Otto Delitsch

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Otto Delitsch

Otto Delitsch (born March 5, 1821 in Bernsdorf , Zwickau district , † September 15, 1882 in Leipzig ) was a German geography professor and religion teacher in Leipzig.

Live and act

The father Carl August Delitsch was a pastor, the mother Louise a daughter of the police superintendent Leopold Gustav von der Mosel (Upper Moselle ).

Otto Delitsch attended high school in Annaberg and studied Protestant theology at Leipzig University from 1839 . From 1842 he worked as a tutor. At Easter 1850 he was employed as a teacher for religion and realities at the secondary school in Leipzig.

Otto Delitsch soon devoted himself intensively to geographic studies and, at the suggestion of director Johann Karl Christoph Vogel, began producing incomplete atlases and maps on oilcloth and wax paper from 1855 onwards for the pupils to supplement.

In 1866 Otto Delitsch completed his habilitation in geography at the University of Leipzig. In 1874 he was appointed associate professor there. He succeeded Oscar Ferdinand Peschel. His successor was Ferdinand von Richthofen .

Honors

Delitsch memorial stone at Grüner Graben in the park of Wildenthal

In his honor, a memorial stone was erected in Wildenthal in the Ore Mountains in 1907 opposite the former “Am Auersberg” hotel ( Hotel Drechsler ). In 1860 he was the first summer visitor to come there. His essays on the Ore Mountains have significantly promoted further travel and hiking in the Ore Mountains.

portrait

  • Photograph by G. [eorg] Brokesch, Leipzig, cabinet format (?), Backwards dated 29.8.83 , (Bibliothèque nationale de France, bnf )

marriage and family

Otto Delitsch was married to Agnes (Luise Auguste) Lommatzsch (1827-1892). Children were

  • Gottfried Delitsch (1852–1926), chemist
  • Otto Delitsch (1854-1854)
  • Agnes Delitsch (1856–1929)
  • Johannes Delitsch (1858–1920), 'teacher and school director
  • Martin Delitsch (1861–1867)
  • Marie Delitsch (1862–1863)
  • Eleonore Delitsch (1864–1937)
  • Susanne Delitsch (1867–1946)
  • Hermann Delitsch (1869–1937), professor of handwriting in Leipzig

Act

Fonts (selection)

In 1869 Delitsch founded the magazine Aus allen Weltteile , which he headed himself until 1878

Further publications on geographical and religious didactic topics were

  • On the history of the Saxon maps (program 1858)
  • Geography for school and home . JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1866, succeeding Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein together with Karl Theodor Wagner. 27th edition of Wagner's work, 6th edition of the revision, 1866. ( digital.slub-dresden.de ).
  • Handbook of Geography and Statistics . 1871, together with Hermann Albert Daniel .
  • West India and the southern polar countries processed geographically and statistically , Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1871.
  • Contributions to the methodology of geographic teaching . 2nd edition, Leipzig 1878.
  • Germany's surface shape . Wroclaw 1880.

Bible editions

  • Illustrated Magnificent Bible or the entire Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, based on the German translation of D. Martin Luther. With numerous illustrations and explanatory notes by Otto Delitsch. First volume: The historical books of the Old Testament. Second volume. First Section: The Textbooks and the Prophets of the Old Testament. Second volume. Second Section: The Apocrypha of the Old Testament. Third Volume: The Books of the New Testament. 3 parts in 1 volume, Verlag der Englischen Kunst-Anstalt by AH Payne, Leipzig / Dresden [1862].
  • Illustrated family bible based on the German translation. Martin Luther's. With an explanatory note by Otto Delitsch. Payne, Reudnitz near Leipzig [1886].
  • Illustrated family bible based on the German Uebers. Martin Luther's. With an explanatory note by Otto Delitsch. [Neue, 3rd edition] Payne, Reudnitz near Leipzig [1887–88].

drawings

Otto Delitsch drew a view of the city of Annaberg-Buchholz , which was published as a lithograph by Hanfstaengl in Dresden around 1850.

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Delitsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cartographic representation of the population density of West Germany on the basis of hypsometric and geognostic conditions . Data sheet from the University of Leipzig on Delitsch, p. 1 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Data sheet from the University of Leipzig about Delitsch, p. 2 (PDF).
  3. ^ Johannes Delitsch Saxon Biography
  4. ^ Otto Delitsch families
  5. ↑ Link to the reproduction in the Deutsche Fotothek (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Delitsch, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geography professor and religion teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernsdorf , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1882
Place of death Leipzig , Kingdom of Saxony , German Empire