Leopold Gerlach (cultural scientist)

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Leopold Gerlach (* October 1834 in Dessau ; † 1917 there ) was a German pedagogue and cultural scientist.

Life

Gerlach attends the Dessau grammar school. After graduating from high school in Easter 1854, he began studying philology at the University of Berlin in the summer semester of 1854, where he became a member of the Corps Normannia Berlin . After moving to the University of Göttingen , he became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen in 1857 . At Easter 1858 he got his first job in the school service as an assistant teacher at the Francisceum Zerbst and six months later became an inspector there. In November 1863 Gerlach became a teacher at the Friedrich-Franz-Gymnasium (Parchim) . In 1873 he was appointed to the Dessau grammar school, where he was appointed titular professor in 1877.

Gerlach worked as a librettist for the composer and Dessau court music director August Klughardt , for example for the oratorio The Destruction of Jerusalem ; he also wrote his biography in 1902.

He was a member of the Dessau Masonic Lodge Esiko for the rising light and is listed as its honorary master in 1908 .

Fonts

  • The Wörlitzer Antiken, published for the first time. Issue 1.2., Zerbst 1863
  • Theory of rhetoric and style. Dessau 1877 ( school program of the Dessau high school)
  • About the creation of myths in ancient art history. Dessau 1883 (school program of the Dessau high school) ( digital copy of the copy from Princeton University )
  • Guide through Dessau and the surrounding area for the 37th Assembly of German Philologists and School Men. Dessau: Reissner 1884
  • August Klughardt: his life and works. Leipzig: Hug 1902 ( digitized copy of the New York Public Library )

literature

  • Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, No. 619
  • Franz Kössler: Personal lexicon of teachers of the 19th century: professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825 - 1918 with lists of publications , preprint Gabel - Guzy , Gießen 2007 (digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreword to August Klughardt (lit.)
  2. ^ Messages from the Association of German Freemasons. 45 (1908), p. 47
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH 1917
Place of death Dessau