Johann Adam Bergk

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Johann Adam Bergk (born June 27, 1769 in Hainichen (Thuringia) , † October 27, 1834 in Leipzig ) was a German private scholar , translator and philosopher .

Life

Throughout his life he published popular philosophical writings under his name, anonymously or under the name Hainichen and Jul. Frey. These relate to the Kantian philosophy, to psychology, legal and religious philosophy. His son is the well-known classical philologist Theodor Bergk (1812–1881). Some authors count him among the German Jacobins , although this contradicts his arguments for reforms that help prevent revolutions.

Bergk came into conflict with censorship again and again, especially at the time of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic supremacy in Saxony. Among other things, the magazine "Der Europäische Aufseher", which he published, was banned because of its critical French content. Bergk was reliant on his income as a writer all his life, as he never succeeded in obtaining a professorship, which was probably also due to his constitutional political ideas. He was one of the "reform-liberal elite" emerging in Leipzig at the time, who were no longer involved in the corporate state through offices.

Works

  • The art of getting rich. Along with Franklin's poor old Richard or instructions on the same subject. Expedition of the European overseer, Leipzig. 1824 (first edition)
  • Investigations from the natural, state and international law with a criticism of the newest constitution of the French republic. Reprint: Scriptor, Kronberg i. Ts. 1975, ISBN 3-589-15038-6 .
  • Draft for a constitution for the German Empire and other writings on the beginnings of constitutionalism. Edited and appended by Anita Jeske. Haufe, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-448-04830-5 .
  • The art of reading books. In addition to comments on writings etc. Writer . Jena 1799, reprint publishing house documentation Saur, Pullach 1971, ISBN 3-7940-3012-5 and Zentral-Antiquariat d. German Democrat. Republic, Leipzig 1967, DNB 456075771 .

Translations

  • C [harles] F [rançois] Tombe: Journey in the East Indies from 1802 to 1806 . With notes and explanations by Charles Nicolas] S [igisbert] Sonnini [de Manoncourt] and with some additions from the French trans. by J [ohann] A [dam] Bergk. Leipzig 1811 ( digitized in the Google book search); Translation by: C [harles] F [rançois] Tombe: Voyage aux Indes Orientales pendant les années 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806 . Revu et augmenté de plusieurs notes et éclaircissemens by CNS Sonnini. T. 1. Paris 1810 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • [Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon:] Memoirs of Napoleon's private life, return and reign in 1815. From his private and cabinet secretary [Pierre Alexandre Édouard] Fleury of Chaboulon. Translated from the French [by Johann Adam Bergk]. Leipzig, in the Baumgartner bookstore. 1820. [XII, 308 pages.]; Translation by: Pierre Alexandre Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon : Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de la Vie privée, du Retour et du Règne de Napoléon in 1815. 2 volumes. London (England) 1819-1820.

literature

  • Helge Buttkereit: Censorship and the public in Leipzig 1806-1813 (= communication history; 28). LIT, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10168-6 .
  • Vanda Fiorillo: The political revolution as a moral duty in Jacobin Kantianism by Johann Adam Bergk (= Leipzig legal lectures; 48). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-934565-89-1 .
  • Onno Frels: Book and reader with Johann Adam Bergk. A study on the function determination and didactics of reading in the German Late Enlightenment . In: library. Research and practice. 10 (1986), pp. 239-276 ( doi: 10.1515 / bfup.1986.10.3.239 ).
  • Anita Jeske: Democratic thinking under the sign of monarchical constitutionalism . In: Johann Adam Bergk: Draft for a constitution for the German Empire and other writings on the beginnings of constitutionalism . Edited and appended by Anita Jeske. Haufe, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-448-04830-5 .
  • Arthur Richter:  Bergk, Johann Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 389.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Adam Bergk  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Vanda Fiorillo: The political revolution as a moral duty in Jacobin Kantianism by Johann Adam Bergk (= Leipzig legal lectures. 48). Leipzig 2001, p. 21.
  2. ↑ cf. Helge Buttkereit: Censorship and the public in Leipzig 1806–1813 (= communication history. 28). Münster 2009, p. 111 f.
  3. ↑ cf. Buttkereit: censorship and the public. P. 89 ff.
  4. ↑ cf. Buttkereit: censorship and the public. P. 113
  5. ↑ cf. Peter Ufer: Leipziger Presse 1789 to 1815 (= communication history. 9). P. 83 passim and Buttkereit: censorship and the public. P. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Bergk, Johann Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hainichen (pseudonym); Jul. Frey (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainichen (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1834
Place of death Leipzig