Johann Andreas Benignus Bergstrasse

Johann Andreas Benignus Bergstrasse , also Bergstrasse, (born December 31, 1732 in Idstein , † December 24, 1812 in Hanau ) was a German teacher and entomologist .

Bergsträßer studied theology and philology in Jena from 1751 and in Halle from 1752 . While still a student he was a teacher at the orphanage in Halle from 1756 to 1758. In 1759 he went to the Netherlands, because he wanted to be a preacher at the embassy in Madrid, but was instead rector at the Lyceum in Hanau . There he became professor and consistorial councilor.

He published articles as an entomologist and wrote a book about butterflies and insects in the Wetterau.

In 1784 he proposed a kind of optical telegraph for the connection between Leipzig and Hamburg with four types of rockets and pursued the subject in further treatises.

Fonts

• Real dictionary on the classic writers, 7 volumes, Halle 1772 to 1781
• Nomenclature and description of the insects of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg, Hanau, 2 volumes, 1778, 1780
• Icones papilionum diurnorum quotquot adhuc in Europa occurrunt descriptae, Hanover, 3 volumes, 1779 to 1781
• About his problem, announced on December 1st and 20th, 1784, of a correspondence in foreseeable and incalculable expanses of war incidents, or about synthematographics ... in letters to Se The High Princely Highness the Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneberg first [-third] shipment, from Joh. Andr. Bergstrasse, Hanau, 1785–1786

literature

• Victor Carus :  Bergstrasse, Johann Andreas Benignus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 387-398.
• Karl Siebert: Hanauer biographies from three centuries. Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 1919 (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter NF 3/4 ), p. 14f.