Karl Ludwig Severin

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Karl Ludwig Severin (born July 15, 1785 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † September 3, 1851 in Glogau , Province of Silesia ) was a Prussian educator and writer .

Life

family

Karl Ludwig's father came from Denmark and was most recently a teacher and language master at the Züllichau pedagogy. His mother came from Liegnitz . The Prussian Real Geheime Oberbaurat , Johann Friedrich August Severin (1781–1861) was his older brother , the Vice- Superintendent in Freienwalde , finally pastor in Wolkwitz , Heinrich Ferdinand Severin (1788–1850) his younger brother.

Career

Karl Ludwig made his Abitur at the Züllichau Pedagogy in 1803 and studied theology and pedagogy in Frankfurt / Oder until 1806 . He then worked as an assistant teacher in Züllichau for half a year and then became the tutor of the Count of Schweidnitz in Günthersdorf and Hausdorf for three years . In spring 1809 he was appointed as a teacher at his old school, the pedagogy in Züllichau and in spring 1812 as prorector at the grammar school in Groß-Glogau. Initially broadly based, he later taught history and geography as well as French and German in the upper classes , during which the second class tried to bring the Aeneid of Virgil closer .

Severin was a knight of the Red Eagle Order IV class. Ferdinand Minsberg named him in 1853 in his history of the town and fortress Groß-Glogau one of 11 particularly deserving contemporaries.

Works

  • A few words about the yardstick by which learned schools are accustomed to judge. Glogau 1825
  • About the true inner profession for studying. Glogau 1825
  • About the complaint that uninhibited happiness is largely missed in today's youth. Glogau 1835
  • Are the high schools responsible for the prosperity of each and every one of their pupils? Glogau 1840
  • About the striving for independence, which is usually revealed in young people at high schools. Glogau 1846

literature

  • Karl Gabriel Nowack: Silesian Writer Lexicon: Or bio-bibliographical directory of the Silesian writers living in the second quarter of the 19th century , Sixth Book, Breslau 1843, p. 138

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neumark high school graduates 1789–1806. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ Friedrich Gottlob Eduard Anders: Statistics of the Protestant Church in Silesia , Glogau 1848, p. 365.
  3. ^ Supplement to the program of the Royal Evangelical High School in Gross-Glogau , Glogau 1872, p. 63.
  4. ↑ Gert Ueding (Ed.): Historical Dictionary of Rhetoric , Volume 12, De Gruyter 2015, p. 864.
personal data
SURNAME Severin, Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt / Oder
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1851
Place of death Glogau , Province of Silesia