Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler

Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler (born December 25, 1764 in Wolgast ; † January 27, 1811 in Greifswald ) was a German economist , historian and geographer who worked as a private lecturer or professor at the universities of Göttingen and Greifswald .

Life

Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler was born in Wolgast in 1764 and attended school in his hometown and from 1781 to 1783 the Sundisches Gymnasium in Stralsund . He then studied history , geography , statistics and the Swedish language at the University of Göttingen . After completing his studies, he also received his doctorate and habilitation in Göttingen , and worked as a private lecturer in history, geography, statistics and cameralistics .

In addition, from July 1789 to February 1791 in Göttingen he published the “General Political State Newspaper for All Estates”, for which he ran his own university and newspaper printing company, and in 1797 founded an “Academic Reading Museum”. Two years later he was appointed professor for statistics, political economy, cameral, financial and commercial sciences at the University of Greifswald , where he worked until his death in 1811.

Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler was married from 1809 to Wilhelmina Maria Florentina Brüggemann, a sister of the Stralsund landscape painter and drawing teacher Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann . His eldest son Rechtlieb Friedrich Biedermann Canzler (* 1805; † September 7, 1866) was vice-principal at the Greifswald City High School , where he taught mathematics and physics.

Works (selection)

New magazine for modern history, geography and ethnology. Leipzig 1790
English language teaching for Germans. Goettingen 1796
General literature archive for history, geography and statistics. Leipzig 1792–1798 (as editor)
Map of the fifth part of the world or Polynesia or Australia or South India. Nuremberg 1795, 1805 and 1806 (and 1813 with corrections by Christian Gottlieb Reichard)
Front India or Hindostan or also East India on the other side of the Ganges. Nuremberg 1804

literature

Adolf Häckermann : Canzler, Friedrich Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 769.
Dietrich Denecke , Helga-Maria Kühn , Ernst Böhme, Rudolf von Thadden, Rudolf Vierhaus, Günter J. Trittel: Göttingen: history of a university town. Volume 2. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002. ISBN 3-52-536197-1 . P. 1018.

Individual evidence

↑ Wedding book of the Protestant Nikolaigemeinde Greifswald 1792-1827
↑ Otto Peters: The restorer of St. Marien Stralsund, For the 200 birthday of Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann. In: Die Kirche (Evangelical weekly newspaper), issue 51/52 of December 21, 1986.
↑ General German Biography, Volume 3, 1876

Web links

Literature by and about Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature on Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler in the state bibliography MV
Map of the fifth part of the world or Polynesia or Australia or South India Digitized versions ( National Library of Australia )

predecessor	Office	successor
Lorenz Wilhelm von Haselberg	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1808	Johann Quistorp

personal data
SURNAME	Canzler, Friedrich Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist, historian and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolgast
DATE OF DEATH	January 27, 1811
Place of death	Greifswald

[1] Wedding book of the Protestant Nikolaigemeinde Greifswald 1792-1827

[2] Otto Peters: The restorer of St. Marien Stralsund, For the 200 birthday of Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann. In: Die Kirche (Evangelical weekly newspaper), issue 51/52 of December 21, 1986.

[3] General German Biography, Volume 3, 1876