Ludwig Polstorf

Friedrich Ludwig Polstorf (pseudonym: including Sigismund Stille ), (born October 11, 1775 in Lauenstein , Principality of Calenberg; † April 18, 1824 ) was a German Lutheran clergyman.

Life

His parents were Johann Friedrich Polstorf (born February 23, 1742 in St. Andreasberg) and Dorothea Elisabeth, b. Bindseil (born September 9, 1750 in Einbeck). In addition to Johann Heinrich Friedrich and Johanna Maria Dorothea, he had seven other siblings. As the son of a sergeant in the Hanoverian Garde du Corps , he spent his childhood in Wettbergen and Ronnenberg until his father, again in Lauenstein, got a job as a geographer . Here Ludwig also received music lessons. After the confirmation, the choice of profession had to be made and it was decided to be a country school teacher. In 1789 he was sent to Hameln to prepare for school, where he was supposed to help make his living as a singer in the choir. The livelihood was meager and when some older choir students hatched the plan to set up a choir in Bückeburg , he followed them willingly in 1791. He found acceptance and support in the house of Karl Gottlieb Horstig , who was called here in 1792; also by Vice-Rector Schulz and Sub-Rector Rauschenbach. He devoted himself to the study of ancient languages ​​and was instructed in classical German literature.

In autumn 1796 he moved to the University of Rinteln , where Ludwig Wachler was his teacher. From the third semester he lived with government councilor Philipp von Motz, whose son he taught. Here he met the daughter of the mayor and councilor Graebe. From 1800 he completed a theology degree in Göttingen, where he was supported by Heinrich Philipp Sextro in Hanover. After completing the curriculum, he became a teacher and educator in the house of the widowed Countess von Münster, who lived alternately in Osnabrück and the Langelage estate. Soon after his first exam he was offered the position of inspector at the court school in Hanover, which he refused. Instead, he accepted the call in 1802 as a collaborator and deputy principal at the newly organized school in Hameln.

In 1804 he married the mayor's daughter Christel Graebe (born October 25, 1777 in Rinteln). The couple had five children, including Elisabeth Dorothea Henriette Bicker (née Polstorff) and Friedrich Karl Polstorff.

In 1808, after the second exam, he was called to Celle as a preacher. In 1815 he made a trip to the Ukleisee near Eutin. Polstorf mainly wrote sermons; August Ludwig Hoppenstedt published his little consolation and strengthening book posthumously after Polstorf had succumbed to a week-long breast disease on Easter Sunday .

Works

• The trip to Ugley via Hamburg, Kiel, Ploen, etc. , published under the pseudonym Sigismund Stille . New printing Verlag Bernd Schramm, Kiel 1976. New printing. Travel report of a trip from the Lüneburg Heath to the Ukleisee in 1815.
• Speeches to the Landsturm battalions of the town of Celle, held on March 25, 1816 in the town church (edited by v. Dzierzanowsky)
• Look into the last days of our Lord's life ; Verlag Friedrich Perthes ; 1822
• Christian consolation and strengthening booklet ; 1826

literature

• Nekrolog in: New patriotic archive ; P. 339 ( online )
• Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, volume 132, p. 139 ( online )
• Ernst Peter Johann Spangenberg: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the city of Celle , p. 122.