Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen
Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen (born October 24, 1798 in Fellbach , † September 29, 1874 in Fellbach) was a Württemberg teacher, musician and composer, the third famous representative of the Fellbacher family of teachers and musicians Auberlen .
Life
Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen was born as the fourth and youngest son of the Fellbach schoolmaster Nikolaus Ferdinand Auberlen . As the best student repeatedly awarded prizes, he was hired in his father's service as second provisional in 1815 and as first provisional in 1818.
From 1819 to 1821 he attended the seminary in Esslingen am Neckar and then worked for seven years as the administrator of his ailing father in Fellbach, until the community elected him as his successor in June 1828. Auberlen was a professionally and methodically thoroughly trained teacher who also worked constantly on his own further education. He was encouraged by reading the elementary school of the Esslingen seminar director Denzel, an enthusiastic supporter of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . Because of the good condition of his school, Auberlen received commendations and gratuities in 1835, 1837 and 1847. The design for the establishment of a trade school, which he had already submitted to the school authorities in 1835, was not implemented until 1851 when a commercial Sunday and drawing school was set up in Fellbach. Auberlen's agricultural winter evening school led to the establishment of a wine-growing company in Fellbach in 1858 .
But his main interest was music, especially church music. He himself was an excellent organist. He attached particular importance to singing, which he increasingly cultivated and promoted in school lessons. But also outside of school, in the family and with friends, there was a lot of singing, partly cantatas, motets and chorales, partly songs that he had composed and composed himself. In 1838 Auberlen founded a male choir that still exists today. When he celebrated his 50th anniversary in office with the community in 1867, he was given a gift by the mayor and awarded the golden civil merit medal by the King of Württemberg.
In the following years he became ailing, so that he retired from school service in 1873. He last lived at Lindenstrasse 18 until he died the following year. He was buried in the family grave of the old cemetery, which the city of Fellbach maintains to this day. The Auberlen secondary school and a street in Fellbach bear his name. The history and importance of the Auberlen family are documented in a permanent exhibition in the Fellbach City Museum.
children
- Karl August Auberlen (1824–1864), Protestant theologian.
- Ferdinand Wilhelm Auberlen (* 1826), businessman and entrepreneur.
- Wilhelm Auberlen, war commissioner.
- Adolf Auberlen, Protestant pastor.
- Clara Anna Auberlen
Publications
- 48 two-, three- and four-part chants for elementary schools, in the tone cipher of a Württemberg association and published on behalf of the same. by WA Auberlen , 1840.
literature
- Description of the Cannstatt Oberamt , Stuttgart 1895.
- Fellbach. Home book of the large district town at the gates of Stuttgart , Fellbach 1958. ( online edition )
- Otto Borst: Fellbach, a Swabian city history , Stuttgart 1990.
Web links
- Auberlen secondary school in Fellbach
- Description of the Upper Office Cannstatt
- The Auberlen family in Fellbach
- Eppinger's description of Fellbach
- Fellbacher Heimatbuch
- School and schoolmaster in Fellbach
- 400 years of school in Fellbach
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auberlen, Wilhelm Amandus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Württemberg teacher, musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fellbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1874 |
| Place of death | Fellbach |