Johann August Dathe
Johann August Dathe (also: Dathius, Leucopetraeus ; * July 4, 1731 in Weißenfels , † March 17, 1791 in Leipzig ) was a German linguist .
Life
Johann August was born as the son of the Weissenfels Saxon Council and Bailiff Georg Wilhelm Dathe († March 26, 1755 in Weißenfels) and his first wife Johanne Magdalene Eulenburg († May 29, 1737 in Weissenfels). He attended high school in Naumburg and enrolled on June 2, 1751 the University of Wittenberg , where he Karl Gottlob Sperbachs line next to theological studies special attention to the Oriental thought. On June 15, 1754, he switched to the University of Leipzig , where he continued his philological studies under his later brother-in-law Johann August Ernesti and in particular attended the lectures of the oriental languages with Johann Jacob Reiske and Heinrich Michael Hebenstreit (1745–1786). Here he earned the Baccalaureate in Philosophical Sciences on December 21, 1754.
He then moved to the University of Göttingen in 1756 , where he studied De Orgiene interpretationis librorum s. grammaticae autore acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy and completed his habilitation there in 1757 with the treatise Disputatio philologigico-critica in aquilae reliquias interpretatione Hoseae . In 1759 he acquired a baccalaureate in theology in Göttingen. On September 30, 1762, when he returned to Leipzig, he received an extraordinary professorship for oriental languages and Hebrew studies at the theological faculty. In Göttingen he was promoted to licentiate and doctorate in theology on September 21, 1769 with the treatise De ordine pericoparum biblicarum non mutando .
As a university lecturer in Leipzig, he tried to teach his students the oriental languages in an invigorating way before he died of an abdominal infection. He was succeeded by Gottlieb Immanuel Dindorf . Dathe had been unmarried all her life. He donated a legacy for the university library, became a senior in the theological faculty in 1785 and directed the alma mater's fortunes as rector in the winter semester of 1785/86 .
Selection of works
- Disputatio historico-critica de Origene interpretationis librorum SS. Grammaticae auctore. Pres .: Johann August Ernesti. Leipzig 1756
- Diss. In Aquilae reliquias interpretationis Hoseae. Leipzig 1756
- Letter to the author of the Erlang Scholarly Notes and Messages. Leipzig 1758
- Diss. De caussis, cur Logici subtilissimi in praeceptis saepe parum subtiles in eorum usu? Leipzig 1760
- Diss. De ordine pericoparum biblicarum non mutando. Leipzig 1760
- Diss. In Canticum Mosis Deut. XXXII. Leipzig 1760
- De Anaxarcho philosopho eudaimonico. Leipzig 1762 ( online )
- Prolvsio De Difficvltate Rei Criticae In Vet. Test Cavte Diivdicanda. Leipzig 1762 ( online )
- Progr. De Ratione Consensvs Versionis Chaldaicae Et Syriacae Proverbiorvm Salomonis. Leipzig 1764 ( online )
- Psalterivm Syriacvm. Halle (Saale), 1768 ( online )
- Prophetae minores ex recensione textus Hebraei et versionum antiquarum Latine versi notisque philologicis et criticis Illustrati. Hall, 1773; Halle (Saale), 1779 ( online ); Halle (Saale), 1785 ( online ); 3rd edition Halle (Saale) 1790; Halle (Saale) 1831 ( online )
- Sal. Glassii Philologia Sacra His Temporibus Accomodata. 1, Grammatica Et Rhetorica Sacra. Leipzig, 1776 ( online )
- Sal. Glassii Philologia Sacra His Temporibus Accomodata. 2, Rhetorica Sacra. Leipzig 1776 ( online )
- Briani Waltoni In Biblia Polyglotta Prolegomena. Leipzig, 1777 ( online )
- Pentateuchus, ex recensione textus Ebraei et versionum antiquarum Latine versus notisque philologicis et criticis illustratus. Halle (Saale) 1779; Halle (Saale), 1781 ( online ); Halle (Saale) 1785;
- Libri historici veteris Testam. Josua, Judices, Ruth, Samuel, Reges, Chronici, Esra, Nehemia Et Esther, Ex Recensione Textus Hebræi Et Versionum Antiquarum Latine Versi Notisque Philologicis Et Criticis Illustrati. Halle (Saale) 1784
- Psalmi, ex recensione textus Hebraei et versionum antiquarum Latine versi notisque philologicis et criticis illustrati. Halle (Saale), 1787 ( online )
- Jobus, Proverbia Salomonis, Ecclesiastes, Canticum Canticorum, ex recensione Textus Hebraei et versionum antiquarum Latine versi notisque philologicis et criticis illustrati. Halle (Saale), 1789;
- Opuscula ad Crisin et interpretationem Veteris Testamenti Spectantia. Leipzig, 1796 ( online ) (publisher EFC Rosenmüller)
literature
- Friedrich von Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog on the year 1791. 2. Vol. 1, p. 175 ( online )
- Lives and characters of famous and noble men who died in 1791. Johann Gottfried Trampens widow, Halle (Saale), 1793, p. 55 ( online )
- Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt ad Orla, 1801, vol. 1, p. 317 ( online )
- Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1803, vol. 2, p. 286 ( online )
- Ed / Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1832, 1st Sect. Vol. 23, p. 178 ( online )
- Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried: Dathe, Johann August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 764-766.
- Markus Hein, Helmar Junghans: The professors and lecturers of the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig from 1409 to 2009. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02704-0 , p. 184
Web links
- Works by and about Johann August Dathe in the German Digital Library
- Johann August Dathe in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dathe, Johann August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dathius, Leucopetraeus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1731 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1791 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |