Theodor Gottlieb Carl Keyßner

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Theodor Gottlieb Carl Keyßner (born March 4, 1757 in Meiningen ; † June 9, 1837 there ) was a German Protestant clergyman and educator .

Life

family

Theodor Gottlieb Carl Keyßner was the youngest son of Johann Nicolaus Keyßner († August 1757), ducal chamber musician in Meiningen and his wife Margaretha († 1774), a daughter of Lieutenant Hartung from Arnstadt ; he also had a brother and a sister. His godfather was his uncle, the composer and conductor Johann Theodor Keyßner .

Theodor Gottlieb Carl Keyßner married Katharina Maria in 1787, the youngest daughter of the adjunct Johann Georg Musäus, who died in 1782 , but his wife died after a year and a half; their son died a few months after the birth. In 1790 he married Johanna Jakobine († 1806), daughter of the court printer Philipp Heinrich Hartmann (1765-1832) from Meiningen, with whom he had two sons and two daughters:

  • Christiane Keyßner, married to Archdeacon Jakob Friedrich Storandt;
  • Friedemann Ernst Christoph Keyßner, court printer;
  • Friedrich Emil Traugott Keyßner, district judge in Hildburghausen;
  • Sophie Keyßner married to the government director Hellmann.

In his third marriage, he was married to the widowed Maria Katharine Maaser († 1831), born Glaser, from 1811.

His son Friedemann († 1851) took over the Meiningen Hofbuchdruckerei in 1832 from his uncle Philipp Heinrich Hartmann (1765–1832), which was then continued by Karl Keyßner (1830–1901).

education

After attending elementary school in Meiningen, he attended the local lyceum (today: Henfling-Gymnasium ); his teachers were Georg Kaspar Hopf (1727-1803), later superintendent in Meiningen, Johann Adam Emmrich (1734-1796), Johann Christian Volkhart (1740-1823), later superintendent in Schalkau and Johann Caspar Scharfenberg, who prepared him for his theology studies .

In 1774 he matriculated to study theology at the University of Jena and heard lectures from Justus Christian Hennings , Ernst Jakob Danovius , Johann Jakob Griesbach , Johann Gottfried Eichhorn and Johann August Heinrich Ulrich, among others .

Career

For financial reasons Keyßner ended his studies early and in March 1777 became tutor to Friedrich Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff (1744–1813) in Wuthenow in the Soldin district ; he became the tutor of Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff . During his one year stay on the estate, he got to know Frederick the Great , the then Crown Prince and later King Friedrich Wilhelm II , General Wichard von Möllendorff and Count Lottum .

In 1778 he became private tutor at von Schätzel in Maubin near Pyritz in Pomerania , until he resumed his studies at the University of Leipzig in 1779 and attended lectures by Johann Georg Eck and Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More ; However, he finished his studies again after three months and became tutor to the Saale raft master August Ludwig Stöter in Kösen near Naumburg . During this time his uncle died and bequeathed him such a large fortune that he was able to resume his university studies in Jena ; during his stay he stayed with the university professor Christian Gottfried Schütz .

During his studies he supported Schütz in the preparation of collections , excerpts and registers, especially for the publication of Aeschylus , as well as with corrections for the Jenaische Literaturzeitung .

After a year and a half he went from Jena to Sonneberg , entered the service of Privy Councilor Georg Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Donop and stayed there for four years. During this time he undertook a trip to Dessau and Reckahn to get to know the educational institutions there and met the rector Carl Gottfried Neuendorf , August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome , Ludwig Heinrich Ferdinand Olivier and Carl Siegmund Ouvrier (1751-1819) at the Philanthropinum in Dessau . From there he traveled to the school founded by Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow in Reckahn; there he was particularly impressed by the teacher Heinrich Julius Bruns .

When the chaplain and rector position in Sonneberg became vacant in 1786, Keyßner received this position and held the position for six years; During this time he improved the teaching method at the school, so that the teaching became more functional.

In 1792, after the transfer of Ernst Julius Walch , he received the vacant pastor's position in Meiningen, with which the management and main lessons at the seminar for rural school teachers were connected. Although there were only two other teachers at the school, the teachers' seminar in Meiningen became known as far as southern Germany and Russia thanks to the well-trained teachers ; the school served as a model for other similar educational establishments.

His other duties included the office of pastor orphans and the pastoral care of the orphanage located pupils ; With these he not only took care of their accommodation and meals, but also provided support with their professional training to become a craftsman. In addition, he gave private lessons in religion and language training, traveled to the country schools on behalf of the school commission and wrote a textbook for the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen in 1799 , anonymously published a few volumes of catechetical discussions, and also provided essays for Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuth's educational library and for the National-Zeitung of the Germans published by Rudolph Zacharias Becker and most recently wrote a concise Meiningische Landeskunde after the partition treaty of 1826. He earned a special merit through his many years of work in the poor.

After there was no more regular worship in the orphanage from 1799 onwards , he was given a teaching position at the lyceum after he had recently been appointed rural school inspector. In addition to his work at the teacher training college, he taught religion, the Greek Testament and natural history at the Lyceum . After the conversion of the lyceum into the high school Bernhardinum , he was replaced by a collaborator in this teaching activity.

When the rural school teachers' seminar was relocated to Hildburghausen in June 1827 , he was still in charge of the free school , of caring for the orphans and of a district of the city poor.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Schoolbook, that is a guide for teaching the most common knowledge, which, in addition to religious instruction, is presented in the lower schools of the Ducal Meiningische Lande . Meiningen Hartmann 1799.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Christoph Hensoldt: Description of the city of Sonneberg in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, famous for its world trade: same as the parish church built in it in the old German style by the architect Karl Heideloff in Nuremberg . Stein, 1845 ( google.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  2. ^ Maren Goltz, Johannes Mötsch, Werner Greiling: Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen (1826–1914): Culture as a strategy of assertion? Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-50151-8 ( google.de [accessed on May 30, 2020]).
  3. ^ Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers . published by Meyerschen Buchhandlung, 1797 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Topography of the Herzoglich-Sachsen-Koburg-Meiningischen part of the Duchy of Koburg: In addition to e. geographer. Kt. Of this country u. some important, never-printed documents between Saxony a. Bamberg v. 1471, 1601 u. 1608 . Selbstverl., 1781 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2020]).
  5. ^ Henneberg antiquity research association: Chronicle of the city of Meiningen from 1676 to 1834 . F. Keyssner, 1834 ( google.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  6. ↑ General school newspaper: an archive for the science of the entire school, educational u. Education d. Universities, high schools, elementary schools etc. of all higher u. lower educational institutions . Leske, 1829 ( google.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Thuringian Pastors' Book, Volume 7. Society for Thuringian Church History, 2017, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Address book for the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Meiningen: on the year of Christ 1824 . Hartmann, 1824 ( google.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  9. ↑ www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de: Silver Cross of Merit of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order 2nd form "&". Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Keyßner, Theodor Gottlieb Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keyßner, Theodor Gottlieb Karl; Keyssner, Theodor Gottlieb Karl; Keyßner, Th. GC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1837
Place of death Meiningen