Johann Ludwig Völkel

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Johann Ludwig Völkel (born January 20, 1762 in Kassel ; † February 1, 1829 in Kassel) (deviating: † January 31, 1829) was a German classical philologist and archaeologist .

Life

family

Johann Ludwig Völkel (also: Johann Ludwig Voelkel ) was the son of Christoph Siegmund Völkel (born December 26, 1724 in Halle , † April 19, 1816 in Kassel), a sword sweeper in Kassel, and his wife Anna Christine (born October 14, 1735 in Kassel; † April 10, 1804), b. Riehl, born. His siblings were:

  • Martin Völkel (born March 8, 1766; † unknown), bailiff;
  • Elisabeth ("Betty") Völkel (born July 9, 1772 in Kassel, † June 30, 1833 in Kassel), married to the court sculptor Johann Christian Ruhl ;
  • Carl Ludwig Völkel (born December 6, 1775; † January 6, 1826 in Berlin ), businessman;
  • Julius Völkel (born May 20, 1780 in Kassel, † October 12, 1846 in Kassel), Privy Councilor .

He was married to Dorothea since December 25, 1795 (born June 11, 1778 in Hessisch Lichtenau ; † September 4, 1828 in Kassel), daughter of the linen dealer Gideon Schirmer (1744–1789). They had eight children together:

  • Conradine Christina Völkel (born February 14, 1797 in Kassel; † April 12, 1866 in Kassel), married to the Privy Councilor of Justice Dr. Ferdinand Schotten (1791–1878);
  • Luise Catharina Völkel (born January 25, 1799 in Kassel, † May 25, 1802 in Kassel);
  • Luise Elise Völkel (born March 13, 1803 in Kassel; † February 11, 1871 in Kassel), married to Oberberg councilor Justus Wilhelm Schäffer (1782–1868);
  • Julie Mariane Völkel (born August 8, 1805 in Kassel; † January 26, 1864 in Kassel), married to the painter Carl Glinzer ;
  • Amalie Wilhelmine Völkel (born August 12, 1807 in Kassel; † February 12, 1875 in Kassel), married to the higher appellate judge Carl Knatz (1800–1862);
  • August Völkel (born November 29, 1809 in Kassel, † May 6, 1812 in Kassel);
  • Henriette Helene Völkel (born January 12, 1812 in Kassel, † January 8, 1898 in Ingelheim), married to the pharmacist Karl Theodor Brambeer (1806–1835), who ran the rose pharmacy in Melsungen until his death, which was run by Julius Wilhelm in 1839 Braun was taken over and from which the global group B. Braun Melsungen emerged;
  • Auguste Adolphine Völkel (born September 15, 1816 in Kassel, † September 11, 1901 in Borna), married to the businessman Carl Emil Göring (between 1781 and 1841).

Career

Until he was 12 years old, Johann Ludwig Völkel received private lessons from the candidate of the Lutheran Church, Johann Sebastian Wiß, who later became pastor in Brotterode . From 1773 to 1776 he attended the pedagogy and then to 1778 the Collegium Carolinum , where he received lessons in the Hebrew and Greek languages ​​from Professor Johann Rudolph Anton Piderit (1720–1791).

He went to the University of Göttingen at the age of 16 in autumn 1778 and began studying theology , philology and history and attended lectures by Christian Gottlob Heyne , Johann Benjamin Koppe (dogmatics), Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (history), Gottfried Less (morality ) and oriental languages ​​with Johann David Michaelis . He finished his studies in 1782 and became court master at the Hofrat von Bostel in Wetzlar , but returned to the University of Göttingen in 1784, where he became a private lecturer in Greek and Roman literature in 1784 .

In 1785 he sent a treatise on the sea ​​life of the Romans before the Punic Wars to the Society of Antiquities in Kassel ; he intended to get a teaching position at the Collegium Carolinum. Due to the death of Landgrave Friedrich II , however, there was no suspension.

In 1787 the University of Marburg was merged with the Collegium Carolinum; As a result, on May 28, 1787, he became an extraordinary professor of classical philology and Roman antiquities at the University of Marburg, until, on February 11, 1789, he was co-supervising the antiquities and art objects of the then museum alongside the government councilor Friedrich Christoph Schmincke (1724– 1795) received.

In 1791 he was commissioned to accompany the then Hereditary Prince and later Elector Wilhelm II as a teacher in archeology and other sciences on his journey to Switzerland ; there they traveled from Geneva to the glaciers of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc . He remained in this teaching position when Wilhelm II studied at the university there in Leipzig .

In 1795 Völkel returned to Kassel and, after the death of Government Councilor Schmincke, became the overseer of the antique, precious and art collection , the second librarian of the Kassel library, which was located in the Fridericianum , as well as the library in Wilhelmshöhe and the court archivist of the Secret Cabinet Archives there; for this he received the title “Princely Council”. In 1802 he asked to be relieved of his job as court archivist and in return received the secretariat of the ancient society.

In 1805 the French stole all valuable antique art objects from the Kassel Museum.

In 1806 Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder resigned from his position as the first librarian, so that Johann Ludwig Völkel now occupied this position.

In 1809 he was imprisoned for a few days in the fort, which at that time served as a state prison in Kassel, because of a denunciation after the Dörnberg uprising by the government of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia .

After Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder returned, Johann Ludwig Völkel became second librarian again in 1813.

In April 1814 he went to Paris with two companions, the Privy Councilor and Chamberlain Georg Ferdinand von Lepel and the gallery inspector Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert (1763–1843), to get back the literary and artistic treasures stolen by the French. Although he found almost all of his antiques in the Dianasaal of the Louvre , he was disappointed by the First Peace of Paris , with which Tsar Alexander I secured all stolen art treasures for the French; The Commission would have returned home empty-handed in June 1814 if it had not succeeded in recovering from his entourage at least a number of kidnapped books and pictures, as well as some works of art that Jérôme Bonaparte had taken with him on his escape. But Völker had made such precise records of the locations of the Hessian antiquities in Paris that after the Second Peace of Paris the Hessian property there could be taken back and brought home by Jacob Grimm even without his personal presence, only on his written records .

After the death of Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder in 1815 he was again given the management of the Electoral Library, where the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm occupied the other two librarians.

In 1816 he became a member of the censorship commission.

In 1821 he was appointed by Elector Wilhelm II, whose teacher Völkel had been, as director of the Electoral Museum of Antiquities and the library in Kassel.

He mastered the Latin, French, Italian and English languages, in which he also gave lessons at times.

honors and awards

  • On July 2, 1803, he received the rank of Electoral Court Councilor and was promoted to Oberhofrat in January 1814;
  • for the 300th anniversary of the Reformation on October 31, 1817, he received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Marburg;
  • On the New Year of 1819 he received the Knight's Cross of the Lion Order from the Elector .

Memberships

Johann Ludwig Völkel was secretary in the Kassel antiquity society.

Publications (selection)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Ludwig Völkel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans 1829 . 7th year, 1st part. Voigt, 1831, p. 144–149 ( google.de [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  2. ^ Jacob Grimm: Smaller writings . F. Dümmler, 1871, p. 405–409 ( google.de [accessed March 4, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story from the Reformation to the present day . 1806, p. 343–346 ( google.de [accessed March 4, 2018]).
  4. ^ Völkel, Ludwig . In: German biography . ( deutsche-biographie.de [accessed on March 5, 2018]).
  5. ^ Völkel, Johann Ludwig. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Accessed March 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ MHG . New episode no. 24 , 1992, pp. 14 ( vhghessen.de [accessed on March 5, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Albert Duncker: The Brothers Grimm . BoD - Books on Demand, 2017, p. 49 ff . ( google.de [accessed on March 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Völkel, Johann Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voelkel, Johann Ludwig; Völkel, L .; Völkel, Lud .; Voelkel, Joh. Lud .; Völkel, Johann L .; Völckel, Johann Ludwig; Völckel, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Classical philologist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1829
Place of death kassel