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Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros (born October 8, 1752 in Stralsund, Germany) was a German philologist and high school teacher. He reformed the Greifswalder town school and laid the foundations for a modern Bürgerschule.

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The son of Friedrich Christoph Warnekros, age man of the Brauerkompagnie, visited the school in Stralsund and studied from 1772 at the University of Göttingen. He was promoted to Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Greifswald in 1776 and was there for some time as a private lecturer. He acquired general recognition through his writings on the Hebrew Antiquity (1782) and The Spirit of Shakespear (1786).

After three unsuccessful applications for a permanent position at the university, he took over the rectorate of the Greifswalder Stadtschule in 1783 from Theophilus Coelestinus Piper. He succeeded, with the support of Greifswalder citizenship and the Swedish-Pomeranian government in Stralsund, against the resistance of the Greifswald Council to reform the down-to-date school. From the old Latin school emerged a bourgeois educational institution which meets the new requirements. The number of students rose from 16 in 1783 to 101 in 1800. During his office, the new large city school was inaugurated in 1799, today the picture gallery of the Pomeranian national museum.

Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros was honored in 1805 by the Swedish king with the title of professor. He died 1807 during the occupation of Swedish-Pomeranian by French troops. The Warnekros teaching system remained essentially until 1816.

Heinrich Ehrenfried Warnekros was not married. His brother was the lawyer David Wilhelm Warnekros. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Single-level Edit source text Standard data (person): GND: 100668046 (PICA, AKS) | LCCN: nr2004019948 VIAF: 266492109 | Wikipedia People Search

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