Christian Gotthold Hoffmann

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Christian Gotthold Hof (f) mann (* 1713 in Elterlein ; † probably before 1778 in Dresden ) was a German (Saxon) tax clerk and private scholar. He made the peasant scholars Johann Ludewig and Johann Georg (e) Palitzsch known and published the first news of Halley's Comet in early 1759 .

Life

In 1750 he was the adjunct of the General Admission Commissioner and made experiments with a burning mirror made of metal, for which he u. a. used a silver stage from the Gegenglückstolln from Johanngeorgenstadt .

He was valued and quoted as a botanist, geologist and meteorologist.

In the accompanying text of the "learned farmer" (1756), he described his motives for discovering and promoting talented people of the "lower class". He wanted to support education in the German language and show that in enlightenment through mathematics and the “reasonable” philosophy of Christian Wolff, “only the will is important”.

In letters from Christiane Caroline Lucius to Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , which handed down the social life in Dresden after the Augustan heyday, Hoffmann is also mentioned several times (e.g.):

“The AccisRath Hofmann asked me to recommend him obediently. When he was at the Ostermeße in Leipzig he would have wanted to wait for you ... he asks you to send a sensible man up to the court master for his boy ... I don't know, dearest professor, whether you know, and I'll tell you in full in the confidence that Hofmann is suspected, as if he accepted incorrect principles in religion ... "

“... and would have let himself be taken by his philosophy to the detriment of the holy truths. I know for a fact that much that is unfounded is spoken of about him and that without further investigation, because he misses the public service, he is made a Frey spirit. Hofmann is not entirely without religion; But already this suspicion in which he stands, and perhaps errors that he may assume, make me wish that his son would come into the hands of a man who fixed religion in his soul in such a way that he would rather sympathize with his father than want to feel like imitating him ... "

Publications

  • Ordinis ivre consvltorvm in academia Vitembergensi ht decanvs, Godofredvs Lvdovicvs Mencken, ictvs…. Invitation to defend the jur. Diss. By Christian Gotthold Hoffmann on May 9, 1740, contains biography from page XII (lat.) ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Dissertatio Inauguralis Iuridica De Bonorum Universitatis Et Praecipue Curiarum Alienatione. Wittenberg 1740 ( slub-dresden.de ).
  • Message from the royal court and model table maker, Mr. Peter Hösens, to Dresden ... burning mirror .... In: Hamburg magazine. 5th Volume, 1750, pp. 269-288.
  • Experiences from the glow of the Scharfenberg aperture. In: Hamburg magazine. 5th Volume, 1750, pp. 288-306 and pp. 441-443.
  • Treatise on the Plauischer Grund by Dreßden…. In: New attempts at useful collections on the history of nature and art, especially from Ober-Sachßen, 1752. 2 (13), pp. 51–84 ( kreidefossilien.de SLUB )
  • Continued news from the Plauischen reason. 2 (14), pp. 95-106 ( kreidefossilien.de ).
  • News of the extraordinary cold in January and February 1755 In: Dreßdniche (Dresdner) learned advertisements, 1755. (1755), pp. 81-92.
  • The learned farmer , Dresden, 1756 ( Uni-Halle ).
  • News from the comet who had been working since December 25th. 1758 is seen. In: Danish Scholars Ads. II. Stück, 1759, pp. 17-22.

literature

  • Jürgen Helfricht : Astronomy history of Dresden (= Dresden miniatures. 9). Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-910184-76-6 .
  • Jürgen Helfricht; Siegfried Koge: Chr. Gärtner and JG Palitzsch - farmer astronomers from Tolkewitz and Prohlis near Dresden (= publications of the Pulsnitz observatory. No. 25, ISSN  0586-495X ). Pulsnitz observatory, Pulsnitz 1990.
  • Siegfried Koge: Johann Georg Palitzsch and the discovery of Halley's comet 1758. In: History of comet research (= Archenhold observatory. Lectures and writings. No. 66). Archenhold-Sternwarte, Berlin-Treptow 1987, ISBN 3-86021-001-7 , pp. 29-53.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ D-nb.info or Johann Jacob Ferber: New contributions to mineral history. Volume 1, Mietau 1778, p. 56 “The Accisrath, Doct. Hoffmann, kept a red Bley earth or natural. Red lead in his collection… ”; P. 433 "In the mineral collection of the former Accis-Rath Mr. Hoffmann in Dresden ..."
  2. ↑ "... D. Hofmann zu Dreßden famous for his thorough erudition and various writings", 114. 1756. The learned farmer Johann Ludwig in Cossebaude near Dresden. The most graciously privileged Annalisten 5th piece Leipzig July 20, 1756. In: Sources for the history of the German peasant class in the modern age, 1963, p. 231 ff
  3. ↑ “Herr General Acciscommissar Hofmann has given me another remark here. There is a tree in his Elterlein garden ... ”. In: Hamburg magazine. 8th volume, 1751, p. 209.
  4. ↑ "... Since he [an anonymous author 'Philosophical Delights ... like the real seashells on the highest mountains ... together with a clear explanation of the earthquakes'] is known in the Saxon mountains and in Dresden, he would probably have found people there who would have liked him would have taught ..., in Dresden a Schulz [ Christian Friedrich Schulze ] or Hofmann. ” General German library. Volume 10, 1769, pp. 268-270.
  5. ↑ "... already mentioned Mr. Ober-Accis-Commissarius D. Hofmann in Dresden has noticed such on a thermometer, on which Mr. Commissions-Rath Königsdörfer has been observing for 30 years.", Remark of the severe cold in Jenner and Hornung 1755 In: Franconian collections of notes from the theory of nature, Arzneygelahrheit, economics and the related sciences. Volume 1, 1756, pp. 86-93; "... wobey Mr. P. Hell Mr. Dr. Hofmann's efforts in Dresden are mentioned with much glory. ”In: Göttingische learned advertisements. 98th St., 1764, p. 790.
  6. ↑ "... from four other country folks who, partly in philosophy, partly astronomy, partly mechanic, and completely good science through their own diligence and without instruction ..." (p. 249 * of the reprint from 1992, Johann Ludewig: Der schehre Bauer With D. Christian Gotthold Hoffmann's preliminary report and copper, reprint of the first edition Dresden 1756. With an afterword by Holger Böning ( Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1992).
  7. ↑ “So my Ludewig, the good farmer, proves, 1) that becoming wise today is all about wanting; and if we do not yet have enough bright and white people, there is not a lack of means, but a lack of will. 2)… [Luther and religious peace]  … ”(p. 68 * of the reprint from 1992, Johann Ludewig: The learned farmer. With D. Christian Gotthold Hoffmann's preliminary report together with Kupffern, reprint of the first edition Dresden 1756. With an afterword by Holger Böning Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1992).
  8. ^ Gellert's correspondence 1764–1766. P. 66, Letter No. 897, August 31, 1764 (254-277).
  9. ^ Friedrich Adolf Ebert : Christian Fürchtegott Gellert's correspondence with Demoiselle Lucius. Leipzig 1823, p. 380 f. ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Christian Gotthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmann, Christian Gotthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Parents
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: before 1778
Place of death uncertain: Dresden