Friedrich Federau

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Friedrich Federau (born May 20, 1755 in Lübeck , † June 8, 1840 ) was a German philologist , educator and librarian .

Life

Federau was the son of a baker who immigrated from Königsberg. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied at the universities of Jena and from 1779 Göttingen . After his return to Lübeck, he began teaching at the Katharineum. In 1783 he was elected sub-rector to succeed Ludwig Suhl . In 1789 he was one of the 25 founders of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . In 1796 he became vice rector, 1801 vice rector. In 1806 the Senate appointed him professor. He was retired on March 20, 1822. Since that time he did not cease to move with pleasure in the most varied branches of literature, just as he took a leisurely part in everything that happened around him.

Federau's office as sub-rector from 1783 to 1796 was traditionally associated with the management of the Lübeck city library . Federau devoted himself to the cataloging of the Scharbauische Library , which the pastor Heinrich Scharbau had sent to the city library in his will together with acquisition material, with the condition that it was to be set up and managed separately. From 1788 to 1790 Federau compiled the real catalog of this inventory in 3 folio volumes: Part 1: Theology; Part 2: History; Part 3: Philology and Philosophy. Each subject area is roughly systematically structured according to formats. Federau's catalog was continued into the late 19th century. Heinrich Kunhardt was his successor .

Works

  • Mr. John Richardson's Treatise on the Languages, Literature and Customs of Eastern Peoples. Leipzig: Weygand 1779
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • On benevolence: historically and philosophically in letters. Leipzig: Weygand 1781
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • From libraries. Lübeck: Green 1789
  • Reassurance for the present and an invitation to prepare for better times. Lübeck 1810
  • About lack of character and character. Lübeck 1816
  • On the discharge and increase of the English national debt. 1821

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Jacob : Chronicle , in thirty-five continuation of brief news about the Catharineum in Lübeck. ( School program ) Lübeck 1841
  2. ^ Entry on the city library in the online version of the handbook of historical book holdings
personal data
SURNAME Federau, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, educator and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1840