Wilhelm Deecke (Linguist)

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Wilhelm Deecke around 1890

Ernst Georg Wilhelm Deecke (born April 1, 1831 in Lübeck , † January 2, 1897 in Strasbourg ) was a German teacher and linguist and was one of the most famous Etruscologists of his time.

Life

Wilhelm Deecke visited the Lübeck Katharineum , where his father Ernst Deecke was a teacher. After studying philology in Leipzig and Berlin , he was director of the Ernestinenschule , a secondary school for girls in Lübeck, from 1855 to 1870 . He was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate and from 1870 was senior teacher in Elberfeld , 1871 vice rector of the Lyceum in Strasbourg, which he took over in 1879. Because of a dispute with the superior authority and the governor Edwin von Manteuffel about school policy (Deecke was against denominational schools) he was forcibly transferred to the grammar school in Buchsweiler in 1884 as headmaster . In 1889 he became director of the grammar school in Mulhouse . Albert Schweitzer , known as the “Jungle Doctor of Lambarene”, was his pupil in Prima .

Deecke was scientifically active in the field of German and classical philology, but above all he researched the ancient Cypriot inscriptions and the Etruscan language .

Since joining the Lübeck Lodge Zum Füllhorn in 1850, which was headed by his father, Deecke was active as a Freemason . In 1873 he was one of the founders of the Strasbourg lodge to the faithful heart and until 1879 its master of the chair . At the national level, he was a member of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany .

Wilhelm Deecke was married to Therese Struve (1844–1916). They had three children. The oldest son was the geologist Wilhelm Deecke . Therese Deecke left memoirs, parts of which have been published.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Näcke (Ed.): Festschrift for the hundred and fifty years of existence of the Ernestin School 1804-1954 , Lübeck 1954, pp. 42–43.
  2. ^ Theodor Maurer: On the case of Deecke, open letter from a German high school teacher to the gene. Field Marshal Frhr. von Manteuffel , J. Diemer, Mainz 1884.
  3. ↑ Albert Schweitzer: From my life and thinking , Richard Meiner, Hamburg, 1956, p. 9. and Albert Schweitzer, From my childhood and youth , CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich (Copyright 1924), 1951, 88 to 93. Thousand, page 46.
  4. ↑ From "Memories for my children and grandchildren" , in: Society for the promotion of charitable activities (ed.): The car 1961. A Lübeck yearbook. , Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck, 1961, page 149ff
personal data
SURNAME Deecke, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deecke, Ernst Georg Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and linguist (etrusologist)
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1897
Place of death Strasbourg