Heinrich Schecker
Heinrich Schecker (German: [ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈʃɛkɐ]; 10 February 1891, Sondershausen – 27 March 1944, Meseritz) was a German educator and cultural historian.
Biography
Schecker was born in Sondershausen. His father was a postmaster and he attended gymnasium in his birth city. He studied languages and history, along with Theology and Philosophy, at Leipzig University and a university in Berlin. He served as an artilleryman during World War I and became a lieutenant of the Imperial German Army. Between 1919 and 1920, he was a trainee teacher back in his hometown, Sondershausen. He received his doctorate from Leipzig University, as he also mastered Hebrew, Greek, and other languages.
He later moved to Bremen in 1922 and became a teacher at an institution that later became Altes Gymnasium. Schecker later became the deputy schoolmaster of the educational institution he served in. As a historian, he published writings and books on people from the Baroque period, particularly on Joachim Neander, Melchior Goldast, and medical doctors of that time.
Bibliography
- Das Konvoyschiff „Das Wappen von Bremen“. from Bremisches Jahrbuch, Volume 31, Bremen 1928.
- Joachim Neander, 1924
- Melchior Goldast, 1930
- Bremer Barock in Wissenschaft und Dichtung. from Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, 1935, page 80
Literature
- Herbert Schwarzwälder's Das Große Bremen-Lexikon. Volume 2. (updated, revised, and expanded edition). Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X.
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