Christoph Friedrich Ayrmann

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Christoph Friedrich Ayrmann, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth (1742)

Christoph Friedrich Ayrmann (pseudonym: Germanicus Sincerus ; born March 22, 1695 in Leipzig , † March 25, 1747 in Gießen ) was a German historian .

Life

Ayrmann began his studies at the University of Leipzig . On May 20, 1710 he went to the University of Wittenberg to study theology and on October 16, 1712 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. However, he turned to law and was, after a short stopover in Leipzig, on April 27, 1720 adjunct of the Wittenberg philosophical faculty.

On November 11, 1720, he was appointed full professor of history at the University of Giessen . In 1732 he was also librarian in the library of Johann Heinrich May the Younger , in 1735 university librarian and in 1736 primary professor. Ayrmann has published numerous small works and treatises on general and in particular on Hessian history, literary history and topography . Under the name "Germanicus Sincerus" he also published Velleius Paterculus , Florus , Eutrop , Caesar , Suetonius , Justin and Terenz with German annotations.

Fonts (selection)

Commentatio historico-iuridica de monasterio carcere , 1747

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 2; Halle (Saale), 1952 p. 2