Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching

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Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching (born December 21, 1762 in Uffenheim , Principality of Ansbach ; † March 11, 1800 in Erlangen ) was a German polymath and author of reference works ( lexicographer ).

Life

As the son of the Ansbach Council and senior physician in Uffenheim and Creglingen, Wilhelm Simon Christian Hirsching, and his wife, b. Mayer, Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching grew up in Uffenheim. After his father died when Friedrich Karl Gottlob was seven years old, he was taken in by his uncle and godfather, the Bayreuth Secret Council and Consistorial President Johann Gottlob Mayer. He received a good education at the Princely School in Neustadt an der Aisch and was also taught by private tutors. In 1782 he moved to the University of Erlangen , where he studied law as well as history, natural history (especially botany) and economics with Johann Georg Meusel and Heinrich Friedrich Delius . From 1786 he worked as a private tutor for the secret council of Buirette in Wilhelmsdorf and Erlangen.

On February 7, 1788, he passed his exams to become a master of philosophy, and on February 8 to obtain a university teaching permit. He usually only announced his lectures, but did not hold them, since, according to G. W. A. ​​Fikenscher, he did not want to read for a few listeners, but could not hope for many listeners for the remote topics he had chosen.

In 1792, Hirsching was appointed associate professor of philosophy in Erlangen and in 1795 also delivered the required dissertation, from the defense of which he was exempted due to his poor health. On October 3, 1796 he was accepted into the Erfurt Academy of Useful Sciences. He died in March 1800 at the age of 37.

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Article about the Speyer Prince-Bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten , from Historisches Literarisches Handbuch , Volume 3, 1797

Hirsching was an immensely fruitful author and began publishing practical reference works as a student, initially on libraries and other collections as well as monasteries. His 17-volume historical literary handbook of famous and memorable people is a comprehensive biographical encyclopedia about people of the 18th century.

Samuel Baur judged Hirsching in 1803 as a “hard-working literary collector, but without outstanding talents, who moreover committed many sins against good taste and, through his insulting vehemence, got involved in many learned disputes” . In 1806 Fikenscher emphasized the "many" , in some areas such as botany or economics even "extensive knowledge" of Hirsching and praised his important collection of rare plants and other natural historical treasures, especially insects. He continues to write about him - somewhat more mildly than Baur - about him: “He was polite in dealings, and very agreeable and amicable in services, but also, in addition to some peculiarities that he possessed when he was irritated or imagined he was , extremely passionate. "

Works

Monographs and reference works

  • Attempt to describe interesting libraries in Germany according to the alphabetical order of the cities , 4 volumes, 1786–1791
  • News from interesting collections of paintings and engravings, collections of coins, gems, art and natural objects, collections of models, machines, physical and mathematical instruments, anatomical specimens and botanical gardens in Germany; in alphabetical order of the cities , 6 volumes, 1786–1792
  • Dissertatio de Historicis, natione germanis, qui per semisaeculum primum XVIII. floruerunt , 1788
  • General archive for country and ethnology , 2 volumes, 1790–1791
  • Memorabilia for geography and ethnology. First part , 1792
  • Historically Geographical Topographical Stifts und Closter Lexicon, or directory and description of all dioceses, collegiate churches, abbeys and prelatures, founders, commentaries, male and female monasteries, probsties, Jesuit colleges, hermitages, etc. of Germany, which not only were formerly, but also really are [... ] First volume. AD , 1792 (remained without continuation)
  • Historical literary handbook of famous and memorable people who died in the 18th century; or brief biographical and historical news of famous emperors, kings, princes, of great generals, statesmen, popes, archbishops and bishops, cardinals, scholars of all sciences, painters, sculptors, mechanics, artists, and other remarkable people of both sexes , 17 volumes , 1794-1815
  • Dissertatio de florente statu Burggraviatus Norici, quoties post decessum lineae superioris, inferior in possessionem totius Burggraviatus veniret Norimbergensis , 2 parts, 1785/1795
  • Germany's National Calendar for a thorough knowledge of the current state of all German states and countries, to the year 1796 , 1795

Editing

  • JF Kirchner's practical instruction on gardening, especially the driving of pineapples, grapes, peaches, melons, asparagus, etc. (reviewed by Hirsching, promoted to print and provided with a preface for the education of aloes and foreign plants), 1796

Essays

(Selection)

  • Directory of copper engravings and works in black art by Johann Elias Haid in Augsburg , in: Meusels Miscellaneen artistic content, issue 28, pp. 222-252
  • Message from the excellent copist Johann Leonhard Städtler zu Neustadt an der Aisch , in: Meusels Museum für Künstler, St. 4, p. 91
  • Directory of portraits of German scholars and typesetters now living , in: Meusels Museum für Künstler, St. 7, 8 and 11
  • Replica against the attempted something by Mr. Rector Mertens in Augsburg against my attempt to describe libraries of interest , in: Journal von und für Teutschland 1788, St. 7, pp. 48–51
  • From the origin of the Dratzieher. A contribution to the history of handicrafts in Nuremberg , in: Journal von und für Teutschland 1788, St. 8, p. 101
  • Message from a society of scholars and literary friends, which was donated at the University of Erlangen , in: Journal von und für Teutschland 1788, St. 12, p. 465
  • Contribution of idiotisms from Hohenlohe , in: Journal von und für Teutschland 1789, St. 1, p. 59
  • List of accidents from which people died in the Principality of Baireuth in the years 1777–1787 , in: Journal von und für Teutschland 1791, St. 6, pp. 518–542
  • About the compliance of the librarians. An addendum to the city pastor's request at the end of Kaufbeuern , Allgemeine literarischer Anzeiger 1798, pp. 2117–2120, and 1799, pp. 241–248
  • Contributions to the Senkenbergian Supplement of Lipenius ' Bibliotheca real. jurid. , to the Journal von und für Franken (1790–1795), to the Franconian Mercury, to the Reichsanzeiger
  • Reviews in the Gothaische learned newspaper, in the Erlanger learned newspaper (since 1787), in the Oberdeutsche Literaturzeitung (since 1788), in the Mainz annals of learned things (1790/1791)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Hirsching, Friedrich Karl Gottlob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirsching, Friedrich Carl Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Uffenheim
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1800
Place of death gain