Johann Friedrich Jacob

Johann Friedrich Jacob, portrayed by Carl Julius Milde (1839)

Johann Friedrich Jacob (born December 5, 1792 in Halle an der Saale , † March 1, 1854 in Lübeck ) was a German pedagogue , classical philologist and director of the Katharineum in Lübeck .

Life

Johann Friedrich Jacob was the younger son of a master shoemaker in Halle. His older brother August Ludwig Wilhelm Jacob (1789–1862) became a philologist and school councilor for the province of Posen .

Johann Friedrich studied philology at the University of Halle and, after completing his master's degree , received a position at the pedagogy department in the monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg through the mediation of his teacher August Hermann Niemeyer . In 1815 he took part in the Wars of Liberation as a volunteer .

In 1818 he was appointed senior teacher at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg , where he taught ancient languages ​​and published his first philological publication with the edition and metric translation of the Latin poem Aetna from the appendix Vergiliana .

In 1825 he went to the Mariengymnasium in Poznan as a professor and director of studies , where his brother was already a school councilor. Due to the national and confessional differences, tensions arose again and again with the teaching body and the student body.

Therefore Jacob gladly accepted the call to Lübeck in 1831 and became director of the Katharineum as the successor to Friedrich August Göring . He worked here for 23 years. He published numerous treatises on Roman writers in the school programs and edited two medieval Latin poems from a Lübeck manuscript.

However, the biggest after-effects in school life had two projects Jacobs: 1843, a year after the lifting of Turn Lock and the introduction of gymnastics as a regular subject in Prussia , he was on the former cemetery of St. Catherine a gymnasium set up; each class was given half an hour a day. At the same time, he had students in the three upper classes trained to be pre-gymnasts for the municipal gymnasium, which was opened in 1844 and on whose board he joined three other members of the college. In connection with this, in 1844, after a short breakup because of striking sharp lengths, he allowed the revival of the St. Katharinen fencing club , which was founded by fifteen primans in 1836. However, fighting was now only allowed under the supervision of a fencing instructor . As a result, the fencing club, now also called coniunctio fratrum Lubecensium , developed into one of three student associations of the Katharineum.

The other new introduction was the general school festival , which first took place on June 22, 1832, the year after Jacobs' inauguration. The first party was celebrated in Bad Schwartauer Riesebusch ; In the decades that followed, people switched between the giant bush and a festival meadow in Israelsdorf . The school festival developed into a tradition that did not end until 1965.

Fonts

• Lucilii junioris Aetna recensuit notasque Jos. Scaligeri, Frid. Lindenbruchii et suas addidit. Lipsiae: Vogel, 1826
• Sextus Aurelius propertius : Carmina. Lipsiae: Teubner, 1827
  • later editions under the title:

Sextus Aurelius propertius: Elegies. German in the meter of the original by Friedrich Jacob. After the author's death a. ed. v. Wilhelm Binder, 3rd, through. Ed., Berlin-Schöneberg: Langenscheidt [1908–1910] ( Langenscheidt library of all Greek and Roman classics in newer German sample translations ; 74)

• De M. Manilio poeta. Lübeck: Schmidt, 1832–1836 (5 parts in the school programs 1832–1836)
• M. Acci Plauti Epidicus. Ad Camerarii veterem codicem recognovit Fr. Jacob. Lubecae apud bibliopolam de Rohden 1835
• P. Rutilii Lupi de figuris sententiarum et elocutionis libri duo. In usum scholarum explanavit Fridericus Jacob. Lubecae: de Rohden 1837
• Reineri Alemanici Phagifacetus et Godefridi omne punctum. E codice Lubecensi edidit Fridericus Jacob Lubecae: Rohden 1838
• The comedies of P. Terentius Afer . Berlin: G. Reimer 1845
• M. Manilii Astronomicon libri quinque: accedit index et diagrammata astrologica. Berolini: Reimer 1846
• Horace and his friends. 2 volumes, Berlin: Hertz 1852/53

literature

• Johannes Classen : Friedrich Jacob, Director of the Catharineum in Lübeck, in his life and work. Along with communications from his unprinted poetic and prosaic bequest and his portrait in copperplate. Jena 1855.
• Richard Stock: The Katharineum and the first efforts to organize German philologists. A memorial sheet for director Friedrich Jacob . Borchers, Lübeck 1913 ( digitized version )
• Jürgen Fick: The beginnings of gymnastics and sport at the Katharineum and the primary pentathlon. In: Festschrift for the 475th anniversary of the Katharineum in Lübeck. Lübeck 2006, pp. 40-47.
• Conrad Bursian :  Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 556-558. (described together with his brother)
• Jan Zimmermann: St. Gertrud 1860-1945. A photographic foray. Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-891-2 , p. 26, p. 51.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich August Goering	Director of the Katharineum in Lübeck 1831–1854	Friedrich Breier