Wilhelm Jakob Wippel

Wilhelm Jakob Wippel (often also Jacob ; born September 3, 1760 in Berlin ; † November 2, 1834 there ) was a German educator and librarian .

Life

Wippel was the son of the rector of the Berlin grammar school for the gray monastery Johann Jakob Wippel. After his father died early, his mother was unable to raise the funds for an adequate school education. His sister, who had married the principal of the Latin school in Neuruppin , took him in and made it possible for him to attend school. In 1769 he returned to Berlin. There he graduated from the Gray Monastery high school until 1782. This was followed by a study of theology at the University of Halle until 1784 . However, at that time he had already made the decision to practice the teaching profession.

Wippel was appointed rector of the Berlin Garrison School on August 3, 1784 by the governor of Berlin General Wichard von Möllendorff . In preparation for this position he attended the model school in Reckahn and the garrison school in Potsdam. He then fundamentally reformed the Berlin Garrison School. The regulations he drafted were maintained until the school was closed in 1849 and received attention beyond the school.

In 1785, Wippel received a senior teaching position at the Neue Kadettenanstalt in Berlin in addition to his position as rector . In 1789 he was appointed professor of fine literature and the arts. He gave up the post of rector of the garrison school in 1792. In 1810 he was appointed archivist at the cadet institute. When he resigned his professorship on September 21, 1819, he took over the management of the institution's library. On August 3, 1834, he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of service, shortly afterwards, on November 2, 1734, he died after a brief serious illness.

Works (selection)

• About the foundation of the Berlin Garrison School and the changes that have taken place with the school , Berlin 1785.
• Reader for the Berlin garrison school , Berlin 1789.
• Primer with woodcuts , Unger, Berlin 1790.
• The orders of knights: a tabular, chronological, literary, historical directory of all secular orders of knights , 2 volumes, Schade, Berlin 1817-1819. ( Digitized version )

literature

• Wippel, Wilhelm Jacob . In: Directory of writers living in Berlin in 2825 and their works , Dümmler, Berlin 1826, pp. 299–302.
• Wilhelm Jakob Wippel . In: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , Halle and Leipzig 1835, Col. 27 f.
• Wilhelm Jacob Wippel . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 12th year 1834, 2 part, Weimar 1836, pp. 958–961.
• Friedrich Wienecke:  Wippel, Wilhelm Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 107 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Wilhelm Jakob Wippel  in the German Digital Library