Theodor Heinsius

Otto Friedrich Theodor Heinsius (born September 6, 1770 in Tschernow in the Neumark , † May 19, 1849 in Berlin ) was a German educator , grammarian and lexicographer .

Life

Theodor Heinsius was the son of a superintendent who accompanied Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War and worked in Königsberg in the Neumark. From 1788 to 1790 he attended the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. Heinsius studied theology , philology and education at the University of Halle from 1790 to 1793 . He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. Since February 3, 1794 he was an associate teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin. From April 4, 1801 to 1847 he was professor and rector at the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster and from 1803 head of a secondary school for girls in Berlin.

Together with Johann August Zeune and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , he founded the Berlin Society for the German Language in 1814 . Numerous letters from Heinsius to the grammar school director Johann Joachim Bellermann have survived. On May 31, 1833, he was a participant in the "Feast for Tiecks sixtieth birthday".

Max Stirner turned against his conception of education in 1842 in his newspaper article: The untrue principle of our education .

In Berlin he was a member of the Masonic Lodge "Pythagoras zum Flammenden Stern". His grave is located in the St. Marien and St. Nikolai Cemetery I in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg .

Quote

“Coldness and indifference in the mother tongue are high treason to the fatherland and desecration of popular honor. We can hope, however, that the voice of honor will be stronger than the indolent habit, the chastised preference for the foreign will duly take a back seat to the rewarding love for the home, and the German-minded German will regain his healthy language as he has won his freedom Has."

- German house treasure for everyone, 1814, p. VI

Honors

• He was an honorary member of the German Society in Leipzig .
• On the occasion of his 50th anniversary of service on February 3, 1845, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd Class with Ribbon .

Works (selection)

• Husband's rural joys . Andreas Lübeck's heirs, Bayreuth 1793 uni-goettingen.de
• Friedrich Ludwig Joseph Fischbach , Johann Wilhelm Andreas Kosmann , Theodor Heinsius (ed.): Memories and daily history of the Mark Brandenburg and the duchies of Magdeburg and Pomerania . Belitz and Braun, Berlin 1796–1800
• An attempt at a biographical sketch of Ramler along with a brief description of his poetic character . Belitz and Braun, Berlin 1798 books.google.de
• Once again the question is illuminated: may the freedom of press be restricted or not? With particular regard to legislation . Berlin 1804
• The bard grove for Germany's noble sons and daughters. A school and family book . Dieterici, Berlin 1809-1825
  • Part 1 (1809) (2nd, combined and presumably ed. 1812)
  • Theil 2 (1809) (2nd, combined and probably edition. 1814) (3rd, carefully reviewed, improved and increased edition. 1819)
  • Theil 3 (1810) (2nd, combined and possibly published 1817)
  • Part 4. Epic-dramatic flower picking for high school classes, art lovers and domestic circles . (1825)
• German house treasure for everyone or, all-understandable German language book for the nutritional status and business life, to avoid the wrong and un-German in speaking and writing . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin / Stettin 1814, 2nd much probably and corrected edition 1824, uni-karlsruhe.de
• Luther or a collection of master and sample writings by German poets and prose writers with readings and comments. Edited for schools. First part. German fable poets . Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig 1816 books.google.de
• Instructions for learning the German language, especially for use in schools and for self-instruction . 3rd corrected and presumed edition. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig 1817, books.google.de
• The German advice book or alphabetical emergency and auxiliary dictionary for grammatical spelling and word order in all dubious cases, for those who want to write letters and essays of all kinds as error-free as possible. Fourth revised and much enlarged edition.
• Teut, or theoretical-practical textbook on the entire German linguistics by D. Theodor Heinsius. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1825–1832,
  • First part hathitrust.org
  • Second part hathitrust.org
  • Third part hathitrust.org
  • Fourth part hathitrust.org
  • Fifth part hathitrust.org
• Complete dictionary of the German language with pronunciation and emphasis for the business and reading world . CF Schade, Vienna 1828–1830
  • First volume hathitrust.org
  • Second volume hathitrust.org
  • Third volume hathitrust.org
  • Volume four hathitrust.org
• Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz : History of the Seven Years' War in Germany. Edited for the youth by Dr. Theodor Heinsius . Haude- and Spenersche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, hathitrust.org
• Frederick the Second and his Century, in relation to language and literature, school and popular education. A patriotic Säcular script . Siegfried Mittler, Berlin 1840, hathitrust.org
• The conditional freedom of the press developed and examined historically and critically . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1841, books.google.de
• Concordat between school and life or mediation of humanism and realism viewed from a national point of view. Hermann Schulze, Berlin 1842, Digitale-sammlungen.de
• Up-to-date pedagogy of the school . Carl Friedrich Amelang, Berlin 1844, books.google.de
• The way to science for students and their fathers . Julius Springer, Berlin 1844, books.google.de
• Germanology in German chairs. Germany's education authorities recommended for their inclined consideration . Mylius'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1848, hathitrust.org
• Johann Gottfried v. Herder after his life and work. Speech at the benefactor's festival of the Berlin Gymnasium Zum Grauen Kloster on December 21, 1844 . Nauck, Berlin 1847
• Basic lines for a constitutional school and popular education in Germany . C. Lindow, Berlin 1848

