Johann Christian Mauritz Laurent
Johann Christian Mauritz Laurent (born January 29, 1810 in Hamburg ; † May 4, 1876 in Ahrensburg ) was a German teacher and librarian .
Life
Johann Christian Mauritz Laurent was a son of Johann Moritz Laurent from Vaals . His mother's brother Johanna Catharina was the Hamburg Senator Johann Georg Mönckeberg .
Mauritz attended the Johanneum's school of scholars . He finished studying classical philology at universities in Bonn and Berlin with a doctorate in 1833. From 1834 to 1860 he taught at his previous school. From 1835 to 1862 he also worked as a secretary at the Hamburg city library . Then he moved to Neuendettelsau , where his college friend Wilhelm Löhe lived. At the Diakonie Neuendettelsau founded by Löhe he worked on theological writings. From 1862 to 1872 he also worked there as a librarian.
He later went back to Northern Germany, where he died in May 1876.
Works
Laurent worked on a wide range of topics: He translated numerous important sources for research on North German and Hamburg history. These appeared in the series "Historians of the German Prehistoric Times in German Editing". New editions and reprints are still available today. In close cooperation with Johann Martin Lappenberg , he translated his contributions for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica into German. Both Laurent and Lappenberg wrote introductions and forewords that were strongly nationalistic.
In addition, he wrote, for example, an English grammar lesson for school use and on the history of the city of Hamburg, whose population he calculated in the 16th century.
His main editorial work was published in 1864 (2nd edition 1873): Peregrinatores medii aevi quatuor :, the four most important medieval pilgrimage reports by Burchardus de Monte Sion , Ricoldus de Monte Crucis , Odoricus de Foro Julii and Wilbrandus de Oldenborg .
literature
- Hans-Walter Storck: Laurent, Johann Christian Mauritz . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 183-184 . \
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Christian Mauritz Laurent in the German Digital Library
- Letter from Laurent to Alexander von Humboldt (1845)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laurent, Johann Christian Mauritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laurent, Johann Christian Moritz; Laurent, Johann CM |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1876 |
| Place of death | Ahrensburg |