Johann Friedrich Reitz

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Johann Friedrich Reitz

Johann Friedrich Reitz (also: Reiz, Reits ; born September 25, 1695 in Braunfels , † March 21, 1778 in Utrecht ) was a German historian and philologist.

Life

The son of the pietistically committed theologian Johann Henrich Reitz and his wife Anna Maria Meermann attended grammar school in Siegen after receiving a private education and received further schooling in Wesel . He began his studies in 1714 at the University of Utrecht and found a job as an informator for the Hereditary Prince of Nassau-Siegen, which was able to finance his studies. To study literature and medicine, he attended the lectures of Johann Jacob Vitriarius , Pieter Burman , Rudolphus Leusden , Josephus Serrurier and Jacob Vallan .

After defending the treatise de trituratione alimentorum in ventriculo under Serrurier in 1718 , he went to Rotterdam the following year as a teacher at the Erasmus grammar school and received his doctorate on February 22, 1720 in Utrecht under Leusden with the treatise de morbis divitum as a doctor of medicine. In 1724 he moved to the post of rectorate of the Hieronymus School in Utrecht, which position he took over with a speech on the words of Terentius provinciam cepisti duram . In 1728 he became the rector of the institute and declined further appointments to other educational institutions. On November 12, 1745, the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him extraordinary professor of rhetoric and poetry at the Utrecht University, which he took up on January 13, 1746 with the speech de veterum oratorum, maxime Graecorum, in dicendo libertate atque audacia .

Two years later, on March 6, 1748, he was given the full professorship of history and rhetoric, which he took over on June 17, 1778 with the speech Criticum artium scientia carentem esse hominem platonicum . In his capacity as a Utrecht university lecturer, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht Academy and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1750/51 and 1767/68 . He ended his first term of office as rector with the speech de censoribus librorum and his second term of office with the speech de emendandis academiis , after the commemorative speech on Jacobus Odé oratio funebris in obitum vir in 1752 . clar. Jacobi Odei had held. Reitz has appeared as the author of various speeches and as the editor of some works, especially his brother.

Reitz married Theodora Kloek on January 2, 1727 (* August 16, 1698; † April 25, 1783). Several children were born from the marriage.

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  1. ^ Other information 23 September
  2. ↑ other information March 31st
personal data
SURNAME Reitz, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stimulus; Riding
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1695 or September 25, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunfels
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1778 or March 31, 1778
Place of death Utrecht