Werner Bertram
Ferdinand Wilhelm Werner Bertram (born April 26, 1835 in Ottenstein , † December 1, 1899 in Braunschweig ) was a German Lutheran theologian and botanist . From 1867 to 1899 he was pastor at the Braunschweig Katharinenkirche and from 1890 to 1899 general and city superintendent of Braunschweig. In 1876 he published the flora of Braunschweig, which is still relevant today .
life and work
The son of the Ottenstein pastor and later superintendent Andreas Christian Friedrich Bertram attended high school in Holzminden and studied theology in Göttingen from 1854 to 1857 . He then worked for three years as a private tutor and from 1860 to 1866 worked as a teacher at the Royal Prussian Agricultural School in Badersleben . At Easter 1866 he moved to Wolfenbüttel as an orphanage inspector . On September 29, 1867, he became pastor of St. Katharinen in Braunschweig, succeeding Heinrich Matthias Sachtleben, who died in 1866 . In addition, he worked as a religion teacher at the secondary school for girls until 1889. At the beginning of 1890, Bertram was appointed general and city superintendent and was appointed to the regional synod and to the ducal ministerial commission for school matters. In May 1890 he was awarded the Knight's Cross, 2nd class, and in 1892, the Knight's Cross, 1st class.
Bertram possessed extensive botanical knowledge, which he deepened since 1861 on trips to southern Germany and Switzerland as well as on excursions to the Harz Mountains . He is the author of several botanical works, including the Flora von Braunschweig published in 1876 , which was expanded in 1894 and 1908 under the title Excursionsflora des Duchy of Braunschweig to include the entire Harz region . He also published a school botany and tables for easy identification of the plants that are often grown in the wild in northern Germany . Bertram was a member of the Society for Natural Sciences, whose presidium he took over in 1874.
Bertramstrasse, which runs in the eastern outskirts of Braunschweig, is most likely not named after Werner Bertram for reasons of time, as it is already mentioned in the address book of 1860. At that time, the 25-year-old was not yet working in Braunschweig.
literature
- Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets, their names and their stories Volume 2: Between Okergraben and Stadtring. Cremlingen 1996, p. 34f.
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 57 f .
- Norman-Mathias Pingel: Bertram, Ferdinand Wilhelm Werner. In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 20th f .
- Parish office of St. Katharinen (ed.): Eight centuries of St. Katharinen Church in Braunschweig. Contributions to their history. Orphanage printing house, Braunschweig 1980, p. 38, OCLC 870093916 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Bertram, Ferdinand Wilhelm Werner. In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon supplementary volume. Braunschweig 1996, pp. 20f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertram, Werner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertram, Ferdinand Wilhelm Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian, superintendent and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ottenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1899 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |