Johann August Görenz

Johann August Görenz (also: Goerens ; born July 10, 1765 in Fürstenwalde , Electorate of Saxony ; † February 3, 1836 in Schwerin , Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ) was a German educator and librarian.

Life

Görenz attended the electoral state school St. Afra in Meißen ; He then enrolled on June 12, 1786 at the University of Wittenberg . In Wittenberg he attended the lectures by Gottfried August Meerheim , Johann Matthias Schröckh , Christian Friedrich Matthäi and Karl Daniel Freyberg . Formed in this way, he acquired the degree of Master of Philosophy on October 17, 1789 . On January 7, 1792 he was given permission to read for universities as a Magister legens. On April 27, 1792 he was accepted as an adjunct in the philosophical faculty.

During his tenure as Wittenberg professor he read about philosophical story that put letters of the Apostle Paul to the Hebrews from said empirical psychology, lectured on the theory of the arts and fine arts according to their own records, led Greek antiquities by Friedrich August Wolf of and developed a special fondness for Greek and Latin poets, especially for Cicero and Terence . A good professor of poetics was probably lost in him. However, the prospect of an academic position in Wittenberg was not particularly great. Although he was given the position of second librarian at the Wittenberg University Library in January 1794, he had also become dean of the philosophical faculty in the summer semester of 1794 , but he was looking for a challenge in which he could become more absorbed.

In 1795 he accepted an appointment as rector of the grammar school in Plauen . Despite all the vigor and all the energy that he put into this task, he did not succeed in further developing the unfashionable institution. It may have been due to decrepit officials who did not support him, and also to the township. Even the efforts of the young rector to encourage those pupils who had decided to serve in the elementary school through special instruction - he even seems to have thought of setting up a teachers' college - did not serve to improve the institution he was running when he left, there were only 39 students in three classes.

These adversities are likely to have prompted him to go to Zwickau as rector of the grammar school in 1800 . Here he found similar conditions. However, he found excellent comrades-in-arms in the then mayor Hempel and his vice-principal Friedemann to implement his ideas of a modern grammar school. The lessons were improved, the choir gained new status, the domestic diligence of the students was regulated and the discipline was given fixed norms. During this time Görentz also became literary active. However, the Wars of Liberation brought his work to an abrupt end. It was not until 1815 that he was able to reintroduce good manners at grammar school. Maybe it was frustration at the destroyed work that had been lovingly done so far, or the conditions that the new times demanded of him.

In any case, he faced a new challenge in 1817 when he went to the cathedral school in Schwerin as rector on December 23, 1817. Under his leadership, the cathedral school developed into one of the outstanding educational institutions in Mecklenburg. This induced Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg to raise the cathedral school to the status of a grammar school, which for a long time was to enjoy a widely respected reputation as the Fridericianum Schwerin . After Görenz had refused an appointment as a professor in Kiel, he was appointed as the second scholarch in 1819 , to the high school supervisor. In 1833 he asked for dismissal for reasons of age, received a substantial pension and, in old age, still pursued philosophical studies. As a philologist he was a critical editor of the writings of Cicero .

Works

• Diss. Vestigia doctrinae de associtatione, quam vocant idearum libris veterum impressa. Wittenberg 1791
• Diss. I. et II. De finibus imitationibus hodiernae Graecorum Romanorumque Historicorum regundis. Wittenberg 1791
• Diss. De libri. . . qui inter Aristotelis scripta reperitur, auctore. Wittenberg 1792
• Progr. De dialogistica arte Platonis, interpreti hujus rite cognoscenda et aperienda Commentatio I. Wittenberg 1794
• Animadversiones ad Ciceronis librum I. de divinationes. Zwickau 1805
• Progr. Tentamen criticum in loca quaedam carminum Tibullianorum. Zwickau 1806
• Progr.cui insunt duorum codicum scriptorum lectiones in Ciceronis Catilinariam primum. Zwickau 1807
• Progr. Ad examen publ. in Lyceo Zwiecaviensi celebrandum - invitat. Praemittuntur duorum codicum scriptorum lectiones in Ciceronis Catilinariam. . . Zwickau 1809
• Ciceronis Philosophica omnia, ex scriptis recens collatia edidit. Vol. I. Leipzig 1809, Vol. II. Leipzig 1810 also under the title Ciceronis de finib. Honor. Et malor. Libri V.
• Progr. In quaedam Senecae Philosophi loca animadversiones criticae. Zwickau 1812
• About the Gregorius Festival. Zwickau 180?
• Progr. De causis deminuti status scholarum latinarum. Zwickau 180?
• Progr. Critica quaedam ad Xenophontis libellum de Republica Lacedaemoniorum. Zwickau 180?
• Progr. Animadversionis ad Platonis Symposium. Zwickau 180?
• Progr. De vi future exacti optativa. Zwickau 180?
• Progr. Memoriam sacrorum emendationis per Lutherum secularem celebraturus actum oratorium die 1 m. Nov. habendum indicit. Schwerin 1817

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Mayer, Lemgo, 1796 Vol. 2, p. 600, ( online ); 1808, vol. 13, p. 480, ( online ), 1820, vol. 17, p. 739 ( online ), 1830, vol. 22, 2nd volume, p. 396, ( online )
• New necrology of the Germans. Verlag B. Fr. Voigt, Weimar, 1838, 14th vol., 1836, 1st part, p. 137, ( online )
• Conversations Lexicon of the Present. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1839, vol. 2, p. 458, ( online )
• Heinrich Julius Kämmel :  Görenz, Johann August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 373.
• Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3. Halle (Saale), 1966, p. 184
• Reading directories in the “Wittenberger Wochenblatt” from 1792 to 1795