Robert Heinrich Hiecke

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Robert Heinrich Hiecke (born February 16, 1805 in Penig , † December 5, 1861 in Greifswald ) was a German high school teacher .

Life

Peter Heinrich Hiecke's father, a practicing doctor, lost his life when his son was seven years old. After the mother's marriage to Dr. Herzog moved the family to Merseburg in 1814 , where Hiecke started high school a year later. In 1824 he went to study at the University of Halle and from there to Berlin until 1829 . He worked as a teacher at the Merseburg high school and then in Zeitz , where in 1835 he married Luise Kießling († 1855), the daughter of the director there. When he returned to Merseburg, Hiecke was appointed professor in 1839.

He was friends with Maximilian Duncker , Karl Schwarz and Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer in Halle. Echtermeyer's first edition of "Sample Collection of German Poems for Learned Schools" was published in 1836 by Hiecke from 1845 until his death in 4th to 11th editions.

From 1850 Hiecke was director of the Greifswald municipal high school . In 1856 he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald . He was awarded the Red Eagle Order, 4th class. Hiecke died of a stroke.

The later monument conservator Robert Hiecke was his grandson.

Publications (selection)

  • German lessons at German grammar schools . Leipzig 1842 ( digitized version ).
  • Speeches and essays by Robert Heinrich Hiecke . Edited by Gustav Wendt , Hamm 1865 ( digitized version ).
  • Göthe's greatness in his bourgeois epic Heermann und Dorothea . Greifswald 1860.

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