Johann Osenbrüggen

Johann Osenbrüggen (also: Ossenbrüggen) (born November 19, 1773 in Uetersen ; † May 1841 ibid) was a German author , church musician and teacher .

Life

Osenbrüggen was born in Uetersen and married his wife Christina (née Schuldt) there. His son was the German-Swiss criminal and legal scholar Eduard Osenbrüggen (1809–1879). He was cantor and church musician of the monastery church Uetersen , as well as a student of Christian Wilhelm Alers (1737-1806) and wrote several song poems. In 1796 Johann Osenbrüggen founded a secondary school for peasant and bourgeois sons from the Uetersen area, from 1806 he also worked as a teacher at the stain school in Uetersen.

As an author he wrote the much-acclaimed work About the tendency to mental inertia and to the sensual enjoyment of individual members of the school class (Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1825 and Ilmenau 1833) and wrote poems in the Altonaer Mercur and in the Itzehoer Wochenblatt. Furthermore in these and other newspapers also mathematical problems and their answers and solutions.

Literature and Sources

• Heinrich Stephani: The school friend for the German federal states Twentieth volume, page 153 (Erlangen 1827) digitized
• Detlev Lorenz Lübker, Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828 , CBS von Maark, Kiel 1867, page 415 (no. 864) digitized
• Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 , CBS von Maark, Kiel 1867, page 150 (No. 1546) digitized
• Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen part I - IV, p. 179 (Heydorn, Uetersen 1932)
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: Local literary greats 1700–1900. List of writers listed in regional encyclopedias and compilations (Stuttgart 1967)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Ferdinand Bubbe: Attempt to create a chronicle of the city and the Uetersen monastery, part I - IV, p. 179 (Heydorn, Uetersen 1932)