Karl Heinrich Keck

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Karl Heinrich Christian Keck (born March 20, 1824 in Schleswig ; † February 7, 1895 in Kiel ) was a German high school teacher and writer .

Life

Keck's father was a master carpenter in Schleswig. After attending the Schleswig Cathedral School , he studied in Kiel and Bonn , where Friedrich Ritschl was one of his professors. During his studies, he became in 1844 a member of the fraternity Fridericia Bonn , the fraternity Albingia Kiel and in 1845 the Bonn Burschenschaft Frankonia . From March 1848 he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein army and was taken prisoner by the Danish authorities. He made friends with General Edwin von Manteuffel , with whom he remained connected until his death.

After completing his studies, he taught at the grammar schools in Plön and Glückstadt , later also as rector in Plön and Husum . There he organized popular science lectures for the citizens of the city and auditorium lectures for the pupils, to which personalities such as Theodor Storm and Wilhelm Jordan , but also colleagues such as Ludwig Matthiessen , Eugen Petersen , August Mommsen and Rudolf von Fischer-Benzon could win over. From 1881 to 1884 Karl Heinrich Keck was editor of the German Literature Journal, which was published by Perthes Verlag in Gotha . He was also the editor of the "Schleswig-Holstein House Calendar". After his retirement in 1887, Keck moved to Kiel, where he died in 1895.

Fonts (selection)

  • The election of the emperor in Frankfurt. Comedy in three acts , Kiel 1850 (pseudonym "Karl Heinrich")
  • Anna. An idyll in seven songs , Kiel 1850 (pseudonym "Karl Heinrich")
  • Hero songs by Adolf IV, the Schauenburger , Hamburg 1851 (anonymous)
  • Aeschylos ' Agamemnon , Greek and German, with an introduction, a treatise on Aeschylic criticism and commentary , Leipzig 1863.
  • The Gudrun legend. Three lectures about its first form and its revival, given in Schleswig in January 1867 , Leipzig 1867
  • Iduna. German heroic sagas, retold to the German people and their youth , Leipzig 1881 (3 volumes)
  • A small contribution to the explanation and improvement of Sophocles ' Antigone , Schleswig 1882
  • The consecration of Pentecost or: the consecration. An idyll in three songs , Gotha 1882
  • Classic German seals with short explanations for Schule uns Haus , Gotha 1883
(Volume 1 of the series appeared: Goethe's " Hermann und Dorothea " with explanations by Keck.)
  • The life of General Field Marshal Edwin von Manteuffel , Bielefeld and Leipzig 1890
  • Commemorative book of a Schleswig-Holsteiner from five decades. Poems , Kiel 1894

literature

  • Helmut Quack: Karl Heinrich Keck. Schleswig-Holstein patriot - literary man - Schulmann , in: Between Eider and Wiedau. North Friesland 2009 , Husum 2009.
  • Karl Ernst Laage: Keck Hospital. "Storm Foundation for the Well-Being of Workers on the Occasion of the 'Doppelganger'", in: Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 46 (1997), pp. 99-104.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 386-387.

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personal data
SURNAME Keck, Karl Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keck, Karl Heinrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1895
Place of death Kiel