Erdmann Uhse

Erdmann Uhse (born December 1, 1677 in Guben ; died September 5, 1730 in Merseburg ) was a German historian , lexicographer and polyhistor .

Uhse was the son of a craftsman. From 1695 he studied at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1698 as a master of philosophy. In 1711 he became rector of the Merseburg cathedral grammar school and held this position until the end of his life. He was the author and editor of numerous works, especially biographical and historical reference works, which were mainly compiled from other sources. For example, for his Church History of the XVI and XVII. Century extensive use of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff's Historia Lutheranismi , the Memorabilia ecclesiastica seculi XVII of Andreas Carolus , Johann Wolfgang Jäger's Historia ecclesiastica seculi decimi septimi and Gottfried Arnold's Church and Heretic History.

The well-informed speaker published in 1709 was particularly successful, and in 1727 the ninth edition was published. In this guide and set of rules, Uhse gives examples and samples for speeches on various social occasions in which a gradual departure from courtly rhetoric and an adaptation to bourgeois forms can be seen.

Fonts

• Universal-Geographisch-Historisches Lexicón , 3rd ed. 1705
• Scholarly Criticus on all kinds of curieuse dubia and questions, probably from the church profane and scholarly history, as well as from the jure publico ... , 3 parts, 1704
• Well-informed speaker in which the oratorio art grips from the smallest to the largest are presented through Kurtze's questions and detailed answers , 1709 (numerous subsequent editions; reprint 1974)
• Life and deeds of the kings in France, 1710
• Church history of the XVI. and XVII. Century after the birth of Christ, 1710
• Lives of the most famous church teachers and scribes of the XVI and XVII centuries, 1710
• The Roman-Oriental German Kayser remarkable life and deeds or history of Julio Caesare bit Carl VI., 1712
• Curieuses Lexicón of their ecclesiastical scholars, 1714
• Lexicón sive idea Historicorum Latinorum & Graecorum, 1714
• The newly opened Muses-Cabinet uncovered Poetic Wercke, 1715
• Well-informed Poët in which The Poëtische Kunst-Griffe, from the smallest to the largest, is presented through question and answer, and all rules are explained with examples, 1719 ( online in the German Text Archive ).

literature

• Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon . Vol. 11. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh & Munich 1991, p. 468.
• Uhse, Erdmann . In: German Literature Lexicon . Vol. 24: Tsakiridis-Ursinus. Saur, Zurich & Munich 2004, ISBN 3-908255-24-4 , Sp. 334.
• Max von Waldberg :  Uhse, Erdmann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 449 f.
• Uhse, (Erdmann). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 48, Leipzig 1746, column 509 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erdmann Uhse in the catalog of the German National Library