Johann Samuel Rosenheyn

Johann Samuel Rosenheyn (born January 7, 1777 in Billroda , Electoral Saxony ; † September 3, 1844 in Lyck , Masuria ) was a German high school teacher .

Life

Rosenheyn was the son of a village school teacher and organist in Rothenberga . At the age of 7 he played the violin at church festivals. He loved music all his life. He had several sisters and a brother who became a blacksmith and disappeared in the wars of liberation . Although "bully", Johann was placed by his father at the Naumburg Council School . His teacher was Karl David Ilgen . Given by his father to the Rein bookstore in Leipzig for lack of money, the boy turned out to be unsuitable for commercial life. In spite of the "most oppressive circumstances" he studied Protestant theology and philology at the University of Leipzig . His teachers were Ernst Platner , Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz and Gottfried Hermann . Christian August Lobeck became his most loyal friend .

Prussia

He followed the advice of Karl Heinrich Heydenreich and went to Prussia in 1801 after the theological exam . With the Mirbach (noble family) on Gut Angerburg and the Heyking (noble family) on Adamsheide he was steward (private tutor). There he wrote the first poems that were printed by Rein in Leipzig. Through the mediation of a Count Lehndorff , he became a member of the Royal German Society (Königsberg) . To the Dr. phil. with a doctorate and married, he entered the civil service in Prussia. In 1805 he was the 5th teacher at the Marienwerder grammar school . The meager salary and the high price after the battle of Jena and Auerstedt made life difficult. School publications brought an extra income. His “double course” of grammatical exercises and a “Latin reading book” in 3 parts were recognized by Carl Ludwig Struve . Wilhelm von Humboldt appointed him in 1810 as 1st senior teacher and inspector at the Collegium Fridericianum . He spent his happiest years in Königsberg with Carl Erfurdt , Wilhelm Drumann and his Lobeck, who had followed him to Prussia. He also joined the circle of poets around Max von Schenkendorf .

Memel

With a salary of 1000 thalers, he was appointed director and school inspector at what was later to become the Luisengymnasium Memel in 1815 . There he came across the "excellent teachers" Karl Besseldt (1784-1824) and Eduard Hermes (1793-1845). “He won more and more love for the elementary and community schools that were previously unknown to him.” This is evidenced by two little books “for the very first lesson”. His thriving work in the Memel school system was honored by Gustav Friedrich Dinter . When he visited his father in Magdeburg in the summer of 1821, he was deeply impressed by the much better equipped school system. The Magistrate of Memel could not keep up. Therefore, Rosenheyn wanted to come back into royal service and run a high school if possible. He presented the wish to Minister Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein . He appointed Rosenheyn as director of the Royal Lyck High School .

Elk

When he arrived on June 4, 1824, he found the school in a desolate state. Its inventory lasted until June 17th. After the summer vacation he started teaching on July 15, 1825. There was a lack of discipline and teaching aids, the library didn't deserve its name, and there were plenty of free students. Rosenheyn remedied all shortcomings and grievances. He achieved particular merits through the significant expansion of the library, the creation of a support fund for poor students and the careful keeping of the registry and school chronicle. He won both goodwill and encouragement from the school board as well as respect and friendship from previous opponents. He had an important advocate in Berlin in Adalbert von Ladenberg , a former pupil and fosterling in Marienwerder. The fact that Rosenheyn brought to light endowments from former sovereigns resulted in a considerable collection of free books. The number of pupils rose from 116 to 214 in ten years. In Rosenheyn's 17-year management time, 122 high school graduates were released from the university. He arranged for a monument to be erected for Johann Heinrich von Günther . It was ceremoniously unveiled on June 16, 1841 in Lyck's market square. Rosenheyn had collected 1,600 thalers in Prussia for the memorial. For this merit he received honorary citizenship from Masuria's capital. Apparently increasingly impaired by arteriosclerosis (dizziness, loss of vision and memory), he had to request his release on July 6, 1843. After losing his wife (a woman from Königsberg) suffering from cancer, he died at the age of 67.

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  Lycker high school

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  Günther monument

Descendants

Rosenheyn left five children and many grandchildren. The son Max Rosenheyn (1811–1869) was born in Königsberg and graduated from his father’s school in Lyck. He studied natural sciences in Königsberg and became a senior teacher in Marienburg. The younger son studied forestry. The second daughter married Friedrich Dewischeit .

Publications

• Poems , ed. 1804.
• Double course of grammatical exercises for translation into Latin, with 3 supplements , 1808.
• Poetic leaves , 1810.
• Thoughts on a Latin Reader , 1810.
• Latin reading book. 1st, 2nd and 3rd courses , 3 volumes 1810.
• Dictionary for Joh. Samuels Rosenheyn's Latin Reading Book . 1810.
• Lectionum Vellejanarum specimen , see Velleius Paterculus
• Reflections on the Grave of Franks Addiction , Berlin 1814; New edition in 1817 as "Dignity of the German language executed against the arrogance of the French".
• Traces of Providence in Luther's life and work . Memel 1819. 36 pp.
• Can our schools make the youth too smart? Memel 1820. 66 pp.
• About the house, as the school wishes . Memel 1822. 73 pp.
• Can we try to replace public schools with private schools? Memel 1823. 23 pp.
• Wall and hand fibula
• General children's book .
• Collection of rhymed translations and imitations of the poems of Horace by various German poets . Unzer, Königsberg 1818, with many transfers from Rosenheyn.
• Commentariolus particula non modo pro non modo non positae . Gumbinnen 1825. 17 pp.
• Director Dr. Johann Friedrich Wollner, died on September 16, 1823. A picture of life . Gumbinnen 1825. pp. 31-38.
• Of the respect due to public schools. A dismissal speech . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1828. 15 pp.
• About onomatopoeia . Rastenburg 1834. 15 pp.
• About the parts of speech . Koenigsberg / Pr. 1839. 35 pp.
• About German teaching in grammar schools . Koenigsberg 1832.

Honors

• Honorary citizen of Lyck

literature

• New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 22, 1844, Weimar 1846, pp. 623-630 .

Web links

• Franz Kössler: Personal Lexicon of 19th Century Teachers (Raab – Rzepecki) (PDF; 5.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 22, 1844, Weimar 1846, pp. 623-630 .
2. ^ Hans Dühring : The Marienwerder high school. From cathedral school to high school (= East German contributions from the Göttingen working group , vol. 30). Hölzner Verlag, Würzburg 1964, p. 293.
3. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Program Memel City School.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Lyck Gymnasium program.