Gotthard Tobias Tielemann

Gotthard Tobias Tielemann (* October 11th ^July / October 22nd 1773 ^greg. In Krüdnershof ( Estonian Krüüdneri ), in today's municipality Kanepi , governorate Livonia ; † December 27, 1846 ^July / January 8, 1847 ^greg. In Riga ) was a German-Baltic writer , city librarian in Riga and Russian titular counselor .

Life

Gotthard Tobias was the son of the farmer and miller Johann Matthias Tielemann. He initially received home tuition and then attended the cathedral school at Riga Cathedral from 1789 to 1794 . Tielemann gave private lessons from 1792 to 1795 in the house of Johann Samuel von Hollander . From 1795 (other sources 1794) to 1798 he studied philosophy and theology in Jena . Back in Riga, he found employment in the city ministry and again as a private teacher with the Hollander family. Since 1805 he was also the city librarian. From 1808 to 1820 he worked as a teacher and from 1820 to 1829 as an inspector of the First District and Cathedral School in Riga . In 1826 he was appointed titular councilor, which, according to the rank table (9th level), was associated with the rise to the nobility with the address "well-born".

Since 1817 he was a member of the Courland Society for Literature and Art , was also a member of the Society for History and Archeology in Riga and the Literary-Practical Citizens' Association .

Tielemann married Charlotte Sophie Rüben in 1817.

Works

In addition to numerous poems and essays and treatises on cultural history, he was the author and editor responsible for:

History of the Black Heads in Riga together with a description of the Arthurhof and its monuments . Häcker, Amsterdam 1970, ISBN 90-6129-101-1 . (= Reprint of the Riga 1831 edition)
Livona's Blumenkranz: First volume: Mit Funf Kupfern, Volume 1 , Hardcover - September 18, 2015. Also available as an eBook.
Livona; a historical-poetic paperback for the German-Russian Baltic Sea provinces. Riga, 1812, 1816.

literature

Johann Friedrich von Recke and Karl Eduard Napiersky : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , fourth volume, Mitau 1832, p. 369
Karl Goedeke, Edmund Goetze (both ed.): Ground plan for the history of German poetry . Volume VII: Seventh Book: Time of World War (1790–1815): Fantastic Poetry, Division II , Verlag L. Ehlermann, Dresden 1900 (here: unaltered reprint of the original edition: Akademie-Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05 -005226-7 . P. 503 )
Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg , Volume 3, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Pp. 1308-1310.

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Gotthard Tobias Tielemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Literature by and about Gotthard Tobias Tielemann in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Messages from the area of the history of Liv, Estonia and Russia. Society for the History and Archeology of the Russian Baltic Sea Provinces ., 1840, accessed March 20, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tielemann, Gotthard Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Baltic German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krüdnershof, Livonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1847
Place of death	Riga

[1] Messages from the area of the history of Liv, Estonia and Russia. Society for the History and Archeology of the Russian Baltic Sea Provinces ., 1840, accessed March 20, 2018 .