Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius

Rector Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius (1843)

Detlev Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius (born January 24, 1786 in Dresden , † May 12, 1845 in Meißen ) was a German educator.

Life

Detlev Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius was the son of the deacon of the Dresden Kreuzkirche Gottlob August Baumgarten-Crusius (1752–1816) and his wife Charlotte Sophia, nee. Lion († March 7, 1811 in Merseburg). He still had five siblings; of these is known by name:

• Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius , professor at the University of Jena .

After having been tutored in childhood by his father and a private tutor, he went to the monastery school in Dresden and on May 1, 1798 to the princely school in Grimma to the rector Johann Heinrich Mücke , who had already taught his father.

In 1803 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig and studied theology , philosophy and philology ; there he heard, among other things, the lectures of Gottfried Hermann .

Due to existing friendships, he also attended lectures at the University of Halle with Friedrich August Wolf .

After completing his studies, he passed the theological exam with the court preacher Franz Volkmar Reinhard at the beginning of May 1806 and worked for a long time as a choralist (music teacher) at the cathedral school in Merseburg with the then rector Johann August Hennicke (1751-1828) before becoming vice rector of the cathedral high school there in 1810 was appointed. When Merseburg was awarded Prussia after the war , he was appointed vice-principal at the Kreuzschule in Dresden. At the end of 1832 he was appointed rector of the Princely School in Meissen ; on January 11, 1833 he took office there.

During his activity at the Princely School, he was able to raise the school through the use of contemporary reforms.

Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius was married to Susanne, daughter of the Merseburg monastery administrator Adolf Gottfried Praße, on May 13, 1810 , and they had nine children together. The names of his children are known:

• Arthur Baumgarten-Crusius.

Writing

Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius wrote Four Speeches to German Youth on Fatherland, Freedom, German Education and the Cross, a text that campaigned for the patriotic cause, and he developed his views in letters on education and art in schools for scholars about education and instruction. He also wrote some philological works.

Awards

• In 1843, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the school, he received the Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Civil Merit from State Minister Eduard von Wietersheim .
• On July 1, 1843 he received the diploma as a doctor of theology from the theological faculty of the University of Jena .

Fonts (selection)

• Clavus Suetoniana . Leipzig: Fischer, 1813.
• Caius Suetonii Tranquilli opera . Lipsiae, 1816.
• Four speeches to German youth about the fatherland, freedom, German education and the cross . Leipzig 1816.
• Clavis Suetoniana triplicem continens indicem: primum nominum propriorum alterum Latinitatis cum corollario de genere dicendi Suetonii etc., tertium Graecorum, quae in Suetonio leguntur . Lipsiae: Fleischer, 1818.
• Travel from the heart to the heart . Hilscher, 1819.
• Travel by post from Dresden to Leipzig. Dresden Hilscher 1820.
• Homeri Odyssea: cum interpretationis Eustathii et reliquorum grammaticorum delectu, suisque commentariis . Lipsiae: Sumptibus CHF Hartmanni, 1822-1824.
• Opera . Augustae Taurinorum, 1823-1826.
• Eutropii breviarium historiae Romanae . Lipsiae: Teubner, 1824.
• Letters on upbringing and education in schools of scholars . Leipzig 1824.
• Leroy .; Ferdinand Philippi; Detlev Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius: The narrative Latin: di Selectae narratiunculae facetae ac lepidae pleraeque omnes ignotae; a practical aid book for practicing the Latin conversational language, for school use and for private exercises . Dresden: Paul Gottlob Hilscher, 1824.
• The history of Switzerland . Dresden: Hilscher, 1826.
• About the school system in the city of Dresden . Dresden 1831.
• De oratoribus Graecis, maxime Isocrate, egregiis institutionis publicae magistris . Meissen Klinkicht 1833.
• Symbolae ad Lexica Graeca ex Aretaeo Cappadoce, scriptore medico . Meissen Klinkicht 1834.
• Dissertatio de scriptoribus saeculi post Christum secundi, qui novam religionem impugnaverunt vel impugnasse creduntur . Misenae: Klinkicht, 1845.

Literature (selection)

• Karl Felix Halm:  Baumgarten-Crusius, Karl Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 161 f.    
• Arthur Baumgarten-Crusius: Life of the rector and first professor of the Königl. Saxon. State School of Meissen, Dr. Detlev Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius, Knight of the Royal. Saxon. Civil Merit Order . Beck, 1853.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The jubilee of the royal state school St. Afra in Meissen. In: Illustrirte Zeitung . August 5, 1843, Retrieved July 14, 2019 .