Arminius Riemann on the anniversary of 1867, printed in: Robert Keil: Die Burschenschaftlichen Wartburgfeste of 1817 and 1867. Jena: Mauke 1868, p. 145 ; Gentzen - paralyzed ; see. also Fritz Reuter's letter from 1863, in which he reports on a visit by Gentzen to Reuter in Eisenach , which however made a very sad impression on me; in his cordial manner he was happy and cheerful, and took an active part in nature and art at the Wartburg, but physically he was decidedly and considerably suffering. - He made a cheeky but very elegiac impression on me. Karl Theodor Gaedertz : Unprinted poems and letters by Fritz Reuters. In: Nord und Süd 52 (1890), p. 329
  4. ↑ The holdings of the State Main Archives Schwerin. Volume 3: Non-governmental archival material and collections. Schwerin: State Main Archives 2005, p. 250
personal data
SURNAME Gentzen, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gentzen, Johann Friedrich Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fraternity and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1871
Place of death Neustrelitz