Otto Haupt (school director)

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Otto Carl Rudolf Haupt (born September 17, 1824 in Königsberg in the Neumark , † October 25, 1899 in Stettin ) was a German school director . From 1872 to 1898 he headed the municipal secondary school for girls in Szczecin. He also emerged as a scientific author.

Life

Otto Haupt was born in Königsberg in Neumark in 1824 as the son of a high school professor. He studied from 1843 to 1847 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He chose the teaching profession and came first to Kolberg and then to Posen , where he was appointed high school professor in 1866.

In 1872 Haupt was elected director of the municipal high school for girls in Szczecin , which flourished under his leadership. In 1892 there were 480 students there. The increasing number of schoolgirls made a new building necessary, which was opened in 1894 in Elisabethstrasse ; after that 600 students could be taught. At the same time, the school was named Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Schule, after the German Empress Auguste Viktoria . Haupt was awarded the title of school councilor .

Since 1874, Haupt also ran a private seminar for teachers to train teachers .

He retired in 1898 and died the following year. He was buried in the New Military Cemetery in Szczecin on Kurfürstenstrasse.

Haupt was married. The marriage resulted in the daughter Therese (1864–1934), who was married to the ancient orientalist and ancient historian Carl Lehmann-Haupt , and who worked as a writer herself.

Fonts

Fiction
  • The Maltese. Dramatic poem in five acts . Merzbach Publishing House, Posen 1864.
  • Hans Sachs . Patriotic drama in five acts . Merzbach Publishing House, Posen 1890.
  • Matthias Claudius . Selection from his work. 1867.
Non-fiction
  • Demosthenic Studies, Vol. 1 . Hendeß Verlag, Cöslin 1852.
  • The life and statesmanship of Demosthenes . Depicted according to sources . Merzbach Publishing House, Posen 1861.
  • Life and poetic effectiveness of Hans Sachs . Merzbach Publishing House, Posen 1868.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Günther LorenzLehmann-Haupt, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 98 ( digitized version ).