Johann Georg Albrecht

Johann Georg Albrecht (born September 27, 1694 in Frankfurt am Main (baptized); † May 5, 1770 there (buried)) was a German educator .

Life

In 1728 Albrecht became vice rector of the municipal high school in his hometown, and in 1737 rector adiunctus as successor to Johann Thomas Kumpf . From 1748 to 1766 he was rector of the institution, for which he wrote two programs from 1737 to 1764 a year. Albrecht was a friend of Johann Caspar Goethe and taught his son Johann Wolfgang privately in Hebrew and the Old Testament . Goethe characterized him in his autobiography From my life. Poetry and Truth (Book 1, Chapter 4) as one of the most original figures in the world, small, not fat but broad, shapeless without being overgrown, in short an Aesop with a choir skirt and wig and describes his personality and his teaching style.

Works

• The current constitution of the Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1747.
• Patriotic thoughts of unrecognized school sin, mistakes and shortcomings. Frankfurt am Main 1763.

literature

• Karl Demeter :  Albrecht, Johann Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 182 ( digitized version ).
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
• Elisabeth Mentzel: Wolfgang and Cornelia Goethe's teachers . R. Voigtländer, Leipzig: Digitized from the Internet Archive : Johann Georg Albrecht , pp. 210–238