Andreas Gottfried Ammon

Andreas Gottfried Ammon (born November 22, 1635 in Göttingen , † 1686 in Wunstorf ) was a German Protestant theologian and educator .

Andreas Gottfried Ammon studied at the University of Rostock from July 1656 and received his doctorate in Jena. In 1658 he was vice rector at the Göttingen city school and then from 1663 to 1667 rector of the cathedral school in Güstrow . Then he went to Stettin and became the first rector of the newly opened Regium Gymnasium Carolinum . Here there was a dispute with the Lutheran Orthodox theologian Konrad Tiburtius Rango , who accused him of syncretism and was therefore relieved of his office as vice rector. He received his doctorate in 1670 as a Licent. theol. Later he was superintendent in Wunstorf until the end of his life .

He was married to Anna Rosine born in 1674. Engelbrecht, daughter of the Brunswick-Kalenberg state syndic Christian Wilhelm Johann Engelbrecht (1612–1675).

Fonts (selection)

• "Elementa Rhetoricae Aristotelis." 1663
• "Argumentum libri I. Ethicorum Aristotelis." Helmstedt 1672
• "Elementa rhetoricae Aristotelis." Helmstedt 1675
• "Progr. de historia Pomeraniac paedagogicae. “Stettin 1667

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Andreas Gottfried Ammon's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal .

literature

• Heinrich Heppe :  Ammon, Andreas Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 404.
• Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Vol. I, p. 35, JF Steffenhagen and Son , Mitau 1827

Web links

• Literature by Andreas Gottfried Ammon in the holdings of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar