Adam Gschwend

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Adam Gschwend , also Latinized as Adamus Gschwendius (born April 15, 1665 in Casekirchen , † April 28, 1722 in Naumburg (Saale) ), was a German deacon , author and rector of the Lyceum in Eisenberg . His pseudonym was Georgius Phaedrus .

Life

Adam Gschwend married Dorothea Maria Cramer (1668–1694), born there on November 25, 1690 in Wetzdorf , with whom he had the son Johann David (1691–1767) and the daughter Rosina Maria (* 1693). As a widower, he was his second marriage on November 26th in Eisenberg, born Anna Christine Freiesleben, with whom he had children Anna Rosina (* 1696), Christian Adam (* 1700), Johann Friedrich (* 1702) and Christina (* 1705 ) would have.

From December 3, 1690 Gschwend was vice rector, from November 19, 1692 to April 10, 1707 at the latest, rector of the Lyceum in Eisenberg. Gschwend then worked as a deacon in Naumburg and as a philological reviewer on the staff of the Jena librarian Burkhard Gotthelf Struve .

Works

In addition to several funeral sermons and occasional pamphlets , he published, among other things:

  • Dissertatiuncula de insignibus serenissimorum Saxoniae Principum. Eisenberg 1693.
  • De Memorabilibus Eisenbergae Dissertatiuncula, 1-24. Eisenberg 1695-1702.
  • 1697: Palæstra Progymnastica. Jena 1697.
  • 1699: Short and simple-minded considerations and interpretations of the Song of Songs.
  • Biblia in nummis. Jena 1703.
  • First penitential movements. Eisenberg 1706.
  • Miscellanea Numburgica, that is: All kinds of Naumburg items: in which are I. The Göttl. Fire u. Penitential sermon ...; II. Relation of the terrible fire on April 30, 1716; III. Continuation of this relation; IV. Old and new v. Naumburg . Bossögel, Naumburg 1716.

Under the pseudonym Georgius Phaedrus , Gschwend organized an edition of Petronius' Satyricon that was cleared of objectionable passages :

  • Satyricon puritate donatum, ejectis obscoenis ... Jena 1701.

literature

  • 43. Program of the ducal Christian high school in Eisenberg. Leipzig 1877.
  • Entry in the CERL database online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School program 43, page 9.
  2. ↑ LHA Saxony-Anhalt, A 29d, I No. 352 Findbuch online
  3. ↑ Struve: Thesaurus variae eruditionis, Jena 1710, Praefatio, [4-5].
  4. ↑ About Johann Heinrich von Erfa
  5. ↑ About the inauguration of the newly built court church
  6. ↑ Number 17 online
  7. ↑ Adami Gschwend , accessed on May 25, 2013
  8. ↑ p. 291 online
  9. ↑ 43. School program online ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.8 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.slub-dresden.de
personal data
SURNAME Gschwend, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gschwend, Adamus.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and rector
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Casekirchen
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1722
Place of death Naumburg (Saale)