Carl Gottlieb Strauss

Carl Gottlieb Strauss (born April 6, 1743 in Danzig ; † July 11, 1790 there ) was a German Protestant clergyman and educator.

Life

Carl Gottlieb Strauss was born as the son of Benjamin Strauss, councilor in Danzig. At the beginning he received lessons from private tutors and from 1760 attended the Academic Gymnasium Danzig . There he heard lectures from Gottfried Less , associate professor of theology; even then he developed a tendency towards philosophy , which was furthered and supported by Michael Christoph Hanow .

In 1764 he began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Jena . There he entered the Philosophical Society under the chairmanship of Professor Johann Gottlieb Waldin (1728–1795), on the occasion of which his treatise On the necessary cautiousness against censure of the libellarians was published . He was also a member of the disputatorium of Professor Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and was accepted into the Latin Society through his printed speech De commodis et incommodis studii singularitatis, quod in societatibus regnare solet . After four years of study, he ended his stay in Jena in 1768 as Dr. phil.

After his return to Danzig he preached for five years until he was offered his position as professor of philosophy at the academic high school after the death of Professor Hanow in 1774 by the city's magistrate; at the same time he became supervisor of the council public library. After the death of Benjamin Groddeck (1723–1776) he took over his Greek and Hebrew lectures for three years.

Carl Gottlieb Strauss had been married since 1774. The marriage remained childless.

Fonts (selection)

• Treatise on the need to be careful when censuring the libellarians . Jena Schill 1766.
• De commodis et incommodis quae in societatibus ex singularitatis studio oriuntur . Jenae: Strauss, 1766.

literature

• Friedrich Schlichtegroll: Nekrolog on the year 1790, volume 2, pp. 61–65. Retrieved February 14, 2018 . 
• Theodor Hirsch : History of the academic high school in Danzig, presented in its main features . Wedelschen Hofbuchdruckerei, 1837, p. 63 ( google.de [accessed on August 22, 2018]).
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . tape 13 . G. Fleischer, the Younger, 1813, p. 452 ( google.de [accessed on August 22, 2018]).