Schellenberg, Karl Phillip Salomo

Protestant pastor, pedagogue

Born: 22.11.1775 in Dinglingen near Lahr (Baden)

Died: 28.11.1859 in Wiesbaden

Schellenberg studied Protestant theology and education in Heidelberg and Jena from 1796-99. Initially a private teacher in Darmstadt, he was appointed principal of the Latin school in Wiesbaden in 1800; this office was combined with that of vicar at the town church and in the criminal prison, as well as that of pastor in Klarenthal.

On behalf of the Usingen superintendent Johann Daniel Karl Bickel, Schellenberg drew up a plan for a girls' school in Wiesbaden in 1804, which he was initially able to realize as a private girls' school in November 1805 in conjunction with the Latin school. In October 1806, the school, then named "Friedrichschule" in 1807, was established with Schellenberg as principal and parish vicar Johann Philipp Bickel (1780-1849) as vice-principal. In 1818, Schellenberg was given the parish in Bierstadt with the title of "Church Councillor" after the (probably hoped for) third Wiesbaden parish post fell to the later state bishop Ludwig Wilhelm Wilhelmi. Schellenberg retired in 1848.

Politically loyal to the government, he paid pedagogical homage to the spirit of the philanthropists of his time such as Johann Heinrich Campe (1746-1805), Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow (1734-1805) and Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744-1811) with his ideal of education for a purer and freer humanity.