Friedrich Exter (philologist)

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Friedrich Christian Exter (born January 4, 1746 in Drusweiler near Bergzabern , † October 25, 1817 in Mannheim ) was a German philologist and publisher.

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Friedrich Exter was one of two sons of the teacher Friedrich Exter and Anna Maria Staedel (1695-1730) from Strasbourg. He himself married a woman named Marg. Elisabeth, whose father was the Heidelberg church councilor Conrad Ludwig Brüning.

Exter first worked as a preceptor in Meisenheim from 1768 and switched to teaching at a grammar school in Zweibrücken in 1770 . In 1777/78 he founded the Societas Bipontina together with Georg Christian Crollius and Johann Valentin Embser . In addition to his work as a philologist, Exter also took over the publishing and distribution and management of Societas Bipontina. From 1780 he had his own printing press and used letters by Pierre Simon Fournier there.

In 1781 Exter left the teaching business and concentrated on the editions he had created. Particularly noteworthy is a 13-volume edition by Cicero (1780/87) and an 11-volume edition of Plato's works , which he created together with Embser. After the French plundered his workshop in 1794, Exter moved the company's headquarters to Strasbourg. Here he worked as a printer until 1811 and then lived as a privateer in Mannheim.

Exter had contacts to the Göttingen Hainbund due to his time as a student and was on friendly terms with Johann Friedrich Hahn and the painter Müller . During their student days in Halle, he probably made friends with Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk , who addressed one of his “Epistles” to Exter.

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SURNAME Exter, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Exter, Friedrich Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Drusweiler near Bergzabern
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1817
Place of death Mannheim