Karl August Christoph Friedrich Zoller

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Karl August Christoph Friedrich Zoller , von Zoller from 1844 , (born March 21, 1773 in Deizisau ; † September 21, 1858 ) was a German pastor, educator and author.

Life

August Zoller was born in Deizisau as the son of the pastor Johann Friedrich Zoller and the pastor's daughter Katharina Sophie Dorothea Bayer. He studied in Tübingen theology and was in Tübingen Evangelical pen to circle around Hegel , Schelling and Hölderlin . In Deizisau he succeeded his father as a pastor in 1798, began the reorganization of the village school and at the same time ran a youth, a men's, a soldiers and a teacher school. In 1799 he married Christiane Friederike Barrier, a Stuttgart merchant's daughter. They took in young Englishmen into their home for education; The impetus for Zoller to learn numerous foreign languages. Because of his educational commitment, he was appointed school inspector in Stuttgart in 1811 . There he also ran the orphanage as director and became an advisor to Queen Katharina . In 1818 she arranged for him to be appointed the first rector of the Queen Katharinen Stift , the first high school for girls in the Kingdom of Württemberg ; Zoller held this office until 1843.

Using the first names August, Karl (Carl) August and Charles, Zoller wrote numerous educational writings and published a multi-volume Bibliothèque francaise ou choix de livres intéressants destinés à la jeunesse allemande des deux sexes . As a translator, like his son of the same name August Zoller , however, he did not work. Father and son are confused in many reference works and publications. Zoller retired in 1847 and is considered to be one of the most important educators in Württemberg in the 19th century. In 1844 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown and thus the personal title of nobility for his services .

Zoller was the father-in-law of the composer Ludwig Hetsch .

literature

  • Emil Schott:  Zoller, Karl August Christoph Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 406-409.
  • Jürgen Gruß: Home customer No. 93: Deizisau. Ed .: Schwäbischer Albverein, 1998.
  • Zoller's contribution to the establishment of the Königin-Katharinen-Stift in Stuttgart: Dissertation by Karin de la Roi-Frey: School idea: Femininity, Higher Girls' Schools in the Kingdom of Württemberg, 1806 to 1918. ( online ( Memento from March 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Descendants of Jakob Andreä - Johann Friedrich Zoller. In: The Andreä Family Database. Archived from the original on November 22, 2007 ; Retrieved August 15, 2008 .
  2. ^ Descendants of Jakob Andreä - Katharina Sophie Dorothea Bayer. In: The Andreä Family Database. Archived from the original on November 22, 2007 ; Retrieved August 15, 2008 .
  3. ↑ State Archives Ludwigsburg: Königin-Katharina-Stift Gymnasium Stuttgart (...) Former rectors: Obituaries and correspondence. In: Finding aid for inventory FL 210/3. Retrieved August 15, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1858. p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Zoller, Karl August Christoph Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zoller, Karl August Christoph Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Deizisau
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1858