Karl Ludolf Friedrich Lachmann

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Karl Ludolf Friedrich Lachmann

Karl Ludolf Friedrich Lachmann (born October 22, 1756 in Mieste , Altmark , † February 28, 1823 in Braunschweig ) was a German theologian and educator .

Life

Karl Ludolf Friedrich Lachmann was born in Mieste, today a district of the Hanseatic town of Gardelegen in Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in northwest Saxony-Anhalt , as the son of theologian Valentin Balthasar Lachmann (1717–1777) and his wife Sophia Helena Louisa Wernich . The mother's name is sometimes given in some publications as Sophie Helma Louise Wernicke .

In the church register of Mieste , the father, Pastor Valentin Balthasar Lachmann, made the following entry under: "Copulated to Miest 1748":

“NB August 20th I am Valentin Balthasar Lachmann, son of Johann Lachmann's former preacher in Dewitz and Wohlenberg, as a prospective preacher in Mieste, in Zichtau with the preacher in Zichtau, Joachim Friedrich Wernich's daughter, Mrs. Sophia Helena Louisa Wernich seel. Mr. Magistri Christan Lebrechts Müller, former preacher in (Groß Engersen) ... [probably 'posthumous widow'] ... relicta copulated after she was widow for 6 years ... [was] ... "

Sophia Helena Louisa Wernich, widowed Müller, was already the mother of four children. The marriage with Lachmann had six more children, of which Karl Ludolph Friedrich Lachmann was the fourth child.

He grew up in rather poor conditions and first attended a country school. This was followed by training at a Latin school in Gardelegen. From 1776 Lachmann studied theology in Halle . During his studies he also taught at the Latin school of the Halle orphanage. From 1783 to 1792 Lachmann was field preacher in the Royal Prussian body cuirassier regiment in Schönebeck near Magdeburg . There he joined the Masonic Lodge Ferdinand for Happiness . In 1792 Lachmann was appointed to the second preaching position of St. Andreas in Braunschweig . In 1798 he received the first preaching position there. He died in Braunschweig in 1823.

In addition to his work as a preacher, Lachmann was interested in questions of education and educational reform. He paid particular attention to promoting industrial schools . Among other things, he was involved in the establishment of the Frankeschen Industrial School in Halle. He also looked after them as a clergyman. In his book The Industrial Schools. He developed aspects of a national educational reform under the auspices of “ industrialism ” as the prototype of which he considered the Braunschweig industrial school to be an essential and achievable need of all community and rural schools .

In the essay Das Martino-Katharineum . A comprehensive grammar school in Braunschweig he advocated the unification of the two municipal grammar schools, but turned against the conversion to a secondary school .

Lachmann's historical interest is evidenced by his history of the city of Braunschweig , published in 1816 .

Family and offspring

Lachmann was married three times. The philologist Karl Lachmann (1793-1851) emerged from his first marriage to Juliane Dorothea (born von Loeben, 1774–1795) .

Franz Heinrich August (1797–1872) comes from his second marriage on January 26, 1796 with Johanne Elisabeth Conradine Heyer, daughter of the Braunschweig Hagenmarkt pharmacist Heyer . Franz Heinrich August became a doctor in 1819 and from 1821 worked as a doctor for the poor in Braunschweig.

The son Friedrich (1800–1828) comes from the third marriage with Anna Luise Sabine Tünzel, which was concluded on June 19, 1798 . He became a grammar school teacher and classical philologist in Göttingen. Even Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolph (1801-1861), another son of this marriage, physician and naturalist was. He opened a teaching institute for the blind in Braunschweig in 1829 and wrote the “Flora Brunsvicensis” from 1827 to 1831, as well as several writings for teaching the blind.

Works

  • General ideas about the training and education to be desired for every class of people in Germany. Leipzig 1790.
  • History of the city of Braunschweig from its creation to the end of 1815 . Ludwig Lucius, Braunschweig 1816.
  • The industrial school system. An essential and achievable need of all community and rural schools. Braunschweig / Helmstedt 1802.
  • The Martino-Katharineum. A comprehensive grammar school in Braunschweig. In: Braunschweig magazine. 1819.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church book of the Protestant church in Mieste (parish book excerpt from May 18, 1951 issued by Pastor Finger)
  2. ↑ Uwe Czubatynski: Evangelical pastor book for the Altmark . 2nd expanded edition. P. 168 (electronic resource)
  3. ↑ Parents on daten.digitale-sammlungen.de.
  4. ↑ Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde - a chronicle until 1991.
  5. ↑ Information on the family ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14.6 MB) on digisrv-1.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de, p. 174 ,; Retrieved January 17, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Lachmann, Karl Ludolf Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lachmann, Carl Ludolf Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Mieste
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1823
Place of death Braunschweig