Georg Christian Adler

Georg Christian Adler (born May 6, 1724 in Alt-Brandenburg , † November 2, 1804 in Altona , Holstein ) was a German preacher , private scholar and archaeologist .

Life

He was the son of the Kantian teacher of the same name at the " Collegium Fridericianum ", Georg Christian Adler (1674–1751) from Wohlbach in the Vogtland , and Emerentia Zedelt (approx. 1696–1738). Adler married Johanna Elise Schultze in 1755 (* around 1732; † April 3, 1806). The theologian and orientalist Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756–1834) and the lawyer Johann Christoph Georg Adler (1758–1815) came from this marriage .

Adler studied theology in Halle . In the year of his wedding in 1755 he came to Arnis in Schleswig as a preacher and moved to Sarau in 1758 . A year later he went to Altona in 1759, where in 1791 he was appointed provost of the Evangelical Lutheran main church of St. Trinity .

In addition to his professional activity as a clergyman, he dealt with ancient Rome as a highly respected private scholar and wrote several scientific works. In the years 1775/1776 he was in Hamburg that "detailed discussion of Roman antiquities" of the royal Danish physician and antiquarian Georg Christian Maternus de Cilano (1696-1773) as well as out in the years 1778/1779 the eight volumes of "The Titus Livius from Padua Roman History ” in the translation of Cilano. In 1792 he was editor of the book "Sexti Iulii Frontini de Aquae ductibus urbis Romae" by Sextus Iulius Frontinus, which was supplemented by his own comments in Altona .

Publications (selection)

Detailed description of the city of Rome , with 15 folded copperplate engravings and plans, 4 volumes, Altona 1781–1782
News of the Pomtini swamps and their drying up with a detailed chart of the same , Verlag Bohn, Hamburg 1783

literature

Ludwig von Urlichs : Adler, Georg Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 85.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ The ADB mentions the year 1734 as the year of birth, but the year 1724, as mentioned in the "Stammliste Adler" (see web link), appears more likely because the parents married in 1719.

personal data
SURNAME	Adler, Georg Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German preacher and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH	November 2, 1804
Place of death	Altona , Duchy of Holstein

[1] The ADB mentions the year 1734 as the year of birth, but the year 1724, as mentioned in the "Stammliste Adler" (see web link), appears more likely because the parents married in 1719.