Karl Strackerjan

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Karl Diedrich August Strackerjan (born August 10, 1819 in Jever , † November 19, 1889 in Oldenburg ) was a German headmaster .

Life

Karl Strackerjan was born as the son of the chief bailiff Christian Friedrich Strackerjan (1777–1848) and his second wife, Sophie. Brünings (1789–1863) born in Jever. The writer, lawyer and politician Ludwig Strackerjan (1825–1881) was his brother. He attended the provincial school in his hometown and after his father was transferred from 1833 to the old grammar school in Oldenburg . From 1837 he studied theology in Jena and Berlin .

After passing the tentam, he became tutor for the children of the bailiff Carl Friedrich Heinrich Lauw in Rastede in 1841 . At the beginning of 1844 he was entrusted with the administration of a teaching position at the Mariengymnasium Jever and soon afterwards temporarily employed as the fourth teacher. After taking the second exam in 1845, he was permanently employed the following year. In the same year he married Wilhelmine Lauw (1822–1857), the eldest daughter of his former employer Carl Friedrich Heinrich Lauw (1790–1867). After her untimely death, on August 4, 1859, he married Johanne Mathilde Elisabeth Schröder (* 1827), the daughter of the Oldenburg councilor Caspar Wilhelm Schröder and his wife Louise Wilhelmine nee. Scheer. In 1864 Strackerjan finally became the head of the higher middle school founded in 1844 (today: Herbartgymnasium ) in Oldenburg, and in 1868 he received the title of school director . During his school management, the school underwent a considerable change, for which Strackerjan worked intensively. In 1868 the school was authorized to issue certificates for one-year voluntary military service , in 1870 it became a secondary school , in 1881 an upper secondary school and in 1883 it was able to discharge high school graduates for the first time.

In addition to his professional activity, Strackerjan emerged as a writer and linguist. He published his first essays in the newspapers published by his father. From 1848 to 1852 he was the editor of the Jeverland News. In 1848/49 he was also a brief correspondent for the Weser-Zeitung and the Deutsche Reichs-Zeitung . He published articles and essays for various magazines, such as the monthly Die deutscher Mundarten , and in the school programs of the schools in which he worked. From 1872 to 1889 he organized a total of 24 public poets' evenings in Oldenburg , each of which focused on the work of a poet or a poet school and which he introduced with a short lecture on the history of literature.

Bust of Johann Friedrich Herbart in Oldenburg

In 1876 Strackerjan was instrumental in organizing a celebration for the 100th birthday of the Oldenburg pedagogue and philosopher Johann Friedrich Herbart , after he had published a biography of Herbart in 1875. He campaigned for the establishment of a herbal monument in Oldenburg, which was realized in the same year in the form of a colossal bust of Heinrich Carl Johann Manger .

Strackerjan was also a member of various commissions. In 1867 he was appointed to the school commission of the North German Confederation , in 1868 he represented the Grand Duchy on behalf of the Oldenburg government at the conference in Berlin on the agreement on higher education. In 1874 he took over the chairmanship of the commission for the examination of candidates for the higher school subject. From 1879 to 1881 he was appointed to the German Reich School Commission . During his time as a teacher in Jever, he was also active as a city ​​councilor from 1857 . He was also a member of the Oldenburg regional synod from 1860 .

Works (selection)

  • The Jeverland personal names with consideration of the place names. Jever, 1864.
  • Low German as an aid to teaching. Oldenburg, 1866.
  • Rules for German spelling, etymological-orthographic vocabulary taking into account the peculiarities of the landscape and incorrect habituation, and a short theory of interpretation. Oldenburg, 1869.
  • Is the oak or the linden the tree of the German people? Oldenburg, 1874.
  • The life of Johann Friedrich Herbart. Oldenburg, 1875.
  • Man in the mirror of the animal world, a German study. Oldenburg, 1885.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Strackerjan, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strackerjan, Karl Diedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, headmaster and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Jever
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1889
Place of death Oldenburg