Johann Daniel Hensel

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Johann Daniel Hensel (born December 31, 1757 in Goldberg , † December 10, 1839 in Hirschberg ) was a German educator, writer and composer.

Life

Johann Daniel Hensel was the son of Daniel Gottfried Hensel (1726–1780), who was a music teacher in Goldberg and in 1758 was transferred to Löwen an der Glatzer Neisse as a deacon .

Johann Daniel Hensel was trained in reading, writing, arithmetic, drawing and religion by his father. Latin was added in 1763, French in 1766, Greek in 1768, and shortly afterwards Hebrew. From 1769 he received further lessons from a friend in English, Italian and Polish.

From an organist he learned to play the piano in the "old manner", at the age of 10 in the "Bachian manner" and at the age of 12 he was already representing the organist. He also had lessons on the violin , viola , violoncello and flute .

In 1772 he attended the Lyceum in Hirschberg, in addition he received further private lessons from Karl Ludwig Bauer in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and French as well as in dogmatics combined with polemics and exegesis as well as propaedeutics . In 1777 he left school and began studying philology and philosophy at the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he heard lectures from Christian Friedrich Reusch , Immanuel Kant , Theodor Christoph Lilienthal , Karl Gottfried Hagen and Wilhelm Bernhard Jester . During this time he taught Latin, French and piano music himself. He finished his studies in 1780 and returned to Leuven, where he became a private tutor in 1781 and principal of the school in Strehlen in 1782 . He gave this office in 1784 again and went as a tutor to a gentleman of Aulock by Hall , in the local university he heard legal, mathematical, physical, philosophical, technological and economic lectures and Daniel Gottlob Türk he studied composition . In 1786 he settled in Halle as a private lecturer . In 1787 he was examined and was given permission to give lectures, but could not do a doctorate for financial reasons , so that he no longer saw a future as a private lecturer and returned. In 1789 he applied unsuccessfully for the vice-rectorate and vice-rectorate in Hirschberg and then became a private tutor to Baron von Richthofen in Erdmannsdorf . In 1792 he set up an educational institute for girls in Hirschberg, and later an institute for boys was added.

In September 1792 he married Karoline Henriette Dupuis de Rosier, the daughter of the former customs inspector from Wohlau , who taught as a teacher at his educational institute for girls.

Works (selection)

  • System of female upbringing, especially for the middle and higher class: with an appendix on modesty . Halle, 1787–1788
  • Counterpart to Mr. Rehberg's secret office secretary in Hanover treatise (in February and March of the Berlin monthly 1788) on the question: Should the ancient languages ​​be used as the basis for general teaching of the youth in the higher classes, or should the actual scholars be left alone? Hall: Hendel, 1788
  • Johann Daniel Hensel; Immanuel Krahn, (Wdowa) .; Wolfgang Pittschiller: Historical-topographical description of the city of Hirschberg in Silesia, from its origins up to the year 1797. Hirschberg: bey Wolfgang Pittschiller and Comp., 1797 [1] , for this he used the materials collected by Kaspar Gottlieb Lindner on the city history of Hirschberg
  • Brief outline of Silesian history . Hirschberg, W. Pittschiller and compagnie, 1797
  • The evocation of spirits, an operetta. Daphne or Die Fruehlingsfeier in Arkadien - an opera. Hirschberg: Pittschiller, 1799
  • Johann Daniel Hensel; Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Döring; Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter; William Shakespeare: The Ghost Island: A Singspiel in four acts . Hirschberg: Pittschiller, 1799
  • Karl Ludwig Bauer, former rector of Hirschberg, one of the greatest philologists of our time: a biographical memorial and news of his writings. Hirschberg, 1801
  • General linguistic theory, as the basis of every special linguistic teaching, together with an appendix on the construction of verses. Leipzig 1807 [2]
  • Diary of the town of Strehlen in Silesia from 1806-1809. Hirschberg, 1809
  • Brief outline of Silesian history, as a guide for teaching in low schools in connection with the handbook of Silesian history. Breslau: CF Barth jun., 1812
  • Handbook of Silesian History for lovers and school teachers in lower schools, also to be used as a guide in upper classes. Breslau: CF Barth jun., 1813
  • The War of Freedom Part 1. Hirschberg Krahn 1815 [3]
  • The War of Freedom Part 2. Hirschberg Krahn 1816
  • The celebration of the great, unique peace festival on January 18, 1816 in Hirschberg. Hirschberg: C. Krahn jun., 1816
  • Extract from the textbook of Silesian history: for lower schools . Glogau Heilmann 1824
  • Handbook of Silesian History: including appendix, covering the years 1824–1833 . Glogau, 1824

Stage and musical works

  • Practicing piano school. First course . By Johann Daniel Hensel. First issue. Hirschberg, at the expense of the author and on commission from Breitkopf and Härtel in Leipzig 1796–97
  • The good prince's birthday, operetta. Strehlen 1784
  • Cyrus and Kassandra (after Karl Wilhelm Ramler). Hall 1786
  • Daphne or the Arcadia spring celebration . Hirschberg 1790
  • Song of praise to Friedrich Wilhelm III. King of Prussia, to be sung after the Marseilles hymn, by Herklots and set to music again. Hirschberg, Wolfgang Pittschiller & Co. 1798
  • Galops in D major
  • Scottish in D major
  • Sonatas in C major

literature

  • Regina Fuhrmann; Johann Daniel Hensel: Johann Daniel Hensel <1757-1839> and its significance for the history of girls' education . Cologne, Phil. Diss. V. Jan. 17, 1922.
  • Carl Julius Adolf Hoffmann: The Tonkünstler Schlesiens: a contribution to the art history of Silesia from the years 960 to 1830 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed on November 5, 2017]).
  2. ^ German biography: Hensel, Johann Daniel - German biography. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  3. ^ Karl Gabriel Nowack: Schlesisches Writer Lexicon, or biobibliographical index of the Silesian writers living in the second quarter of the 19th century . WG Korn, 1836 ( google.de [accessed November 6, 2017]).
  4. ^ Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800: H - Hizler . Fleischer, 1805 ( google.de [accessed November 6, 2017]).
  5. ^ Johann Daniel Hensel: Historical-topographical description of the city of Hirschberg in Silesia from its origins up to the year 1797 . Pittschiller, 1797 ( google.de [accessed November 6, 2017]).
  6. ^ Johann Daniel Hensel. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
  7. ^ RISM-OPAC: Search. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Carl Julius Adolf Hoffmann: Die Tonkünstler Schlesiens: a contribution to the art history of Silesia from the years 960 to 1830: containing biographical notes about Silesian composers, musical writers and educators, virtuosos, singers, cantors, chamber musicians, instrument makers, as well as about promoters and lovers of the Tonkunst . Commissioned by GP Aderholz, 1830 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Hensel, Johann Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, writer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldberg
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1839
Place of death Hirschberg