Ludwig Herrig
Friedrich Christian Ludwig Herrig (born May 12, 1816 in Braunschweig ; † January 17, 1889 in Berlin ) was a German high school teacher and neophilologist .
Life
Herrig attended the Katharineum in Braunschweig and graduated from the Collegium Carolinum in 1834 . He then studied Protestant theology and classical philology in Göttingen and Halle until 1837. However, throughout his life he felt obliged to acquire modern foreign languages and to scientifically study their literature.
As a teacher he taught in Elberfeld and from 1851 at the Friedrich-Werdersche-Gewerbeschule in Berlin. In 1854 he received the new language main teacher position at Friedrichs-Gymnasium and Realschule , where he then taught from 1863-78, was next in April 1853 as a senior teacher at the Königl. Kadettenanstalt employed in Berlin-Lichterfelde and full professor in February 1854. His main concern was to improve literature and language teaching. That is why he was committed to the appropriate promotion and further training of educators. In 1846, together with Heinrich Viehoff , he founded the archive magazine for the study of modern languages and literatures .
In order to establish modern philology as an independent science, in 1857 he founded a discussion platform for teachers, university lecturers and other interested parties: the Berlin Society for the Study of Modern Languages and Literatures . The Herrigsche Gesellschaft is the oldest neo-philological society in Germany.
Herrig joined the Freemason Lodge Carl to the Crowned Pillar in Braunschweig in 1839 , later he became a member of the Berlin Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm for Crowned Justice . From 1873 on he was Grand Master of the Great Lodge of Prussia called Royal York for Friendship for 16 years . With his liberal outlook, he was jointly responsible for a change in the Basic Law of the Grand Lodge, which made it possible to accept Jews.
Ludwig Herrig died in Berlin in 1889 at the age of 72 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.
Works
His publication "The British Classical Authors" , published in 1850, reached its 65th edition in 1889. The version revised by Max Förster in 1905 was then published in its 100th edition in 1930. The work was reissued in 1947 and was completely revised in 1966 as British and American Classical Poems .
literature
- Ludwig Julius Fränkel: Herrig, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 243-248.
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon . Volume 2: 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 266 f.
- W. Theodor Elwert : Herrig, Friedrich Christian Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 684 ( digitized version ).
- Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: International Freemasons Lexicon. Special edition. Munich 2006, p. 391.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Herrig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ludwig Herrig ( memento from September 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on Herrigsche-Gesellschaft.de
- Archive for the study of modern languages and literatures. on ARCHIVdigital.info
- Personnel form from Ludwig Herrig in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 299.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Great, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herrig, Friedrich Christian Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high school teacher, founder of modern philology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1889 |
| Place of death | Berlin |