literature

• Julius Eduard Hitzig : Directory of writers living in Berlin in 1825 and their works . Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1826, pp. 97–100, books.google.de with bibliography up to 1825
• Friedrichzell: The fifty-year jubilee of the royal professor Dr. Theodor Heinsius. Berlin 1845.
• Directory of the director Heinsius, Professor Dirksen, Mr. v. Briesen and Andern bequeathed book collections of all subjects, along with charts and copperplate engravings, which are determined to be auctioned on Monday 5th January 1851. Zschiesche, Berlin 1851.
• Wilhelm Scherer :  Heinsius, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 660.
• Hartmut Meyer: OF Theodor Heinsius (1770-1849). Prussian teacher of German . In: sentence theory - thought training - national language. German school grammar between 1800 and 1850. Hans Dieter Erlinger (Ed.). Nodus, Münster 1989, ISBN 3-89323-209-5 , pp. 115-140.
• Ludwig M. Eichinger: Theodor Heinsius . In: Hans Jürgen Höller, Edeltraud Dobnig-Jülch, Herbert E. Brekle (eds.): Bio-Bibliographisches Handbuch zum Sprachwissenschaft of the 18th Century. The grammarians, lexicographers and language theorists of the German-speaking area with a description of their works . Volume 4: H-I. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-484-73024-2 , pp. 160–181, bsz-bw.de (PDF; 983 kB) with bibliography and evaluation of his work.
• Heinsius, Theodor . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 329.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Heinsius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Theodor Heinsius  in the German Digital Library
• Works by Theodor Heinsius in the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frederick the Second and his Century, in relation to language and literature, school and popular education. A patriotic Säcular script , p. VIII.
2. ^ Friedhilde Krause: Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany . Volume 14. Berlin 1995, p. 234.
3. ↑ 45 letters in the Central and State Library, Berlin.
4. ^ Central and State Library, Berlin. Signature: Gl 131/4 / Bl.179.
5. ^ Theodor Heinsius: Concordat between school and life or the mediation of humanism and realism . Berlin 1842
6. ↑ Rheinische Zeitung (Cologne), vol. 1842, supplement to No. 100, 102, 104, 109 (April 10-19, 1842).
7. ↑ Reprint in: John Henry Mackay (Ed.): Max Stirner's Kleinere Schriften und Rückgegnungen. Second edition. Berlin 1914. ( xs4all.nl ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
8. ↑ CERL Thesaurus. The gateway to European printed cultural heritage
9. ↑ Heinsius, Th. In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1824, advertisements, p. 151 (display of publications in the publishing house of the address book).