Christoph Friedrich Geiger

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Christoph Friedrich Geiger (born March 23, 1712 in Nuremberg , † September 7, 1767 in Marburg ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

Christoph Friedrich Geiger was the son of the Nuremberg Rector Gottfried Engelhart Geiger (born April 9, 1681 in Nuremberg; † February 18, 1748 there) and his wife Ursula Kathrinen (née Schultheiß).

He attended the St. Sebald School (today: Melanchthon High School ), where his father was the principal; his teacher there was among others Johann Walwert (1661-1727). He learned the Latin , Greek and Hebrew languages ​​from his father and made such good progress in drawing and painting that he dealt intensively with geometry , perspective and antiquity, so that he could then teach his classmates geography , history and logic . After listening to professors Johann Siegmund Mörl , Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr and Joachim Negelin (1675–1749) at grammar school, he enrolled in 1730 at the University of Altdorf to study mathematics , geography, history and law and attended lectures with Christian Gottlieb Schwarz (1675–1751), Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein , Johann David Köhler , Johann Heinrich Müller and Michael Kelsch (1693–1742).

At the end of 1733 he went to the University of Jena , continued his historical, philosophical and mathematical studies and attended lectures by Burkhard Gotthelf Struve , Christian Gottlieb Buder , Heinrich Köhler , Johann Wilhelm Dietmar , Georg Philipp Stenger (1704–1752), Johann Salomon Brunnquell , Johann Georg Walch , Johann Peter Reusch and Georg Erhard Hamberger , he also learned French , Italian , English and Dutch ; he also attended theological, legal and medical colleges. During this time he privately taught some young aristocrats and took over the position of court master with Baron von Geuder von Heroldsberg from Nuremberg; He prepared his son for his studies and accompanied him to the University of Jena and after two years in 1737 to the University of Göttingen for the inauguration there and the continuation of his studies. In 1739 he returned to Nuremberg with Baron von Geuder von Heroldsberg.

In 1739 he gained practical experience at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar . He got to know the minister Christian Hieronymus von Stutterheim and accepted his offer of the position of court master for his only son, Christian Wilhelm Karl von Stutterheim . He lived on the minister's estates near Frankfurt am Main and made several trips with his pupil, including to Darmstadt, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. After he had finished his activity as court master, he went to Strasbourg and made the acquaintance of Johann Daniel Schöpflin .

During a trip to the Wuerttemberg court, which was staying in Deinach at the time, he made the acquaintance of Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens , who recommended him when he wanted to go to Paris; there he became acquainted with Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle , Bernard de Montfaucon , Charles Rollin , Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy , Voltaire , Jean-Antoine Nollet , and Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu . From Paris he went to Frankfurt am Main for the election of Emperor Charles VII in 1742 , where he gave lessons in German constitutional law to some gentlemen and there he wrote the weekly election and coronation reports.

In 1746 he received his master's degree at the University of Leipzig and in the same year was appointed court counselor for eight years on the recommendation of Johann Peter von Ludewig and Christian Wolff , as well as court master of the Hereditary Prince Friedrich Albrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg . 1748 he received his doctorate at the University of Halle Dr. Jur.

On August 6, 1750, when he was still the court master of the Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, he was appointed full professor of history at the University of Marburg and held his inaugural lecture on October 13, 1750.

On December 19, 1763, he also took over the teaching post for eloquence and poetry.

In his lectures he taught on the subjects of ancient history , the history of the German empire and the European states, church history , geography (1757–1767), diplomacy , source studies and heraldry (1751–1767), Latin style (from 1768), natural and international law ( 1753–1763), economics (1756–1765), prudentia civilis (= state wisdom) (1756–1767) and experimental physics (1759–1762).

In 1755 and 1760 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Marburg, in 1760, 1761 and 1762 its deputy to the state parliaments in Kassel and in 1765 prorector of the university.

In 1743 Christoph Friedrich Geiger married the daughter of David Flotard, a former Dutch consul in Messina ; they had two daughters together.

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  1. ↑ Geiger, Gottfried Engelhard - portrait collection of the HAB. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Otto Brunken: Handbook on children's and youth literature. From 1570 to 1750 . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-03237-9 , pp. 1895 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Zeno: Lexicon entry on "State wisdom". Pierer's Universal Lexicon, Volume 16. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Violinist, Christoph Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1767
Place of death Marburg