Benjamin Gottlieb Lorenz Boden

Benjamin Gottlieb Lorenz Boden (born October 31, 1737 in Wittenberg ; † November 19, 1782 ibid) was a German historian and literary scholar.

Life

Born as the son of Johann Andreas Boden , he is enrolled at the University of Wittenberg at the age of three . His father was very concerned about his education, so he taught himself and through private tutors an enormous wealth of knowledge. In addition, his father sent him to the grammar school in Bautzen , where he gave his farewell speech in Hebrew. He then went back to the Wittenberg University, where on April 30, 1760 he acquired the highest academic degree in philosophy, a master's degree.

After he secured his existence for a while with private lectures, he was accepted as an adjunct at the philosophical faculty on November 23, 1764 and developed a special fondness for poetry. In 1764 he began to give private lectures on antiques and in 1765 he founded a society devoted to the practice of the beautiful sciences.

At the suggestion of the Wittenberg University of Applied Sciences, he became an associate professor of classical studies in 1769 and, after Lebrecht August Wilken's departure in 1775, took over the full professorship for poetry. In this function he read after Friedrich Christian Baumeister . Boden also took on organizational tasks at the Wittenberg University. In the summer semester of 1780 he was rector of the university . As the Wittenberg Book of the Dead shows, he died at the wedding supper of District Administrator Dietrich.

Selection of works

1. Melanchthon in barbariem seculi sui non lenis. Wittenberg 1760
2. D. de silentio eloquente. Wittenberg 1762
3. Memories of War and Peace 1763
4. De umbra poetica diss. III. Wittenberg 1764
5. Vitemberga restituendo Lutheri templo florentior. Wittenberg 1765
6. D. de ramo gentium religioso. Wittenberg 1765
7. Evidence of Saxon reverence at Friedrich August's birth festival, Churf. to Saxony from the society practicing under close supervision. Wittenberg 1765
8. Monumenta belli et pacis. Frankenhausen 1766. German. Wittenberg 1766
9. Artifex ea, quae sibi non conveniunt, fingens, poetae monitor. Wittenberg part I. 1766, part II 1775
10. Hercules Prodicius, on the solemn indulgence Fried. Aug. Churf. zu Sachs. Wittenberg 1769
11. The woman's mother's hand basket; a weekly. Wittenberg 1769
12. The talking mute, a weekly 4 parts Leipzig 1772
13. Diss. De stipe per salute Augusti. Wittenberg 1771
14. Progr. De Achille Tatio. Wittenberg 1773
15. Elogium Jo. Dan. Ritteri. Wittenberg 1775
16. Dithyramb de laudibus angelorum. Wittenberg 1775
17. Idyllion, celebrandis Christi natalibus sacrum. Wittenberg 1775
18. Elogium Jo. Danielis Ritteri. Wittenberg 1775
19. Progr. De Christo Pacis sequestre. Wittenberg 1778
20. Progr. De puritate cordis mutiere Spiritus S. Wittenberg 1778
21. Hymn in foederis angelum. Wittenberg 1778
22. Progr. Spiritus veritatis. Wittenberg 1779
23. Progr. De Daricis, periculum criticum, Wittenberg 1779
24. Sacra natalitia laetius celebranda. Wittenberg 1779

literature

• Johann Daniel Titius : Biography of Hernn Benjamin Gottlieb Laurentius Boden, former professor of poetry at the local university. In: New Wittenberger Wochenblatt to take up natural history and the economic trade. Born in 1794, p. 369
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917,
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book church province Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2003, ISBN 3-374-02083-6 , Vol. 1, p. 420,
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., 1802, 1st vol., P. 446 ( online )