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Johann Friedrich Salomon Kaltwasser (born March 22, 1752 in Gotha ; † August 17, 1813 there ) was a German classical philologist , teacher and translator .

Life

Johann Friedrich Salomon Kaltwasser was the son of the bookbinder Johann Heinrich Kaltwasser and his wife Susanne Margarethe, née Böhm. He attended high school in Gotha until 1769 and then studied theology at the University of Jena . He returned in 1775 as a collaborator at the illustrious grammar school in his hometown, where he became professor of ancient Greek in 1778 . He worked as a teacher at the school for almost 39 years until his death. He gave private lessons in Greek to the adult Duke Ernst II. Ludwig von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg .

Kaltwasser gained fame mainly through his translations by Plutarch and the continuation of Friedrich Andreas Stroth's translation work on Diodor's library . He was also known for his reviews in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung .

Works

Translations

• Diodor: Library of History. 6 volumes. Hermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1782–1787.
• Plutarch: Moral Treatises. 9 volumes. Hermann, Frankfurt am Main 1783 ff.
• Plutarch: Comparative Biographies with Notes. 10 volumes. Keil, Magdeburg 1799–1806.

Editions

• Euripides : Euripidu Alkēstis. Ettinger, Gotha 1776.
• Paianios : Paianiu Metaphrasis eis tēn tu Eutropiu Rhōmaikën historian. Ettinger, Gotha 1780.

literature

• H .:  Kaltwasser, Johann Friedrich Salomon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 49 f.
• Max Schneider: The teachers of the high school illustrious in Gotha. Part 2. Engelhard-Reyher, Gotha 1902, p. 4 No. 150 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or, Lexicon of the now living German writers , Volume 4, Lemgo 1797, p. 24 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Friedrich Salomon Kaltwasser  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Döring : Oratio in memoriam Kaltwasseri. In: the same: Commentationes, orationes, carmina latino sermone conscripta. Campe, Nürnberg 1839, pp. 167–172, here: p. 167 note 2 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Friedrich Jacobs : Mixed writings. Volume 1. Ethinger, Gotha 1823, p. 65 ( Google Books ).
3. ↑ Ute Schneider : Friedrich Nicolais General German Library as an integration medium for the Republic of Scholars , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, p. 261, fn. 25.