Johannes Rußwurm

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Portrait of Johannes Rußwurm by Mathilde Block
Grave in the Ratzeburg cathedral cemetery

Johannes Rußwurm (born September 3, 1814 in Domhof Ratzeburg ; † November 20, 1890 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral .

Life

Johannes Rußwurm came from a family of theologians and educators. His father Johann Georg Rußwurm (1781–1848) was rector of the cathedral school at Ratzeburg Cathedral and later pastor in Selmsdorf at the time of his birth , his uncle Johann Wilhelm Bartholomäus Rußwurm was pastor in Herrnburg . His older brother Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rußwurm (1812-1883) later went to Estonia and was a teacher, ethnologist and historian.

He attended the cathedral school in Ratzeburg and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen from 1834 to 1837 . He then made a trip to Switzerland and the Rhine. After passing his exams in 1838 he became tutor in the von Bernstorff family in Gartow . In 1841 he came as an adjunct to his uncle Johann Wilhelm Bartholomäus Rußwurm at the village church in Herrnburg and took over the pastoral position after his death in 1855.

In 1859 he was appointed provost to the Ratzeburg Cathedral, where he stayed until his death. In 1884 he received the title of consistorial councilor .

From 1882 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

A posthumous portrait of Russwurm by Mathilde Block (1892) is in the cathedral.

Fonts

  • (posthumous) Historical development of the elementary school system in the Principality of Ratzeburg. In: Communications of the Society for German Education and School History. 14 (1904), pp. 101-126

literature

  • Georg Krüger : The pastors in the Principality of Ratzeburg since the Reformation , Schönberg 1899 ( digitized ), p. 21f
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8338 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Back then to Mecklenburg-Strelitz belonging
personal data
SURNAME Sootworm, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Russwurm, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg (Domhof)
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1890
Place of death Ratzeburg (Domhof)