Hermann Iseke

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Dr. Hermann Iseke (b. March 9, 1856 in Holungen, d. January 14, 1907 of malaria in South West Africa, now Namibia) was a German doctor.

[edit] Biography

He was born on March 9, 1856 in Holungen, where he attended the elementary school at that time. His first Latin instruction it from the Kaplan at that time Andreas Raabe received, to a well-known language researcher. From 1867 to 1873 he attended a gymnasium in Heiligenstadt and Mühlhausen where in 1874, he was successfully put down. Subsequently, he began studying jurisprudence at the Universities of Würzburg (1873-74), Leipzig (1874-75), Göttingen (1876-78) and Greifswald (1878). Here, he made the first legal state examination, attained a doctorate in Jena to the Dr. jur. and worked as a junior lawyer in Duderstadt and Künzelsau. In that time, he looked internally for a new life, went after cathedrals and studied philosophy and Germanistik (1879-1880). In 1880, he attended Freiburg, Breslau, now Wrocław and Münster for theology.

In 1892, he announced himself for the military welfare service. As a military minister, he worked in the garrisons of Metz, Hanover and Mühlhausen and in Alsace, later went to a punitive expedition to China from 1900 to 1902, and then he visited the western states of North America, later, he worked again as to military ministers in Kassel and Saarbrücken before 1905, in 1907he went to the Southern Africa area. The unhealthy climate, strained large and the hard work made for him otherwise so strong man much to create. Dr. Hermann Iseke died on January 14, 1907 in southwest Africa, present-day Namibia of malaria. His body was transferred in the summer 1907 into his hometown, Holungen.

Dr. Hermann Iseke did not only work Seelsorger, but also as a poet over the borders of his homeland admitted to became. These seals brought his honour title: Dichter des Eichsfeldes = poets of Eichsfeld. Probably in the year 1902, he wrote in Eichsfeld admitted Eichsfelder Sang, but this was not his only work. Beside many smaller poems it brought also still two larger documents out (Der lieben heiligen Elisabeth won Thüringen and under the pseudonym Bernadus Amerikanus out of Eichsfeld in history and legend").

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The city of Heiligenstadt designated a road after himself, in his place of birth, Holungen is honoured Gedenkstein was established and the association for local history carries his name, the Dr. Hermann Iseke Holungen.