Eduard Bobrik

Eduard Bobrik

Johann Friedrich Eduard Bobrik (born November 15, 1802 in Symiatizce, New East Prussia ; † May 13, 1870 in Schwetz an der Weichsel , West Prussia ) was a German seaman and university professor. He wrote maritime handbooks and was director of the Danzig Business School.

Life

After finishing school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Marquardt company. After the Gdańsk Navigation School, he went on ships of the Marquardt shipping company . He stayed on the ship Fürst Blücher for five years and made extensive sea voyages. Bobrik later dedicated his most famous work to the captain of this ship.

From 1822 he studied for three years at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He then worked as a grammar school and seminar teacher and completed his habilitation in 1829 with Johann Friedrich Herbart at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Before he applied for the University of Zurich , which is currently being established , he had to work as a private lecturer . By accepting his application, he was financially able to marry. On February 23, 1833 he married Catharina Augusti.

He was adopted from Bonn with his appointment as associate professor . In Zurich he was full professor for philosophy, psychology and education. In 1838 he made his first publications on logic and freemasonry . He was a member of the Modestia cum libertate lodge . At the university he was dean of the philosophy faculty from 1840 to 1842 and also served as rector from 1840/41. He campaigned for the unsuccessful naturalization of Georg Herwegh in Zurich. But this was recorded in Basel .

In the 1840s he dealt intensively with maritime topics. The Handbook of Practical Maritime Studies and the General Nautical Dictionary were created . At the university from 1851 he gave lectures with the titles:

• History of the recent naval wars between 1783 and 1827
• History of shipping
• Shipbuilding theory
• Description and physics of the sea

In 1857 Bobrik went to Danzig and was director of the commercial academy until 1866. In the spring of 1867 he ended his service due to health constraints and became a pensioner. After a long illness he died at the age of 67 in a sanatorium in Schwetz.

Publications

• New practical system of logic , volume 1, Zurich 1838 (co-editor)
• History, basic idea and constitution of Freemasonry Zurich 1838 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library )
• Eduard Bobrik: Text, translation and lighting of the Cölner Urkunde . Zurich 1840 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library)

Some of his other works on Freemasonry have appeared anonymously.

His four-volume life's work Handbook of Practical Maritime Studies with around 3200 printed pages and partly colored illustrations had a history of its own. It was to be published by the publishing house "Das Literarisches Comptoir Zürich und Winterthur " under the direction of Julius Froebel . In 1844 the best years of the publishing house were over and attempts were made to restore the economy by publishing scientific papers. One of the works was that of Bobrik. But in the course of the publisher's ban on publication by the Bundestag , no more works were allowed to be printed. That is why a large part of its circulation was wasted . An attempt was made to cover up the forbidden publisher's statement by sticking new title pages. But it was not until a new company was founded in Leipzig in 1846 that publication was made possible. Part of the edition was also printed in Hamburg at Hoffmann and Campe . That is why the work did not appear until 1848.

The General Nautical Dictionary from 1850 is an abridged version of Johann Hinrich Röding's General Dictionary of the Navy and the edition from 1858, only with a new title page.

literature

• Horst Hamecher: Introduction. In: Eduard Bobrik: Handbook of practical seafaring. Horst Hamecher, Kassel 1978, DNB 550371419 , pp. 7-12.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek