Ferdinand Spehr
Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr (born February 10, 1811 in Braunschweig ; † March 17, 1881 ibid) was a German historian who was mainly active in the field of Braunschweig history.
Life
Spehr was born as the youngest son of the businessman Johann Peter Spehr, the owner of a music publishing business; his mother Luise, née Fischer, was the daughter of an official of the Gandersheim monastery .
He attended the Martineum and Obergymnasium in his hometown and from Easter 1829 to 31 the Collegium Carolinum . He began studying law at the University of Göttingen at Easter 1831 , where he stayed until September 29, 1834. In addition to his specialist science, he was already busy with history, the German language and literature. He was a student of Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann and Jacob Grimm . After he had passed the first legal exam in Braunschweig, he started as an auditor at the Braunschweig District Court, then at the Riddagshausen Office and finally again at the Braunschweig District Court. The poor prospects of young lawyers on employment at that time led him comfortable in the summer of 1843 as a Chamber assessor and treasurer at the mediatised princes of Salm-Horstmar in Coesfeld in service to contact.
The increase in his literary activity prevented him from taking the second exam. Already after the expulsion of the Göttingen Seven he had written an anonymous pamphlet: “The seven Göttingen Professors after their life and work”, the second edition of which appeared in 1838. The "Braunschweigische Fürstensaal" (Braunschweig 1840), a popular series of biographies of the Guelph princes, which he had led to Magnus the Pious on page 201 when he left Braunschweig and gave up his work, also appeared without his name . The publisher, who had fallen into financial ruin, could not win a sequel; He had a number of résumés printed from the recently published “Gallery of Portraits of the Famous Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg ”, but broke this off unfinished on p. 312 with Duke Rudolf August .
In addition, Spehr took active part in the three volumes published by Wilhelm Görges "Patriotic Stories and Memories of Prehistoric Times of the Lands of Braunschweig and Hanover" (Braunschweig 1843-45), which can essentially be described as his work. He then published the same in an expanded and revised version in 1881 in the second edition. Soon after he moved to Coesfeld on November 21, 1843, Spehr married Sophie Buyer, a daughter of the Riddagshausen judicial officer Heinrich Buyer, who was also fond of patriotic historical research. When this woman died on November 12, 1851, Spehr married the second time on January 6, 1853 with Sophie Zimmermann, daughter of the chief factor Z. in Oker . Since the official circumstances of Spehr after the death of Prince Friedrich von Salm († on March 27, 1865) were not as desired, he was dismissed from his position in autumn 1865 with a pension. The following spring he moved back to his hometown Braunschweig to devote himself entirely to writing. He initially worked for the Braunschweiger Tageblatt , but since October 1, 1874, he has been the second editor of the official Braunschweigische advertisements . In addition, he was secretary of the Association for the Promotion and Augmentation of the Collections of the Municipal Museum , in which he also took over the post of curator after Carl Schiller's death in 1874 .
He died on March 17, 1881 after a long period of suffering and, in addition to a widow († April 11, 1890), left five daughters and a son, Friedrich Spehr, who was born on September 9, 1856, on January 18, 1890 as a high school teacher and Dr. phil died of influenza in Braunschweig .
Spehr was honored with the dedication of Ferdinand-Spehr-Straße in the Braunschweig district of Gliesmarode , in which streets were also named after historians such as Paul Jonas Meier , Karl Steinacker and Hermann Dürre .
plant
Of Spehr's literary works, the most deserving is the biography of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Oels , which first appeared in the Friedrich-Wilhelms Album published by Wilhelm Görges in 1847 and the second in 1861 and the third in 1865. Furthermore, Spehr has written numerous articles in the Braunschweiger Blätter (magazine, daily newspaper, advertisements), as well as in the supplementary conversation dictionary published by Franz Steger (Leipzig 1846 ff.) And in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .
literature
- Goswin Spreckelmeyer: Spehr, Ludwig (Louis) Ferdinand. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 576 .
- Paul Zimmermann : Spehr, Ludwig Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 94-96.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Encyclopedias ( Memento of the original of April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . on haraldfischerverlag.de, accessed on May 2, 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Speak, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spehr, Ludwig Ferdinand (full name); Spehr, Louis Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1881 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |