Wilhelm Friedrich Volger
Wilhelm Friedrich Volger (born March 31, 1794 in Neetze ; † March 6, 1879 Lüneburg ) was a German school rector , educator and historian of the city of Lüneburg.
Life
Volger was orphaned at the age of three and was raised by relatives in Lüneburg. After visiting the Johanneum Lüneburg , he first studied theology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1812 , later philology with the subjects geography and history. He became a member of the Corps Hannovera . In 1815 he graduated with a PhD. phil. and received his first position at his old school in Lüneburg, where he became subconstructor after two years and rector after another 13 years. He held this post until his retirement as a teacher.
In 1834, under his leadership, the Realgymnasium was established as a branch of the Johanneum as a supplement to the Latin school . From then on, his primary interest as a schoolboy was in these real classes. He wrote several school books in his subjects, which were also repeatedly published. This included a world history as well as the history of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg or thematic treatises on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg and its citizens.
After his school service he was retired as the city librarian and city archivist of the city of Lüneburg. Between the ages of 75 and 83, he edited, among other publications, the document book of the city of Lüneburg with over 1,500 documents.
From 1828 to 1873 Volger was consistently master of the chair at the Lüneburg Freemason Lodge Selene founded by Adolf von Spörcken .
His son was the geologist Otto Volger .
Works
Lüneburgensien
- The strangest incidents in Lüneburg during the years 1813 and 1814 Lüneburg 1839, from Stern'sche Buchdruckerei
- The origin and the oldest state of the city of Lüneburg Lüneburg 1861, Herold und Wahlstab Buchhandlung
- The patricians of the city of Lüneburg Lüneburg 1863, Herold and Wahlstab bookstore
- Document book of the city of Lüneburg 3 volumes 1872 - 1877, Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung Hannover
- The Lüneburg Sülze Lüneburg 1956, Hoppe and Co.
- Lueneburg leaves. Lüneburg, reprint 1986. With an afterword by Gerhard Körner. Reprint of the 22 articles written by Volger between 1855 and 1866 and published in an informal sequence on various aspects of Lüneburg's urban and cultural history
Teaching works
- Guidelines for the first lessons in regional and ethnology for grammar schools and community schools in Hanover 1st edition 1821, Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung
- Handbook of Geography Hanover 1st edition 1828, Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung
- Comparative presentation of the old, middle and new geography: a textbook for the upper classes of high school. Hanover 2nd edition 1837, Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung
- Instructions for country and ethnology. For citizens and country schools as well as for self-teaching Hanover 1st edition 1829, Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung
- Guide to teaching the Hanoverian Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte Hanover 1st edition 1859, Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung
literature
- Heinrich Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera (1809-1899) , Göttingen 2002, p. 63, no. 148
- Carl Kühns: History of the Johanneum Realschule. In: Program of the Johanneum zu Lüneburg to celebrate the fifty years of office of the director Dr. Wilhelm Friedrich Volger on October 12, 1865 , Lüneburg digitized
- Friedrich Ratzel: Volger, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 404.
- Adolf Brebbermann: Lüneburger Nachrichten, collected by Wilhelm Friedrich Volger In: Lüneburger Blätter 1978 , self-published by the Museumsverein Lüneburg, pages 7-109
- Arnold Grunwald: History of the Lodge zu Lüneburg from 1775-2000 , Norderstedt 2001 Books on Demand
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Friedrich Volger in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Volger, Wilhelm Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Volger, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator, headmaster and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nets |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1879 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |