Otto Nasemann

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Memorial plaque for Otto Nasemann on his house at Große Märkerstraße 12 in Halle.

Johann Friedrich Otto Nasemann (born January 21, 1821 in Cochstedt ; † March 31, 1895 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German high school teacher and first director of the Halle city high school .

Life

Family and education

Otto Nasemann was born as the son of a lawyer and later a farmer. His father, who died a few years after Otto was born, took part in the battle of Waterloo as a volunteer hussar . His mother Sidonie, née Winkler, was the daughter of a pastor. From Easter 1837, at the age of 16, he attended the education department at the Francke Foundations in Halle. His teachers included the philologists Friedrich August Eckstein and Moritz Seyffert as well as the geographer Hermann Adalbert Daniel .

In 1840 Nasemann began studying history and philology at the University of Halle . He attended lectures by Maximilian Duncker , with whom he later became a lifelong friend, and became a member of the educational seminar headed by Hermann Agathon Niemeyer . As a student he entered the Corps Marchia . With his fellow students Albrecht Ritschl , Karl Wilhelm Osterwald , Robert Franz , Rudolf Haym and Heinrich Keil , he continued to be on friendly terms for a long time after completing his studies and exchanged extensive letters . Nasemann finished his studies in Berlin.

Professional background

Hermann Agathon Niemeyer, who knew his pedagogical skills, gave Nasemann a job as a teacher at the Pädagogium in Halle in 1845 . As early as Easter 1849 he went to the Latin secondary school as a collaborator , which was headed by his former teacher Friedrich August Eckstein. A financial emergency forced Nasemann to supplement his salary with additional earnings in private lessons and proofreading, so that he lacked the time to prepare for the state examination .

During the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , the patriotic Nasemann made the decision to take part in the fighting. With the beginning of the summer vacation he went to Kiel in 1850 and was assigned to the 6th Jäger Corps. Nasemann, who was himself a lieutenant in the Prussian Landwehr , was now training recruits in Rendsburg . He stayed in Schleswig , even when his vacation was not extended and the Prussian government called in all foreign conscripts for mobilization , under threat of a desertion penalty for non-compliance. On New Year's Eve 1850 he was involved in an outpost battle near Möllhorst, in which he received a serious knee injury. Two days later his left leg was amputated in a Rendsburg hospital.

Otto Nasemann's house at Große Märkerstraße 12 in Halle

With the help and mediation of his friends, he was pardoned by the Prussian king on June 25, 1851. The civil authorities had spoken out in favor of Nasemann's return to Prussia without being punished . In May 1852 he completed his dissertation De rerum inter Ottones et Byzantinos actarum ratione and a short time later he passed the state examination. He took a position as private tutor and educator at the Oberburggrafen von Brünneck for his son Wilhelm. In the summer of 1854, following a request to Minister Karl Otto von Raumer, he was granted permission to teach in public again. Nasemann got a job at the high school in Königsberg in the Neumark , which at that time was under the direction of the philologist Carl Nauck . He took over the history lessons in the classes Prima and Tertia.

In 1858 he returned to Halle and became a senior teacher at the Francke Foundation's secondary school. He improved his salary by editing some volumes of world history for children and child teachers by Karl Friedrich Becker and correcting Maximilian Duncker's history of antiquity . He also participated as a co-author and editor of philological and theological journals. He turned down an offer to take over the management of a political newspaper in Frankfurt am Main . After Friedrich August Eckstein, who took over the office of director of the Thomas School in Leipzig , left, Nasemann was appointed to the municipal school commission. In April 1868 Nasemann inaugurated the city high school on the Lucke in Halle and was introduced by the school council as its first director, an office that he held for over 20 years. In August 1888 he submitted his resignation, and in March 1889 he released high school graduates from his school for the last time.

In his retirement he was mainly active as a writer, but also gave lessons in French and English literary history . He wrote several articles for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . As early as 1855 he had published a treatise on the Roman trains of the first two Ottonians in the Easter program of the high school in Königsberg in Neumark . In the Prussian yearbooks he published a number of articles, including 1860 on Minister Theodor von Schön and 1862 on Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff , but also wrote numerous reviews . For the Easter program of the secondary school, he wrote August Hermann Francke and the lessons in the real subjects .

Otto Nasemann died on March 31, 1895, at the age of 74, of a stroke in Halle. He was buried on April 3rd with great sympathy in Hallesches Stadtgottesacker . For his services he received from the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen , the honorary doctorate .

Marriage and offspring

Otto Nasemann was married to Wilhelmine (* March 20, 1831), the eldest daughter of Hermann Agathon Niemeyer (1802-1851), since May 29, 1855. After the death of his father-in-law in 1851, he wrote a short biography about him, which was published in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie in 1886. Nasemann's marriage to Wilhelmine resulted in two daughters. His wife died on July 15, 1862. She was also buried in Halle's Stadtgottesacker, her grave is in the hereditary burial of the Niemeyer family.

Publications (selection)

author
  • The Roman trains of the first two Ottonians. Königsberg in the Neumark 1855.
  • August Hermann Francke and lessons in real subjects. Hall 1863.
  • Brief history of the abolition of Lutheran and the establishment of the new city high school. Hall 1869.
  • The University of Halle around 1800. Halle 1878.
  • Bad Lauchstädt. Hall 1885.
  • Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. Hall 1889.
  • Saint Elizabeth. Hall 1890.
  • Ignaz von Döllinger. Berlin 1890.
  • Alexandre Vinet. Hall 1892.
editor
  • Stories from the German Middle Ages. Hall 1864.
  • Thoughts and experiences about the eternal and everyday. For the German house. Hall 1877–1885.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Nasemann  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Nasemann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasemann, Johann Friedrich Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochstedt
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1895
Place of death Halle (Saale)