Johann Heinrich Stuss

Johann Heinrich Stuss (born September 9 ^{. Jul} / 19th September  1686 ^greg. In Grohnde ; † 6. May 1775 in Gotha ) was a German educator .

Life

Stuss was the only son of a pastor . At the age of six he first attended the city school of Helmstedt , but after his mother's death in 1696 he returned to his father, who over the next two years trained him himself or had him trained near his place of work. In 1698 Stuss moved to the Göttingen grammar school , which he graduated in 1704. During this time, the rector of the institution in particular took care of him and his spiritual training.

Stuss's student days were very much influenced by his father's health and his own eye problems. In autumn 1704 he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt where he studied theology , philosophy , natural sciences and the history of sciences. After two years, however, he had to go back to his father and support him in the exercise of his ministry. In 1708 he went from Grohnde to Halle an der Saale, where he wanted to have his eye ailments treated and also began studying the oriental languages. However, he had to go back to his father again and did not return to the University of Halle until the spring of 1710 , where he now devoted himself to classical studies and the French and Italian languages. In the winter of 1711/1712 he was in Hanover . There he met Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, among others . During this time it became clear that he should come to the Ilfeld pedagogy as vice-principal . Since he was also supposed to teach mathematics there, he went back to the University of Helmstedt to improve his knowledge in this field with Johann Bernhard Wiedeburg .

Stuss took up his position as a teacher at the Ilfeld Pedagogy on December 29, 1713. When the rector of the institution died unexpectedly in 1724, Stuss was promoted to prorector . In 1728 he followed the call of Gottfried Vockerodt's successor to the post of rector of the Gothaer Gymnasium illustrious . In Gotha, Duke Friedrich III counted . to his patrons and covered some of the rector's negligence. All in all, an ambivalent picture has been handed down for his work as the rector of the Gotha State School. After several strokes, Stuss was retired on April 6, 1768 with full pay after his successor Johann Gottfried Geißler accepted the call to Gotha. Stutz kept the scientific work going, supported by his wife until the end.

The classical philologist, scripture and clergyman Just Christian Stuss was his son, the violinist Heinrich Benda his godson.

Works (selection)

Stuss left behind an almost unmanageable number of writings, including a multitude of programs and comments. He also wrote about various personalities and their work, for example about Georg Nitsch on his death in Gotha in 1729 and on the same occasion about Johann Elias Reichardt in 1731 and in 1733 about Theodor Berckelmann , several times about Basilius Monner and 1749 about the Nuremberg diplomat Georg Achatz Heher . Extensive lists of the writings can be found, for example, by Johann Georg Meusel and Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching .

• Oratio de eloquentia Martini Lutheri , Helmstedt 1711.
• Collection of selected speeches, which as core samples and gallant examples of German eloquence are presented to lovers for pleasure and youth for imitation , 2 volumes, Groß, Leipzig and Nordhausen 1727.
• Consilium de thesauro Teutonico altero tertioque adornando et versione IV Evangeliorum Gothica denuo edenda , Reyher, Gotha 1733.
• Collection of exquisite poems, as a sample of the new German poetry , Groß, Leipzig and Nordhausen 1734.
• De antiquissima dialecto Teutonica , Gotha 1751.
• Prolusio de novo genere poeseos Teutonicae rhythmis destitutae , Gotha 1751.

literature

• Albert Schumann :  Stuss, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 68-70.
• Christian Ferdinand Schulze : History of the Gotha High School . Perthes, Gotha 1824, pp. 228-240.
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 13, Fleischer, Leipzig 1813, pp. 527-534.
• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching : Historical literary handbook of famous and memorable people who died in the 18th century , Volume 13, Part 2, 1809, pp. 240–266 (= Just Christian Stuß : Messages from the long-time rector of the ducal state school zu Gotha, Mr. Joh. Heinr.Stuß, Boessiegel, Göttingen 1776).

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Heinrich Stuß  in the German Digital Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Meusel gives June 20th as his date of birth, Schumann is considering June 9th as well as June 19th. Schulze, Schumann and von Stuss's son state June 9th.