Karl Kirchner (pedagogue, 1787)

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D. Carl Kirchner, director of the Stralsund grammar school from 1821 to 1832

Karl Kirchner , also Carl , completely C / Karl Christian Jacob Kirchner (born May 19, 1787 in Herford , † May 31, 1855 in the brine bath Wittekind ) was a German educator.

Life

After attending grammar school in Detmold , he studied at the University of Halle from 1805 , mainly with Christian Gottfried Schütz and August Hermann Niemeyer . Niemeyer had him teach in the Latina of the orphanage at the age of 19 ; After completing his studies, he became a full teacher at the Royal Pedagogy in Halle in 1809 and, under Niemeyer, was the first teacher to lead the institution from 1813.

In 1815, on Niemeyer's recommendation, he was appointed Conrector of the Stralsund grammar school in the Katharinenkloster . After the Rector Furchau's death in 1820, he was his successor, initially on a temporary basis, and from 1825 as director of the grammar school. He brought Prussian standards to the old West Pomeranian institution, soon gained a good reputation and in 1827 received the offer to become director of the Friedrichwerder Gymnasium in Berlin, which he turned down. The University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary doctorate in theology in 1830 .

inscription
An attempt at a Stralsund school history. Second book from 1560 to 1617. First particles. As a result of which, on the 22nd and 23rd of September, Dr. C. Kirchner, Rector of the Gymnasium. Stralsund, 1823.
Speech given in Stralsundisches Gymnasium on the birthday of Sr. Majesty the King for the celebration of the unification of Pomerania with the Prussian monarchy on August 3, 1821. Thus, for the seventh secular celebration of the introduction of Christianity in Pomerania in the large lecture hall of the Gymnasium on June 16, in the morning at 10 o'clock the venerable authorities and the friends and patrons of our educational institution obediently invites Dr. C. Kirchner, Rector of the Gymnasium.

In 1823 Kirchner wrote the text of an inscription made of two Latin distiches , which used to hang on the portal of the grammar school, then in the first cloister and there today is part of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Stralsund :

ARDUA TECTA VIDES OPEROSAQUE FULCRA VIATOR
STA VENERARE DEUS VINDICAT HANCCE DOMUM
FUNDARAT PIETAS IPSIQUE ET MORIBUS ILLAM
DOCTRINAEQUE PATRES INSTITUERE SACRAM
Here you can see hikers, steep roofs and laboring supports.
Stand and worship; for God calls his this house!
Piety established this for HIM and also for morals.
Doctrinal Fathers then built the holy building.

In December 1831 he was appointed as the successor to the late Adolph Gottlob Lange as the rector of the Pforta State School , where he worked until his death and " thanks to his humanity and honesty, his great business acumen and excellent teaching skills, an immortal memory for his fellow officials and students " acquired.

Awards

Works

  • About the current constitution of the Stralsund grammar school. 1820
  • On the organism of public instruction in scholarly schools. 1821
  • An attempt at a Stralsund school history. First particles. Until 1560. Second book v. J. 1560 to 1617 first part. Stralsund 1823
Digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Celebration of the unification of Pomerania with the Prussian monarchy. 1824
  • The constitution and teaching institution of the Stralsundischen Gymnasii. Stralsund: Löffler 1827
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Horatius' satires, critically corrected, translated and explained. 1. Theil, Stralsund 1829 books.google
  • Quaestiones Horatianae. Leipzig 1834 books.google
  • Academic Propaedeutics: Or, preparatory science for academic studies. Leipzig: Vogel 1842
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • The Pforta State School in its historical development since the beginning of the XIX. Century to the present. Naumburg 1843
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Säcular report on the celebration of the three hundred year foundation of the Königl. Pforta State School. 1843
Second edition Naumburg 1853 Digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • C. Kirchneri novae quaestiones Horatianae. Leipzig 1847 books.google
  • Hodegetik or guide to the university for students together with a systematic overview of the sciences and arts and the curriculum for the individual subjects of the scholarly profession. Leipzig: Vogel 1852
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Q. Horatius Flaccus satires from thirty incomparable and all previously compared manuscripts. 3 volumes 1853–1857
Digitized volume 1 in the Internet Archive
Digitized volume 2.1 in the Internet Archive
Digitized volume 2.2 in the Internet Archive

Estate library

  • Directory of the valuable library left by the late Rector Carl Kirchner, especially from the fields of philology, antiquity, history and geography, natural science, etc., distinguished by an unusually rich literature on Horace, which along with some smaller book collections on October 1st, 1855 and the following Days in Schulpforta near Naumburg adS to be auctioned publicly against cash payment (in 14 Thaler-Fusse) 1855 books.google

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Kirchner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So the monuments of the government district of Stralsund. T.1, H.5, Der Stadtkreis Stralsund, Stettin 1902, p. 427
  2. ^ Ludwig Adolf Wiese: The higher school system in Prussia: historical-statistical representation. Volume 1, Berlin 1864, p. 155 digitized
  3. ^ Obituary by Karl Steinhart (philologist) in the Schulpforta Easter program in 1856, quoted by Ludwig Hölscher (ADB, see literature) and Zober books.google
  4. ^ Supplement to Sundine 1837, p. 32
  5. ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 2 (1843), p. 841
predecessor Office successor
Adolf Friedrich Furchau Rector of the Stralsund grammar school
1820 - 1831 		Johann Ernst Nizze
predecessor Office successor
Adolph Gottlob Lange Rector of the Pforta State School
1832 - 1854 		Karl Ludwig Peter
personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchner, Carl; Kirchner, Carl Christian Jacob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1855
Place of death Wittekind brine bath