Christian Gottfried Friedrich Assmann

Christian Gottfried Friedrich Assmann

Christian Gottfried Friedrich Assmann, also: Assmann (born February 27, 1752 in Leipzig , † February 19, 1822 in Wittenberg ) was a German economist and camera scientist .

Life

The son of the Leipzig notary, Johann Zacharias Aßmann, enrolled at the University of Leipzig in April 1768 after attending the Nikolaischule. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1773, and one year later went to Dresden as court master of the young Baron von Gutschmied, whose sons he taught for five years. Assmann had mainly spent his years of study at the University of Leipzig and the Bergakademie Freiberg . When he returned to Leipzig, he read as a master's degree on camera sciences , primarily on mining and metallurgy. Nevertheless, this task was only an extraordinary ordinate in the philosophy faculty of the university. In 1782 he took up the third teaching position at the Nikolaischule in Leipzig and in 1785 accepted the offer for the newly established full professorship for economics and camera science at the University of Wittenberg .

He took up this position on September 1, 1785 and was able to distinguish himself above all with knowledge of law, the natural sciences and mineralogy. His lectures on camera science covered the encyclopedia, methodology, mining science, mining law, mathematics and architecture. His colleges remained small and had more of the character of entertainment, which he illustrated with the presentation of models and natural products from his property.

Assmann remained connected to the University of Leipzig and attended the anniversary celebrations of the University of Leipzig in 1809 as a deputy.

After the dissolution of the Wittenberg University in 1817, for health reasons he had himself retired with an appropriate pension and lived there as a private scholar until the end of his life.

Selection of works

• De eruditione metallicorum universa. Commentatio prima, quae auxiliaria tractat metallurgiae 1782
• On the scientific process of economics, Leipzig 1785

literature

• Max Senf: Calendarium Historicum Vitebergense. Wittenberg 1912
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Nikolaus Müller: The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg. Magdeburg Evangelical Bookstore Ernst Holtermann, 1912

proof

1. ↑ Manuscripts department of the Leipzig University Library: MS 0351, Bl. 35f.