Johann Franz Wagner

Johann Franz Wagner (born June 14, 1733 in Ulm , † April 23, 1778 in Osnabrück ) was a German poet , philologist and university professor .

Life

Johann Franz Wagner was born in Ulm in 1733 as the son of a book printer. He attended the local Academic High School and then went on the initiative of its patron, the Helmstedter professor Franz Dominic Häberlin , to the University of Helmstedt , where he from 1753 philosophy, mathematics and Protestant theology studied. As early as 1754 he was working as a private tutor for the four sons of the university professor Christoph Timotheus Seidel . Wagner was a member, subsequently secretary and then senior of the Ducal German Society in Helmstedt, founded in 1746 and led by Seidel . In 1756 Wagner received the title of imperial crowned poet from the imperial count palatine and Augsburg councilor von Hartenstein. Wagner became a doctor of philosophy doctorate , received in 1756 the teaching certificate and held in Helmstedt lectures on philosophy and rhetoric . From 1759 he was rector of the Helmstedt city school and at the same time curator of the university library . In 1762 he was appointed associate professor for Greek language and literature at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig , where he was also vice rector of the Katharineum grammar school . In 1763 Wagner went to the Ratsgymnasium in Osnabrück as professor and rector . He died there in 1778 at the age of 44.

Wagner wrote Latin dissertations, poems and reviews, including for the Ephemerides Literariae Helmstadienses . He translated Latin classics such as the works of Gaius Iulius Caesar (1765), Curtius Rufus (1768), Ciceros Cato major (1770), the emperor's biographies of Suetonius (1771), Sallust's De bello Iugurthino (1772) and the first decade of Livy (1776/1777).

Fonts (selection)

• Attempt to contribute to the truth and good taste in poetry and prose . 1758.
• Des Titus Livius from Padua Roman history: what came of it to our times: translated from Latin into German by Johann Franz Wagner . 2nd edition, Verlag der Meyerschen Hof-Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1816. ( digitized version )
• Gaius Iulius Caesar: De bello Gallico . 1765. ( digitized version )

literature

• Paul Bahlmann :  Wagner, Johann Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 508 f.
• Isa Schikorsky: Wagner, Johann Franz, Dr. phil., Prof. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 725-726 .