Johann Andreas Bose

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Johann Andreas Bose, copper engraving by Christian Romstet

Johann Andreas Bose (born June 27, 1626 in Leipzig , † April 29, 1674 in Jena ) was a historian and philologist .

Life

Johann Andreas was the son of the jeweler and citizen in Leipzig Paul Bose (born August 17, 1594 in Deutsch-Luppa / near Oschatz; † March 6, 1664 in Leipzig) and his wife Katharina Schilter († 7. July 1637 in Leipzig), the daughter of the citizen and tobacco merchant Andreas Schilter. At a young age he received tutors from whom he learned the basics of languages. During the Thirty Years' War, his parents had to flee Leipzig. So he got to Lichtenburg Castle , where Hedwig of Denmark granted his family protection. Here he was brought up with some young noblemen. When his parents returned to Leipzig a few years later, he began to attend lectures at the University of Leipzig . At the request of his father, some relatives and sponsors, such as Martin Geier , he began studying at the university in his hometown at the age of 14. Here he attended the lectures of Andreas Rivinus , Lic. Müller, Conrad Bavarus (1571–1643) and Hieronymus Kromayer .

In 1641 he became a bachelor of philosophy and moved to the University of Wittenberg on March 25, 1642 . For three years he attended lectures at the philosophical and theological faculties. To this end, he completed lectures with August Buchner , Nikolaus Pompeius , with his relative Wilhelm Leyser I. At the time, his fellow students included Balthasar Cellarius and Johannes Christoph Seldius (1612–1676), who supported him in the learning process. In June 1645 he returned to Leipzig, where, after a defended disputation, on January 29, 1646 he was promoted to Master of Philosophy. He continued his studies at the University of Strasbourg at Easter 1647 , with Prof. Boecler in history, D. Schmid in theology, Dannhauer and Dorscheus influencing the young student. When his father called him back because he needed care, he went back to his hometown. On the way back he visited some archives and libraries on the Rhine, Main and Moselle, where he diligently collected various rarities and manuscripts. In 1652 he returned to Leipzig and took part in the university's disputation. In 1655 he became an assessor in the philosophy faculty of the Leipzig University and when the chair for history in Jena became vacant in the same year, he applied there and was accepted. On January 11, 1656 he took up this professorship.

The University of Jena survived the Thirty Years' War quite unscathed and, thanks to well-known professors of that time, such as the theologian Johannes Musäus , the lawyer Georg Adam Struve , the doctor Werner Rolfinck , the mathematician Erhard Weigel and, last but not least, Bose, exuded a great attraction for students, for which doubling the number of students testimony speaks. With Weigel, Bose founded the Societas quaerentium , a society of students and professors. Bose also participated in the organizational tasks of the Salina. He was dean of the philosophical faculty five times and rector of the alma mater in the summer semester . In 1661 he wrote a treatise on Tiberius Caesar together with Johann Arend von der Lieth . From 1669 he took in the Polish theologian and physicist Johannes Cyprian , who was in Jena for study purposes. Suffering from arthritis, Bose also had digestive problems at the end of his life. Weakened and tormented by pain, he eventually passed away. His body was buried on May 3, 1674 in the college church in Jena. After his death in 1674, the University of Jena acquired his private collection Bibliotheca Bosiana, which comprised around 3,000 manuscripts and prints, for 2,000 thalers . Today, some of the most important surviving manuscripts come from this purchase, such as a copy of the Weltchronik by Otto von Freising , an autograph of the Weltchronik by Frutolf von Michelsberg or the oldest German-language martyrology which is dated around 1275.

On October 31, 1664, Bose married Anna Barbara Cummer, the widow of the royal Palatinate court preacher and Quedlinburg-ish collegiate assistant, Mag. Johann Hoffmann. The marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

  • Tiberius Caesar (1661) ( available online )
  • De prudentia et eloquentia civili comparanda. Diatribae isagogicae quarum haec prodit auctior sub titulo de ratione legendi tractandique historicos. Accedit notitia scriptorum historiae universalis primum edita cura Georgii Schubarthi (1677)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard am Rhein, R 6495
  2. ↑ Reinhard E. Schielicke, Klaus-Dieter fall and Stefan Kratochwil, Erhard Weigel (ed.) - 1625-1699 Baroque patriarch of the early German Enlightenment, Frankfurt 1999, p 8
  3. ↑ Johann Doschner, Erhard Weigel in his time, pp. 11–38; in: Reinhard E. Schielicke, Klaus-Dieter Herbst and Stefan Kratochwil (eds.), Erhard Weigel - 1625 to 1699 Baroque patriarch of the early German Enlightenment, Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 18
personal data
SURNAME Bose, Johann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1626
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1674
Place of death Jena