Johann Friedrich Nolte

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Johann Friedrich Nolte (born July 15, 1694 in Einbeck in the Principality of Grubenhagen , † June 12, 1754 in Schöningen ) was a German educator and philologist .

Life

Johann Friedrich Nolte was the son of Paul Martin Nolte (* August 1, 1668; † December 1716), school principal in Einbeck and from 1695 in Wolfenbüttel ; 1700 vice-rector and 1707 rector at the Lyzeum Schöningen , and his first wife Anna Dorothea (née Betten) (* 1622, † 1701). From his father's second marriage to Elisabeth Dorothea Büttner, he had a half-brother, Rudolf August Nolte , a Braunschweig lawyer and local historian .

He attended the high school in Schöningen, where his father was rector; However, because it seemed necessary for his son to receive further education before studying at university, he came to the Martineum grammar school in Braunschweig in 1711 . At this school he fell through his skillful public appearance the Duke Ernst Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern on, but it was the before the end of the school, at the instigation of General Superintendent George Nitsch , who was a friend of his father, at the high school Ernestinum in Gotha, for this he lived in Georg Nitsch's house and served him at the same time as secretary and assistant in his scientific work. At the instigation of his father, he came to the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin in autumn 1713 and finished his school education here in 1714.

Immediately after school , he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt at Easter 1714 to study theology and gained a good reputation for his participation in public disputations, his scientific work and his numerous poetic writings, as well as his ability to preach. Duke August Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel had him preach repeatedly to him during his summer stay at his pleasure palace Langeleben near Schöningen.

After his father died in December 1716, Johann Friedrich Nolte received the post of vice principal at the Schöningen grammar school from the Duke and took up his post in January 1717, which he held for thirty years without interruption. In February 1747, the duke gave him the rectorate of the grammar school as successor to Sigismund Andreas Cuno . He turned down the multiple offers to take on foreign rectorates, including at the Johanneum in Hamburg and at the grammar school in Braunschweig.

Johann Friedrich Nolte had been married to Eleonora Elisabeta Kunigunda (née Schneider) since 1722 and had a son:

Johann Andreas Nolte (* 1724 - † June 8, 1798), Counselor in Blankenburg.

Philological work

Johann Friedrich Nolte dealt extensively with philological research and created his Lexicon Latinae Linguae Antibarbarum in 1744 , in which he dealt with expressions contrary to the norm.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Gerhard Fleischer, d. Jüng., 1810, p. 122 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Nolte, Johann Friedrich: Lexicon Latinae Linguae Antibarbarum Quadripartitum. - Leipzig and Helmstedt, 1744. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .