Jeremias Nicolaus Eyring

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Jeremias Nicolaus Eyring (born June 25, 1739 in Eyrichshof , † April 27, 1803 in Göttingen ) was a German rector and university professor .

Life

Jeremias Nicolaus Eyring was the son of the bailiff Georg Andreas Eyring (1710–1770) and his wife Anna Maria Schmidt, a daughter of the court administrator Jeremias Nicolaus Schmidt. His grandfather was the superintendent Elias Martin Eyring (1673-1739).

He received his first lessons from Johann Nikolaus Meusel (1717–1796), father of his friend, the later historian Johann Georg Meusel .

In 1749 he went to the school in Königsberg in Franconia , where he received accommodation and provisions in the apartment of the rector Georg Andreas Hartung; later he came into the house and under the supervision of Rector Hezel, father of the later university professor Wilhelm Friedrich Hezel . He received thorough language training in private lessons from Pistorius, the then deacon and later superintendent in Königsberg.

He was admitted to the Casimirianum academic high school in Coburg in 1756 and had lessons from, among others, Johann Andreas Buttstedt , Theodor Berger (1683–1773), Erhard Andreas Frommann , Johann Friedrich Gruner , and Lorenz Adam Bartenstein . Johann Heinrich Slevogt (1731–1809) gave him lessons in French, and lessons from Johann Friedrich Gruner and Erhard Andreas Frommann on Greek, Latin and Moravian literature were most important to him, and he was able to use Theodor Berger's library. He was also able to practice French by interacting with Madame Audibert, who taught French to the children of Duke Ernst Friedrich von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld .

He enrolled at the University of Göttingen in 1759, with a letter of recommendation from Johann Friedrich Gruner to Johann Matthias Gesner ; In 1760 he became a member of the philological seminar of Johann Matthias Gesner, who also made him his assistant in the university library when Johann Nicolaus Niclas went to Ilfeld in 1760 . He was able to move into the house of Johann Matthias Gesner and use the library there, for which, after his death, he prepared a directory on behalf of his son Carl Philipp Gesner (1719–1780).

At the university he heard lectures from Andreas Weber , Johann Nicolaus Niclas , Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch , Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , Tobias Mayer , Gottfried Achenwall , Georg Christoph Hamberger ; He had English lessons from Eobald Toze , who was the tutor of the district administrator of Stackelberg auf Kaltenbrunn in Estonia and who accompanied his sons to the University of Göttingen.

On June 22, 1762, he became sub-principal of the city school in Göttingen, and, on the recommendation of the then rector of the university, Johann Georg Roederer and the court advisor Johann David Michaelis , the following year he was also Amanuensis of the university library . In 1763 he received his master's degree in philosophy and in 1765 he was appointed rector of the city school, at the same time he taught at the academic grammar school (today: Max Planck grammar school ) as professor of Greek and Oriental languages .

On March 22, 1773 he became the second custodian of the university library and shortly afterwards, on behalf of Christian Gottlob Heyne , acquired a manuscript from Johann Sigmund Stoy (1745–1808) in Nuremberg that is one of the special celestial items in the university library, the so-called Bellifortis of Konrad Kyeser .

Also in 1773, on April 27th, he was appointed director of the grammar school (today: Max Planck grammar school ). As the principal of the grammar school, he divided the school structure into three levels and introduced the lower school , the middle class and the gymnastic classes . He established a connection between the grammar school and the university, gave the curriculum a fixed order, supervised the teaching of the teachers and held weekly conferences with them, in addition to which he opened the school to boys from less well-off families. This subsequently led to increasing numbers of students and boosted the school's reputation.

From 1785 to 1789 he was the library's first curator; During this time his main focus was the development of systematic catalogs.

After he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the University of Göttingen in 1773, he gave lectures on Hebrew grammar , Old Testament exegesis and general literary history ; In 1770 he was appointed full professor. He also gave private lessons in Greek and Latin .

Jeremias Nicolaus Eyring was married to Elisabeth Christiane, the youngest daughter of the music director Johann Friedrich Schweinitz (1708–1780), from 1770, and they had four daughters together.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Eyring, Elias Martin - German biography. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Göttinger Kostbarkeiten - Exhibition SUB Göttingen 2006. Retrieved on December 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Dietrich Denecke, Ernst Böhme: Göttingen: From the Thirty Years War to the annexation to Prussia - the resurgence as a university town (1648-1866) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987, ISBN 3-525-36197-1 , pp. 671 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Eyring, Jeremias Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eyring, Jeremias N .; Eyringius, Jeremias N .; Eyringus, Jeremias N .; Eyring; Eyring, JN; Eyringus, Jeremias Nicolaus; Eyring, Jeremis Nikolaus; Eyring, Jeremias Nikolaus; Eyringius, Jeremias Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rector and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Eyrichshof
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1803
Place of death Goettingen