Johann Gregor Grotefend

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Johann Gregor Grotefend (born March 3, 1766 in Münden , † January 29, 1837 in Clausthal ) was a German Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Grubenhagen and the Harz region .

Life

The son of a shoemaker attended the scholars' school in Münden and studied theology at the University of Göttingen from 1787 . At the Ilfeld Pedagogy he became a collaborator in 1790 , a sub- director in 1796 and vice-principal in 1801 . In 1802 he received the pastor's post in Lenglern . On August 29, 1805 he became archdeacon (second pastor) in Clausthal, where, in addition to his pastor's office, he also taught mathematics and physics at the grammar school and the mountain school. Grotefend endeavored to completely reorganize and upgrade the school system in Clausthal. In 1819 he was appointed superintendent in Gifhorn , where he also made a special contribution to the school system and had several new schools built. With other preachers of his inspection, he founded a scientific preachers' association. In 1824 Grotefend became the first pastor in Clausthal and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Grubenhagen and on the Harz. In this function he continued the school reform that had been started earlier in Clausthal and established the division into elementary school, grammar school and daughter school.

Grotefend married Marie Magdalene Luise Meißner (1768–1836), a daughter of Karl Friedrich Meißner, the director of the Ilfeld pedagogy. Of their sons, Friedrich August was a high school director and university lecturer in Göttingen, Wilhelm was a senior at the Marktkirche in Hanover, and Adolf was a painter. Johann Gregor Grotefend's younger brother Georg Friedrich Grotefend , the best-known member of the family of scholars, was director of the Lyceum in Hanover and decipherer of the cuneiform script.

The theological faculty of the University of Göttingen appointed Grotefend a doctor of theology in 1830.

Works

  • Views, thoughts, and experiences about spiritual eloquence. Hahn, Hanover 1824 (digitized) .

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : Grotefend Dr. theol. Johannes Gregor. In: The senior officials of the mining town of Clausthal, from the oldest time to the present. Grosse, Clausthal 1898, p. 69 .
  • Wilhelm Rothert: General Hanoverian biography. Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866. Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, pp. 189 ff.
  • Rudolf Steinmetz: The general superintendent of Grubenhagen and on the Harz. In: Journal of the Association for Church History in Lower Saxony. Vol. 41, 1936, pp. 100-102.
  • Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation. 2 vol., Göttingen 1941/42; Vol. 1, pp. 173, 315; Vol. 2, p. 73.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Georg Meyer: Directory of teachers and students of the Ilfeld pedagogy from Easter 1800 to before Easter 1853. In: Annual report on the Royal Monastery School in Ilfeld, from Easter 1905 to Easter 1906. Göttingen 1906, pp. 3–71, here p. 6 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, p. 421 .
  3. ^ Eduard Crusius : History of the formerly free imperial city of Goslar am Harze. Sorge, Osterode 1842, p. 493 ; he married Julie Erythropel, the daughter of the Clausthal smelting works director, see Wilhelm Rothert: The leading officials of the mining town of Clausthal, from the earliest times to the present. Grosse, Clausthal 1898, p. 52 .
  4. ↑ Helmut Stange: Adolf Grotefend (1812–1847). A forgotten portraitist from Lower Saxony. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch. Vol. 56, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Grotefend, Johann Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Münden
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1837
Place of death Clausthal