Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg

Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg (born May 2, 1764 in Idstein , † September 13, 1835 in Wiesbaden ) was a German Protestant clergyman and educator.

Life

Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg was the son of the prorector at the grammar school in Idstein, Jacob Ludwig Schellenberg (born April 16, 1728 in Grävenwiesbach , † March 8, 1808 in Bierstadt ) and his wife Charlotte Sophie Christiane (born June 12, 1738 in Idstein , † January 10, 1800 in Bierstadt), daughter of Idstein rent master Johann Andreas Ibell and brother of Carl Ibell , bailiff of the Wehen office . He had eight siblings, including:

• Marie Eleonore Schellenberg (born March 8, 1762 in Idstein, † April 3, 1847 in Hachenburg ), married to Emil Ludwig Philipp Schröder, church councilor and writer for young people;
• Ludwig Schellenberg (1772–1834), bookseller , printer and publisher .

After finishing high school Augusteum (1569-1817) in Idstein, he began studying philology and theology at the University of Halle in 1781 and heard lectures from August Hermann Niemeyer and Friedrich August Wolf , where he received his philological and pedagogical training. After his studies, he was employed as a teacher at the Francke Orphanage from 1783 , where he taught Latin for four years. In the last two years of his stay in Halle, on the instructions and with the support of his sovereign, he only pursued pedagogical studies in order to prepare for the teaching post.

In 1786 he received his doctorate in philosophy with his dissertation Antimachi Colophonii reliquiae .

After he returned to his parents' house, he began teaching at the grammar school in Idstein in 1787, until he accepted a position as a preacher in Neuwied in 1789 , where he had been called; After a short time he combined his work there with the task of a teacher and educator and took over the teaching of young people and even took some pupils into his house, which over the course of time developed into a boys' education institution, which he, however, due to the military unrest at the time had to dissolve again.

In order to be able to continue his education in the field of education, he undertook an extensive journey through a large part of northern Germany between 1796 and 1797, combined with a collection for the construction of the destroyed church in his parish. After returning to Neuwied, with his new experience, he began to try again in 1799 to found a boys' education institution. In the first year the school had only four students, but through his management and his successes he had a steadily growing influx of students, mostly from abroad, so that a total of 126 students had been trained by the school's closure in 1813.

In 1813 he was appointed by the Nassau government , which had become aware of his educational establishment, as a school and consistorial councilor and as the second city pastor to Wiesbaden, at the same time he also became a member of the general administration of public education in the Duchy of Nassau .

In 1816 there was an extensive administrative reform in the Duchy of Nassau and the ducal edict of March 24, 1817 affected the entire school system in the country, where new school regulations were now introduced. The main features of this school reform were primarily designed by Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg, who was assisted by the high school and church councilor Friedrich Jakob Koch (1769–1829) and the seminar director Bernhard Gottlieb Denzel from Esslingen . With the new curriculum, the curriculum was expanded in both the scholarly and elementary schools, and knowledge was imparted using a spirit-forming method, rather than a mechanical method, as was previously the case. A general religious teaching common to all denominations was introduced and in order to increase the number of elementary teachers , the teachers' seminar in Idstein, whose director Gottlieb Anton Gruner , was redesigned according to the new requirements. Due to his implementation of the organization, Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg was appointed to the high school and church council and in 1820 he was given the technical supervision of the entire Nassau school system.

In addition to his school duties, he was also active as a clergyman and due to his active participation, together with the district president Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell , to whom he was related on his mother's side, the two previously separate Protestant churches of Nassau became one on August 11, 1817 Protestant Church are united.

Due to his health, he was released from his duties in the department for school and church affairs in May 1830.

Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg was in Lich with Friederike, born in 1793 . Simon (born September 7, 1772 in Jugenheim , † March 6, 1847 in Wiesbaden), daughter of a bailiff, married. Together they had eight children, of whom we know by name:

• Heinrich Schellenberg , pastor and member of the Nassau state parliament .

Act

Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg is regarded as the main founder of the Nassau Simultanschule and he was instrumental in the unification of the Lutheran and Reformed Church in the Duchy of Nassau. Unlike the union in Prussia , which was concluded in the same year under pressure from the authorities , the Nassau Union was based on a free decision of the pastors involved; from this later the Evangelical Church in Nassau developed .

Honors

• Due to his interest in the development of the Protestant Church in Nassau and his work as the first city pastor and pastor in Wiesbaden, the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen honored him with an honorary doctorate in theology on April 6, 1829.
• In May 1830 he was awarded the title of a Secret Council of Churches.

Fonts (selection)

• Antimachi Colophonii reliquiae . Halae Saxon 1786.
• The gospel of Jesus is infinite: a sermon on the annual commemoration day of the Reformation and the Church Association held in Wiesbaden on November 1st, 1818 . Wiesbaden 1818.

literature

• Binder .:  Schellenberg, Karl Adolph Gottlob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 765-767.
• Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg . In general school newspaper No. 157 of October 4, 1835.
• Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 13th year 1835, 2nd part. Weimar 1837. pp. 752 f.

Web links

• Schellenberg, Carl Adolf Gottlob . In: Hessian biography (as of February 15, 2013) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf-Heino Struck: The dioceses of the church province Trier. The Archdiocese of Trier 6: The St. Walpurgis monasteries in Weilburg and St. Martin in Idstein . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-086327-7 , p. 410 ( limited preview in Google Book search).