Theodor Ferdinand Alexander Winkler
Theodor Ferdinand Alexander Winkler (born May 1 . Jul / 13. May 1888 greg. In Tallinn , Governorate of Estonia , Imperial Russia ; † 19th November 1961 in Marburg ) was an educator and historian Baltic German origin.
Life
Winkler's father was the clergyman Rudolf Winkler , his mother Marie, b. Hörschelmann . He attended the Nikolai high school in Reval and studied history at the Imperial University of Dorpat from 1907 to 1915 ; here he was a member of the Estonia . From 1915 to 1939 he was a history teacher in Reval. From 1925 to 1933 he was inspector and from 1934 to 1939 director of the cathedral school . At times he was a teacher at the Gustav Adolf Gymnasium . From 1922 to 1924 he worked at the Revaler Bote and from 1922 to 1927 city councilor.
After the resettlement of the Baltic Germans, he was a librarian at the Raczyński Library in Poznan from 1940 to 1945 . In 1945 he worked as a private teacher, from 1946 until his retirement in 1953 he worked for history at the adult education center in Heide. He spent the last years of his life in Marburg.
Memberships
- 1956 full member of the Baltic Historical Commission
Works
- The question of the cathedral church in historical light
- From the early days of the Estonian newspaper industry . Reval 1929, S.-Abdr. from d. Rev. Boten 1928
- Knighthood Captain Baron Eduard Maydell-Pastfer , a memorial sheet . Ms. 1930
- About the life and demise of the cathedral school in Reval, the oldest German school abroad . In: Schmidt: Educational Work Abroad Braunschweig 1956
literature
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1416 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Alexander Theodor Ferdinand Winkler. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ ALBUM ESTONORUM No. 1121.
- ^ Paul Kaegbein , Wilhelm Lenz : Fifty Years of Baltic Historical Research 1947–1996. Mare Balticum, Cologne 1997.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winkler, Theodor Ferdinand Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1961 |
| Place of death | Marburg |