David Christoph Seybold

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David Christoph Seybold, engraved by Heinrich Sintzenich from Mannheim
Book cover of David Christoph Seybold as rector of the grammar school Grünstadt, 1779

David Christoph Seybold (born May 26, 1747 in Brackenheim , † February 19, 1804 in Tübingen ) was a Lutheran theologian, educator, university professor and poet.

Life

David Christoph Seybold was a son of the Brackenheim town clerk David Christoph Seybold and his second wife Christina Elisabeth, born. Jenisch. He had three younger brothers, including the court clerk Gottfried Seybold (1757–1816) and the lawyer Josef Johann Friedrich Seybold (1749–1814), as well as an older sister from his father's first marriage to Johanna Maria, geb. Thill.

David Christoph Seybold attended the theological schools in Württemberg, received his doctorate in physics in 1767 and, in 1770, was an associate professor of philosophy in Jena . From 1775 he was rector of the grammar school in Speyer , in 1776 he moved to the grammar school Grünstadt in the same capacity . From 1779 to 1792 he was a Hesse-Darmstadt professor at the grammar school in Buchsweiler in Alsace, which at that time belonged to the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg . After the Jacobin Eulogius Schneider tried in vain to win Seybold over to the revolutionary regime, he was arrested in 1792 as an "aristocratic friend" and imprisoned in Strasbourg for almost a year . In the end he was released, but was only allowed to leave the country in 1795 after the so-called Directory came to power. David Christoph Seybold returned to Württemberg in 1795 and became professor of classical literature at the University of Tübingen in 1796 .

In 1775 he married Friederike Charlotte Keller, daughter of Brackenheim's chief magistrate Urban Immanuel Keller († 1766), whose epitaph, created by Johann Baptista Lauggas , has been preserved in the local St. John's Church . This connection had three sons, including the Württemberg major general Johann Karl Christoph von Seybold (1777-1833) and the editor or deputy Ludwig Georg Friedrich Seybold (1783-1843), and four daughters. Karoline used Neidhard (1789–1866), one of these daughters, married the economist Friedrich List in 1818 . Seybold's second marriage (1797) to Wilhelmine Sophie geb. Rappold remained childless.

Seybold wrote some poetic works, including a. the novels "Hartmann" and "Reizenstein, the story of a German officer", as well as an abundance of publications on Greek and Roman literature. The novel "Reizenstein", set in the American Revolutionary War and published in 1778 during the time in Grünstadt, was reissued in 2003 as a paperback. The novel "Hartmann, a Wirtemberg monastery history" was published in a new edition in 2005 as volume 17 of the "Bibliotheca Suevica" (Verlag Edition Isele Konstanz, Eggingen, ISBN 3-86142-375-8 ). According to the historian Hans-Georg Kemper, Seybold uses heavily autobiographical material in it, but according to his own account also the experiences of his distant relative Johann Jakob Thill .

Works

  • Anthologia historica Graeco-Latina sive excerpta ex historiae Graecae et Romanae scriptoribus , Leipzig 1777
  • Anthologia Romana Poetica. Eaque Parallelos Quae Continet Sex Locos I. Sententias. II. Topographias. III. Chronographias. IV. Descriptiones motuum animi etc. V. Descriptionesrerum in natura obviarum. VI. Prosopopeias , Leipzig 1778
  • Historical paperback for every day in the year , Winterthur 1797
  • History booklet , Tübingen 1801

Novels

  • Hartmann, a Wirtemberg monastery history , 1778 ( digitized version )
  • Reizenstein, the story of a German officer , 1778
  • Barbara Pfisterin. A novel from bourgeois life , 1782
  • Lucian's Recent Journeys or True Stories , 1791

Dramas

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ David Christoph Seybold (1713-1775), town clerk in Brackenheim (Württemberg).
  2. ↑ a b c Eberhard E. von Georgii-Georgenau: Biographical-genealogical sheets from and about Swabia . Emil Müller, Stuttgart 1879, Seybold, p. 914–927 ( p. 914 in Google Book Search USA ).
  3. ^ Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 862 .
  4. ↑ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Works and Letters : Volume 7, p. 953 u. 954, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1982, ISBN 3-11-008933-5 ; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 11 (1833), Part 1, p. 371, Weimar, 1835; (Digital scan)
  6. ^ Theodor Schön:  Seybold, David Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 79 f.
  7. ^ Adolf Schahl: The Johanniskirche in Brackenheim . Zabergäuverein, Güglingen 1981 ( Zabergäuvereins magazine. Issue 1/2, year 1981), pp. 34–35
  8. ^ Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 863 .
  9. ↑ Publisher Wynfried Kriegleder, Praesens Verlag, Vienna, 2003, ISBN 3-7069-0198-6 , (review)
  10. ↑ Hans-Georg Kemper: Johann Jakob Thill - On the rediscovery of a poet's talent at the Tübinger Stift , in: Werner Frick, Susanne Komfort-Hein: Enlightenment: On the history of modern literature: Festschrift for Klaus-Detlef Müller on the 65th birthday , Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2003, ISBN 3110939266 , pp. 1-13; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Seybold, David Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, university professor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Brackenheim
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1804
Place of death Tübingen