Johann Hugo Wyttenbach

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Johann Hugo Wyttenbach (born April 6, 1767 in Bausendorf ; † June 22, 1848 in Trier ) was a grammar school director , librarian and founder of the Trier city library .

Life

He came to Trier in 1769/70, from 1770–1784 with his mother and grandmother in the household of the godfather Johann Hugo Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt in Koblenz-Alte Burg . 1784–1786 he studied theology at the expense of his godfather at the university and at the Trier seminary .

During the French period he applied to the French central administration of the Saar Department and became a member of the school commission, 1799 librarian and professor of the central school , 1804-1846 he was director of the secondary school, the college and the grammar school in Trier , first city ​​librarian from 1804 to 1848. He until 1810 saved around 60,000 volumes of manuscripts and prints from the monastery and abbey libraries in the Saardepartement, which had been secularized in 1802, to the Trier City Library.

In 1801 he was a co-founder of the Society for Useful Research in Trier and its secretary from 1809 to 1822. From 1830 to 1835 he was the history teacher of Karl Marx . In 1815 he was captain of the vigilante group in Trier.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1798 plan of an internal facility for primary schools . Trier, Hetzrodt and Schröll
  • 1798 Sayings of the philosophizing reason and the pure heart about the most important objects for mankind with special consideration for critical philosophy, compiled from the writings of older and more recent thinkers. Second ribbon. Voigt, Jena.
  • 1799 monument to the benefactors of the human race s. Trier, fisherman
  • 1801 Manual for the Instruction in the Duties and Rights of Man and Citizen . Trier, Hetzrodt, digitized delibri Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1806 (ed.): The spirit of religion . Mohr, Frankfurt a. M. Digitalisat MDZ Reader
  • 1810 attempt of a history of Trier . Schröll, Trier. Digitized delibri Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1833 New contributions to ancient pagan and Christian epigraphy. Trier, Blattau, digitized MDZ reader
  • 1836 The Liebfrauen Church in Trier Recorded accompanied by comments and edited. by Christian Wilhelm Schmidt. Along with historical explanations by Johann Hugo Wyttenbach . Kehr & Niessen brothers, Coeln. Digitized at ETH Zurich
  • 1836–1839 Gesta Trevirorum . Trier, Lintz, digitized delibri Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1840 Research on les antiquités romaines dans la vallée de la Moselle de Trèves . Trier, Lintz, digitized MDZ reader
  • 1847 school speeches from the years 1799 to 1846 . Ms. Lintz, Trier. Digitized

literature

  • FX Kraus:  Wyttenbach, Johann Hugo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 431-434.
  • Guido Groß : The complete works of the Trier historians Johann Hugo Wyttenbach and Michael Franz Josef Müller . In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch . Trier 1968, pp. 186-193.
  • Richard Laufner: Wyttenbach, Johann Hugo . In: Rheinische Lebensbilder . Volume 5, Droste, Düsseldorf 1973, pp. 45-56.
  • Richard Laufner: Wyttenbach, Johann Hugo . In: Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000. ISBN 3-931014-49-5 . Pp. 518-519.
  • Tina Klupsch: Johann Hugo Wyttenbach. A historical biography . Kliomedia, Trier 2012 (Small writings from Thf 2). ISBN 978-3-89890-168-0
  • Michael Gebhardt, Jens Haustein, Jürgen Jaehrling, Wolfgang Höppner (eds.): Correspondence between the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm with Theodor Georg von Karajan, Wilhelm Wackernagel, Johann Hugo Wyttenbach and Julius Zacher . (= Correspondence between the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Critical edition in individual volumes . Vol. 4.) Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-7776-1332-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Later (1896) renamed Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium .
personal data
SURNAME Wyttenbach, Johann Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Bausendorf
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1848
Place of death trier