Heinrich Karl Eichstädt

Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt

Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt (born August 8, 1771 in Oschatz , † March 4, 1848 in Jena ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Eichstädt was born as the son of the Oschatz archdeacon Johann Abraham Eichstädt and his wife Concordia Elisabeth Heinrich. He was baptized on August 11 of the same year, with the superintendent Johann Carl Friedrich von Brause , the apparently related aunt Rosina Dorothea Heinrich and the merchant and city judge Johann Heinrich acting as godparents . Baptized in the name of Heinrich Carl Abraham, he received his first suggestions in his parents' house, whereby his father conveyed an early interest in philological issues in him. At the city school in his hometown his basic knowledge was trained under the direction of the rector Johann Gottfried Zimmermann and given an electoral Saxon scholarship. On March 27, 1783, he moved to the electoral Saxon state school in Pforta . Here Johann Gottfried Geißler , Friedrich Gottlieb Barth and Christian Gottlieb Hildebrandt (* around 1745 in Oschatz; † July 9, 1799 Schulpforta) were his teachers.

He left this educational institution on March 1, 1787 to enroll at the University of Leipzig on June 4, 1787 . After giving lectures on philosophy with Ernst Platner , mathematics and physics with Carl Friedrich Hindenburg , philology with Christian Daniel Beck , rhetoric and literature with Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz , theology with Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More , and legal issues with Christian Gottlieb Haubold , had graduated, Eichstädt acquired the academic degree of Magister in Philosophy on February 25, 1789. In 1793 he completed his habilitation with the defense of the habilitation thesis De dramatae Graecorum comico-satyrico, inprimis de Sosithei Lythiersa at the philosophical faculty there as a lecturer and in 1795 became associate professor of philosophy. Since he was denied further professional activities in Leipzig, he moved to the University of Jena as honorary professor of philosophy in 1797 and at the same time became co-editor of the Jenaer Allgemeine Literaturzeitung .

Here he became director of the Latin Society in 1800, in 1801 he was appointed Hofrat von Sachsen-Meiningen and when Christian Gottfried Schütz moved to Halle at the end of 1803, he took over his full professorship for rhetoric and poetics. In the latter role he gave lectures on the Greek and Latin classics, discussed Greek and Roman antiquities, taught philological encyclopedia and literary history. From 1804 the Neue Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung appeared under his leadership and in the same year he became the senior librarian of the Jena university library. In 1808 he received an honorary theological doctorate from the University of Göttingen , in 1809 he became Privy Councilor of Saxony-Weimar, in the same year received an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Rinteln and in 1811 became the overseer of the Kleberischer Free Table. In 1812 he was given the supervision of the Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenachischen, as well as the supervision of the Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburger and in 1815 the Sachsen-Meininger Landeskinder. In 1813 he was also given supervision of the Jena Konviktorium and in 1817 he became director of the philological seminar. In Jena he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters 1812, 1820, 1826 and in the winter semester 1814 .

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Eichstädt was considered one of the most important classical philologists of his time. He is best known for his Latin speeches and occasional writings. For example, on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Queen Victoria, he wrote a poem, a copy of which has been preserved in the Coburg State Library . Hermann Johann Christian Weissenborn (1813–1886; Jena 1850) completed a collection of his Opuscula oratoria that he had started himself . This earned him all kinds of recognition and shows his entire oeuvre chronologically. Some of his writings are editions of classics that remained unfinished, such as Diodoros (Halle 1800–1802, 2 volumes), Lucretius (Volume 1, Leipzig 1801), some critical treatises, some translations, e. B. from William Mitford's History of Greece .

Eichstädt received honorable appointments from the world of scholars as a member

• the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich,
• the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam,
• of the Imperial Russian University of Moscow ( accepted as honorary member at the same time as Goethe , Wieland and the Ducal Weimar Privy Councilor Wilhelm von Woliehen ),
• the Russian Imperial Society of Naturalists in Gorenky,
• the royal academy of useful sciences in Erfurt,
• the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Arts,
• the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences in Frankfurt an der Oder,
• the royal Prussian German society in Königsberg (Prussia),
• the philological society in Leipzig,
• the natural research society in Halle (Saale),
• the Wetterauische Gesellschaft for all natural history in Hanau ,
• of the Latin Society in Jena (honorary member and director) and full assessor of the Mineralogical Society in Jena.

