Nathanael Caesar

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Nathanael Caesar (born February 18, 1763 in Kassel , † February 25, 1836 there ) was a German teacher and high school professor . For many years he was the rector of the Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel, founded in 1779 by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel and inaugurated on August 14, 1779, today's Friedrichsgymnasium .

Adolescent years and training

Caesar's father was the registrar and later secretary of the consistory in Kassel, his mother was a daughter of Johann Daniel Pfister, who worked from 1734 to 1784 as a sub-principal ("third teacher") at the local Latin school , which in 1779 was converted from a landgrave to a lyceum and upgraded has been. He himself was a pupil of the Latin school and from Easter 1778, intended by his father to study theology , attended lectures at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel until autumn 1779 . Then he went on a scholarship to the Philipps University of Marburg , where he studied theology and philosophy for four years until the end of September 1783 .

Act

Then he returned to Kassel, where he preached several times as a theology candidate. On April 1, 1784, however, he was employed as an assistant teacher and in July 1787 in the place of his retired grandfather Pfister as the “third full teacher” at the Lyceum in Kassel. Caesar, who remained unmarried, taught there throughout his life. After the death of the rector Carl Ludwig Richter on October 4, 1802, skipping the vice rector, he was appointed rector of the Lyceum. Towards the end of the Napoleonic foreign rule in the Kingdom of Westphalia , David Theodor August Suabedissen was put in front of him as director during the reorganization of the school administration in July 1812 , but after the restoration of the Electorate of Hesse in autumn 1813 he was again independent rector of the Lyceum in April 1814 and received at the same time the title of professor . In 1821 the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Marburg named him ob praeclara in rem litterariam inprimisque scholasticam merita as a doctor of philosophy.

On April 1, 1834, on his 50th anniversary in service, Prince Regent Friedrich Wilhelm awarded him the Knight's Cross of the House Order of the Golden Lion , the highest distinction of the Electorate of Hesse.

Since he did not want to support the downgrading of the Lyceum to a Progymnasium at Easter 1835 and was also ailing due to old age, he asked to be allowed to retire towards the end of the year. This was approved and he left the service on January 1, 1836. His successor was Karl Friedrich Weber .

Caesar died just eight weeks later, as a result of a fall on February 17, on February 25, 1836.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Carl Friedrich Weber: History of the urban school of scholars in Cassel , Fischer, Kassel, 1846, p. 269

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personal data
SURNAME Caesar, Nathanael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caesar, Nathanael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German headmaster and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1836
Place of death kassel