Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch (born May 30, 1759 in Sudenburg , † March 3, 1831 in Magdeburg ) was a German Protestant clergyman and botanist.

Life

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch was the son of a businessman and his wife Marie Magdalene (née Preusser).

After his father died on October 24, 1761, his mother married GC Dunte († 1793), who was born in Borne, for the second time. Of his eight siblings, seven died very early; his brother Carl Friedrich († December 23, 1801 in Dessau) became a businessman in Dessau in 1779 .

Already as a child he learned to play the organ and, after a superficial school education, at the age of twelve he attended the cathedral school in Magdeburg at Easter 1771 and, at the instigation of the then Sudenburg preacher Köppe, at the Kloster Berge school in 1772 , until he started studying theology at Easter 1777 the University of Halle began and ended in 1779.

He began in September 1779 as a teacher at the cathedral school in Magdeburg and in spring 1780 was employed as a teacher at the pedagogy of the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg under the head of Gotthilf Sebastian Rötger ; his subjects were ancient languages (Greek, Hebrew and Latin), natural sciences (physics, physiology, mathematics) and music; he was also responsible for the library work at the monastery. For his lessons he used the Basedow's copper plates by Johann Bernhard Basedow , in which he combined text and image, as well as adding factual information that was discussed in dialogue.

On October 7, 1785 he was appointed rector of the pedagogy department until he was appointed third preacher at the Magdeburg St. Johannis Church in 1792 ; there he advanced to the second preacher in December 1807. In 1810 the then still existing cathedral chapter appointed him to the vacant second cathedral preacher position after the death of superintendent Karl Friedrich August Lüdeke (1753–1809) ; During his time as a preacher, he was director of the trading school in Magdeburg from 1802 to 1807, to which he had already devoted himself since 1782.

In 1808 he was elected to the Magdeburg municipal council and in 1812 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch became superintendent of the first Magdeburg diocese. On February 11, 1813, the royal Westphalian consistory received the order to vacate the cathedral and moved to the Heilig-Geist-Kirche . The cathedral preachers Franz Bogislaus Westermeier and Koch and the preacher of the Heilig-Geist-Kirche, Karl Christoph Gottlieb Zerrenner , stood alternately in the pulpit.

At the end of 1814 he became a member of the consistory, in 1816 consistorial and school council of the church province of Saxony and in 1824 co-director of the citizen rescue institute.

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch was married to Elisabeth Henriette Charlotte (née Leiber) from Schönebeck on July 17, 1792 . Together they had eight children, four of whom died in childhood. His daughter, who died on July 7, 1830, was married to the bookseller and publisher Karl Gottfried Kretschmann (1784–1850). The names of the three sons who survived him are known:

Writing

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch not only wrote and published his sermons, speeches and school writings, but also published numerous works of scientific content that dealt with botany , arithmetic , chess and music, so in 1814 he published a singing lesson in which he wrote one of his presented a perfected system of numbers for singing lessons in elementary schools, which subsequently became established and proved itself for decades in music education practice. In his melody book in numbers he replaced the notes with numbers and put them into a clear system so that it was a simplification for laypeople.

In his works on chess, he placed the practical point of view in the foreground. He wanted to teach, not teach, and built on the existing knowledge at the beginning of the 19th century. The method of self-instruction in chess may be traced back to his Codex . His knowledge of chess history was important for the time, but apparently he lacked access to important Italian works such as Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani . He faced polemic criticism in a matter-of-fact manner and accepted numerous suggestions and improvements.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elementarwerk, Kupfersammlung - Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Leipzig literary newspaper . Breitkopf, 1809 ( google.de [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ II. International from the Lasa-Seminar in Kórnik 2007 - kwabc.org (de). Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Joh. Fr. Wilh .; Koch, JFW; Koch, Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm; Koch, Johannes Fridericus Guilelmus; Koch, Joannes Fridericus Guilelmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Sudenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1831
Place of death Magdeburg