Dr. Hermann Iseke (9 March 1856 in
Holungen
Holungen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the municipality Sonnenstein,Province of Saxony
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It was formed by the merge ...
– 14 January 1907 in
South West Africa, now
Namibia) was a German
minister
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* Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric
** Minister (Catholic Church)
* Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department)
** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...
in military service.
Education
He was born on 9 March 1856 in Holungen, in the
Prussian Province of Saxony
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It was formed by the merge ...
, where he attended the elementary school at that time. He received his first
Latin instruction from the Kaplan (chaplain) at that time
Andreas Raabe, a well-known language researcher. From 1867 to 1873 he attended a gymnasium in
Heiligenstadt and
Mühlhausen
Mühlhausen () is a city in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen.
Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and bec ...
where in 1874, he successfully passed out. 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
Duderstadt () is a city in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Göttingen.
It is the center and capital of the northern part of the Eichsfeld ("Untereichsfeld"). In earlier times it was the private wealth of the Roman Cat ...
and
Künzelsau
Künzelsau (; East Franconian: ''Kinzelse'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, in south central Germany. It is the capital of the Hohenlohe district. It is located on the river Kocher, 19 km (12 mi) north of Schwäbisch Hall, and 37& ...
. He then decided upon a change of direction, went to
cathedrals
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and studied philosophy and Germanistik (1879–1880). In 1880, he attended
Freiburg, Breslau, now
Wrocław and
Münster for theology.
Career
In 1892, he joined the military welfare service. As a military minister, he worked in the garrisons of Metz, Hanover and Mühlhausen and in Alsace, later went on a
punitive expedition to
China
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from 1900 to 1902, and then he visited the western states of
North America
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. Later he worked again as a military minister in
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
and
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
before 1905. In 1907 he went to the Southern Africa area. The unhealthy climate was a big strain and it was hard for an otherwise strong man to cope with the environment. Dr. Hermann Iseke died on 14 January 1907 in Southwest Africa, present-day Namibia, of
malaria. His body was transferred in the summer of 1907 to his hometown, Holungen.
Poet
Dr. Hermann Iseke not only work as a pastoral minister (Seelsorger), but also as a poet. These seals gave him an honorary title of: ''
Dichter des Eichsfeldes'' = poets of Eichsfeld. Probably in the year 1902, he wrote in
Eichsfeld The Eichsfeld ( or ; English: ''Oak-field'') is a historical region in the southeast of the state of Lower Saxony (which is called "Untereichsfeld" = lower Eichsfeld) and northwest of the state of Thuringia ("Obereichsfeld" = upper Eichsfeld) in th ...
admitted ''
Eichsfelder Sang'', but this was not his only work. Beside many smaller poems he wrote two larger documents (''Der lieben heiligen Elisabeth won Thüringen'' and under the pseudonym ''
Bernadus Amerikanus'' out of Eichsfeld in history and legend").
Honors
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''.#
References
External links
Infos und photos about Dr. Hermann Iseke
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1856 births
1907 deaths
People from Eichsfeld (district)
Physicians from the Province of Saxony
19th-century German Roman Catholic priests
University of Greifswald alumni
Infectious disease deaths in Namibia
Deaths from malaria