Gustav Wustmann

Gustav Moritz Wustmann (* May 23, 1844 in Dresden, † December 22, 1910 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist, voice nurse and historian. He is the father of the musicologist and cultural historian Rudolf Wustmann ( 1872-1916 ).

Life

Gustav Wustmann, son of an official, visited by the garrison Free School from 1854 to 1862 the Cross School in Dresden. Afterwards he moved to Leipzig, where he studied classical philology at the university by the year 1866 and obtained his doctorate with a thesis on the Greek painter Apelles. Immediately after passing the state exam Wustmann first worked briefly as a sample and a substitute teacher at the Thomas School, before he was even added in the same year as a full-fledged high school teacher at the St. Nicholas School.

In 1881 he left the Nikolai school as head teacher to take over the management of the Leipzig Council Archives and the local public library as of October 1. In the municipal library Wustmann was an honorary capacity as Secretary since 1871; a first application in the municipal archives, in which he suggested a scientific supervision of the archive, in 1876 still refused. In 1882 he also took over for nine years the chair of the Association for the History of Leipzig. Until his death after a serious intestinal surgery Gustav Wustmann headed both the archive and the municipal library of Leipzig.

Gustav Wustmann married in 1870 Marie Aumüller and had with her four sons and a daughter. The family lived in a house in the Gohliser Schillerweg.

Work

After Gustav Wustmann already since 1879 as an employee of the magazine The Grenzboten. Journal of politics, literature and art joined with contributions in appearance, in which he criticized the linguistic style of German newspapers, he published in 1891 Allerhand language stupidities. Small German grammar of Doubtful, of falsity and the ugly. The book was published in numerous editions gained high visibility.

In his time as head of the Leipzig City Archives and the Municipal Library Wustmann published numerous science-based, but easy to read books and essays on the history of the city. As for the quality of its regional and town historical writings include the publications generally recognized to the basic sources for the history of Leipzig and the surrounding area.

Publications (selection)

• Contributions to the history of painting in Leipzig from XV. to the XVII. Century. Seemann, Leipzig, 1879.
• From Leipzig's past. Collected Essays. 3 vols Grunow, Leipzig from 1885 to 1909.
• As the grandfather the grandmother took. A songbook for old-fashioned people. Grunow, Leipzig 1886 -. Republishing as an island Paperback No. 903, edited by Anton Kippenberg and Michael Friedrich, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-32603-0.
• Sources for the history of Leipzig. Publications from the archive and the library of the city of Leipzig. 2 vols Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig from 1889 to 1895.
• Leipzig by three centuries. An Atlas of Leipzig city image in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891.
• All sorts of nonsense language. Small German grammar of Doubtful, of falsity and the ugly. An auxiliary book for all who use public of the German language. Grunow, Leipzig 1891 ( more, each improved and increased requirements during his lifetime: 2nd edition 1896, 3rd edition 1903, 4th edition 1908). - Reprint of the 3rd edition: Kessinger, Whitefish MT 2008, ISBN 978-1-4367-6436-0.
• Picture book of the history of the city of Leipzig for old and young. Zieger, Leipzig 1897.
• History of the city of Leipzig. Vol 1 Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1905.