Johann Christoph Gottleber

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Johann Christoph Gottleber (born November 27, 1733 in Chemnitz ; † May 1, 1785 in Meißen ) was a German teacher and school writer.

Life

Johann Christoph Gottleber the son of an armory dealer and church mayor from Chemnitz. After attending the Lyceum there, he went to study at the University of Leipzig . Due to the Seven Years' War, he was unable to complete his studies in Leipzig. In order to earn money, he became court master of a royal Polish and electoral Saxon family of officials in Altorf . At the university there, Gottleber was able to complete his studies and in 1761 obtain his master's degree. The title of his theological master's thesis was De emphasium iudicandarum difficultate. Theol.

After the Treaty of Hubertusburg , Gottleb returned to the Electorate of Saxony , where he took over the rectorate of the local lyceum in the Saxon mountain town of Annaberg in the Ore Mountains in 1763. As early as 1764 he formed a German society out of some of the Prima pupils there, which was to try its hand at poetry and prose based on the models given by Gellert, Klopstock, Cramer, Mosheim and Jerusalem, and which was to give rise to mutual criticism in many ways .

In 1771 Gottleber was offered the leadership of the Princely School St. Afra in Meißen, which he took over without hesitation. There he introduced Ernesti's school rules.

After his death, the catalog of his library appeared under the title Catalogvs Bibliothecae B. Io. Christophori Gottleberi. AM Et Illvstris Afranei Nvper Rectoris Cvivs Avctio Pvblica In Collegio Rvbro a Die XXII. May MDCCLXXXVI Institvenda 1786 in Leipzig .

Works

He published a number of school writings on Plato, Philo and Cicero, in particular:

  • Vota pro salute ... Friderici Augusti, electoris et ducis Saxoniae etc. etc. natali ipsius die ... , Annaberg 1768
  • Plato: Platonis Menexenus et Periclis Thucydidei oratio funebris. Recensuit et animadversionibus illustravit Io. Chr. Gottleber , 1782.

He also prepared an edition of Thucydides.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kaemmel:  Gottleber, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 747.
personal data
SURNAME Gottleber, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and school writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1785
Place of death Meissen