Wilhelm Butte

Wilhelm Butte (born September 16, 1772 in Treis an der Lumda , † 1833 in Berlin ) was a teacher, prince educator , pastor and professor of statistics and political science as well as a royal Prussian government councilor.

Life

Wilhelm Butte was the son of pastor Johannes Martin Gottfried Butte. From 1790 to 1792 he studied theology at the Ludwig University of Giessen . From 1792 he was a high school professor at the pedagogy in Giessen. In 1794 he became councilor and prince educator at the landgrave's court in Darmstadt .

From 1796 to 1804 Butte held the pastorate in Berstadt . There he wrote the "Statistically = politically and cosmopolitan Blikke in the Hessen-Darmstädtische Lande". In Berstadt he married Karoline Maria Henriette Rumpf, the daughter of the Oberkleen pastor Eberhard Rumpf. The couple had two daughters and a son here. However, there was considerable strife with some of the villagers. Eleven years after his death there were still disputes over some property matters allegedly to the detriment of the parish. Especially his "statistical = political and cosmopolitan views" aroused considerable displeasure because of their criticism of the way of life of the Wetterau population.

From 1804 he worked as a private lecturer and did his doctorate in Gießen under August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome in camera studies . Crome wrote about Butte in 1822 “The author was then a preacher in Berstadt in the Wetterau, but wrote too frankly not to be misunderstood or persecuted. And yet his work is as instructive as it is rich, and contains so many dear truths which, however, many local readers did not like because the medicine seemed too bitter, however much the author made it through a vivid (though somewhat cumbersome and extensive) presentation Wanted to make it pleasant. "

Butte was appointed professor of statistics and political science at the University of Landshut in 1807 . He was considered a supporter of Gottfried Achenwall . After all, he worked as a royal. prussia. Government councilor in Cologne until around 1827. The departure from Bonn was "involuntary," as he himself wrote. In implementing Hardenberg's Prussian reforms , he lost his job, but not his salaries. He moved to Bonn and tried to take up teaching at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , which was only founded in 1818 . In 1833 he moved to Berlin , where he died that same year.

personality

Pastor Friedrich Ludwig Textor from Romrod criticized the worldly dressing Butte in his “Characteristics of the most famous Hessen-Darmstadt theologians who are now alive”: “For the sake of peace and sometimes also for the sake of a good cause, we would like Mr. Butte, for whom we Really respectful, give the friendly advice to give in more to convenience, and let us guess less from his way of dressing: whether he belongs to our or to a heterogeneous order. ”The General German Library says about Butte : "A thoughtful and knowledgeable writer who, however, is almost inedible due to his sterile speculation and metaphysical understanding of the state of affairs."

Works

• Statistical-political and cosmopolitan views of the Hessen-Darmstädtische Lande. Giessen 1804.
• Attempt to found a finite and entirely new system of so-called police science, Part 1. Landshut 1807.
• Working on statistics as a science. Landshut 1808.
• Draft of his systematic teaching course on the basis of his general table: a contribution to the architectonics of pure political science (separated from camera and law). Landshut 1808
• Comments and suggestions on the public record of the moments of human life: with particular reference to the Napoleonic registers of civil status. 1810
• Basics of the arithmetic of human life, together with waving for their application to geography, state and natural science, together with IX tables, Landshut 1811.
• Prolégomènes de l'arithmétique de la vie humaine, contenant la classification générale des talens, l'échelle des âges de l'homme, et une formule d'evaluation de toutes les situations geographiques; d'après un même système. Paris 1812.
• Political consideration of the great advantages which the devastation of Europe, which began in France, can and should grant in the better future. Leipzig 1814.
• Ideas about the political equilibrium of Europe with special regard to the current situation. Leipzig 1814 (published together with Adam Friedrich Baumgärtner).
• Remembering my German compatriots who should be tempted to migrate from Europe. Cologne 1816.
• Provincial sheets for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalia (Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine, Duchy of Jülich, Cleve, Berg, Province of Westphalia) 1st vol., Cologne 1817.
• The biotomy of man; or, The science of the natural divisions of life as a man, as a man and as a woman according to its ascending and descending lines, its periods, epochs, stages and years, in their normal = continuance and in their alternations. Bonn 1829
• Wilhelm Butte, Dr. Buttes, general scientific views, with special reference to political and camera science in their newest condition, which can still be improved in many ways. At the same time, the invitation letter to the lectures which the author intends to hold at the University of Bonn on his attempt to return to the academic teaching position. Bonn 1827.
• The Polish-Russian affair, under the face points of quicker, more definitive, at the same time worthy of the European state intelligentsia: regardless of even longer resistance, or an early external defeat of the Poles: a supplement to his war question / by Wilhelm Butte . Leipzig 1831.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Petra Stöppler, Walter Stoll, family book of the evangelical parish Berstadt. = Deutsche Ortssippenbücher vol. 694. ISBN 978-3-86424-064-5 , p. 41.
2. ↑ Eugen Riess, Willy Roth, Berstadt. People and history. Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of modern times. Rockenberg 2005. ISBN 3-92-3907-08-7 , pp. 231 f.
3. ↑ August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome, Handbook of Statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in State Economics, edited from the best, mostly handwritten sources, Part 1: which contains the material state forces, Darmstadt 1822, p. 242, footnote.
4. ↑ During his time in Landshut cf. Wilhelm Butte, Dr. Buttes, general scientific views, with special reference to political and camera science in their newest condition, which can still be improved in many ways. At the same time, the invitation letter to the lectures which the author intends to hold at the University of Bonn on his attempt to return to the academic teaching position. Bonn 1827, p. 5 f.
5. ^ Wilhelm Butte, General Science Views, Preface, p. IV.
6. ^ Wilhelm Diehl , Hessen-Darmstädtisches Pfarrer- und Schulmeisterbuch. = Hassia Sacra Vol. 1. Friedberg 1921, p. 300.
7. ↑ Friedrich Ludwig Textor, characteristic of the most famous Hessen-Darmstadt theologians now living. With regard to their moral and excellent scientific culture. 1801. cit. after Wilhelm Diehl, church authorities and church servants and church authorities in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt from the Reformation to the beginning of the 19th century. = Hassia sacra vol. 2; 1925, p. 426.
8. ^ Theodor Inama von Sternegg :  Butte, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 654.