August Christian Borheck

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August Christian Borheck (born January 10, 1751 in Osterode , † June 1, 1815 in Eschweiler ) was a German philologist , historian and university professor .

Live and act

Borheck studied philosophy and theology at the Georg August University in Göttingen . He was then rector in Zellerfeld , teacher of Latin and Greek at the pedagogy in Bergen monastery and from 1778 to 1780 rector of the Stadtlyceum (grammar school) in Salzwedel . During this time he was elected a foreign member of the Royal German Society of Göttingen . From the beginning of 1780 he was rector of the high school in Bielefeld . In Marburg he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1787. On May 31, 1790 he became a full professor of history and eloquence at the University of Duisburg . There he caused massive offense because of his scandalous way of life: He was so deeply in debt that his salary was temporarily paid directly to his creditors, fell out with his fellow professors and was shunned by the students, so that from 1794 he stopped giving lectures at all. Eventually he was even accused of incest with his daughter. In 1801 the rector and senate of the university applied to the state government for his removal from office. On July 31, 1801, the Klevian state government asked him to leave Duisburg, because he had "caused a great nuisance through his entire life there, especially through the last incidents with his daughter". In the end, there was no formal impeachment proceedings because the most serious allegations against Borheck could not be proven, but on November 27, 1801 he was dismissed as a professor. Then he lived as a private scholar in Cologne . He wrote numerous writings, of which regional historical works and translations by ancient authors are particularly important. Several attempts to establish educational and regional history journals were unsuccessful.

Works (selection)

  • Xenophon's all writings, newly translated from the Greek , 6 volumes, Lemgo: Meyer 1778–1808. (Digital copies at ÖNB : first part , second part ; third part , fifth part , sixth part )
  • Herodoti Halicarnassensis et Ctesiae Cnidii Quae Extant Opera Et Fragmenta Graece ex recensione Petri Wesselingii , 2 volumes, Lemgo: Meyer 1781-1782 (digital copies at BSB digital: Volume II ); 2nd edition in 3 volumes, Lemgo: Meyer 1808-1810 (digital copies in the Internet Archive: Volume I , Volume II )
  • Markus Tullius Cicero's mixed up letters. Newly translated, arranged according to the chronological order and explained , 5 volumes, Frankfurt am Main: JC Hermann 1782–1789 (digital copies at BSB digital: first volume , second volume , third volume , fourth volume , fifth volume )
  • Attempt of a tabular outline of world history . 2 volumes Halle 1783–1784
  • New description of the earth for all of Africa. Collected and edited from the best older and newer aids , Volume 1 and 2.1 (no more published), Frankfurt am Main: Varrentrapp and Wenner 1789, 1791. Digitalisat at BSB digital: Volume 1 , Volume 2.1
  • Arrian's campaigns by Alexander, translated from Greek, with annotations , 2 volumes (containing books 1-6), Frankfurt am Main: JC Hermann 1790, 1792. (Digital copies at BSB digital: first volume , second volume )
  • Earth description of Asia, based on Bankes, Black's, Cook's and Lloyd's great English works, edited with the inclusion of the latest travelogues for Germans , part 1-3, Düsseldorf: Dänzer 1792–1794. Digitization at BSB digital: first part , second part , third part
  • Flavii Arriani Nicomedensis Opera Graece, ad optimas editiones collata . 3 volumes Lemgo: Meyer 1792, 1809, 1811
  • Apparatus ad Herodotum intelligendum et interpretandum. 5 volumes, Lemgo: Meyer 1795–1798. Digital copies at BSB digital: Volume I , Volume II , Volume III , Volume IV , Volume V
  • History of the countries Cleve, Mark, Jülich, Berg and Ravensberg, according to Teschenmacher and others along with a history of the city of Duisburg on the Rhine. Duisburg: Helwingsche Universitätsbuchhandlung 1800. Digitized at BSB digital: first part , second part , digitized
  • Archive for the history, description of the earth, statistics and antiquities of the German Lower Rhineland , 1st volume, Elberfeld: Comptoir für Litteratur 1800 (no more published). Digitized at BSB digital: first piece , second piece
  • Library for the history [,] geography, state and trade of Lower Rhine Germany . Cologne and Paderborn: Haas and Son 1801 ( digitized at BSB digital)
  • Contributions to geography and history of the German Lower Rhine region . Cologne: Haas and Son 1803 ( digitized at BSB digital)
  • Diogenes Laertius of the Lives and Opinions of Famous Philosophers. From the Greek . Two volumes, Vienna and Prague: Franz Haas, 1807 (digital copies at ÖNB : first volume , second volume ). New edition: Diogenes Laertios, On the life and opinions of famous philosophers , Wiesbaden: Marix Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-86539-164-3

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General library for schools and education in Germany . tape 9 . Beck, 1781, p. 318 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed February 9, 2017]).
  2. ^ The German school history book 1700-1945 . tape 1 . LIT Verlag Münster, 2011, p. 363 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed February 9, 2017]).
  3. ^ A b Walter Ring: History of the University of Duisburg . With a map. Self-published by the city administration, Duisburg 1920, p. 194–196 ( archive.org [accessed March 9, 2016]).
  4. ^ D. August Christian Borheck: History of the city of Duisburg on the Rhine . A photomechanical reprint of the original edition from 1800 from the Duisburg city archive with an afterword by Günter von Roden . Walter Braun Verlag, Duisburg 1976, ISBN 3-87096-130-9 , p. 186 .
  5. ^ Werner Hesse: Contributions to the history of the former university in Duisburg . FH Nieten, Duisburg 1879, p. 84 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed March 10, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Borheck, August Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1815
Place of death Eschweiler