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Gottlob Kranz (also Krantz , born February 24, 1660 in Haugsdorf , Electorate of Saxony , † December 25, 1733 in Breslau ) was a German educator and historian .

Life

Kranz was the son of a Lutheran pastor. He first went to school in Lauban . He then took up studies at the Universities of Helmstedt and Leipzig . In Leipzig, he studied in particular law .

In 1684, Kranz received a call from Duke Silvius Friedrich von Württemberg-Oels to his newly founded Oelser Gymnasium . However, he only stayed there for a year. In 1685 he moved to the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Breslau , where he initially worked as a Preceptor , then from 1688 as Quintus. From 1700 he was prorector of the institute and from 1709 until his death in 1733 its rector . He also held the office of the institution's librarian . In 1709 he became school inspector of all Protestant schools in Wroclaw.

Kranz, who was accepted as a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , was considered a capable and at the same time controversial historian. He held to Wittenberg in theological questions, was seen as an opponent of Christian Thomasius and, among other reasons, opposed Christian Wolff's appointment as third professor at the Elisabeth Gymnasium.

Publications (selection)

  • Pannoniam Suppressam Et Restitutam , Baumann, Breslau 1697.
  • Memorabilia Bibliothecae publicae Elisabetanae Wratislaviensis a fundatore Rehdigerianae dictae , Breslau 1699.
  • Compendium historiae civilis ab orbe condito usque ad annum seculi XVIII vigesimum , Blessing, Breslau 1721.
  • Historia ecclesiastica , Leipzig 1736 (published posthumously by Johann Kaspar Gemeinhardt).

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SURNAME Wreath, thank God
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krantz, thank God
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Haugsdorf , Electorate of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1733
Place of death Wroclaw