Paul Dörwald

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Paul Dörwald (born June 9, 1859 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) , † September 19, 1937 in Neubrandenburg ) was a German classical philologist , high school teacher and senior director of studies . Dörwald, a grammar school professor since 1902 , was director of the grammar school in Neubrandenburg from 1906 to 1926 .

Life

Paul Dörwald was the son of the surgeon Otto Dörwald (* 1822) and his wife Sophie, née Müller. He attended high school in Friedland from 1868 to 1877, which he left with the Abitur at Easter 1877 . In the same year he began studying classical, Germanic and oriental philology at the University of Rostock . In the winter months from 1877 to 1878 he briefly took over a position as private tutor with a Count von Schlippenbach in Croatia and then continued his studies at the University of Rostock and the University of Strasbourg . In March 1881 he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the Rostock University with the dissertation De duali numero in dialectis Doricis et Aeolicis quae dicuntur for doctor of philosophy doctorate and passed the exam viva voce .

From Easter 1881 Dörwald was aluminum inspector in Höxter . In December 1881 he passed the state examination before the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Examination Commission in Rostock . He completed his probationary year at the high school in Höxter, where he was also employed as an assistant teacher. From 1883 to 1884 he did his military service in the 131st Infantry Regiment and in October 1886 was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve in the 4th Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 51. He then got a job as a full teacher at the municipal grammar school in Ohlau , in Silesia , where he became a senior teacher at Easter 1888 and in 1902 a grammar school professor and royal Prussian councilor [IV. Class] appointed.

In the summer of 1906 Dörwald returned to his Mecklenburg homeland and on July 2, 1906, he became the director of the grammar school with an attached secondary school in Neubrandenburg. He taught Hebrew, Greek, German, ethics and pedagogy, became senior director of studies after the First World War and was a member of the Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Association for History and Local Studies from 1925. Paul Dörwald retired on March 26, 1926. He died in 1937 at the age of 78. His grave in the new cemetery in Neubrandenburg has been preserved and is a listed building.

Dörwald was married to Wally Dörwald. One son, Gerhard Dörwald (1895–1916), died as a history student in the First World War.

Publications (selection)

Paul Dörwald was the author of numerous linguistic textbooks as well as co-author of educational journals and school programs . His work, Greek Vocabulary , saw several editions during his lifetime. For the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie he wrote an article about his compatriot and philologist August Dühr .

  • Didactics and methodology of Greek teaching. Beck, Munich 1912.
  • The moral life. An introduction to the grammar school's primary students in the questions and teachings of ethics. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1918.
  • The poetry. An introduction to understanding the nature of poetry and its genres. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1919.
  • An Introduction to Shakespeare's Dramas. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1925.
  • Auxiliary book to Goethe. An introduction to the poetry of Goethe. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1926.
  • Greek vocabulary. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1929.
  • The Greek and Latin formation of forms in comparative treatment and with explanations of the history of language. An aid for teaching in the higher grades. Schöningh, Paderborn 1932.

literature

  • Rudolf Eckart : Lexicon of Lower Saxony writers from the oldest times to the present. Zickfeldt, Osterwieck 1891, pp. 56–57. ( Digitized )
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons. Edition Temmen, Bremen / Rostock, p. 102, ISBN 978-3-86108-282-8 .
  • Wilhelm Kosch , Heinz Rupp , Carl Ludwig Lang (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . Biographical-bibliographical manual. Volume 3: Davidis-Eichendorff. Francke, Bern 1971, column 141, ISBN 3-7720-0052-5 .
  • Rudolf Lunderstedt (Ed.): Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the Schola Fridlandensis. On behalf of the college of the Gymnasium zu Friedland (Mecklenburg). Self-published by the grammar school, Friedland 1929, p. 114.
  • Stephan Sehlke: Educators - Pastors - Patriots. Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, p. 82, ISBN 978-3-8370-9497-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The study documentation in Rostock does not know anything about matriculation at the University of Marburg , as it is sometimes called in the literature.
  2. ↑ Name at birth unknown.
personal data
SURNAME Dörwald, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and high school professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1937
Place of death Neubrandenburg