Siegismund Dittmar

Siegismund Gottfried Dittmar (born July 9, 1759 in Primkenau near Glogau , † November 20, 1834 in Potsdam ) was a German educator , meteorologist and author .

Siegismund Dittmar (his real name was Dietmar) came from a humble background. In Breslau he was accepted by Christian Garve and his mother. He completed his humanistic training at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in 1778 with the Abitur . He then studied theology and natural sciences in Halle (Saale) . He toured Germany , Holland , France and Switzerland . In Berlin he was a teacher at the court of Prince Ferdinand of Prussia . In addition, he founded an educational establishment for sons of the higher classes. Dittmar was a member of the Society of Friends of Humanity, to which Heinrich Gentz , Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Johann Gottfried Schadow belonged, as well as the Masonic Lodge "Pythagoras zum Flammenden Stern". He gave public lectures, in 1816 became secretary at the Brandenburg Consistory of the Evangelical Church in the Royal Prussian Lands and later at the Medical College of the Brandenburg Province . State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg asked him to make semi-annual weather forecasts due to the unusual weather conditions in 1816 ( year without summer ). In addition to these meteorological publications, historical, educational and aesthetic writings and translations predominate. Dittmar maintained contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , visited Friedrich Schiller and exchanged amicable letters with Jean Paul .

Works

• Memories from my dealings with Garve, along with some remarks about his life and character , Berlin 1801

• Sirius or the dog post from Spandau to Berlin , Osterholz 1808

• Anticipation of the nature of each future winter for Europe and Asia. . . Derived from the shape of the globe , Berlin 1819

• The zonal weathering of Europe with a map of the course of the wind , Berlin 1819

• The weather to be expected this year in the summer half-year, from the beginning of spring to the end of October in 1820, along with a natural history of the previous winter and other information , Berlin 1820.

• The weather to be expected this year in the summer half-year, from the beginning of spring to the end of October in 1821, together with a natural history of the previous winter and an article on superstitious opinions in relation to the calendar , Berlin 1821

• Theater letters from Goethe and friendly letters from Jean Paul: together with a description of Weimar in its heyday , Berlin 1835

• Charles Francois Bailly, translated and edited by Siegismund Gottfried Dittmar, Meteorik oder Wetterung- und Wetterkunde, to explain everyday occurrences in the haze and its foresight and according to the telluric reasons and the latest physical views , Ilmenau 1832

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegismund Dittmar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dittmar in conversation with Goethe
• Memories from my dealings with Garve in the Bielefeld University Library