Thomas Achelis

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Thomas Ludwig Bernhard Achelis (born June 17, 1850 in Gröpelingen , † June 17, 1909 in Capri ) was a German pedagogue, ethnologist and religious scholar.

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Thomas Achelis was a son of the Gröpelingen pastor Thomas Achelis (1802-1892) and Hermine Stockmeyer (1818-1889). He completed a degree in philosophy and classical philology at the University of Göttingen and has been teaching as a senior teacher at schools in Bremen since 1874 .

On October 14, 1886 Achelis married a woman named Minna, with whom he had two sons (one of whom was Thomas Otto Achelis ) and a daughter and who was a daughter of his cousin and tanner Thomas Achelis.

In 1905 Achelis was appointed director of the new grammar school in Bremen- Barkhof . He was considered an excellent teacher and also wrote about the history of the development of religious and moral ideas, taking into account anthropology, prehistory, comparative law, ethnology, psychology, philosophy of language, linguistics and literary studies. He also wrote texts that were easy to understand. In 1898 he founded the Archive for Religious Studies and published it until 1904.

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SURNAME Achelis, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Achelis, Thomas Ludwig Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, ethnologist and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Groepelingen
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1909
Place of death capri