Karl Friedrich Becker

Karl Friedrich Becker (born March 11, 1777 in Berlin ; † March 15, 1806 ; also Carl Friedrich and Carolus Fridericus ) was a German educator and historian.

Life

Becker studied philosophy and history at the University of Halle . After completing his studies, Becker worked as a private tutor in Cottbus for a while . There he was accepted into the Masonic lodge Zum Brunnen in the desert . From 1798 to 1800 was a member of the seminar for learned schools in Berlin. Because of his sickness he had to renounce all teaching activities and devoted himself exclusively to literary, especially historical, work until the end of his life.

Karl Friedrich Becker died on March 15, 1806, just four days after his 29th birthday. His tomb with a sandstone stele is in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Works

Two pages from "K. F. Becker's Weltgeschichte "(edition from 1885)

Stories from the Old World for the Young (Halle 1801–1803, 3 vol .; 10th edition by Hermann Masius , 1873),
Poetry from the Historian's Point of View (Berlin 1803)
World history for children and children's teachers (Berlin 1801-1805, 9 vols.), Which was continued by Karl Ludwig Woltmann and Karl Adolf Menzel , later by Johann Wilhelm Löbell , then by Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt and Karl Eduard Arnd (8th ed., The. 1874, 22 vols.) And was last revised and continued by Wilhelm Müller (Stuttgart 1883 ff.), Which gave it greater scientific solidity, although it also completely lost the peculiar charm of Becker's presentation.

literature

Wegele: Becker, Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 222 f.

Web links

Literature by and about Karl Friedrich Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Karl Friedrich Becker in the German Digital Library
Karl Friedrich Becker on digital-sammlungen.de
Works by Karl Friedrich Becker in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 211.

personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Karl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Becker, Carl Friedrich; Becker, Carolus Fridericus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1806

[1] Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 211.