Jakob Gerschow

Jakob Gerschow (born March 6, 1587 in Medow , † September 29, 1655 in Greifswald ) was a German philologist , historian and lawyer .

Life

Jakob Gerschow was the son of Lorenz Gerschow, who was pastor in Medow until 1625. After attending schools in Medow , Friedland (Mecklenburg) and Stettin , he studied at the University of Greifswald from 1607 to 1610 . In Greifswald he lived in the house of his relative, the Professor of Law Friedrich Gerschow . He devoted himself in particular to the oriental languages .

After a short stay in Copenhagen , he went to the University of Königsberg . There he took over the management of the sons of a Mr. von Below on Münsterberg. In Thorn and Culm he learned the Polish language with them . With his cousin Timotheus he returned to Greifswald in 1612. Both went on an educational trip through Germany, the Netherlands , England and France , during which they visited various universities and made contact with scholars. 27 years later, Jakob Gerschow wrote a travelogue in Latin . At the University of Strasbourg , he gave private readings on the institutions and on philosophical and historical subjects. Together with Michael Wudrian, who also comes from Pomerania , he studied the Syrian and Arabic languages . He published poetry in Hebrew .

After promotion to the Master by the dean Johann Ludwig Hawe Reuter he undertook shorter trips to Swabia and Lorraine . He had to give up his plan to visit other French universities because of the war unrest. He turned to Basel , where he met the orientalist Johann Buxtorf the Elder . From there he went to Speyer , where, accompanied by the legal scholars Johann and Daniel Fabricius, he got to know the processes at the Reich Chamber of Commerce. He then returned to Pomerania via Heidelberg , Mainz , Trier , Amsterdam and Hamburg .

In 1617 he was appointed vice principal at the Greifswald city school . At the same time he devoted himself to historical and poetic work, for which he was named " poeta laureatus Caesareus". In 1619 he received the professorship for poetics and classical and oriental languages at the University of Greifswald. In 1626 he also took over the extraordinary professorship in history. He was dean of the philosophical faculty several times. During his tenure as rector of the university in 1633 Duke transferred Bogislaw XIV. Pomeranian University with the Office Eldena the goods of 1535 secularised monastery Eldena .

Because of the university's decline in the Thirty Years War , he intended to earn a living as a lawyer. Since the Greifswald University did not meet his wish for a doctorate in law, he went to the University of Franeker , where he received his doctorate in 1635. In the autumn of the same year he received the full professorship in history in Greifswald. Because of the general bad situation in town and country caused by the war, he went to Lübeck and Schleswig-Holstein in 1638 . At the court of Frederick III. he made the acquaintance of a Persian Shah and one of Cyprus originating Greeks , where he expanded his knowledge of languages. After stays in Eutin , Kiel and Oldenburg in Holstein , he returned to the University of Greifswald in 1639. There he was rector of the university in 1646. Due to illness he had to give up his teaching post for poetry in 1652.

Jakob Gerschow was married to Ilsabe Bosselmann since 1621.

Fonts (selection)

Tokeologica illustrium universalis. 1624.
Centuria Athenaea. 1624.
Pomero Tokeologia. 1625.
Ill. Quadragarius Atlanticus. 1626.
Series rectorum acad. Gryph. 1634.
Psalterii Davidici haxaglotto et decastyli decas prima. Hunter, Greifswald 1640.
Recensio conditorum centum et viginti academiarum. 1649.

In honor of deceased people, Gerschow wrote numerous genealogies , some of which have been preserved in the Vitae Pomeranorum collection .

literature

Theodor Pyl : Gerschow, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 49-52.
Friedrich Latendorf : The life of the doctor Jakob Gerschow described by himself . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . Vol. 16, Issue 2, Stettin 1857, pp. 174-225 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ In May of the same year Gerschow was enrolled on an honorary basis at the University of Rostock . See the entry of Jacob Gerschow's honorary matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
↑ Boris Dunsch: Marino Numini Magno - Two Prosphonetics by the Greifswald poetry professor Marcus Bernhardinus for Johannes Hieronymus Staude (1654). In: Walter Baumgartner (Ed.): Baltic Sea Baroque: Texts and Culture . Lit-Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9987-X , p. 14 ( Google books ).
↑ Theodor Pyl : Pomeranian historical monuments . Volume 2, Greifswald 1867, p. 167 ( Google books ).

Web links

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Schoener	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1633/34	Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Heun	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1646	Johannes Beringe

personal data
SURNAME	Gerschow, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerschow, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist, historian and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1587
PLACE OF BIRTH	Medow
DATE OF DEATH	September 29, 1655
Place of death	Greifswald

[1] In May of the same year Gerschow was enrolled on an honorary basis at the University of Rostock . See the entry of Jacob Gerschow's honorary matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

[2] Boris Dunsch: Marino Numini Magno - Two Prosphonetics by the Greifswald poetry professor Marcus Bernhardinus for Johannes Hieronymus Staude (1654). In: Walter Baumgartner (Ed.): Baltic Sea Baroque: Texts and Culture . Lit-Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9987-X , p. 14 ( Google books ).

[3] Theodor Pyl : Pomeranian historical monuments . Volume 2, Greifswald 1867, p. 167 ( Google books ).