He was also honored by some potentates. In 1841 he became a Knight of the North Star Order , was a knight of the Saxon-Weimar White Falcon Order , in 1837 commander of the Ernestine House Order and knight of the Saxon Civil Service Order . In 1839 he received the honorary citizenship of Oschatz, as well as an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty, as well as from the law faculty of the Jena Salana. In the Leipzig district of Stötteritz, the Untere and Obere Eichstädtstraße were named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• De dramate Graecorum comico-satyrio, imprimis de Solithei Lystieras. Leipzig 1793
• Adumbratio quaestionis de carminum Theocriteorum ad genera sus revocatorum indole ac virtutibus. Leipzig 1793
• Sam. Ms. Nath. Mori Acroases in epistolas Paulinas ad Galatas et Ephisios. Leipzig 1795
• Quaestionum philogicarum Specimen. Leipzig 1796
• Sam. Ms. Nath. Mori super Hermeneutica Novi Testamenti Acroases academicae, editioni aptatae, praefatione et additamentis instructae. Vol. I et II. Leipzig 1797, 1802
• Acroasis pro Societatis Latinae Ienensis instauratione. Jena 1800
• Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae historicae libri qui supersunt ac deperditorum fragmenta. Graeca emendavit, notationem argumentorum subiecit, Latinam Laur. Rhodomani interpretationem castigavit, et notas vivorum doctorum ex editione Petri Wesselingii integras cum suis animadversionibus indicibusque locupletissimis adiunxit. Vol. I Hall 1800, Vol. II Hall 1802
• T. Lucretii Cari de reum natura libri sex, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem emendati, cum Rich. Bentleii animadversionibus, Gilb. Wakefieldi praefationibus et commentariis integris caeterorumque interpretum praestantissimorum observationibus selectis edidit, suas notas et indices copiosissimos adiecit. Vol. I. Leipzig 1801
• Quaestionum philologicarum novum Specimen. Jena 1804
• History of Greece, a free translation of the Engl. Work by Wilhelm Mitford. Leipzig 1802-1808, 6th vol.
• Progr. Supplementum Longi Pastoralium, ex Codice Florentino nuper vulgatum, nune diligentius editum. Jena 1811
• Progr. Phaedri quae feruntur Fabulae XXXII in Italia nuper repertae, nunc primum in Germania editae, adiunctis Dorvillii et Burmanni emendationibus. Jena 1812
• Progr. Hieronymi de Bosch Curae secundae in Horatii epistolam ad Pisones de arte poetica e schedis b. Auctoris nunc primum editae. Jena 1812
• Memoriam Viri Perillustris, Christiani Gottl. de Voigt. JUD Vimariae d. 19 May a. 1813 defuncti, cibus commendat Universitas litterarum Ienensis. Jena 1813
• Panegyrin honori et memoriae Viri Perillustris, Aug. Frid. Caroli LB de Ziegesar, insttuendam Academiae Ienensis auctoritate indicit. Jena 1814
• Progr. Flaviani de Jesu Christo testimonii. . . quo jure nuper rursus defensa sit. Quaestio I-IV. Jena 1813-1814
• Vitae parallelae Joannis Jacobi Griesbachii et Caroli Christiani Erhardi Schmidii. Part. I., II., III. Jena 1815-1816
• Some hints for advancing humanistic studies to universities. Jena 1816
• Progr. Drama Christianum, quod. . . . . . inscribitur, num Gregorio Nazianzeno tribuendum sit. Jena 1816
• Progr. M. Cornelii Frontonis operum nuer in lucem protractorum notitia et specimen. Jena 1816
• De Symmachi Orationum particulis, from Ang. Maio nuper in lucem protractis. Jena 1816
• Progr. Theologiae studium academicum sex semestribus descriptum. Part. I., II., III.,. 1816-1817
• Progr. De jurisprudentiae studio, semestribus academicis recte accommodando. Jena 1818
• Progr. De medicinae studio, semestribus academicis recte accommodando. Jena 1817
• Progr. De. principum Saxonicorum Ernestinae prosapiae in religionem, ecclesiam, litteras meritis. Jena 1817
• Progr. Davidis Ruhnkenii in antiquitates Romanas lectiones academicae cum annotatione editoris. IV. Jena 1818-1822
• Progr. De Lygdami Carminibus, quae nuper appellata sunt. Commentatio I. Jena 1819
• Progr. De supposito versu paenultimo in Horatii Oda prima. Jena 1818
• Progr. De suppositis versibus in Horatii Oda III, 11, 17-20. Jena 1819
• Inscripto arenaria, Treveris nuper reperta. Jena 1819
• Progr. Lucianus num scriptis suis adiuvare religionem Christianam voluerit. Jena 1820
• Progr. De servitute luminum et ne luminibus officiatur, ad explicandum Ciceronis locum I Orat. 39. Commentatio I et II. Jena 1820
• About the true determination of the location of the Hermann Battle, two new investigations by General Freyh. v. Hammerstein and Privy Councilor of Hohenhausen. With a letter to H. Geh. Appeals to justice and appeals. Rath. Freyh. v. Strombeck. Altenburg 1821
• Progr. Exercitationes Antoninianae. Jena, 1821-1822, 4th vol.
• Progr. De instituto scriptionis academiacae, in Academia Jenensi nuper in usum revocato. Jena 1822

