Karl Gander

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Karl Gander

Johann Friedrich Carl Gander (mostly Karl Gander ; born May 19, 1855 in Coschen , today in Neißemünde ; † March 12, 1945 in Passau ) was a German teacher and local researcher .

life and work

Karl Gander was the son of the small farmer Johann Gottfried Gander (* 1818) and his wife Johanne Karoline née Bahro. He attended the teachers' college in Neuzelle from 1872 to 1875 . From 1876 to 1914 he worked as a teacher in Guben . Since it was founded in 1884, he was a member of the Niederlausitz Society for Anthropology and Archeology and its chairman from 1916 to 1930. His main work is the history of the city of Guben , which he published in 1925 using the preliminary work of Hugo Jentsch .

A street in Guben is named after him.

Works

  • Lower Lusatian folk tales mainly from the urban and rural district of Guben . German Writers' Cooperative, Berlin 1894, reprint: Olms, Hildesheim and New York 1977, ISBN 3-487-06271-2
  • Guide through Guben and the surrounding area . A. Koenig, Guben 1900, also Koenig, Guben 1914; Reprint: Andreas Peter, Guben [1998] ( Guben - Perle der Lausitz , ISBN 3-935881-01-0 )
  • The Lehmann drapery family in Guben. A contribution to the civil and economic history of the city. [R. Hefter], [Bad Homburg] 1967
  • History of the city of Guben . Koenig, Guben 1925; Reprint: Institute for Urban History of the Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster 1980, ISBN 3-921616-69-7 ; 4th edition, Niederlausitzer Verlag, Guben 2009, ISBN 978-3-935881-63-0

literature

  • Gerhard Gunia: Gander, Karl . In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon (= individual publication by the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV, Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , p. 135
  • Klaus-Dieter Gansleweit and Heinz-Dieter Krausch : Gander - a consideration of names . In: Past and present of the Cottbus district. Issue 19, 1985, pp. 135–147 (with picture)
  • Peter Walther (Ed.): Muses and Graces in the Mark. 750 years of literature in Brandenburg. Volume 2: A historical dictionary of writers . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-69-X , pp. 125–126 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Gander, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gander, Johann Friedrich Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Coschen , today at Neissemünde
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1945
Place of death Passau