147 - Liber amicorum - Silesia

Liber amicorum - Silesia Johann Gottlieb Kirchner's family register with a watercolor title page, 96 entries from teachers, seminarians and adjuvants of the Wroclaw teachers' seminaries, 14 watercolor drawings and 1 folded copperplate engraving. Copper engraving. Mostly Wroclaw and Malkwitz, 1795-1837. landscape 8°. Central hardcover with gilt edges, gilt embossed borders with corner fleurons and blind embossed ownership note on recto and dated 1796 on verso (block detached from binding, rubbed, bumped, some cracks to front joint) in a cardboard slipcase (strong signs of wear). Very rare document on the Wroclaw school system. - Contains numerous entries by participants in the Breslau teachers' seminaries, where elementary school teachers were trained on behalf of the Prussian state in the course of the Prussian school reform at the end of the 18th century. The initiator and sponsor of this program was the Königl. The initiator and patron is the Royal Prussian Ober-Consistorial-Rath of the Breslau Protestant Churches, David Gottfried Gerhard (1734-1809), who founded a schoolmaster and teacher seminar around 1780 and is also represented in this family register together with his copperplate portrait. - "Memorial to highly esteemed teachers, patrons and friends" with entries by: Carl Gottlieb Back (Cand. Philos.), Johann Heinrich Baumgarth (school teacher in Hohwelze Grünberg, currently a seminarian), Gottfried Biewald (pleasure gardener), Andr. Gottl. Fenzel (pastor, 2nd inspector of the Kgl. Landschule), Fiebig (teacher at the Kgl. Stadtschulseminar), C.G. Herrmann (Cantor St. Elisabeth), Ernst Wilhelm Leopold von Heydebrand, Carl Hofmann (teacher), C.F. Hindemith, C. Hütter (teacher), Oheim H.J.T. Kirchner, niece Louise Wilhelmine Pauline Kirchner, Johann Christian Kleemann (teacher), J. Koennecke (administrator), Johann Gottlieb Mauer (seminarian born in Süßenbach near Löwenberg), Gottfried Mogwitz, Johann Gottfried Reimann (Diaconus St. Elisabeth, teacher at the Kgl. Landschule Seminar), Johann George Friedrich Scholze (midday preacher and rector in Reichenstein), Sylvius Wolf (pupil), Charlotte and Constantin von Triebel. Including entries from Herrmannsdorf, Kammelwitz (1810/1811), Koberwitz, Groß Peterwitz, Powitzko, Sadewitz, Schalkau, Groß Schottgau. - With entry of the surviving sons Johann Gottlieb (Malkwitz) and Carl Friedrich Kirchner (Romolkwitz) to the memorial of their deceased parents. According to this, the father Johann Gottlieb (1749-1812) was a school teacher in Schmellwitz. His mother was Barbara Elisabeth, née Hofmann (1742-1812). - A further memorial dedicated by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner and his heirs on the occasion of his brother's death in 1831 - The drawings mostly with views (churchyards of Illnisch and Malkwitz). - Single pp. missing, mostly fingerstained, partly creased, otherwise generally well-preserved. Silesia - Liber amicorum of Johann Gottlieb Kirchner with a watercolour-illustrated title page, 96 entries including those by teachers, seminarians and assistants at the Breslau teacher training colleges, 14 watercolour drawings and 1 folded copperplate engraving. Mostly Breslau and Malkwitz, 1795-1837. Contemp. leather with gilt edges, gilt-stamped border with corner fleurons, and blind-stamped owner's mark on the front and date 1796 on the back (block detached from the binding, rubbed, bumped, top joint partially split) in contemp. cardboard slipcase (heavy signs of wear). - A very rare document on the Breslau school system. - Contains numerous entries by participants in the Breslau Teachers' Seminary, where, at the end of the 18th century, primary school teachers were trained on behalf of the Prussian state as part of the Prussian school reform. The Royal Prussian Senior Consistorial Councillor of the Breslau Protestant Churches, David Gottfried Gerhard (1734-1809), is regarded as the initiator and patron. He founded a schoolmaster's or teacher training college around 1780 and is also represented in this autograph book, along with his copperplate portrait. - With entries by: Carl Gottlieb Back (Cand. Philos.), Johann Heinrich Baumgarth (schoolteacher in Hohwelze Grünberg, currently a seminarian), Gottfried Biewald (horticulturist), Andr. Gottl. Fenzel (pastor, 2nd inspector of the Royal Rural School), Fiebig (teacher at the Royal City School Seminary), C.G. Herrmann (cantor at St. Elisabeth), Ernst Wilhelm Leopold von Heydebrand, Carl Hofmann (teacher), C.F. Hindemith, C. Hütter (teacher), uncle H.J.T. Kirchner, niece Louise Wilhelmine Pauline Kirchner, Johann Christian Kleemann (teacher), J. Koennecke (administrator), Johann Gottlieb Mauer (seminarian, born in Süßenbach near Löwenberg), Gottfried Mogwitz, Johann Gottfried Reimann (deacon at St. Elisabeth, teacher at the Royal Rural School Seminar), Johann George Friedrich Scholze (afternoon preacher and headmaster in Reichenstein), Sylvius Wolf (pupil), Charlotte and Constantin von Triebel. Among these are entries from Herrmannsdorf, Kammelwitz (1810/1811), Koberwitz, Groß Peterwitz, Powitzko, Sadewitz, Schalkau, Groß Schottgau. - With an entry