Johann Christian Wolf
Johann Christian Wolf (baptized April 10, 1690 in Wernigerode ; † April 9, 1770 in Hamburg ) was a German philologist. He was a professor at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg and librarian at the city library there .
Life
Wolf was born the son of the theologian Johannes Wolf and came to Hamburg with his family in 1695. He first attended the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg and enrolled in 1709 at the University of Wittenberg , where he studied theology . After a subsequent educational trip through Germany, the Netherlands and England, he returned to Hamburg in 1712 and became a candidate for the ecclesiastical ministry , d. H. Candidates for a pastoral position. After he had already given lectures in small groups, he became professor of physics and poetry at the grammar school in 1725 . On January 12, 1731, he was elected a member ( matriculation number 422 ) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Aratus . In 1746 he also took over the post of librarian at the city library. After giving up his lectures for health reasons in 1766, he died in 1770. Wolf remained unmarried.
Like his brother Johann Christoph before him, he bequeathed his library and scientific instruments to the City Library, the predecessor of the Hamburg State and University Library. In addition, he carried on the collection of letters from scholars (Uffenbach-Wolfsche Briefsammlung) from his brother. It also went to the city library as a foundation. His own writings deal in particular with poets from ancient Greece.
After his death, the Hamburg Senate erected a cenotaph for him and his brother in the city library based on a design by the Swedish sculptor Johann Wilhelm Manstadt .
Fonts
- Novem illustrium Foeminarum, Sapphus, Erinnæ, Myrus, Myrtidis, Corinnæ, Telesillæ, Praxillæ, Nossidis, Anytæ, fragmenta et Elogia. , Hamburg, 1735.
- Mulierum Graecarum quae oratione prosa usae sunt fragmenta et elogia graece et latine: cum virorum doctorum notis et indicibus; accedit Catalogus Foeminarum sapientia artibus scriptisue apud Graecos Romanos aliosque gentes olim illustrium / curante Jo. Christiano Wolfio. Hamburgi, Vandenhoeck, 1735.
- Monumenta typographica, quae artis hujus praestantissimae originem, laudem et abusum posteris produnt / instaurata studio et labore Jo. Christiani Wolfii , Hamburg 1740.
literature
- Eduard Jacobs : Wolf, Johann Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 761 f.
- Hans Schröder : Johann Christian Wolf in: Lexicon of Hamburg writers. Volume 8, Hamburg 1883 ( online )
- Martin Mulsow : Johann Christian Wolf (1683–1739) and the forbidden books in Hamburg , p. 81 ff., Contained in: 500 years of theology in Hamburg. Hamburg as a center of Christian theology and culture between tradition and future , de Gruyter, Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3-11-018529-6
- Dr. Robert Naumann (Ed.), Friedrich Lorenz Hoffmann , Serapeum : Journal for Library Science, Manuscript Studies and Older Literature , 24th year, Verlag CP Melzer, Leipzig 1863, p. 343 ff., ( Online, (351: 343) ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Johann Christian Wolf (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 9, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Johann Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aratus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized April 10, 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wernigerode |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1770 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |