You are bidding on one letter of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Neustrelitz consistory from 1866.
Signed by hand from the court preacher and superintendent Hermann Leberecht Ohl (1806-1885).
Dated Neustrelitz, 12. December 1866.
Aimed at the Ratzeburg cathedral provost Johannes Rußwurm (1814-1890).
Regards Sending documents "concerning this Infirmary in Schwanbeck" (these themselves no longer exist).
Signed "HL Ohl."
Sent by post(as an official matter); with a large paper-covered seal above the address field.
Scope: a text page (32.3 x 20.3 cm) and a trimmed address page.
Condition: paper browned and slightly stained; with minor creases. Please also note the pictures!
Internal note: Solar2207 folder H Team11
About Hermann Leberecht Ohl and the recipient (source: wikipedia):
Hermann Leberecht Ohl (*26. October 1806 in Breslau; † 28. October 1885 in Neustrelitz) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, court preacher at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and superintendent in Neustrelitz.
Life: Ohl was a son of the Catholic merchant Carl August Ohl († 1825) and his Protestant wife Christine Dorothea, née. Gerloff († 1835). He attended the Elisabet-Gymnasium, where he became an enthusiastic supporter of gymnastics, which was still young at the time. Under the direction of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, he took part in a gymnastics trip to the Giant Mountains and hiked with friends to Dresden. At Easter 1825 he began studying Protestant theology at the University of Breslau and moved to the University of Berlin the following year. In Berlin, Friedrich Schleiermacher became his theological teacher, and Ohl temporarily taught one of Schleiermacher's sons as a private tutor. After his exams, he went on several long trips.
In 1831 he came to Neustrelitz as an assistant preacher. He soon gained the trust of the grand ducal house, taught Princess Luise (1818–1842) in 1833 and taught and confirmed the other grand ducal children: the Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm (1819–1904), Duchess Caroline (1821–1876) and Duke Georg (1824 –1876). In 1841 he was appointed prepositus in Stargard. Three years later, in October 1844, he returned to Neustrelitz as city preacher and consistorial councilor. In 1848 he was appointed court preacher and superintendent of the Stargard state. On his 25th anniversary in office, the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1856. On his 50th anniversary in office in 1881 he was appointed senior court preacher and consistory president.
One of the most important achievements of his term of office was the introduction of a new hymn book and a new state catechism, the regional edition of Martin Luther's Small Catechism used in all schools in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The construction and inauguration of the castle church in Neustrelitz also took place during his term of office.
Since the 25th In May 1832 he was married to Wilhelmine, née. Gerling (* 15. January 1810; † 10. June 1886), a pastor's daughter from Ballwitz. The couple had two sons and two daughters: Hermann, provost in Ratzeburg; Anna, who married Chamber Secretary Hofrat Paul Horn in Neustrelitz in 1864 and became the mother of Ohl's second successor, Karl Horn; Robert, who was a merchant in Dresden; and Marie, who married the theology professor Theodor Zahn in 1871.
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Speech for the confirmation of Sr. Royal Highness of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 1836
Speech for Confirmation Sr. Highness of Duke George of Mecklenburg. 1840
Let's celebrate Easter: Farewell sermon on the first day of Easter 1841 in the town and castle church in Neustrelitz. Neustrelitz: Dümmler 1841
Speech at the inauguration of the rescue center in Rattey. 1851
Speech at the unveiling of the statue of Sr. Royal Highness of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 1866
The new hymn book for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 1875
Johannes Rußwurm (*3. September 1814 in Domhof Ratzeburg[1]; † 20. November 1890 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral.
Life: Johannes Rußwurm came from a family of theologians and educators. At the time of his birth, his father Johann Georg Rußwurm (1781–1848) was the rector of the cathedral school at Ratzeburg Cathedral and later a pastor in Selmsdorf; his uncle Johann Wilhelm Bartholomäus Rußwurm was a pastor in Herrnburg. His older brother Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rußwurm (1812–1883) later went to Estonia and was an educator, ethnologist and historian.
He attended the cathedral school in Ratzeburg and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen from 1834 to 1837. He then took a trip to Switzerland and the Rhine. After passing his exams, he became a tutor in the von Bernstorff family in Gartow in 1838. In 1841 he came to the Herrnburg village church as an adjunct to his uncle Johann Wilhelm Bartholomäus Rußwurm and took over the pastorate after his death in 1855.
In 1859 he was appointed provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral, where he remained until his death. In 1884 he received the title of consistorial councilor.
From 1882 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity.
A posthumous portrait of Rußwurm by Mathilde Block (1892) is in the cathedral.
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(posthumous) Historical development of the elementary school system in the Principality of Ratzeburg. In: Announcements from the Society for German Education and School History. 14 (1904), pp. 101–126