Wilhelm Olshausen

Wilhelm Olshausen (born May 22, 1798 in Oldesloe ; † November 5, 1835 in Schleswig ) was a German educator, author and headmaster.

Life

Wilhelm Olshausen was the second son of the superintendent Detlev Olshausen . Hermann Olshausen , Theodor Olshausen and Justus Olshausen are his brothers. He first attended the scholars' school in Glückstadt and in 1814 moved to the Christianeum in Altona. From 1816 he studied theology and philology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and then at the new Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the Kiel fraternity . Together with Carl Friedrich Heiberg , he wrote poems for the Wartburg Festival (1817). At the end of his studies he turned completely to philology. In the Kiel Philological Seminar under Karl Friedrich Heinrich , two of his works were awarded the Schassian scholarship . After working as a private tutor for District Administrator Ernst Carl von Ahlefeldt at Gut Olpenitz , he became Vice-Rector of the Cathedral School in Schleswig in 1821 and its Rector on April 28, 1835, but died that year at the age of 37.

Fonts

• Ciceronis de officiis, cum brevi notatione critica , 1823
• Ciceronis de oratore , 1825, school editions.
• Essays by him appeared in Seebode's critical library in 1825 and 1827 and the school programs of the Schleswig Cathedral School:
  • Lectionum Theocritearum particula , 1826
  • Ex familiari interpretatione Antigones , 1828
  • Apophoreta Euripidea . 1832
• He edited the 4th edition (1827) of his father's guide to the first lessons in geography .

literature

• Wilhelm Olshausen in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 13, Part 2, 1837, pp. 946 ff. No. 280
• Carsten Erich Carstens :  Olshausen, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 338 f.  

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Nissen : A hiking trip to the first Wartburg Festival. The diary of the Kiel fraternity, Wilhelm Olshausen, from 1817. In: Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , Volume 2: Men and times of the Vormärz ( contributions to understanding the German unity movement in the 19th century ), ed. by Paul Wentzcke , Heidelberg 1959, pp. 67-100.
2. ↑ And say the true and the right aloud in FAZ of October 12, 2017, pages R1 and R2
3. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 274.
4. ↑ The Schassianum was a willful foundation set up in 1675 by the Dutchman Samuel Schaß, an alumnus of Kiel University. It was topped up with funds from the legacy of the Privy Councilor Johann Adolph Kielmann von Kielmannsegg ; Rudolf Usinger : The Schassianum , Kiel 1873