Johann Carl Dähnert

Johann Carl Dähnert

Johann Carl Dähnert (born November 10, 1719 in Stralsund , † July 5, 1785 in Greifswald ) was a German librarian , legal scholar , linguist and historian during the Enlightenment .

Life

Johann Carl Dähnert came from a Stralsund merchant family. After attending high school in Stralsund , he went to the University of Greifswald in 1738 , where he also took other subjects in addition to theology . After three semesters, he financed his living through revision courses and as an assistant preacher at Greifswald Cathedral .

In 1743 he became secretary of the Royal German Society of Greifswald , which was founded in 1739, and later also its director (conductor). Between 1743 and 1746 he published the journal “Pommersche Nachrichten”, which he had to print at his own expense from the second year onwards. In this magazine he reported on the Swedish Academy of Sciences and Swedish academic works.

In 1748 he became professor of philosophy and at the same time librarian at the Greifswald University Library , where he introduced a systematic order. From 1750 he published the periodicals "Die Kritische Nachrichten" and "Die Pommersche Bibliothek". In 1758 he took over the newly established chair for Swedish constitutional law and constitution, the university's first modern specialist professorship. He also participated in a magazine published in Stralsund in 1775 under the title “ Pommersches Krämerdütchen ”.

1761 was reconnaissance in the Greifswald Masonic added. Dähnert contributed significantly to the spread of Freemasonry in Swedish Pomerania and remained true to its system of " Strict Observance " until his death.

Fonts

• Pomeranian news of learned things . 6 volumes, Greifswald 1743–1748 ( Microfiche Edition: ISBN 3-89131-246-6 )
  • Volume 1, Greifswald 1743 ( online ).
• Critical news . 5 volumes, Greifswald 1750 - 1754 ( digital copies in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).
• Pomeranian Library . Volumes 1–5, Greifswald 1752–1756 ( digitized version of the copy from the Göttingen University Library ).
• The Swedish Empire's Basic Laws. Translated from Swedish by Johann Carl Dähnert by order of the highest order for use in his academic lectures. Rostock 1759 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).
• The antiquity revealed by its customs. Or critical examination of the most distinguished opinions, ceremonies and institutions of the various peoples of the earth in matters of religion and civil society. From the French. Translated and annotated by Johann Carl Dähnert Greifswald 1767.
• Collection of common and special Pomeranian and Ruggish state documents, laws, privileges, treaties, constitutions and regulations. 8 vols. Stralsund 1765–1802. ( Digitized by the Digital Library of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).
• New critical news . 10 volumes, Greifswald 1765–1774; later Johann Georg Peter Möller (Ed.), (Microfiche Edition: ISBN 3-89131-248-2 ).
• Catalogus Bibliothekae academicae Gryphiswaldensis. Vol. I-III.
• Platt-German dictionary of words based on the old and new Pomeranian and Rügischen dialect . Christian Lorenz Struck, Stralsund 1781 in the Google book search.

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Hermann Müller:  Dähnert, Johann Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 700 f.
• FL Hoffmann: Johann Carl Dähnert . In: Serapeum: Journal for Library Science, Handwriting and Older Literature , Volume 30, No. 22, Leipzig, November 30, 1869, pp. 337–345 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Greifswalder Zeitschriften 1743 - 1807 ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ ^{A b} Ivo Asmus, Heiko Droste, Jens E. Olesen (eds.): Common acquaintances. Sweden and Germany in the early modern period . In: History: Research and Science. Vol. 2, LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2003, ISBN 3-8258-7150-9 , pp. 110-118
3. ↑ Peter Blickle : Power and Powerlessness of Images. Reformation iconoclasm in the context of European history . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56634-5 , p. 98

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Carl Dähnert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Johann Carl Dähnert in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Johann Carl Dähnert in the state bibliography MV

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Boeckman	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1760	Laurentius Stenzler

predecessor	Office	successor
Andreas Westphal	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1775	Johann Christoph Muhrbeck

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernhard Christian Otto	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1784	Theophilus Coelestinus Piper