Georg Gottfried Küster

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Georg Gottfried Küster (born January 1695 in Halle (Saale) ; † February 28, 1776 in Berlin ) was a German schoolboy and historian .

Life

Küster was the son of a tailor and a preacher's daughter, granddaughter of Adam Olearius . Since 1712, he played at the University of Halle , a study of theology , but also attended lectures by Johann Gottlieb Heineccius for Roman and German legal history. After that he was briefly employed in Berlin as a tutor from 1716 . In 1718 he was appointed principal of the school in Tangermünde . He returned to Berlin in 1723 and was at the Cöllnisches Gymnasium until 1728 . Also in 1728 Küster became a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences . He finally found his professional development first as vice rector and from 1732 until his death as rector of the Friedrichswerder grammar school .

Works

  • Tangermündic Memories , 1722
    • Annales Tangermundenses , Magdeburg 1636/1651 (with Caspar Helmreich)
    • Altmark History Book , Zerbst 1651/1729 (Ed .: Andreas Rittner)
  • Biography of Nikolaus Leutinger and a brief overview of Brandenburg historians , 1729
  • Bibliotheca historica Brandenburgica , 1743
    • Accessiones , 1768
  • Collectio opusculorum historiam Marchicam illustrantium , 1727–31 and 1733–53
  • Memorabilia Coloniensia, XIX specimina , 1731
  • Marchiae litteratae specimina , 1740-62
  • History of the Seidel family , 1751
  • Old and New Berlin , 1737, 1752, 1756, 1769 (with Johann Christoph Müller)

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personal data
SURNAME Küster, Georg Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German schoolboy and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1776
Place of death Berlin