Johann Daniel Ritter

Johann Daniel Ritter (born October 16, 1709 in Schlanz , † May 15, 1775 in Wittenberg ) was a German historian .

Life

Born as the son of a cavalry captain of the imperial troops Johann Ritter in Silesia and his wife Anna Rosina (née Böhme von Hujaschnitz), he trained in Frauenstadt and Breslau in order to start studying at the University of Leipzig on May 31, 1730 . There he acquired the academic degree of a master’s degree on February 21, 1732 and then began to give lectures in Leipzig.

Thereupon he was appointed associate professor of philosophy in 1735 , was appointed councilor and in 1742 went to the University of Wittenberg as a full professor of history . In addition, he was appointed professor of ethics after he had turned down a call to the University of Leiden in 1761 . In 1748 the law faculty of the University of Göttingen awarded him a doctorate without applying for it. However, he stayed in Wittenberg until the end of his life.

Selection of works

• Diss. De Fetialibus Populi Romani, Leipzig 1732
• Comment. Epistol. De Marcio primo Pontifice M. & Familia Marcia, Leipzig 1733
• Diss. Observationes Criticas complectens, Leipzig 1735
• Diss. De Amalasventa Ostro - Gothorum Regina, Leipzig 1735

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800, Vol. 11 p. 344
• Knight, Johann Daniel. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, column 1761 f.
• Christian Siegmund Georgi : Annales Academiae Vitebergensis 1655-1755, p. 317
• Nikolaus Müller: The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg, Magdeburg Evangelische Buchhandlung Ernst Holtermann , 1912
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer , Halle (Saale) 1917
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .