Friedrich Sickler

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Friedrich Carl Ludwig Sickler (born November 29, 1773 in Graefentonna , † August 8, 1836 in Hildburghausen ) was a German teacher and scholar of antiquity .

Life

Friedrich Sickler's tomb in the Hildburghausen cemetery

Friedrich Sickler was the son of pastor Johann Volkmar Sickler . He married Sophie Auguste nee Schieck (born November 19, 1792 in Hildburghausen; † January 16, 1876 in Weimar ). As his widow, in 1839 she married the general superintendent and court preacher in Weimar, Johann Friedrich Röhr, in third marriage .

Friedrich Sickler attended school in Gotha and Altenburg . He studied theology and philosophy in Jena from 1791 to 1794 and philology in Göttingen from 1794 to 1795 and was awarded a doctorate in Jena in 1798. phil. PhD. In 1802/03 he traveled to Paris with the painter Johann Christian Kühner . From 1805 to 1810 he was tutor at the Prussian ambassador in Rome Wilhelm von Humboldt . In 1812 he was appointed school councilor and first director of the newly founded Georgianum grammar school in Hildburghausen. In 1816 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

He was in his time as a recognized scholar and Egyptologist who Payrusschriftrollen translated expected in Herculaneum found and explored the "Holy priests language" of the Egyptians. The tables he wrote on Roman history and the guide to teaching ancient geography (1826) were at times part of school books.

In 1833, he discovered on a sandstone disk from a quarry in Heßberg at Hildburghausen footprints ( "footprints") of an unknown to him the animal, later by Johann Jakob Kaup as Chirotherium barthii scientifically ( "Hand animal") described were. In retrospect, these are the first scientifically described step seals for extinct land vertebrates .

Sickler's grave in Hildburghausen is adorned with a sphinx and under the name there is a symbolic representation of the course of the sun according to ancient Egyptian views.

Publications (selection)

  • The Gesundbrunnen in Liebenstein . A description . Ettinger, Gotha 1801 ( digitized version ).
  • De monumentis aliquot Graecis, e sepulcro Cumaeo, recenter effosso, erutis, Sacra Dionysiaca, a Campanis veteribus celebrata, horumque doctrinam de animorum post obitum statu illustrantibus. Prolusio orationibus inauguralibus in Gymnasio Hildburghusano AD XXVIII Apr. aCn MDCCXII habendis praemissa a FCL Sickler Gothano (...) Gymnasii Hildburghusani directore (...). Accedunt figurae aeneae. Hildburghausen 1812 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Rudolf Armin Human: Chronicle of the city of Hildburghausen . Hildburghausen 1886, p. 486 ( digitized version ).
  • Albert Schumann :  Sickler, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 768-771.
  • Gerhard Steiner: The Sphinx to Hildburghausen. Friedrich Sickler. A creative spirit of the Goethe era . VCH, Weinheim 1985, ISBN 3-527-17553-9 .
  • Nina Struckmeyer: Sickler, Friedrich . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 266–267.
  • Michael Thimann: Readings of the 'Vite' around 1800. On a Raphael biography by Friedrich Sickler . In: Fabian Jonietz, Alessandro Nova (ed.): Vasari als Paradigm. Reception, Criticism, Perspectives - The Paradigm of Vasari. Reception, Criticism, Perspectives (= Collana del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence - Max Planck Institute. Vol. 20). Conference files, 14.-16. February 2014, Florence, Art History Institute, Max Planck Institute. Marsilio, Venice 2016, ISBN 978-88-317-2661-0 , pp. 81-92.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 225.
  2. ^ Hartmut Haubold: Chirotherium barthii Kaup, 1835 - Reconstruction of the type occurrence. In: Geobiology. 74th Annual Conference of the Palaeontological Society , Göttingen, October 2nd to 8th, 2004. Göttingen 2004, pp. 101-102 restricted preview in the Google book search

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personal data
SURNAME Sickler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sickler, Friedrich Carl Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and classical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Count donna
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1836
Place of death Hildburghausen