Johannes von Gruber

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Johannes v. Gruber 1848

Johannes von Gruber (born April 23, 1807 in Oedenburg , Kingdom of Hungary , † January 14, 1875 ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher . He worked at the Stralsund grammar school from 1834 until his death and was politically active in the city of Stralsund .

Life

His father, Johannes Nepomuk von Gruber, was a cavalry captain in the Austrian service, of German origin and of Roman Catholic denomination. He died in 1809. His mother, née von Lissy , was Hungarian and Protestant . Johannes von Gruber had been baptized a Catholic, but after his father's death his mother brought him to Vienna and then to Pressburg , where he attended grammar school and was evangelically confirmed at the age of 14, in order to remove him from the influence of the Jesuits . From 1822 he attended the Wittenberg high school . From 1826 he studied classical philology , supported by a scholarship , initially at the University of Greifswald . Here he became a leading member of the Greifswald fraternity and on January 18, 1829, along with 13 other students, was sentenced to expulsion from the university ( Consilium abeundi ). However, he was able to complete his studies at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1831 he became a trial teacher, then in 1832 assistant teacher ("collaborator") at the grammar school for the gray monastery in Berlin .

In 1834 Johannes von Gruber became a senior teacher at the Stralsund grammar school , where he was promoted to grammar school professor and vice rector over the years and worked until his death. He published some writings, especially school books.

Above all, however, he was politically involved in the city of Stralsund in a democratic direction . For this he was imprisoned in Franzburg in 1849/50 . According to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1879), Johannes von Gruber “took part in political life in the most ardent manner and remained the driving force in Stralsund until his death”. He was a member, mostly also a board member, in 18 clubs.

Johannes von Gruber 1860

The University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. Hc) in 1856 .

His daughter Franziska married his then Stralsund colleague Karl Kromayer . The ancient historian Johannes Kromayer and the dermatologist Ernst Kromayer emerged from the marriage.

Fonts

  • Taciti Germania seu de situ, moribus et populis Germaniae libellus. Explained with critical, grammatical and historical notes. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1832. ( Online )
  • Exercise book to translate into Latin for the tertia. Stralsund 1835 (5th edition 1866).
  • Outline of a historical geography for high schools. C. Löffler'sche Buchhandlung, Stralsund 1838. ( Online )
  • Latin grammar for upper high school classes. Stralsund 1851.
  • Ciceronis de officiis libri III. With German commentary (3rd edition 1874).

literature

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Otto Heinemann: The old Greifswald fraternity 1818–1834. In: Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement. Volume 4, Heidelberg: Winter 1913 ( digitized version ), pp. 162, 166
  2. ↑ See the obituary, in: Newspaper for Higher Education in Germany 5 (1876), p. 395 f
  3. ^ A b Hans Volkmann : Johannes Kromayer . In: Pomeranian Life Pictures . Volume IV (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 15). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Graz 1966, p. 422 f.
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Johannes von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Oedenburg , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1875