Johann Christian Kroneberg

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Johann Christian (Iwan Jakowlewitsch) Kroneberg ( Russian Иоганн Христиан (Иван Яковлевич) Кронеберг ; * February 19 July / March 1,  1788 greg. In Moscow ; † October 19 July / October 31,  1838 greg. In Charkow ) was a Russian classical philologist and university professor of German descent.

Life

Kroneberg, son of the pastor of the Moscow Lutheran Michael Church, Jakob Kroneberg, was sent to Germany in 1800 (together with his brother, who later became a doctor ) to study at the University of Halle . In 1805 he went to the University of Jena , which made him a Dr. phil. PhD. As a student he made two hiking trips to Nuremberg and Braunschweig . After returning to Moscow, he initially served in the tax office. 1814-1818 he was director of the Moscow Business School. In 1818 his book about the rites and customs of the ancient Romans was published .

In 1819 Kroneberg became adjunct and in 1821 professor at the chair for Latin literature and antiquity at the Imperial University of Kharkov . He wrote a Latin grammar (1820, 1825), the Antiquitates Romanae (1823), the Taciti Annalium (1823), the Compendium Antiquitatum Romanorum (1823), a work on the conquests of the Romans (1824), based on an analysis of Greek art the abundance of sculptures (1825), a look at ancient Greece (1826), an analysis of all the chants of the Iliad (1826) and a Horace . His best-known work is the Latin-Russian dictionary, which saw 8 editions in the 19th century. He edited the science magazine Minerwa . He was also one of the founders of Shakespeare studies in Russia .

Kroneberg was secretary of the university council (1820-1824) and dean of the literature department of the philosophical faculty (1821, 1823-1826, 1831-1833). He was rector of Kharkov University in 1826, 1829 and 1833-1836. In order to make the university a center of science and culture based on the European model, he founded the university library , systematized the ancient collections and acquired facsimiles of Albrecht Dürer's copperplate engravings . In 1834 he presented the project to set up a pedagogical institute at Kharkov University. He was president of the Philotechnical Society.

Kroneberg took an active part in the construction of the German church in Kharkov. His house was a center of Kharkovian intelligence . Guests included AJ Kultschizki , NW Stankewitsch , GS Ryndowski , MS Shchepkin and WG Belinski .

Kroneberg was married to Anna Jakobina Malvina nee Knatstadt and had five children. His eldest son Andrei was a translator , literary critic and chess player . The third son Alexei married the eldest daughter of the oligarch Pavel Solomirski .

Kroneberg was buried in the Lutheran cemetery in Kharkov.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brockhaus-Efron : Кронеберг (Иван Яковлевич).
  2. ↑ a b c d Кронеберг, Иван Яковлевич (Johan Christian Kroneberg) . In: Русский биографический словарь . tape 9 , 1903, pp. 447-448 .
  3. ↑ Л. А. Ходанен: Русские писатели. 1800-1917. Биографический словарь. Т. 3 . Большая российская энциклопедия, Moscow 1994, p. 159-160 .
  4. ^ Andrey Keller: Rationality and Religiosity among Germans in Moscow in the Nineteenth Century . In: European Journal of Science and Theology . tape 12 , no. 6 , 2016, p. 41-53 .
personal data
SURNAME Kroneberg, Johann Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroneberg, Ivan Jakowlewitsch; Кронеберг, Иван Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian classical philologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1838
Place of death Kharkov