Gottfried August Meerheim

Gottfried August Meerheim (born September 12, 1753 in Pegau , † January 3, 1802 in Wittenberg ) was a German literary scholar.

Life

Born as son Christian Ernst Meerheim (born February 18, 1720 in Merseburg; † June 30, 1762 in Wittenberg), he enrolled free of charge on February 16, 1761 at the University of Wittenberg , where he received the academic degree of a master's degree on April 30, 1775 attained. After he had acquired the license to teach at universities as Magister Legens on January 25, 1776, he was accepted on February 20, 1776 as an adjunct in the philosophical faculty and supervisor of the university library.

In the winter semester of 1779 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy and politics, although he had not submitted any special papers on practical philosophy. However, he had given lectures on politics and natural law. As a professor of morality and politics, he particularly cultivated poetry and the fine sciences. In his writings he proved that he knew how to interpret the old poets “with taste”. This gave him access to the chair of poetry and antiquity in 1783, in which office he disappointed the expectations placed on him.

Although he had lectured on contemporary European history from public reports and given statistics, he neglected his lectures on the pretext of suffering from hypochondria and other matters to distract himself. Nevertheless, he held the office of Rector of the Wittenberg Academy in the summer semester of 1786 , and when he held his professorship until the end of his life, he had neither wanted nor been able to develop the chair that had been assigned to him.

literature

• Wittenberger Wochenblatt 1779 p. 392; 1783 p. 136
• New Wittenberger Wochenblatt 1802 p. 8
• Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg
• Nikolaus Müller: The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg, Magdeburg Evangelische Buchhandlung Ernst Holtermann , 1912
• Walter Friedensburg "History of the University of Wittenberg" Verlag Max Niemeyer Halle (Saale) 1917
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .