Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck

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Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck (born January 15, 1761 in Konitz ; † December 28, 1837 in Elbing ) was a German philosopher and mathematician .

Life

Ewerbeck was the son of a pharmacist. After studying philology at the University of Halle , he was a teacher at the Royal Pedagogy in Glaucha near Halle. On April 3, 1787, he wrote a letter to Immanuel Kant . In 1787 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . He then completed his mathematics skills at the University of Berlin. In 1789 he became a mathematics professor at the Academic Gymnasium in Danzig, and in 1790 he was also professor of philosophy and supervisor of the council library. After the reorganization of the school in 1814, he took over the rectorate of the grammar school, but resigned this office in 1817 of his own initiative. In 1822 he also gave back the position of librarian at the council library and went to Elbing to spend the last years of his life there as a private scholar. As a philosopher, Ewerbeck was mainly concerned with the English Enlightenment. He translated works by James Harris and Adam Smith into German.

Ewerbeck was married to Christina Concordia Augusta Pobowski († June 1849). They had four children, the youngest was August Hermann Ewerbeck .

Works (selection)

  • Svper doctrinae de moribvs historia eivs fontibvs conscribendae ratione et vtilitate / Commentatio qvam […] in AD Aprilis MDCCLXXXVII Pvblice defendet Christianus Gottfried Ewerbeck. Ioannem Iacobvm Gebaver, Halae 1878 MDZ
  • Jakob Harris: Hermes or Philosophical Inquiry into General Grammar. Translated by Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck, with comments and treatises by FA Wolf and the translator . Johann Jacob Gebauer, Halle 1788
  • De Similitudine inter Mathesin puram atque Philosophiam logicam . Gedanum 1789 MDZ
  • Adam Smith 's considerations on the first formation of languages, and the peculiar spirit by which native languages ​​differ from derived ones. From the English with some literary comments […] CG Ewerbeck. Wedel, Danzig 1816

literature

  • Benjamin G. Sievert: Cantata set to music and performed . [Ceremonial poem for the inauguration of Dr. phil. Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck on September 3, 1789]. Wedel, Danzig 1790. (Danzig, Akad. Gymn., Progr., 1789)
  • Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck . In: Georg Christoph Hamburger, Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers . 2. Vol. 5. verm. U. verb. Ed., Lemgo 1796, p. 266.
  • Heinrich Döring: Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 1839, pp. 1095-1099. (on-line)
  • Old Prussian biography. Vol. 1. Marburg / Lahn 1974, p. 171.
  • Ewerbeck, Christian Gottfried . In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 3, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-59053-X , p. 199.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kant: Correspondence, Letter 292, From Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck. Digitized
  2. ^ Kant's collected writings. 1789-1794. Edited by the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Kant Society. G. Reimer, Berlin 1900, pp. 458-459.
personal data
SURNAME Ewerbeck, Christian Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Konitz
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1837
Place of death Elblag