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Karl Ludwig Nonne, etching by Georg Weif, 1849

Karl Ludwig Nonne (born December 6, 1785 in Hildburghausen ; † July 17, 1854 ibid) was a German general superintendent as well as head and reformer of the school system in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . He established Hildburghausen's reputation as the “city of schools” and was a co-founder of the socially critical “village newspaper”.

Life

Karl Ludwig was the son of the judicial officer and ducal councilor Ludwig Friedrich Nonne, who died when Ludwig was three years old. His mother, Johanna (1758–1837), née Wölfing from Römhild , was the educator of the ducal children at the court in Hildburghausen.

After studying theology and philology at the University of Jena , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1830 , he was appointed school councilor in the Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen in 1808 . On behalf of Duke Friedrich he went to Switzerland and became a student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . According to his teaching and educational methods, Nonne founded the teachers' seminar in Hildburghausen in 1810 , of which he became the first director. In 1819 he also became court preacher and, after Hildburghausen was annexed to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, in 1826 he was senior consistorial advisor and head of the school system, which he decisively redesigned in the spirit of Pestalozzi. In 1833 he became senior pastor at the town church in Hildburghausen and, as general superintendent, the highest Protestant clergyman of the duchy; he was able to give up the school office in 1835.

Nun was a Freemason and since 1820 master of the chair of the Hildburghausen Lodge "Karl zum Rautenkranz". In 1847 he became a member of the Meiningen state parliament and a year later was a delegate in the Frankfurt pre-parliament .

In 1818 he was co-founder and for 36 years editor of the village newspaper , a religiously and constitutionally shaped newspaper with considerable influence in the rural population, which criticized the social conditions especially in the initial editions.

Nun had been a knight of the Ducal Saxony-Ernestine House Order from 1845 . In Hildburghausen, the Nonneplatz and the state regular school I are named after him.

One of his sons was Ernst Nonne .

literature

• Binder .:  Nun, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 766-768.
• Ernst Kaiser : Dr Ludwig Nun the school reformer and Pestalozzi Thuringia's Weimar 1948
• Hanspeter Wulff-Woesten: Big time in a small town. History and stories about the Christ Church in Hildburghausen . Hildburghausen 1993, ISBN 978-3-86180-031-6 .
• Hanspeter Wulff-Woesten: Work as long as it is day! Ludwig nun. A biography . Hildburghausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-939611-00-4 .
• The little Reformation book by Dr. Ludwig Nonne , newly published, Hildburghausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026349-1 .

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Nonne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ludwig Nonne in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on hildburghausen.de
• Short biography at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Hildburghausen