Joseph Girgensohn

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Gustav Ferdinand Joseph Girgensohn (born April 15, jul. / 27. April  1848 greg. In Moscow ; † 14. January 1933 in Berlin light field ) was a German teacher and historian .

Life

Origin and family

Joseph came from a Baltic family and was the son of the physician Julius Girgensohn (1809-1848) and Louise Marie, née Girgensohn (1816-1914).

In 1877 he married Mathilde Müller (1859-1886) in his first marriage in Riga and in his second marriage in 1893 in Wernigerode with Charlotte Schummer (1869-1941). From these marriages there were one daughter and six sons.

Career

Girgensohn attended preschool and from 1857 to 1867 high school. He studied in Dorpat , Berlin and Göttingen from 1867 to 1872 , where a. a. Attended lectures by Georg Waitz and in 1872 due to his dissertation as a Dr. phil. graduated.

He took part in the Franco-German War as a medic . He passed his state examination in Dorpat in 1873 and was a senior teacher at the city high school from 1874 to 1890 and a regular lecturer at the Riga Polytechnic from 1878 to 1890 . Girgensohn was a Russian State Councilor and thus, according to the ranking, belonged to the Russian nobility .

As a result of the Russification of schools in the Baltic provinces , Girgensohn moved to Germany . Here he was a seminar teacher in Kammin and Wunstorf from 1892 to 1895 , then until 1902 as a teacher at the Prox teachers' seminar in Berlin, as well as a lecturer at the Humboldt Academy . From 1902 to 1906 he was inspector at the Bugenhagen Alumnate and teacher at the Royal Bugenhagen Gymnasium in Treptow an der Rega . From 1906 to 1819 he was head of a private pension in Frankfurt / Main , returned to the Baltic States, to Mitau , for the years 1916 to 1917 , and finally was a private teacher in Berlin from 1919.

Girgensohn was a member since 1874, secretary from 1875 to 1878, co-director from 1879 to 1890 and a corresponding member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia in Riga since 1894 . From 1887 he was also a corresponding member of the Estonian Scholarly Society in Dorpat.

Works

In addition to numerous relevant articles and some editorships , he wrote the following works.

  • Critical investigation into the VII. Book of the Historia Polonica des Dlugosch . Peppmüller, Göttingen 1872 (= Diss. U. Göttingen)
  • Presented to the Gouvernements-Gymnasium zu Mitau to celebrate its centenary and beneficial work on June 17, 1875 by the Stadt-Gymnasium zu Riga . Häcker, Riga 1875
  • Prudentius and the Bertinian Annals. A contribution to the source studies of the IX. Century . Häcker, Riga 1875
  • Guide to general world history for the lower grades of Baltic grammar schools :
    • Part 1: Ancient History . Kymmel, Riga 1877
    • Part 2: The Middle Ages . With an appendix: Livonian history . Kymmel, Riga 1878
    • Part 3: The New Story . Kymmel, Riga 1889
  • Remarks on research into Livonian prehistory . Kymmel, Riga 1885
  • The Gospel in Russia . Bookshop of the Evangelical Union, Leipzig 1901
  • The Baltic provinces . Teubner, Leipzig 1916
  • From the Reformation times of old Livonia . Neuner, Riga / Steffenhagen, Mitau 1917
  • The Riga Cathedral through the ages . W. Girgensohn, Berlin-Lichterfelde-Ost 1931

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Joseph Girgensohn  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg , Volume 3, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . P. 469.
  2. ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, OCLC 43754383 p. 613, no. 8347.
personal data
SURNAME Girgensohn, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Girgensohn, Gustav Ferdinand Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Teacher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1933
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde