Friedrich Andreas Stroth

Friedrich Andreas Stroth, engraving by Johann Conrad Krüger (1783) after Ernst Christian Specht (1739–1803)

Friedrich Andreas Stroth (born March 5, 1750 in Tribsees , † June 25, 1785 in Lauchstädt ) was a classical philologist and Protestant theologian .

Life

Stroth attended grammar school in Greifswald and studied philology and theology at the universities of Greifswald and Halle . After completing his studies, he was appointed rector of the Quedlinburg grammar school in 1775 by the abbess of the Quedlinburg monastery, Amalie von Prussia, to succeed Johann Jakob Rambach . His inauguration took place on January 28, 1774.

After five years in Quedlinburg, Stroth followed a call from Duke Ernst II to Gotha . There he was appointed to the Sachschen-Gotha church council and the successor of Johann Gottfried Geißler as rector of the high school illustrious of the city. The inauguration took place on September 1, 1779. He brought the grammar school to a new bloom and, among other things, had the effect that teachers found to be incapable were removed from the teaching post. Stroth fell ill with a lung disease at an early age and died at the age of 35 on a trip to his home country.

Stroth's theological orientation is classified as committed to the Enlightenment . He is also said to have been in various exchanges and friendships with scientists from different disciplines.

Works (selection)

• with Paul Jakob Bruns : Handbook of the old description of the earth for the use of the eleven larger Danvillian maps written from the best sources. Following the instructions of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville . Weigel and Schneider, Nuremberg 1783.
• Aegyptiaca seu veterum scriptorum de rebus Aegypti commentarii et fragmenta. 2 volumes, Ettinger, Gotha 1784.
• Eklogai sive Chrestomathia Graeca. 3rd edition, Biesterfeld, Quedlinburg 1792.
• Eusebii Church History. Introduction. Cheaper edition, Ernst, Quedlinburg 1799.

Editions

• Theocritus : Theocriti Idyllia. Ettinger, Gotha 1782.
• Xenophon : Memorabilia Socratis Graece. Ettinger, Gotha 1788.
• Titus Livius : Opera omnia. 7 volumes, Ettinger, Gotha 1816–1819 (continued by Friedrich Wilhelm Doering ).

Translations

• Diodor : Library of History. 6 volumes, Hermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1782–1787 (continued by Johann Friedrich Salomon Kaltwasser ).
• Eusebius of Caesarea : Church History. Cheaper edition, 2 volumes, Ernst, Quedlinburg 1799.

literature

• Max Schneider: The teachers of the high school illustrious in Gotha. Part 2. Engelhard-Reyher, Gotha 1902, p. 4 f., No. 154 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Koldewey :  Stroth, Friedrich Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 624-627.
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume XIII, Fleischer, Leipzig 1813, pp. 487-490.

Web links

• Works by and about Friedrich Andreas Stroth  in the German Digital Library