Friedrich Strunz

Friedrich Strunz (also: Struntz; Strunzius ; * March 5, 1680 in Marienberg ; † April 23, 1725 in Wittenberg ) was a German literary scholar and philologist.

Life

Strunz, who came from a long-established family in the mountain town of Marienberg, had his first education there. Having trained at a Saxon grammar school, he acquired the university entrance qualification. He moved to the University of Wittenberg on September 2, 1699 , where on April 27, 1703 he acquired the degree of Master of Philosophy. After giving private lectures there, he was accepted on September 28, 1709 as an adjunct of the philosophical faculty.

His interests were very diverse, so that he can be proven as a candidate for theology in 1713. After David Theodosius Lehmann died, the chair for poetry at the Wittenberg Faculty of Philosophy was replaced. The Polish King and Saxon Elector August the Strong decided, contrary to the proposals of the Wittenberg Academy, to entrust Strunz with this task in 1715. As a professor of poetics, he gave lectures on ancient poets and mythology. Among other things, one of his listeners was Johann Christian Günther .

Strunz, who wanted to expand his frequent reading business to include other parts of the philosophical sciences, failed with that request at the Saxon court. After Strunz was elected rector of the Wittenberg University in the summer semester of 1722 , he died at the age of 45 as dean of the philosophical faculty. His writings are neither numerous nor extensive. Apart from a few Latin poems and ceremonial speeches, they are mostly shorter treatises, partly theological, partly historical, but mostly philological in content. One last work Schedisma de vero usu verborum mediorum contra Kusterum remained unprinted.

Selection of works

• Historiam Bardesanis ac Bardesanistarum
• Disquifitiones de duobus antiquis Saxoniae pagis Misani ac Daleminci Rutgersii glossarium graecum with animadversionibus. Wittenberg 1719
• Investigation of Martin Meelfeeler's letter of declaration because of his apostasy on papacy, with a preface by D. Wernsdorff. Wittenberg 1713
• Disp. De vera linguarum eruditione. 1707
• De linguis Mercurio sactis. Wittenberg 1716
• De hercinia silva. Wittenberg 1716
• De Hercinia silva. Wittenberg 1717
• De Homero jure consultorum oraculo. Wittenberg 1717
• De ululate in sacris Minervae. Wittenberg 1719
• De religio Lutherana mater sit & nutrix tyrannidis politicae. Wittenberg 1703
• De titulis Electoris Saxonis. 1713
• The electione ex libro collectionum Joh. Buxtorfii. 1715
• De opera Poetarum inprimis latinorum ad illustrandam historiam Sax.Collota. 1715
• De iride philosophiae ac poeseos symbolo. 1719
• Utrum immolatio Phrixi eadem sit ac Isaaci nec ne. Wittenberg 1721
• De Niso Samsonis symbolo. Wittenberg 1724
• De ululatu in sacris Minervae. 1719
• Conroversiae ex Hist. Ecclesiastica. Wittenberg 1713
• Epistola ad auctorem observ. II. Sect. VI. Biblioth. Nov. Recens. Hal. In qua Rutgersi glossarium a se editum enarratum est. Wittenberg 1721
• Orationes panegyricas
• Carmina

literature

• Friedrich Koldewey :  Strunz, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 669 f.
• Struntz or Strunzius, Friedrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 40, Leipzig 1744, column 1089 f.
• Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid : Small fragments to attempt a scholarly history of bored Marienbergers: a contribution to the city history of Marienberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains. Graz & Gerlach, Freiberg 1806
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .