Victor Heinrich Riecke

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Victor Heinrich Riecke (also Viktor Heinrich or Heinrich ; * May 17, 1759 in Stuttgart , † January 14, 1830 in Lustnau ) was a Protestant clergyman from Württemberg .

Life

Riecke was the son of the Stuttgart city ​​physician Victor Ludwig Heinrich Riecke, a member of the Riecke family . After attending elementary school in his hometown, he graduated from Stuttgart grammar school illustrious . He also received private lessons. On October 29, 1776 he was enrolled at the University of Tübingen . He received a scholarship at the Tübingen monastery and obtained the Baccalaureus degree on December 18, 1776 , and then on September 25, 1778 the master's degree in philosophy . Then he devoted himself to the study of theology .

In 1782 Riecke embarked on an academic journey to the Vienna court library . There he received due to the recently by Joseph II. Adopted tolerance patent after just four weeks a reputation as the first Protestant minister of the new community in Brno . In 1785, he turned down an offer as a repetitionist at the Tübingen Abbey. In 1789 he was promoted to senior in Brno. A school and a church were built under him. He married the young Sophie Eleonore Elhard (born March 3, 1773 in Leutschau, † November 12, 1813 in Lustenau) in Leutschau in 1789 and fathered six children with her. While the two daughters married in what was then Hungary, the four sons ( Leopold Socrates , Friedrich Josef Pythagoras , Gustav Adolf Cornaro and Emil Amand Leberecht Riecke ) returned to Württemberg with him. When he left in 1803, a memorial with the inscription Us he was a teacher and friend was erected in the prayer hall of the congregation in Brno ! built.

Riecke returned to Stuttgart in 1803, following a call from the consistory there. He became a pastor at the Stuttgart orphanage and school inspector of the German schools in Stuttgart. The orphanage was in poor condition. Riecke was able to improve the condition of the institution again and redesigned the elementary school system in Stuttgart in the spirit of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . He also managed to initiate a teachers' seminar .

In 1811, after major changes were pending at the orphanage, Riecke was transferred to Lustnau near Tübingen. There he worked as a pastor and as the rector of the Tübingen School Teachers' Conference. After the death of his first wife, he married Friederike Regine Katharine Pfeilsticker in Lustenau in 1815 (* January 23, 1774, Gerlingen, † December 28, 1841, Tübingen). He died after a short illness.

Works (selection)

In 1789 he was co-editor of the Moravian Magazine and from 1800 to 1803 of the Patriotisches Tageblatt .

  • Two sermons, given at the opening of the Protestant service in Brno, together with news from the new church community and an appendix , Vienna 1783.
  • News from the Brno New Parish , Dessau 1789.
  • Address to the Protestant parish in Brno about catechization and confirmation , Brno 1789.
  • The important question: should orphanages be kept? answered , Stuttgart 1806.

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SURNAME Riecke, Victor Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riecke, Heinrich; Riecke, Viktor Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical clergyman from Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1830
Place of death Lustnau