Karl Giesebrecht
Karl Giesebrecht , also Carl G. (born June 9, 1782 in Mirow , † September 20, 1832 in Berlin ; full name: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Giesebrecht ) was a German poet and professor.
Life
Karl Giesebrecht was the third child and the eldest son of the Mirow pastor Benjamin Giesebrecht (1741-1826) and his wife Eleonore Leithäuser. The poet and historian Ludwig Giesebrecht (1792–1873) was his younger brother.
Karl Giesebrecht came to the Joachimsthal School in Berlin in 1796 . Recommended by Rector Meierotto to Friedrich August Wolf , Giesebrecht went to Halle in 1800 for theological and philological studies . On Wolf's recommendation, he came to Friedrich Gedike at the seminar for learned schools in Berlin in 1802 . In 1805 Giesebrecht became professor of the Greek language at the pedagogy in Bremen , where he also taught at the Lyceum.
In 1812 he was appointed professor at the Gray Monastery in Berlin . He married the daughter Friederike (1794–1830) of the Prussian master builder and magistrate Friedrich Keferstein (1752–1805).
Dr. phil. Giesebrecht was friends with Gustav Köpke , Johann August Zeune , Fouqué and Pischon . Politically and ecclesiastically, he was close to Schleiermacher .
After the death of his wife he published his love songs (Berlinische Blätter, Vol. XII). A short time later he also died. His friend Köpke wrote a necrology for him, his son Wilhelm later wrote the article about his father in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
His daughter Clara Christiane (1819-1893) married Friedrich Meinhof in 1852 and was Ulrike Meinhof's great-grandmother .
literature
- Wilhelm von Giesebrecht : Giesebrecht, Karl Heinrich Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 157 f.
Web links
- Works by and about Karl Giesebrecht in the German Digital Library
- Literature about Karl Giesebrecht in the state bibliography MV
- Karl Giesebrecht in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
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SURNAME | Giesebrecht, Karl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giesebrecht, Karl Heinrich Ludwig (full name); Giesebrecht, Carl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1782 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mirow |
DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1832 |
Place of death | Berlin |