Jakob Wallenius

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Jakob Wallenius (born December 13, 1761 in Vittinge , Heby parish , Sweden ; † January 3, 1819 in Patzig ) was a Swedish - German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , university professor and librarian .

Life

Wallenius attended the Cathedral School from 1773 and then Uppsala University , where he passed the First Theological Examination in 1781. After the death of his father in 1783 he came to Swedish Pomerania and graduated from the University of Greifswald with a master's degree . In 1785 he became a private lecturer for Greek language and literature and in 1786 sub-librarian at the University Library of Greifswald . In this capacity he created the real, nominal and repository catalogs of the library until 1796. He had already worked at the council library in Stralsund before that.

From 1793 he also worked as a Swedish teacher and was a member of the Society of German Language and Literature Researchers; In 1794 he became a member of the Uppsala Historical Society.

In 1795 he was appointed Swedish teacher to Princess Luise Charlotte of Mecklenburg , whose marriage to the Swedish King Gustav IV Adolf was planned. However, the engagement ended in 1796.

Church in Patzig

In the same year he became professor of German style, aesthetics, latinism and the oriental languages at the University of Greifswald. In 1806 he was appointed Dr. theol. hc by the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock . During the Fourth Coalition War he was a preacher in the Swedish field hospital in Greifswald for a short time. He did not return to the University of Greifswald, but was pastor of St. Margarethen Church in Patzig on Rügen from 1810 until his death .

Wallenius wrote theological, philosophical and literary-historical treatises in Swedish and Latin. He worked on the German-Swedish and Swedish-German dictionary , which appeared in two volumes in 1785 and 1790. In Patzig he worked on a memorabilia book about the church and the parishes. He left an autobiography and a handwritten list of writings.

Wallenius was a member of the Freemason Lodge on the Three Griffins in Greifswald.

Works

  • Acta Pauli Ephesina, Act. XIX. Diss. Greifswald 1783
  • Adnotationes philologico-criticae in librum qui inscribitur Sophia Salōmōnos. Gryphiae: Röse 1786
  • Oratio Panegyrica De Recentissimis Quibusdam Sueciae Fatis, Et Immortalibus Gustavi Tertii In Eam Defendendam Meritis.
Digitized version of the copy from the Göttingen State and University Library
  • About the situation in Sweden at the end of the sixteenth century: A speech in commemoration of the Upsalic Concilium on March 16, 1793. Greifswald: Röse 1793
  • The Death of Gustav the Third: A Complaint to Alma. Greifswald: Röse 1793
  • Schediasma literarium de fama et meritis J. Fr. Mayer . 1795
  • Commemorative speech for the government councilor Adolph Friedrich von Olthof at the solemn inauguration of the monument erected for him by the Freemasons in Swedish Pomerania in the Kniper churchyard in front of Stralsund on October 14, 1795. Stralsund 1795
  • Oratio in decessum J. Gust. Dubb. Vestrogothi. 1798
  • Dissertatio aesthetico-litteraria de arte et aetate Euphranoris. Greifswald 1798
Digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Funeral speech for his brother Carl Friedrich Rehfeld, held in the Freemason's lodge at the Three Griffins in Greifswald on March 3, 1794. Greifswald: Eckhardt 1794
  • About the right of inheritance of the Swedish kings: a historical speech in celebration of the great birth of Crown Prince Gustaf. Greifswald: Eckhardt 1799
Digitized version of the copy from the Göttingen State and University Library
  • Tal om Academien i Greifswald, underdånigast hållet inför Konungen i stora lärosalen d. July 8th 1800. Greifswald 1800
Digitized version of the copy from the Göttingen State and University Library
  • Specimina quaedam poeseos Gothico-Islandicae. Gryphiswaldiae: Eckhardt 1806-1807
  • De poetis svecanis celebrioribus. Gryphiswaldiae: Eckhardt 1807 (4 parts published)
  • De linguae Svecanae aetatibus. Gryphiswaldiae: Eckhardt 1807 (3 parts published)
  • List of all the writings of the Professor and Pastor Doct. Jacob Wallenius. [Sl], 1816

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Jakob Wallenius' honorary doctorate in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

personal data
SURNAME Wallenius, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallenius, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-German university professor for theology
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Vittinge , Heby Municipality , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1819
Place of death Snappy