David Theodor Lehmann

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David Theodor Lehmann , also David Theodosius Lehmann (born March 19, 1686 in Annaberg , †  February 19, 1715 in Wittenberg ) was a German literary scholar and philologist .

Life

David Theodosius Lehmann was born in Annaberg in 1686 as the son of the Lutheran theologian Christian Lehmann the Elder. J. (1642–1723) born. He matriculated on October 5, 1703 at the University of Wittenberg . There he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on April 29, 1706 . After he had worked in Freiberg , he became an adjunct on April 23, 1712 at the philosophical faculty of the Wittenberg University. He had good skills in music, painting and the mechanical arts. He also spoke English, Italian and French.

He had made a good name for himself as the author of Latin and German verses on graduations, weddings and funerals. Therefore, he was appointed Professor of Poetics as the successor to Adam Brendel in 1713 . However, he strove to study theology, but before he was able to obtain a doctorate in theology and then devote himself to an educational trip through England and the Netherlands, he died in 1715 at the age of 29. The work he began, de Poetis diuini Codicis Interpretibus , remained unfinished.

Selection of works

  • Disp. De Clypeo Dauidis
  • Disp. De Numis sepulcralibus
  • Disp. De Samsone Molitore
  • Disp. De Horologio Achasi
  • Disp. De Orbe picto, seu de Gentibus pulcritudinem adfectantibus per factum et picturam
  • Disp. De obpositione suspecta
  • Disp. De Casibus Poetarum tragicis
  • Orat. De Philos. Sinensium
  • Progr. De acerbioribus Poetarum Fatis
  • Progr. De Praemiis Poetarum

literature

personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, David Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg (Annaberg-Buchholz)
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1715
Place of death Wittenberg