Theodor Mertens

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Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Mertens (also: Johannes Fridericus Ludovicus Theodorus Mertens and Theodor Mertens ; * January 9, 1813 in Hanover ; † November 7, 1887 there ) was a German theologian , educator and pastor , school director and writer .

Life

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Mertens was born in Hanover in 1813 during the so-called " French era ", but grew up in his first years at the beginning of the Kingdom of Hanover on his father's estate in Holstede or on the Schwarzenbeck estate near Kiel , where his father was administrative economist worked. From 1824 he attended the Lyceum in his hometown, which was headed by Georg Friedrich Grotefend at the time . Mertens was there, together with Eduard Hallmann , Fritz Kohlrausch and Bernhard Reiche , one of the first students in Hanover who met for joint gymnastics in 1831 , until such unsupervised exercise outside of school was banned by the state in 1833.

Under registration number 36351 , Mertens began his theology and philosophy studies at the university there in Göttingen in 1832 with Friedrich Lücke , Heinrich Ewald and August Wilhelm Bohtz , which he later completed in Berlin at the university there under Philipp Konrad Marheinecke and Georg Andreas Gabler .

In 1837 Mertens went to Silesia , where he taught the two younger sons of Duke Eugen von Württemberg , Wilhelm von Württemberg and Nikolaus von Württemberg , for 12 years . During this period, the pedagogue got to know Switzerland , Italy and Greece while traveling .

After Theodor Mertens had passed his last theological examination in his hometown Hanover in 1849, he was appointed to the Hanover consistory and assistant preacher at the castle church .

Mertens saw "himself induced [...] to resign from his ecclesiastical offices in 1854", found "more and more corresponding effectiveness" at the then higher citizen school in Hanover, most recently as school director.

In 1864 Mertens, who lived at Brühlstrasse 13 at the time , was one of the members of the negotiations of the twenty-third meeting of German philologists and schoolmen in Hanover from September 27 to 30, 1864.

In the 1870s, Mertens worked as director of the City Daughter School II in Hanover .

Fonts

  • About education and teaching. To the parents , Higher Citizens School, Hanover: Culemann, 1858
  • Against the foreign words , special print from: School report of the Stadttöchterschule for 1869/71 , Hanover, 1871
  • The dungeon scene from Goethe's Faust / by Th. Mertens, Dir. D. Stadt-Töchterschule II zu Hannover , ** Hannover: Helwing, 1873
    • From: Literarisches Centralblatt , 1873, issue 31 of August 2, 1873, [Leipzig], 1873, col. 975–976
  • City Hanover gender names. According to the address book from 1874 , Hanover: Grimpe, 1875
  • Beatings at school?
  • Fairy tale games. For performances in school and home / edit. von Mertens , 2 volumes, Hanover: Schmorl & von Seefeld, 1880
  • What does school mean? , Hanover: City Daughter School II, 1867

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie (in Gothic script ),
    • Vol. 1: Hanoverian men and women since 1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, p. 357
    • Vol. 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 559

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c o.V. : Mertens, Theodor in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on January 11, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Adolf Tellkampf : Dr. JFL Theodor Mertens , in this: The higher citizen school in Hanover described on the occasion of its 25th anniversary on October 9, 1860 by the director of the institution Dr. A. Tellkampf. Hanover: Friedrich Culemann, 1860, p. 112f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ A b Alf Christophersen: Friedrich Lücke (1791–1855) , Part 1: New Testament hermeneutics and exegesis in connection with his life and work , Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-080076-0 and ISBN 3-11-080076-4 , p. 346; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Anton Weise: School races in Hanover. Its beginnings in the 19th century , in Christian Becker, Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe, Angelika Wolters (Hrsg.): History of gymnastics in Northern Germany. At the same time report of the joint conference of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History eV Hanover (NISH) and the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Federation (NTB) from June 24th to 25th, 2016 , Berlin; Münster: LIT, 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13821-7 , pp. 129-142; here: p. 130f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ^ Tageblatt of the twenty-third meeting of German philologists and school men in Hanover from September 27 to 30, 1864 , No. 1 from September 26, 1864, Hanover: Friedrich Culemann, 1864, p. 12; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ Compare the front page of Beatings At School? , 2nd unchanged edition, Hanover: Helwing'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Th. Mierzinsky, Schlägerstraße 20, 1878; Digitized via the Scripta paedagogica online
personal data
SURNAME Mertens, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mertens, Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor (full name); Mertens, Johannes Fridericus Ludovicus Theodorus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1887
Place of death Hanover