Karl Brunnemann

Karl Otto Martin Brunnemann (born October 17, 1823 in Berlin , † September 26, 1896 in Dürkheim ) was a German teacher and historian .

Life

Brunnemann was born the son of a pastor . He attended the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium and studied from 1842 to 1846 philology and history at the Berlin University . He received his doctorate there in 1846 with the dissertation Commentatio De Auctoribus Scholiorum Vaticanorum Ad Euripidis Troades for Dr. phil. In 1847 Brunnemann became a high school teacher in Stettin . As a participant in the March Revolution in 1848, he represented radical democratic positions, he fled to Switzerland in 1849 .

There he was first a teacher in a Bern school and later in Geneva . From 1850 to 1855 Brunnemann headed the new canton school in Murten and was a professor at the canton school in Frauenfeld . In 1862 he was able to return to Prussia after an amnesty , where he was appointed director of the Realgymnasium in Elbing in 1869 . He remained true to his democratic views and was a staunch opponent of Otto von Bismarck , whom he attacked sharply and polemically in his publications.

While still in Switzerland, he published two historical works on Thurgau and one on the rebels Jean Daniel Abraham Davel , Samuel Henzi and Pierre-Nicolas Chenaux. In his 1874 wanderings with a German schoolmaster , he devoted numerous pages to Switzerland. He published a number of works for teaching French in German schools, including a dictionary. In 1866 his literary-historical study on the history of North American literature and in 1876 the cultural and literary-historical sketches appeared. His literary interest was mainly the French Revolution and people from this period. His biography on Maximilien de Robespierre , first published in 1880, saw numerous editions and has been translated into several languages.

Karl Brunnemann died on September 26, 1896, at the age of 72 in Dürkheim.

Publications (selection)

• Commentatio De Auctoribus Scholiorum Vaticanorum Ad Euripidis Troades. Dissertation, Berlin 1846. ( digitized )
• Three Swiss freedom martyrs from the last century. Frauenfeld 1861. ( digitized )
• Michel Servetus. An act-like representation of the criminal case against him in Geneva in 1553. Berlin 1865. ( digitized )
• History of North American Literature. A literary-historical study. Leipzig 1866. ( digitized )
• Hikes by a German schoolmaster. Educational and political issues from the years 1847 to 1862. Berlin 1874. ( digitized )
• Small French-German dictionary. Berlin 1875.
• Sketches and studies on the history of the French revolution. Braunschweig 1876. ( digitized )
• Cultural and literary historical sketches. Elbing 1878.
• Maximilian Robespierre. A picture of life according to partly unused sources. Leipzig 1880.

literature

• Eugen Guglia : Brunnemann, Karl. In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and Deutscher Nekrolog. Volume 1. Reimer, Berlin 1897, pages 44-45 ( digitized version ).
• Adolf Hinrichsen: Literary Germany. Verlag der Albumstiftung, Berlin / Rostock 1887, page 81 ( digitized version ).
• Joseph Kürschner (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . 1st year. Spemann, Berlin / Stuttgart 1889, page 60 ( digitized version ).
• Marc Vuilleumier: Brunnemann, Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

• Karl Brunnemann in the German biography
• Works by and about Karl Brunnemann  in the German Digital Library
• Entry about Brunnemann, Karl (1823−1896) in the CERL Thesaurus