Elias Caspar Reichard

Elias Caspar Reichard , also Kaspar (born November 4, 1714 in Quedlinburg , † September 18, 1791 in Magdeburg ) was a German educator and writer.

Life

Reichard was the son of a linen damask weaver and, according to his father's wishes, initially took up this profession. As a journeyman, he went on a journey to Köthen and Halle (Saale) in 1733 . From the journeyman's hostel in Halle, he applied to the principal of the school of the orphanage Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen , where he finished school in 1736. In October 1736 he began studying theology and humanities at the University of Leipzig , which he finished in 1738 at the University of Halle and where he found his first job as a teacher at his old school. Shortly thereafter, in 1739, Abbot Johann Adam Steinmetz of the Berge monastery appointed him to the local school.

In 1740 he was appointed by the Danish government to the Academic Gymnasium of the Christianeum in Altona as a professor of eloquence and poetry, where he founded the Altona scholar newspapers and translated Ludvig Holberg's writings from Danish into German .

At the beginning of 1745 he was offered a professorship at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig , where he worked on the Braunschweig advertisements . In 1749 he published a translation of Isaac Watts ' Humility as Die Humuth: according to the most distinguished sources and various advantages of the same in the example and character of the Apostle Pauli, with incidental remark of mutual vice .

In 1754 he was appointed rector of the old town high school in Magdeburg . However, he was only able to take up the post in 1755 because of a rival lawsuit by the rector there, whereupon he remained in his post for 30 years and had to give it up in 1784 because of his increasing hearing loss with age.

Reichard dealt in depth and critically with magic and superstition and collected ghost and ghost stories of various origins in order to continue and improve a collection of Eberhard Daniel Hauber (1691–1765).

Fonts

• Dissertatio philosophica probans animam et perfici posse et a pveritia debere. Defendent: Christian Bendixen; Altona: Korte 1744

Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

• An attempt at a history of German language art. Hamburg 1747, Reprint Hildesheim 1978

Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

• Contribution to the doctrine of the ghosts and apparitions of the spirits. In: Braunschweigische advertisements 1752, 30th item, Sp. 585-588; 32nd piece, col. 625-631; 35th piece, col. 681-685.
• An old German magic song against quartan fever. In: Braunschweigische advertisements 1755, 16th issue, Sp. 321–326
• Mixed contributions to convey a closer insight into the entire spirit realm. To reduce and eradicate unbelief and superstition. Edited as a continuation of D. David Eberhard Haubers Magische Bibliotheck, 2 volumes, Helmstedt 1781, 1788

Digitized volume 1 (1st St. 1-4), Bavarian State Library

• Matthäus and Veit Konrad Schwarz described in detail and commented on their strangest living conditions and variously changing costumes from two originals in the Ducal Braunschweig art and natural history cabinets [...]. A contribution to the history of clothing fashions, to the advancement of human knowledge and to the knowledge of the German language of the 16th century. Magdeburg 1786

Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

literature

• Richard Hoche :  Reichard, Elias Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 621 f.
• Dieter Cherubim: Reichard, Elias Caspar. In: Lexicon for the history of witch persecution , ed. v. Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller and Jürgen-Michael Schmidt, in: historicum.net, online , accessed on April 7, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Cherubim (lit.)