Wilhelm Bötticher (pedagogue)

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Bötticher (born June 6, 1798 in Wormsdorf , † April 6, 1850 in Berlin ) was a German teacher and historian .

Life

He was the son of Christian Friedrich Gotthilf Boetticher, Protestant pastor in Wormsdorf, his brother was the Protestant pastor Heinrich Adolph Boetticher (1804-1853). He attended school in Helmstedt and a grammar school in Berlin, and from 1816 studied philology and theology at the universities of Berlin and Halle .

In 1820 Bötticher became a teacher at the pedagogy in Halle , in 1824 a senior teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin. He then held this position until his death on April 6, 1850.

His son is the cultural philosopher and orientalist Paul de Lagarde (originally Paul Anton Bötticher).

Publications

  • History of the Carthaginians (1827)
  • Lexicon Taciteum (1830)
  • Prophetic Voices from Rome or the Christian in Tacitus (1840; two volumes)
  • Luther's prophetic testimony against the despisers of the divine word in the Protestant and Catholic Church in Germany (1845)
  • Bright spots through the chiaroscuro of the Protestant church of the 19th century (1846)
  • The Future of Israel and Christianity (1848)

Life