Stephan Waetzoldt (philologist)
Christian Stephan Waetzoldt , also Stefan Waetzoldt , (born June 3, 1849 in Katholisch Hennersdorf ; † June 1, 1904 in Berlin ) was a German Romance studies and German studies.
Life
Waetzoldt studied German and Romance philology in Marburg and Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1875 at the University of Halle with the work Die Pariser Tagezeiten [Hours of the Hour]: Handwritten text (program of the St. Johannis Abbey School, Hamburg 1880). Immediately afterwards he was appointed educator and travel companion of Duke Georg Ludwig von Oldenburg (1855–1939); during this time he wrote the Rasteder Heimatlied. In 1878 he became senior teacher at the Johanneum in Hamburg and in 1886 director of the Royal Real and Elisabeth School in Berlin, where he also worked as a member of the General German Reim Association under the club name or pseudonym Amandus Wünsche . From 1889 to 1894 he taught French language and literature at the Friedrich Wilhelms University (from 1890 as associate professor). In 1894 he switched to school administration and initially worked in Magdeburg, from 1897 as a provincial school councilor in Breslau and from 1899 as department head for the higher girls' school system in the Prussian Ministry of Education, where he initiated fundamental reforms.
Stefan Waetzoldt was the father of Wilhelm Waetzoldt and the grandfather of the art historian of the same name .
Works
- (Ed.) Konrad Fleck : Flos unde Blankflos . Bremen 1880
- (Editor with J. Schönhof): Gottfried Gurcke's German School Grammar . 17th edition. Hamburg 1881
- Task of teaching modern languages and the training of teachers . Berlin 1892
literature
- Jakob Wychgram: Stephan Waetzoldt (1849–1904) . Obituary in women's education , Leipzig 1905 / Lectures and essays on girls' schools . Leipzig 1907, pp. 251-272.
- Alexander M. Kalkhoff: Romance Philology in the 19th and early 20th Century . Tübingen 2010, p. 150.
Web links
- nwzonline.de
- Waetzoldtstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Waetzoldt, family nachlassdatenbank.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waetzoldt, Stephan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waetzoldt, Christian Stephan (full name); Waetzold, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romance studies and German studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hennersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1904 |
| Place of death | Berlin |