Karl Wilhelm Osterwald

Osterwald monument at the Mühlhausen city forest

Karl Wilhelm Osterwald (born February 23, 1820 in Bretsch , † March 25, 1887 in Mühlhausen ) was a pedagogue , writer , Protestant hymn poet and nature lover.

Life

Osterwald received his education at the high school in Salzwedel and at the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale . He studied philology at the University of Halle and then worked as a teacher at the Royal Pedagogy in Halle and at the Domgymnasium in Merseburg . From 1865 he was director at the grammar school in Mühlhausen.

During his time in Mühlhausen he published several educational writings and poems. About 70 of his nature, hiking and love poems were set to music by Robert Franz . His former student, the biologist Richard von Hertwig , erected a monument in his honor in the Mühlhausen forest in 1889 .

Together with the cathedral organist David Hermann Engel (1816–1877) in Merseburg, he edited the sacred songs of Johann Wolfgang Franck , which he had provided with new texts. In addition, he also wrote his own hymns. In the Protestant church hymn books of the early 20th century there are hymns from Osterwald, u. a. the Advent song O you my consolation and sweet hope and the Christmas song Heilge Nacht, I greet you .

Osterwald was awarded the eagle to the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern . He belonged to the Federation of Freemasons .

Works

In the green , volume of poetry, 1853
Outdoors , poetry book, 1862
Remain in agreement! Zeitgeichte , 1870
Germany's resurrection , 1871

literature

Franz Brümmer : Osterwald, Karl Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 726 f.
Werner Baumgarten: Karl Wilhelm Osterwald , in: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder, Volume 1, Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhundert, Magdeburg 1926, pp. 252–257

Web links

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

Literature by and about Karl Wilhelm Osterwald in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Karl Wilhelm Osterwald in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ Eugen Lennhoff / Oskar Posner / Dieter A. Binder: International Freemason Lexicon. 6. revised and exp. Edition. Herbig, Munich 2006, p. 638.

personal data
SURNAME	Osterwald, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bretsch
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1887
Place of death	Mühlhausen / Thuringia

[1] Eugen Lennhoff / Oskar Posner / Dieter A. Binder: International Freemason Lexicon. 6. revised and exp. Edition. Herbig, Munich 2006, p. 638.