Johann August Jacobs

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Johann August Jacobs (born April 27, 1788 in Pietzpuhl ; † December 21, 1829 in Halle ; also August Jacobs ) was a German philologist and educator .

Life

Jacobs was 1,801 students in the country Pforta , went to the 1806 University of Wittenberg to where law to study, but switched to a semester at the University of Leipzig and then to the University of Halle . There he became a student of the theologian and pedagogue August Hermann Niemeyer , who took him to study philology, philosophy and history . In 1810, at Niemeyer's instigation, he became a teacher at the local royal pedagogy .

Jacobs completed his habilitation in 1812 at the University of Halle and was then a private lecturer in the philosophy faculty of the university. In 1816 he was appointed associate professor and in 1821 full professor for philology. As early as 1819 he was appointed head of the educational seminar alongside Niemeyer.

In addition to his university teaching, he continued to teach at the pedagogy. After Niemeyer's resignation in 1820, he was appointed inspector of the institution. In 1825 after the death of Georg Christian Knapp , he became deputy director of the Francke Foundations , then in 1828 after the death of Niemeyers, their director.

Fonts (selection)

  • Observationes criticae in quosdam Plutarchi, Horatii aliorumque locos , Halle 1812.
  • Theocriti Bionis et Moschi quae supersunt graece cum scholiis graecis. Textum ad optimas edd. Et ad codd. mss. fidem quam diligentissime exprimi curavit, carminum argumenta indicavit, varias codicum mss. et edd. vett. lectiones coniecturasque virorum doctorum subiunxit, indices locupletissimos adiecit JAJ , Halle 1824.
  • The jubilee of the 50th academic teaching post of Sr. Reverend Chancellor and Professor Dr. AH Niemeyer on April 18, 1827. By an attentive observer. Hall 1827.

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SURNAME Jacobs, Johann August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobs, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Pietzpuhl
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1829
Place of death Halle (Saale)