Georg Gottlieb Plato

Georg Gottlieb Plato , also Plato-Wild or Plato, otherwise Wild , (born May 22, 1710 in Regensburg as Georg Gottlieb Wild ; † September 8, 1777 there ) was a German syndic , numismatist and historian .

Life

Plato came from a Regensburg patrician dynasty and was the son of Johann Christoph Wild, who was a member of the internal and secret council and first deputy of the Imperial Regensburg directorate. He was adopted on June 29, 1724 by his friend, the Count Palatine , attorney at the Court of Justice Johann Heinrich Plato . It was decreed that he should use the name Plato, otherwise Wild .

Plato graduated from the Protestant school in Regensburg , studied at the University of Strasbourg Medicine and at the University of Leipzig jurisprudence . After long journeys through the German states, he returned to Regensburg in 1737 and became a member of the city court, in 1742 a syndic and at the same time head of the secret registry and from 1743 at the same time city ​​clerk . In 1760 he was elected a member of the newly founded Churbaier Academy of Sciences in Munich . He took care of the history of Regensburg and organized the Regensburg archives in the late 18th century .

Plato was the owner of the Regensburg Goliathhaus .

There is a Plato-Wild-Straße in Regensburg .

Works (selection)

• Origin of the Regensburg Hansgrave Office , Monday, Regensburg 1762.
• Conjectures why the double eagle appearing on Emperor Ludwig the Fourth golden coin could not be the double imperial eagle , Monday, Regensburg 1762.
• Letter to PT Mr. Georg Friederich von Berberich ... regarding the Hof Geißmarische Münz in his coin cabinet , Monday, Regensburg 1765.
• Investigation of whether the coins marked with Numero XX and XXI, presented by Mr. Johann Georg von Eckhart in the declaration of an old treasure chest on the third copper plate, can be ascribed to Heinrich Duke of Braunschweig and Count Palatine on the Rhine , Monday, Regensburg 1765.
• Georg Gottlieb Plato otherwise wild assumptions that the Bajoarii do not come from the Gallic Bojis but from the Longobardis and are a branch of this nation , Monday, Regensburg 1777.
• Georg Gottlieb Plato, otherwise Wild, increased doubts that the double imperial eagle did not appear on Emperor Ludwig the Fourth golden coin , Monday, Regensburg 1778.

literature

• Clemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Volume 1, Part Two M – Z, Jenisch and Stage, Augsburg and Leipzig 1824, pp. 146–148.
• Sigmund Ritter von Riezler :  Plato, Georg Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 74 f.
• Rudolf Reiser : Plato-Wild, Georg Gottlieb. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 592 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Works by and about Georg Gottlieb Plato  in the German Digital Library