literature

• Herbert Koch: Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt (1772 - 1848). Orator Europae, Demosthenes Alter. Iconographic studies . von Schröder, Hamburg 1951.
• Karl Felix Halm :  Eichstädt, Heinrich Karl Abraham . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 742 f.
• "The files of those days are kept in the greatest order ..." Goethe and the foundation of the Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung in the mirror of the correspondence with Heinrich Carl Abraham Eichstädt , ed. v. Ulrike Bayer. Wallstein, Göttingen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0535-9 .
• Woldemar von Biedermann : Letters from Goethe to Eichstädt. Berlin 1872.
• The HCA Eichstädts Nekrolog: An official commemorative speech (in honor of Anna Amalia), in: Heide Schulz: Weimar's most beautiful star. Anna Amalia v. Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach. Source texts for the creation of an icon. (Event Weimar-Jena. Culture around 1800. Aesthetic Research, Vol. 30), Heidelberg 2011, pp. 90–176, with according to text a. German translation of Heide Schulz u. Heinrich Fliedner, ISBN 978-3-8253-5887-7
• Heinrich Carl Abraham Eichstädt: For the wedding of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain. .. and Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, translated from Latin into German by v. Heide Schulz and Heinrich Fliedner, in: Coburger Geschichtsblätter 20, 2012, pp. 25–54. ISSN  0947-0336
• New necrology of the Germans. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar, 1850, 26 vol. (1848) 1st part, p. 216 ff. ( Online )
• Nekrolog Eichstädts. In: New Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. March 31, 1848, 7th year, p. 209 ( online )
• Own vita. In: Heinrich Carl Abraham Eichstädt: Annales Academiae Ienensis. Cröker, Jena, 1823, p. 35 ( online )
• Georg Gottlieb Güldenapfel : Literary Museum for the Grand Ducal. herzogl. Saxon country. JG Schreiber, Jena, 1816, p. 156, ( online )

Web links

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• Literature by and about Heinrich Karl Eichstädt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Heinrich Karl Eichstädt  in the German Digital Library
• Heinrich Karl Eichstädt in the Internet Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ some writings mention the year 1770 or the year 1772 as the year of birth. The church book of Oschatz, however, shows the birthday as August 8, 1771 (see entry in the church book of Oschatz (1771) )
2. ↑ Johann Abraham Eichstädt was born in Zeitz in 1728 as the son of a quarter master, attended the Pforta state school from November 27, 1743 to 1748, began studying at the University of Leipzig on July 21, 1749, and obtained the academic degree of April 29, 1752 Master of Philosophy at the University of Wittenberg. In 1756 he became pastor in Sörnewitz, in 1761 a deacon in Oschatz and in 1763 archdeacon there, where he died on April 21, 1795. (cf. Reinhold Grünberg: Sächsisches Pfarrerbuch. Ernst Mauckisch, Freiberg / Sachsen, 1940, 1st volume, p. 147)
3. ↑ Heinrich Bittcher : Gatekeeper Album. Directory of all teachers and students of the Royal Prussia. Pforta State School from 1543 to 1843. Leipzig 1843, p. 396 ( online )
4. ^ Georg Erler: The younger matriculation of the University of Leipzig. Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig, 1909, SS 75
5. ^ Intelligence Journal of the General. Literature newspaper Num. 157 of October 9, 1805, page 1304 , accessed January 4, 2020.
6. ^ JA Hammerau: Didaskalia. Leaves for mind, spirit and publicity. Heller and Rhom, Frankfurt am Main, 1848, vol. 26, vol. 1, no. 71, March 11, 1848, p. 4, column b, ( online )
7. ^ Gottfried Seebode, Johann Christian Jahn: New Year Books for Philology and Pedagogy, or Critical Library for Schools and Education. BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1839, 9th year, 25th vol., P. 339, ( online )