Jeremias David Reuss
Jeremias David Reuss (born June 18, 1750 in Rendsburg , † December 15, 1837 in Göttingen ) was a German philologist , literary historian and librarian .
Life
Jeremias David Reuss, the son of the theologian and then general superintendent of Schleswig-Holstein, Jeremias Friedrich Reuss , studied philology in Tübingen and was awarded a doctorate in 1768 at the age of 18. phil. PhD. Shortly afterwards he qualified as a professor and became curator at the university library . In the following years he participated in the Zweibrücker Plato edition (1780) and in the edition of the Platonic dialogue Euthyphron by Johann Friedrich Fischer (1783). But he found more and more from philology to the history of science. He wrote a description of some manuscripts from the university library in Tübingen ( 1778) and a description of strange books from the university library in Tübingen (1780). His reputation as a researcher and librarian brought him in 1782 a call from the University of Göttingen as extraordinary professor of philosophy.
In Göttingen, Reuss devoted himself entirely to the history of science. In 1785 he was appointed full professor of the history of scholars. His last philological work was contributions to the Bibliotheca graeca by Johann Andreas Fabricius (1790). Since Göttingen belonged to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , which had been in a personal union with Great Britain since 1701, Reuss came to occupy himself with the history of British science. His work The learned England (1791), but especially the Repertorium commentationum a societatibus litteraribus (16 volumes, 1801–1822) and the Alphabetical Register of the authors in Greath-Britain and in United-Provinces of North-Americain (five volumes, 1804 ) brought him the appointment to the Royal British Councilor (1802) and later to the Privy Councilor of Justice . He also translated a collection of the instructions of the Spanish Inquisition Court from Spanish (1788). For the Göttingen Royal Society of Sciences he wrote the Conspectus societatis regiae scientiarum (1808). The Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed him a corresponding member in 1805. He was a member of the Göttingen Freemason Lodge Augusta for the golden circle .
As early as 1789, Reuss had been employed as a sub-librarian at the Göttingen University Library , which had been under the direction of the ancient scholar Christian Gottlob Heyne since 1763 . Reuss was very close to his older colleague, the professor of eloquence and poetry. He married his second oldest daughter Marianne (1768–1834) and dedicated several volumes of his Repertorium commentationum to him . After Heyne's death (1812), Reuss took over the management of the library, even at an advanced age, until his death at the age of 87. He bequeathed his private library, which contained over 7,000 titles, to the University Library of Tübingen.
Works
- Jeremias David Reuss: The learned England or lexicon of the writers living now in Great Britain, Ireland and North America together with a list of their writings from the year 1770 to 1790. 1791
- Übers. Georg Forster Alphabetical register of all the authors actually living in Great-Britain, Ireland and in the united provinces of North-America, with a catalog of their publications from the year 1770 to the year 1790. Bd. 2. Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1791
literature
- Carsten Erich Carstens : Reuss, Jeremias David . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 309.
- Eugen Neuscheler: Jeremias David Reuss. In: Swabian Life Pictures. 1, 1940, ISSN 0170-0928 , pp. 422-435.
- Regine Benker: The University Library of Tübingen in the 2nd half of the 18th century with special consideration of the work of Jeremias David Reuss. University of Applied Sciences for Library and Documentation in Cologne, 1990
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Individual evidence
- ^ Jeremias David Reuss , member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- ↑ Forster also wrote the preface to this English translation, which is based on Reuss' German preface, but is marked with Forster's name. To the English Reader , again in Forster, Academy Edition AA Vol. 7, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1963
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Christian Gottlob Heyne | Director of the Göttingen University Library 1812–1837 |
Georg Friedrich Benecke |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reuss, Jeremias David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reuss, Jeremias David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1837 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |