Johann Balthasar Moscherosch

Johann Balthasar Moscherosch (born August 31, 1647 in Strasbourg , † April 9, 1703 in Darmstadt ) was a German Romance studies and librarian.

Life

Johann Balthasar Moscherosch was born in 1647 as the son of Johann Michael Moscherosch and his third wife Anna Maria Kilburger (1615–1694). He had eight siblings. At that time his father was a tax officer and police chief in Strasbourg . After the death of his father, the son Ernst Bogislaus Moscherosch sold his extensive library with around 2300 works to Landgrave Ludwig VI in July 1669 . von Hessen-Darmstadt , who was able to continue building an extensive court library. The beginnings of the court library go back to Landgrave Georg I in the 16th century. The now significantly enlarged court library was housed from 1685 in three rooms on the upper floors of the newly built bell building in the Darmstadt residential palace .

After a long educational trip, Moscherosch settled in Darmstadt in 1678 as a language master for Italian. In 1685 Johann Balthasar Moscherosch became court librarian and thus took over the management of this library at the Darmstadt court. He is considered to be the first librarian in the library, which today is known as the University and State Library in Darmstadt . At that time, Landgrave Ernst Ludwig ruled , who was under the tutelage of his mother Elisabeth Dorothea von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg until 1688 . Due to the Palatine War of Succession , the Darmstädter Hof had moved to Gießen for a few years from 1693 and did not return until 1698.

No further information is available about the further fate of Johann Balthasar Moscherosch. He died in Darmstadt in April 1703. Johann Balthasar Moscherosch was married to Anna Clara Goetz (1654–1692) for the first time. The son Johann Wilhelm Moscherosch (1686–1730) emerged from this marriage. In his second marriage, Johann Balthasar Moscherosch was married to Anna Barbara Burger (1672–1742). A son Melchior Moscherosch (1694–1763) emerged from this connection.

Publications

• 1680: Nuovi dialoghi italiano-tedeschi, Franckfurt.
• 1683: Grammatica Italiana, Frankfurt
• 1699: Italianische Sprach-Kunst In which by faithful manual the abbreviated and most correct way, to the Tuscan, that is, to the most delicate and nicest language among which other Italian Red-kinds arrive, by concise ... Reguln, to whom the most faithful is pointed and shown ...; Frankfurt.

literature

• Bader, Karl: Johann Balthasar Moscherosch , in: Lexicon of German Librarians. Central Journal for Libraries. Supplement 55, Leipzig, 1925, p. 173.
• University and State Library Darmstadt (Ed.): Neue Mitte (n). The library buildings of the Technical University of Darmstadt , Darmstadt 2014.
• Georg Zimmermann: The Darmstadt Palace and its building history , Darmstadt 1978.