Johann Erich Ostermann

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Johann Erich Ostermann also: Johann Ehrenreich Ostermann (born June 26, 1611 in Zörbig ; † August 10, 1668 in Wittenberg ) was a German Graecist .

Life

The son of the electoral tax collector Lucas Ostermann and his wife Margaretha Tomitsch had Austrian Styrian roots. His father had adopted the Protestant faith and moved to Germany. He had received the basics of his education at the school in his hometown. From 1621 he attended school in Köthen , where he received extensive training in the Syrian language, Hebrew poetry and Greek rhetoric from Martin Trost . On March 14, 1626, he enrolled as an electoral scholarship holder at the University of Wittenberg . Here he attended the philological lectures by Erasmus Schmidt , August Buchner and his former teacher Trost. But also the lectures by Johannes Scharff on logic, as well as metaphysics and rhetoric with Michael Reichard .

On March 16, 1630, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy and then gave private lectures in Wittenberg. After he was appointed adjunct of the philosophical faculty on October 18, 1633, he took over the professorship of the Greek language on November 22, 1637. In 1661 he became Ephorus of the electoral scholarship holders in Wittenberg. In addition, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg University. He was dean of the philosophical faculty several times and rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters of 1644 and 1662 .

Ostermann was highly regarded in his time. As an author, however, he has only moved on academic paths. His treatises and speeches often deal with historical, philological and textual issues of the New Testament. He dealt with Hebrew punctuation, human sacrifice among the Greeks, the pagans, the ancient Roman banquet, the monetary system of the ancient Greeks, the ancient Greek nobility and the Greek advisory bodies in antiquity. He also appeared as a poet of the Latin language. However, he was unable to write any sustainable works, so that his name has largely been forgotten today. After his death, an epitaph was erected in his honor on the courtyard wall of the Wittenberg Castle Church . His widow donated 200 thalers in 1697 for a scholarship for poor philosophical professor, deacon and school teacher widows.

family

Ostermann was married twice.

His first marriage was on September 13, 1638 in Wittenberg with Magdalena Tuchscherer (born July 3, 1602 in Meißen, † October 13, 1647 in Wittenberg), the widow of the Wittenberg professor Erasmus Schmidt . In the nine-year marriage, the daughter Anna Margaretha Ostermann was born, but she died young.

His second marriage was in 1649 with Anna Maria Strauss, the daughter of Dr. jur. and Amtschössers Benedikt Strauss. From this marriage came the sons Johann Benedikt Ostermann, Johann Erich (Ehrenreich) Ostermann and Johann Lucas Ostermann, as well as the daughters Anna Dorothea Ostermann and Anna Maria Ostermann.

Fonts

  • De mutatione punctorum Ebrae or. Generali. Wittenberg 1633
  • Quaestionum graecarum pentas. Wittenberg 1634
  • De erroribus autorum latinorum. Wittenberg 1648
  • De veterum Romanonorum convivandi ritibus. Wittenberg 1648
  • Positiones philologicae, graecum NT contextum concernentes. Wittenberg 1649, 3rd vol.
  • De consultationibus veterum. 1649 (also in: Crenii Thesauro libror. Philology. Leiden 1700, pp. 410-428)
  • De communi Christianorum precatione. Wittenberg 1650
  • Diss. In Plutarchi M. Tullium Ciceronenem. Wittenberg 1657
  • Theses philologicae. Wittenberg 1660
  • Diss. De astrolatria. Wittenberg 1663

literature

  • Henning Witte: Memoriae philosophorum, oratorum, poetarum, historicorum et philologorum nostri seculi clarissimorum renovatae decas prima (- nona). Königsberg-Frankfurt / Main, 1677–79, 2nd vol., P. 523, ( online )
  • Ostermann, Joh. Erich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 25, Leipzig 1740, column 2314.
  • Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Verlag Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen, 1816, Vol. 5, Sp. 1250
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig, Volume 3, Leipzig 1751, Sp. 1131
  • Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , p. 200 f.
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1917, pp. 483, 491
  • Catalog of the Princely Stolberg-Stolbergsch funeral sermons collection. Verlag Degner and Co., Leipzig, 1930, Vol. 3, p. 256

References and comments

  1. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602-1660) . Magdeburg, 1934, p. 301 No. 45.
  2. ^ University archive Halle: Title XXXXV, 1, 2, p. 700.
  3. ^ Based on Gottfried Suevus: Academiia Wittebergensis Anno Fundationis ... , ( Online ), summer semester 1639, winter semester 1643 and winter semester 1649.
  4. ^ Fritz Bellmann, Marie-Lousi Harksen, Roland Werner: The monuments of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Verlag Hermann Böhlau, Weimar, 1979, p. 106.
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch: The Prussian Universities. A collection of ordinances that concern the constitution and administration of these institutions. Verlag Ernst Friedrich Mittler, Berlin-Posen-Bromberg, 1839, 1st volume, p. 450 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Boppard / Rhein, 1970, vol. 6, p. 172, R 5266.
  7. ^ Johann Erich (Ehrenreich) Ostermann, born March 20, 1654 in Wittenberg, attended the city school in Wittenberg, 1672 the grammar school in Grimma, then the University of Giessen and the University of Frankfurt / Oder, back in Wittenberg he became a clerk and on April 5, 1689 April 25th d. J. Ratsherr there, 1695 city clerk, 1696 head of church, 1712 city judge, 1714 mayor in Wittenberg, † April 28, 1724 in Wittenberg (cf. Paul Gottlieb Kettner: Historical message from the Raths-Collegio Der Chur-Stadt Wittenberg . Grimmenser album; Zitzlaff ).
  8. ^ Anna Maria Ostermann (born June 29, 1657 in Wittenberg; † July 5, 1729 in Dresden) married. March 3, 1674 with Samuel Benedict Carpzov

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personal data
SURNAME Ostermann, Johann Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ostermann, Johann Ehrenreich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Graecist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1611
PLACE OF BIRTH Zörbig
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1668
Place of death Wittenberg