Johann Gebhard Maaß
Johann Gebhard Ehrenreich Maaß (born February 26, 1766 in Krottorf , † December 23, 1823 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German psychologist.
Maaß was the son of the preacher Samuel Ehrenreich Maaß in Krottorf. His brother Friedrich Karl Heinrich Maaß later became the director of the cathedral high school in Halberstadt .
Maaß attended the cathedral school in Halberstadt. In 1784 he began to study theology at the Martin Luther University in Halle . In 1787 he completed his habilitation, on November 15, 1791, he became associate professor and, in 1798, a full professor in the philosophy faculty in Halle. He administered the protectorate of the university three times under particularly difficult circumstances: 1805–1806, 1816–1817 and 1821–1823.
On November 8, 1814, he was accepted into the Halle Masonic lodge "To the three swords", in which, among other things, he held the office of speaker. He was also very interested in music and directed the lodge's famous mountain concerts between 1815 and 1823 . In 1814 he founded the Hallesche Singakademie. As an outstanding patriot and Freemason, Maaß headed the Halle hospitals, the association of war-damaged women and poor relief during the war and post-war years 1813–1815.
He died on December 23, 1823. The funeral sermon on Johann Gebhard Ehrenreich Maaß, along with a brief outline of the life and work of the eternal man, was given by August Hermann Niemeyer . On the occasion of the centenary of the Battle of Leipzig , the lodge donated a plaque to commemorate his self-sacrificing work, which is located on the Stadtgottesacker Halle in Schwibbogen 54.
Works
- About the imagination (Hall 1792, 2nd edition 1797),
- About the Passions (Hall 1805–1807, 2 vols.),
- About feelings and affects (Hall 1811)
- Outline of the rhetoric
- Outline of pure mathematics
- Outline of Natural Law (Leipzig 1808)
- About rights and liabilities in general and the civil ones in particular (Halle 1794)
- Related words to supplement the Eberhard synonymy
- Attempt at a general German synonymy in a critical-philosophical dictionary of related words in the High German dialect. By Johann August Eberhard and Johann Gebhard Ehrenreich Maaß. (Hall 1826, 3rd edition)
- Handbook for comparing and correctly using the synonymous words in the German language : three parts
- On the similarity of the Christian with the newest philosophical moral doctrine
- Strange facts from Bonaparte's recent history
- Critical Theory of Revelation
literature
- Carl von Prantl : Maass, Johann Gebhard Ehrenreich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 1 f.
- Friedrich August Eckstein : History of the Freemason Lodge in the Orient from Halle, a festive gift for the Secular celebration of the Lodge to the three swords , Halle a. P. 1844. See list of members p. 290
- Ulrich Schwetschke: One Hundred Years of Mountain Concerts , Halle a. P. 1910
- New necrology of the Germans. ( Online )
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Gebhard Maaß in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Johann Gebhard Maaß in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maaß, Johann Gebhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maaß, Johann Gebhard Ehrenreich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krottorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1823 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |