Johann Hermann von Melle
Johann Hermann von Melle (born January 11, 1750 in Lübeck ; † July 1, 1815 there ) was a German pedagogue and librarian.
Live and act
Von Melle came from a family that had come from Westphalia to Lübeck at the end of the Middle Ages and had produced important pastors here for several generations. His great-grandfather was the main pastor, senior of the ministry and polymath Jacob von Melle , his grandfather Samuel Gerhard von Melle was archdeacon (2nd pastor) at St. Aegidien and his father Johann Jacob von Melle (1721-1752) archidiacon at St. Jakobi .
After visiting the Katharineum and studying theology, von Melle was elected to be a schoolmate at the Katharineum on March 15, 1777 . He taught here until 1801, when he was quiescirted , i.e. retired, in 1801 , probably in connection with the reform of the school by the director Friedrich Daniel Behn . After his retirement he was appointed sub-librarian of the Lübeck City Library , the formal management of which was entrusted to the third professor of the Katharineum; from 1806 this was Friedrich Herrmann . Von Melle was the first full-time librarian at the city library until his death and did a great job of it . During his term of office, he took over the cathedral library (130 manuscripts and 500 prints) as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1804 and in 1806 the incorporation of the library of the Michaeliskonvents of the Sisters of Common Life ( Beguines ), which was transferred to the orphanage , with which the city library is enough Treasure of Middle Low German literature. He renewed the catalog of the city library and designed a systematic directory in five volumes with a name register.
Von Melle was with Catharina Dorothea, b. Schreve married, a daughter of the businessman Johann Peter Schreve. The couple had six children, of whom the eldest, Johann Carl Joseph von Melle (1782–1860), later became pastor of St. Lorenz . Through his daughter Dorothea Euphrosine Mathilde (1822–1863) he was Emil Possehl's great-grandfather . His other son Theodor von Melle (1788-1850) became a businessman in Hamburg. Through him Johann Hermann von Melle became the grandfather of Emil von Melle and great-grandfather of Werner von Melle .
Fonts
- De meritis quorundam praesulum Lubecensium in hymnos publicos historicum. 1771
- The end of Paul, the faithful teacher: a sermon. 1774
- God's guides from Isa. 48, 17 and dedicated to the association of a beloved aunt with a worthy friend. 1778
- Chr. Wilh. Lüdeken's brief explanation of some written characters from nature and the customs of the Orient, still reliable and mostly personal observations. Overlooked from Latin and accompanied by notes. Lübeck 1778
- Triumphus fidei versibus hexametris descriptus: cantus primus. 1779
- Detailed information on the life and character of Doctor Samuel Pomarius, a scholar of God who was famous in the last half of the last century. Lübeck: Iversen
- Volume 1 1784 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library )
- Volume 2 1787
- Volume 3 1790 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library )
- Bibliotheca Overbeckiana: seu catalogus librorum in theologia, philosophia, antiquitatibus ac historia ...: quos magno olim studio comparavit sibi JD Overbeckius ... nunc ... MDCCCIII publicae licitationi exponet GFJ Römhild. 1803
- Typographical monuments and manuscripts of the former cathedral monastery library in Lübeck, with brief remarks, recorded by JH v. Melle ... Lübeck: GFJ Römhild 1807
- 1. Theological subject (no longer published?) Digital copy , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Bugenhagen in Lübeck I. II. , Manuscript, Lübeck City Library , Ms. Lub. 4 ° 211 ( digitized version )
literature
- Ernst Deecke : The public library in Lübeck. Historical news. (Reprint from the Neue Lübeckischen Blätter, year 1847.) Lübeck: HG Rahtgens 1851
- FL Hoffmann: French letter and Latin poem by a Lübeck librarian at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In: Intellektivenblatt zum Serapeum 23 (1867), pp. 179–181 (From Charles de Villers ' handwritten estate in the Hamburg city library.)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FL Hofmann, in: Intellektivenblatt zum Serapeum 23 (1867), p. 179
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melle, Johann Hermann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1815 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |