Wilhelm August Ackermann

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Wilhelm August Ackermann (born March 21, 1793 in Burkersdorf in Saxony-Weimar , † October 19, 1865 in Pirna ) was a German educator , librarian and art historian .

Life

Ackermann was the son of the Evangelical Lutheran clergyman Wilhelm August Ackermann and his wife Dorothea, née Grünlerin. Initially active at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg , he was appointed to the Katharineum in Lübeck on December 6, 1826 and worked there as a high school teacher (professor). On April 3, 1833 he was appointed as the successor of Ferdinand Grautoff by the Senate of the City of Lübeck as City Librarian in Lübeck, an office that was traditionally anchored at the Katharineum until the Lübeck City Library received its own permanent management. Here he published two brochures about the public library in Lübeck (1835/40).

After his wife's death in 1842, he gave up teaching and went to Dresden . He was a friend of Julius Huebner , who also portrayed him.

He was the father of Ernst Wilhelm Ackermann (1821–1846), who was a German theologian and late Romantic poet. Wilhelm August Ackermann gave his estate under the title From the poetic estate of Ernst Wilhelm Ackermann. With a foreword by Ernst Raupach . Published by the father of the eternal. Out in 1848.

In 1851 he published the two-volume historical novel The Last Montmorency about the person of Duke Henri II. De Montmorency , who was settled at the time of the Huguenots, but who received no outstanding praise in the literary criticism of the time.

Ackermann died in the asylum Schloss Sonnenstein in Saxony.

Fonts

  • Notifications about the public library in Lübeck , 2 deliveries, Lübeck: Borchers 1835–1840.
  • List of excellent copper engravings, etchings and other works of art that are particularly important for the history of art from the beginning of copperplate engraving to the present day: in carefully selected copies along with engraving and engraving. other newer splendid works, some drawings, etc. colorful leaves & Books belonging to art history , Rattgens, 1844
  • The portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kniller in relation to the art education of his time. Leipzig 1845 ( digitized version of the MDZ )
  • The last Montmorency. 2 volumes. G. Wigand, Leipzig 1851. ( Digitized: Volume 1 , Digitized: Volume 2 ).
  • Catalog of the most carefully selected and valuable collection of the oldest, older and more recent copper engravings, etchings and other art sheets from the most important books belonging to art history and some other art objects. Wilhelm August Ackermann, Rudolph Weigel. Dresden 1853. (art auction catalog)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm August Ackermann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Father Wilhelm August A. in the parish book of Saxony .
  2. ^ Christian Gottlob Flade: Dem ... Wilhelm August Ackermann pastor of Burkersdorf on the day of his connection with Dorothea Christiana Friedericke Grünlerin. Leipzig 1792. ( digitized version of the SLUB )
  3. ↑ Lübeckischer Staats-Kalender to the year 1847. Lübeck, p. 56. ( Preview in the Google book search, accessed on May 19, 2013)
  4. ↑ Review in: Blätter für literary entertainment , 1851, No. 120, pp. 913f. , accessed May 19, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Wilhelm August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, librarian and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Burkersdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1865
Place of death Pirna , Saxony