Johann Friedrich Hahn

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Johann Friedrich Hahn (born December 28, 1753 in Gießen , † May 30, 1779 in Zweibrücken ) was a German poet.

Life

Hahn, Lutheran, studied law from April 22, 1771 at the University of Göttingen , then theology. There he was one of the co-founders of the Göttingen Hainbund on September 12, 1772 .

Since his studies he worked as a confidante of Johann Heinrich Voss . Because of his German-national sentiment he was called Teuthard by him . An "unfortunate hypochondriac".

Hahn was accepted as a Freemason on May 11, 1774, together with Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg in the Lodge Zu den Drei Rosen in Hamburg . In June 1774 he was a co-founder of the lodge Zum golden Zirkel in Göttingen, where he was promoted to master on November 18, 1774 .

Johann Friedrich Hahn died on May 30, 1779 at the age of 26, probably mentally deranged.

Works

  • Poems and letters by Johann Friedrich Hahn . Collected by Carl Redlich. In: Contributions to German Philology. Julius Zacher presented as a festive offering on October 28, 1879 . Halle 1880, pp. 246–266 (also published as a special print)

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Individual evidence

  1. Götz von Selle: The register of the ... University of Göttingen 1734-1837. Hildesheim, Leipzig 1937, no.8789
  2. Register of the lodge in the Geh. State Archives Berlin, Sign.5.2 G 31 No. 19