Friedrich August Ukert

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Friedrich August Ukert (born October 28, 1780 in Eutin , † May 18, 1851 in Gotha ) was a German philologist and historian .

Life

Friedrich August Ukert attended the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in his hometown and studied in Halle and Jena from 1800 . From 1804 he worked as a private tutor, including in Weimar , where in 1807 he became the tutor of the two sons of Friedrich Schiller , Karl Ludwig Friedrich and Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm , who had died two years earlier . In 1808 he followed a call to Gotha , where he first worked as an inspector at the Illustre grammar school , then as a librarian at the ducal library. In addition to translations of historical and geographical works, he published works on demonology and library history.

Since 1842 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Friedrich August Ukert found his final resting place in Gotha Cemetery II , but the grave is no longer preserved today.

Others

The lunar crater Ukert has been named after him since 1935 .

Friedrich August Ukert's son August Ukert was President of the Senate at the Imperial Court .

Ukert's colleague at the Gothaer Gymnasium Illustre , the historian Johann Georg August Galletti , immortalized him in one of his famous catheter flowers: I, Professor Ukert and I, the three of us went on a trip.

Works (selection)

as an author

  • About the manner of the Greeks and Romans to determine the distances and about the stage. An attempt . Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1813.
  • Investigations into the geography of Hecateus and Damask . Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1814.
  • Notes on Homer 's Geography . Publishing house of the Geographical Institute, Weimar 1814.
  • Geography of the Greeks and Romans from the earliest times to Ptolemy . Verlag des Geographisches Institut, Weimar 1816–46 (3 vols.).
  • Contributions to the older literature or peculiarities of the ducal library in Gotha . Verlag Dyk, Leipzig 1835–38 (3 volumes, together with Friedrich Jacobs ).
  • The Amazons . New edition Weiß Verlag, Munich 1849.
  • About demons, heroes and geniuses . Weidmann Publishing House, Leipzig 1850.

as editor

  • History of the European states (general history of states). Verlag Perthes, Gotha 1828 ff. (Together with Arnold Heeren ).

as translator

  • Anne Louis François Delorme Billet: Memories of Stéphanie Louise von Bourbon-Conti . Niemann, Lübeck 1809.
  • Francis Beaufort : Caramania or description of the south coast of Asia Minor . Publishing house Saxon private state industrial comptoirs, Weimar 1821.
  • John Macdonald Kinneir: Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia and Kurdistan, in the years 1813 and 1814 . Publishing house Saxon private state industrial comptoirs, Weimar 1821.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg August Galletti: Gallettiana. Delicious and thoughtful to read , Berlin 1876, No. 405

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Ukert, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1851
Place of death Gotha