Johann Ernst Philippi

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Johann Ernst Philippi

Johann Ernst Philippi (* around 1700 in Dresden ; † April 1757 or October 1758 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German lawyer and university professor in Halle.

Life

Johann Ernst Philippi was a son of the preacher at the Sophienkirche in Dresden and later Merseburg court preacher Ernst Christian Philippi (1668–1736). The later theologian Ernst Gottlob Philippi (born April 24, 1709 in Dresden) was his brother.

Johann Ernst went to Leipzig in 1720 to study law and philosophy and in 1723 received a master's degree in philosophy. In 1726 he became a member of the German Society in Leipzig , but in the same year he was imprisoned in a fortress in Meissen because of a letter against the lottery. A year later Philippi received his doctorate in law in Halle and settled as a lawyer in Merseburg. He became a member of the Trusted Speakers Society in Leipzig.

In 1729 he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for a duel, but fled to Halle. Here he was appointed professor of German eloquence in 1731.

Philippi argued against the views of Gottsched and Wolff in his writings . His Halle professor colleague Wiedeburg then encouraged the satirist Liscow to attack Philippi personally in 1732 with the anonymous writing Briontes the Younger ... In June and October 1733 Liscow had two more ridiculous writings against Philippi.

Philippi tried to defend himself against the anonymous attacks, but in the meantime he had become the mockery of the students and could no longer give normal lectures. So he turned to Göttingen in 1734 , but unsuccessfully applied for a professorship there.

Liscow's attacks must have been harsh to contemporaries. Mosheim wrote to Gottsched on September 15, 1734:

“Perhaps he [Johann Friedrich Schreiber] flatters himself as in vain as HE.D. Philippi, who makes the strange conclusion: I am proposed in Hanover: therefore I will be called to Göttingen. This honest man wrote to me that he was satisfied with my suggestion and that he did not want to suggest anything more to German society. .. If it were a little different, the dispute could easily be resolved. I have heartily sufferings with him for certain causes. It is true, he makes a mistake and makes mistakes: but he is miserable enough in front of himself and therefore one must no longer offend him. I wanted to be able to change him and bring him further at the same time. "

From January 1735 Philippi tried to publish the weekly Der Freydenker , but without success. In spring 1735 he was expelled from Göttingen and tried in vain to find a new job in Helmstedt , Halle and Jena . In 1737 he had to do the “auserlesene theol. Selling his late father's library. From Easter 1739 he tried his hand at lectures on Roman law and "practical exercises in bound and unbound speech" in Erfurt , but went to Leipzig in October.

At the beginning of February 1740 Philippi was brought to Waldheim to the local “poor = breeding = orphans = and mad = house” due to mental confusion “on high orders” . Dismissed in 1742, he moved penniless to Dresden, wrote and published his rhyming art and then worked on the unpublished opus L'art de bons mots .

The African philosopher and legal scholar Anton Wilhelm Amo proposed marriage to a woman (“Madem Astrine”) in 1747, followed by a campaign of ridicule that culminated in the publication of the racist ridiculous poems by Johann Ernst Philippis.

In 1749 the Academische Schaubühne followed , probably only written to earn a living . There was uncertainty over the following years. In 1757 Philippi was arrested in Leipzig and died in Halle penitentiary.

Works

  • Of which features u. great value of heroic eloquence . 1731
  • Kurtzer Outline of a Thoroughly Fasted Thuringian History . Hall 1732.
  • Six German speeches about all kinds of exquisite cases: according to the rules of natural, masculine and heroic eloquence . 1732
  • Heroic poem on the King of Poland . 1732
  • Mathematical attempt on the impossibility of an eternal world . Leipzig 1733
  • Kurtze Grund = sentences of a true homiletic eloquence . Merseburg 1734
  • Cicero, A Big Wind Bag, Rabulist and Charletan . Hall 1735 ( full text in google book search)
  • Rules and maxims of the noble art of rhyming . Altenburg 1743 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive , full text in the Google book search)
  • Amusing academic stage: on which the virtues and vices that are swinging at universities are portrayed poetically in seven appearances . 1749 digitized

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ died as a result of corporal punishment. According to Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra : Halle's dark and night life in the 18th century . Hall 1930.
  2. ↑ after a handwritten note by the Halle Diakonus Kirchner in a copy by Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt's detailed description of the ..... Saalkreis 1750, p. 689
  3. ↑ quoted from Gottsched: Correspondence . Vol. 3., pp. 172f. Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-11-021561-8
  4. ↑ Johann Ernst Philippi: Amusing Poetic Schaubbühne, and on the same I. A Possirlich student, Hanss Dümchen from the north, along with twelve of his funny comrades. II. The academic mock maid, as a sample of all cockettes. III. Mr. M. Amo, a learned Moor, gallant proposal of love to a beautiful brunette, Madem Astrine. IV. Mademoiselle Astrine, parodic answer to such a request from a Moor in love (1747), title in the catalog of the Berlin State Library .
personal data
SURNAME Philippi, Johann Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor in Halle
DATE OF BIRTH around 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH April 1757 or October 1758
Place of death Halle (Saale)