Philipp Wilhelm Prozell

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Philipp Wilhelm Prozell (born April 10, 1792 in Detzel (Haldensleben) , † January 19, 1888 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and honorary meteorologist .

Life

Philipp Wilhelm Prozell was a son of the bailiff Friedrich Georg Prozell († 1820). He attended school in Berge monastery and the cathedral high school in Magdeburg . From 1811 to 1813 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Berlin.

In 1818 he was the first teacher at the elementary school in Neustrelitz . From 1821 he was also a cantor. In 1825 he became the first teacher at the newly founded Neustrelitz secondary school . He also gave private lessons to the Duchess Caroline zu Mecklenburg .

Church in Hinrichshagen (2011)

In 1834 he went to Hinrichshagen (now part of Woldegk ) as a pastor , where he worked for over 40 years. On May 24, 1865, the Grand Duke appointed him preposition for the Woldegk Synod. For his 50th anniversary in school and church service, he received the title of Councilor in 1868 . After his retirement in 1876, he moved to Friedland.

Weather observations

Since 1848, Prozell has been observing with precisely regulated instruments and in accordance with the Prussian meteorological stations suggested by Alexander von Humboldt and founded by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove . He was the first to lay the foundation for scientific meteorology in Mecklenburg.

His weather station in Hinrichshagen and another in Rostock were included in the weather observation network of the Prussian Meteorological Institute, one of the forerunners of the German Meteorological Service .

He published his Meteorological Observations on Hinrichshagen regularly from 1849 to 1854 in the archive of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg .

After his retirement, he initially continued his observations in Friedland. In 1880 he left the group of weather observers. The weather station was relocated to Neustrelitz and continued to be operated by the local high school professor Adolf Gustav Kurtze (1816–1896).

memory

On April 15, 2018, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the Hinrichshagen church.

literature

  • M. Haberland: PW Prozell, the first meteorologist in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In: Archives of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg. Vol. 63 (1909), pp. 137-139
  • Georg Krüger : The pastors in Stargard since the Reformation. In: Year books of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270 ( full text ), p. 80
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7830 .
  • Sebastian Prüfer: Philipp Wilhelm Prozell, educator, pastor and scholar in the old Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Berlin 2018. ISBN 9783746711775

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Achim Meyer: History of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1794-1890. Neustrelitz 1893, p. 99
  2. ^ Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz Official Gazette for Legislation and State Administration 1865, p. 38
  3. ↑ Results of the meteorological observations in 1880 (= Prussian statistics: Official sources LIX) Berlin 1881, p. IV
  4. ↑ Church in Hinrichshagen honors pastor and "weather frog" , notification from the North Church of April 13, 2018, accessed on April 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Prozell, Philipp Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and honorary meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Detzel (Haldensleben)
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1888
Place of death Friedland (Mecklenburg)