Theodor Christoph Grotrian

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Theodor Christoph Grotrian (also Theodor Christoph Grotian ) (born May 1, 1755 in Schöningen ; † March 21, 1829 in Holzminden ) was a German Protestant clergyman, educator and publisher.

Life

Theodor Christoph Grotrian was the son of the forest secretary Gebhard Christoph (* 1712 - 14 October 1771 in Holzminden) and his wife Marlene Catharina Voith (* 27 September 1718 in Schöningen - 14 October 1793 in Holzminden), a daughter of the former Mayor of Schöningen Johann Michael Stimmig, born. He had six siblings:

  • Johann August Grotrian (* 1746; † November 3, 1795 in Holzminden), head forester and forest adviser in Holzminden;
  • Christoph Heinrich Grotrian (born September 8, 1748 in Holzminden; † February 9, 1752 in Holzminden);
  • Johann Friedrich Ludwig Grotrian (born September 20, 1750 in Holzminden; † unknown);
  • Sophia Christina Grotrian (born November 11, 1753 in Holzminden, † February 15, 1760 in Holzminden);
  • Auguste Elisabeth Philippine Grotrian (* July 12, 1757 in Holzminden, † July 30, 1831 in Altendorf near Holzminden);
  • Charlotte Wilhelmina Christiane Grotrian (born March 20, 1762 in Holzminden; † May 25, 1822 in Allersheim near Holzminden), married to Ernst Heinrich Hausmann (1762–1823), 1785 bailiff in Binder; 1788 Councilor in Söder and Councilor in 1823 in Allersheim bei Holzminden.

Theodor Christoph Grotrian came to Holzminden at the age of six months. He was one of the first students at the newly built school in Holzminden (today: Campe-Gymnasium Holzminden ), which was previously located in the Amelungsborn monastery . One of his classmates was Joachim Heinrich Campe .

In 1773 he began studying theology at the University of Göttingen , which he continued at the University of Helmstedt in 1775 and finished in 1776. He returned to Holzminden and became a collaborator at the school he had previously attended, teaching religion, Hebrew and natural history.

In 1783 he became a preacher in Lutter am Barenberge and in 1792 superintendent in Seesen and provost of the Frankenberg monastery in Goslar .

From July 1785 he published the Holzmindische Wochenblatt , which was discontinued in 1795, but was re-published in 1797 (today: Daily Anzeiger Holzminden ).

In 1787 Grotrian married Johanne Sabine Christine Brühl (born February 22, 1763 in Herzberg; † January 22, 1847 in Holzminden), with whom he had a son, Carl Ludwig Ferdinand Grotrian (1789–1844) and two daughters. His son became a doctor of medicine and professor of anatomy at the Institute of Anatomy and Surgery in Braunschweig .

In 1814, Grotrians was appointed general superintendent and pastor primarius in Holzminden for the Weser district. The school's ephorates were also connected with this passage . With this ephorate, all his predecessors were also abbots of the Amelungsborn monastery, but this title was abolished in the Westphalian kingdom and only reintroduced when the Brunswick estates were restored in 1819, so that he was only officially abbot of Amelungsborn at that time. At the same time he had a seat and vote in the Braunschweig State Parliament .

Honors

In the summer of 1827 he received the diploma of theological doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen.

literature

  • Ephoro suo meritissimo provinciam ante quinquaginta annos susceptam debita pietate congratulations Schola Holzmindensis. Brunsvigae Vieweg 1827.
  • Friedrich Philipp Werner Kroll: Speech at the fifty-year jubilee ceremony of Abbot Theodor Christoph Grotrian zu Holzminden held on June 24, 1827 in the church there . Holzminden: Bohn, 1827.
  • W Rägener: Words spoken at the grave of the abbot and general superintendent Dr. Theodor Christoph Grotrian zu Holzminden . Holzminden: Bohn 1829.
  • Paul Wigand: Elegy at the grave of the abbot, general superintendent and Ephorus Dr. Theodor Christoph Grotrian in Holzminden . Holzminden: Bohn, 1829.
  • Directory of the abbot and general superintendent Dr. Grotrian and the Superintendent Christiani left books which are to be sold along with others . Holzminden: Bohn, 1830.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 7th year, 1829, 1st part, pp. 268–270 . BF Voigt, 1831 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Georg Christoph Hamberger: The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers: D - G, p. 685 . Meyer, 1796 ( google.de [accessed March 24, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Local family book Holzminden: Gebhard Christoph GROTRIAN * 1712 +1771. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
  4. ^ Ernst Pitz: Landeskulturtechnik, Landscheide- und surveying in the Duchy of Braunschweig until the end of the 18th century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967 ( google.de [accessed on March 24, 2018]).
  5. ^ GF Eduard Crusius: History of the formerly imperial free imperial city of Goslar am Harze, p. 462 . Sorge, 1842 ( google.de [accessed March 24, 2018]).
  6. ↑ About us: News Holzminden. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ New Critical Library for Schools and Education, pp. 649 ff. Gerstenberg, 1827 ( google.de [accessed on March 24, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Grotrian, Theodor Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grotian, Theodor Christoph; Grotrian, Th. Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, educator and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöningen
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1829
Place of death Holzminden