Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann
Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann (born June 25, 1789 in Auerbach / Vogtl. , † March 27, 1848 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German educator. During the Wars of Independence in 1813 he served as a volunteer in the Lützow Freikorps .
Life
Ackermann was the son of a pastor and attended high school in Gotha . In 1807 he began to study theology in Leipzig . At the same time, through the mediation of his uncle Rudolph Ackermann, who lived in London , he became tutor for some young Englishmen. This made him feel called to be a teacher and studied with Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi for two years from 1811 to 1813 .
In 1813 he joined the Lützow Freikorps as a volunteer and took part in all battles of the corps up to the entry into Paris. In the fight on the Göhrde he captured a cannon on September 16, 1813 and was then awarded the Iron Cross . One of his friends was Theodor Körner , who fell on August 26, 1813 and whose grave he and three comrades dug under an oak tree in Wöbbelin .
After the war he resumed teaching in various places, including again at Pestalozzi in Yverdon-les-Bains . In 1819 he came to Frankfurt am Main and in 1820 became a teacher of German and history at the Musterschule , where he stayed until his retirement at the end of 1847.
Ackermann died on March 27, 1848. His grave is in the Frankfurt main cemetery (Gewann E 69) and is an honorary grave . A street and a primary school in Frankfurt-Gallus are named after Ackermann .
Works
- Memories from my life with Pestalozzi, communicated on January 12, 1846 at the centenary of his birth in Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main, Jäger, 1846.
- Memories of a Lützow hunter from the Lüneburger Haide in: Memories from the Wars of Freedom, 1813 and 1814 , Part 1, Frankfurt am Main, Hermann, 1847.
- The siblings under the oak near Wöbbelin in: Memories from the Wars of Freedom, 1813 and 1814 , Part 1, Frankfurt am Main, Hermann, 1847.
literature
- Repeat: Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 35 f.
- Richard Freytag: Notes from the Auerbacher city child Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann about his participation in the war campaign of the Lützowers, on this remarks by Richard Freytag in: Auerbacher Zeitung, Jg. 1911, No. 190, 192, 196, 248
- Georg Karl Barth: The Lützower and Pestalozzian WH Ackermann from Auerbach i. V. Leipzig and Berlin 1913.
- Josef dagger: Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 36 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Biography on epoch Napoleon
- Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich. Hessian biography. (As of January 12, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich in the Frankfurt dictionary of persons
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guide to the graves of well-known personalities in Frankfurt cemeteries . Frankfurt am Main 1985, p. 23
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and freedom fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auerbach / Vogtl. |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1848 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |