Georg Christoph Pisanski

Georg Christoph Pisanski (born August 13, 1725 in Johannisburg , Masuria , † October 11, 1790 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German theologian , high school teacher and literary historian .

Life

Pisanski was the son of a pastor. The maternal ancestors include Andreas Concius and Georg Andreas Helwig . Even during his school days in Johannisburg and Angerburg , Christoph Hartknoch and Theodor Christoph Lilienthal fascinated him with their view of Prussia . From 1742 he studied at the Albertus University in Königsberg . The focus of the then 200 year old university was Protestant theology and mathematics . Pisanski regularly visited the Silver Library , the Königsberg Public Library and the Wallenrodtsche library . After six years he was appointed as a collaborator at the Altstädtisches Gymnasium . In 1750 he became Vice Rector and in 1751 Vice Rector . Again without his own help, he was accepted into the Royal German Society (Königsberg) at the age of 28 . In 1756 he married Johanna Agnes Liedert from Königsberg.

The Domgymnasium appointed Pisanski as rector in 1759 . Leberecht Cleinow introduced him to the office of pastor at Königsberg Cathedral . After Pisanski obtained his master's degree , he gave lectures on philosophy and history at the Albertus University . In 1762 he took part in the celebrations for the peace of Saint Petersburg . He was in correspondence with Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs in Stettin , Friedrich Konrad Gadebusch in Dorpat and Wilhelm Paul Verpoorten in Danzig . In 1762 he took over the poetic teaching duties from Johann Georg Bock .

The call to the Königsberg chair for theology issued in 1769 was not confirmed by the Crown of Prussia . On the advice of friends, he wrote a theological doctoral thesis with Lilienthal, with which he received his doctorate theologiae in 1773 . Since he wanted to work in peace and feared the burdens of the deanery , he withdrew from all attempts to appeal; in addition to the historical and philosophical lectures, he also gave theological lectures. In 1789 he was appointed consistorial councilor. Ludwig Ernst von Borowski accompanied Pisanski until his death at the age of 65. Borowski was also the first editor of Pisanski Prussian Literary History and wrote his life story.

Publications (selection)

In the year of his death, Pisanski recorded 108 scholarly writings. A list of his writings is listed in the Nekrolog written by Ludwig Ernst von Borowski , which is contained in the preface to Pilsanski's draft of the Prussian Litterary History , Königsberg 1791.

Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. With a note about the author and his book , ed. by Rudolf Philippi . Hartung, Königsberg 1886.
- Volume 1: Older history from the first beginnings of learned knowledge in Prussia to the beginning of the seventeenth century . Königsberg 1791 (full text).
From the libraries, book printers and bookshops in the 17th century. 1850.
From the schools in Königsberg in the seventeenth century. In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 9, Königsberg 1850, pp. 458-467.
On eloquence, poetry and music in the seventeenth century . In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 2, Königsberg 1852, pp. 152-160.

literature

Ludwig Ernst von Borowski : About D. Georg Christoph Pisanski - life, character and writings. Preface to Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of the Prussian Litterary History. Older history from the first beginnings of learned knowledge in Prussia to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Königsberg 1791 (full text).
Karl Lohmeyer : Pisanski, Georg Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 179 f.
Old Prussian Biography , p. 503.
Tadeusz Oracki: Slownik biograficzny Warmii, Prus Ksiazecych i Ziemi Malborski. Part 2, Olsztyn 1988, pp. 79-80.
Klaus Garber : Litterary History and Enlightenment. The work of Georg Christoph Pisanski. In: Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski (ed.): The University of Königsberg in the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20171-5 , pp. 345–378.

Web links

Literature by and about Georg Christoph Pisanski in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Georg Christoph Pisanski in the German Digital Library
Publications by and about Georg Christoph Pisanski in VD 18 .
Steve Naragon: Georg Christoph Pisanski (1725-1790). In: Manchester.edu , draft for an article in: Manfred Kühn, Heiner Klemme (Ed.): The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers. Continuum, London 2010.
Database entry for 136 papers by Pisanski. WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Klaus Garber: Litterärgeschichte and Enlightenment , p. 355.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p.?.
↑ Dissertation: Dissertatio theologica inauguralis de praegustu vitae aeternae, potissimum extraordinario .
^ Pisanski's dissertations in WorldCat
↑ Ludwig Ernst von Borowski : About D. Georg Christoph Pisanski - Life, Character and Writings. Preface to Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of the Prussian Litterary History. Older history from the first beginnings of learned knowledge in Prussia to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Königsberg 1791 (full text).

personal data
SURNAME	Pisanski, Georg Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian, high school teacher and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH	Johannisburg , Masuria
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 1790
Place of death	Koenigsberg i. Pr.

[KG-1] Klaus Garber: Litterärgeschichte and Enlightenment , p. 355.

[RA-2] Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p.?.

[3] Dissertation: Dissertatio theologica inauguralis de praegustu vitae aeternae, potissimum extraordinario .

[4] Pisanski's dissertations in WorldCat

[5] Ludwig Ernst von Borowski : About D. Georg Christoph Pisanski - Life, Character and Writings. Preface to Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of the Prussian Litterary History. Older history from the first beginnings of learned knowledge in Prussia to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Königsberg 1791 (full text).