Peter Spranger

Peter Paul Spranger (born July 28, 1926 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † March 27, 2013 there ; also Peter P. Spranger ) was a German educator and historian .

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Spranger family grave at Leonhardsfriedhof (2020)

Peter P. Spranger was born as the son of the gold goods manufacturer Paul Spranger and his wife Elisabeth. He spent primary school in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1933 to 1937. He then attended the Hindenburg High School. In 1943 Spranger was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then into the Wehrmacht , where he was deployed on the Western Front .

After the end of the war, Spranger was briefly captured by the Americans in Austria . In 1946 he obtained his university entrance qualification . He began his studies in 1946 at the Pedagogical Institute in Schwäbisch Gmünd , and from 1947 to 1952 he studied history , philosophy , English and Latin at the University of Tübingen with a supplementary examination in Greek . There Spranger did his doctorate with the work investigations into the names of the Roman provinces for Dr. phil. This was followed in 1953 and 1954 as a German teacher in Scotland . Thanks to his scientific achievements, which were found to be excellent, he was able to travel to Italy and Spain on a scholarship . There he was entrusted with archaeological research at the Archaeological Institutes in Rome and Madrid .

After the unexpected death of his father, Spranger had to return to Germany. Instead of the planned academic career, he became a teacher, for example at high schools in Stuttgart , Schorndorf and Schwäbisch Gmünd. In 1966 he was appointed head of the branch office of the Parler high school in the local Staufer school. When the new Scheffold-Gymnasium opened in the city in 1971 , he took over the post of headmaster there , which he held until his retirement in 1990. Spranger was also the coordinator for regional studies and regional history in the Ostalb district from 1985 to 1990 . He was also active in the Gmünder Geschichtsverein as well as in the Gmünder Münsterbauverein .

From 1972 Spranger's publications dealt primarily with the history of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. His book Schwäbisch Gmünd bis zum Untergang der Staufer (1972) was the first really scientific monograph on the city's history to emerge from the Gmünder Geschichtsverein. In his book about the violinist von Gmünd , Spranger succeeded in clearing up the history of this material (which is why he wrote the article Kümmernis for the encyclopedia of fairy tales ). His smaller publications, which he mainly presented in the Einhorn-Jahrbuch and in the Gmünder Studien , were also characterized by an elegant presentation and scientific meticulousness . He was at least involved in over 50 works. There are also a number of handy church guides, in particular from St. Coloman in Wetzgau , the pilgrimage church of St. Salvator in Schwäbisch Gmünd, the Holy Cross Cathedral , and the St. John's Church in Schwäbisch Gmünd .

Spranger had been married to Irmgard Weitmann since 1961, with whom he had two children. He is buried in a family grave in the Leonhard cemetery in Schwäbisch Gmünd in grave field N.

Honors

• 1982 Schubart Literature Prize
• 1990 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2001 special prize for his life's work

Publications (selection)

• Investigations into the names of the Roman provinces . Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen, Tübingen 1955 (dissertation; Heidelberg University Library ).
• Historical studies on the slave figures of Plautus and Terence. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1961 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1960, No. 8) ( Heidelberg University Library ); 2nd expanded edition Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart 1984.
• Schwäbisch Gmünd to the sinking of the Staufer . Gmünder Geschichtsverein, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1972 ( Heidelberg University Library ).
• The violinist von Gmünd: Justinus Kerner and the story of a legend . Gmünder Stadtarchiv , Schwäbisch Gmünd 1980 ( review by Klaus Graf) ; 2nd edition ibid 1991 ( Heidelberg University Library ).
• (Editor) Witnesses of their time: written sources on the history of Schwäbisch Gmünd, Lorch, Heubach and the surrounding area . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1987.
• St. Coloman in Wetzgau. The building and its history . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1994 ( Heidelberg University Library ).
• Heilig-Kreuz-Munster Schwäbisch Gmünd: Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart; Patronage: Exaltation of the Cross, September 14th . Gmünder Münsterbauverein (ed.), Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2000.

Essays

• The creation of the Scheffold-Gymnasium . In: Parler-Gymnasium Schwäbisch Gmünd. Inventory on the occasion of the renovation of the building at Haußmannstrasse 34. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1979, pp. 34–38, ISBN 3921703263 ( Internet Archive ).
• Gamundia's cell . In: History of the City of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Edited by the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 42-52 ( Heidelberg University Library ).
• together with Klaus Graf : Schwäbisch Gmünd to the sinking of the Staufer . In: History of the City of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Edited by the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 53-86 ( Heidelberg University Library ).
• Balthasar Küchler. Painter, escort and citizen of Schwäbisch Gmünd . In: Gmünder Studien 3 (1989), pp. 7-36 ( Internet Archive ).
• The violinist from Gmünd. The making of the legend . In: Parler-Blätter 16 (2001), pp. 9-14 ( Internet Archive ).

literature

• Peter Spranger: Two decades as headmaster at Gmünder Scheffold-Gymnasium (1970-1990) . In: Parler-Blätter 11 (1996), pp. 29-36 ( Internet Archive ).
• Manfred Laduch: Pedagogue, researcher and author deserving of Gmünd. Dr. Peter Spranger, long-time rector of the Scheffoldgymnasium, died on Wednesday at the age of 86 . In: Rems-Zeitung, Schwäbisch Gmünd No. 75/2013, March 30, 2013, p. 17.
• Franz Merkle: pedagogue, scientist and author. On the death of Dr. Peter Spranger . In: gmuender-tagespost.de, March 29, 2013, accessed on March 30, 2013 (no longer freely accessible).

Web links

Commons : Peter Spranger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Book reviews in the Parler papers , more , more