Johann Georg Altmann

Johann Rudolf Huber : Johann Georg Altmann (1735).

Johann Georg Altmann (baptized April 21, 1695 in Zofingen ; † March 18, 1758 in Ins ) was a Swiss Protestant theologian , philologist and historian .

Life

Johann Georg Altmann attended the high school (theological school) in Bern before he worked as a pastor in 1725/1726 and then again from 1732 to 1734 (in Wahlern ) . Altmann was married from 1726 to Salome Elisabeth Tillier (1703–1737), daughter of the Venner Johann Rudolf Tillier and Johanna Katharina Malacrida. From 1734 to 1757 he worked at the high school, first as professor of eloquence (1734/1735), then as professor of the Greek language and moral theory (1735-1757); from 1736 to 1739 Altmann was the principal of the school. From 1757 until his death he worked as a pastor again, this time in Ins. He died there on March 18, 1758.

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Altmann was the editor of various moral weekly magazines. In 1739 he founded the German Society in Bern , whose goals included promoting the German language and literature. He represented the position of Johann Christoph Gottsched , who called for a standardization of the High German language based on the Saxon model, and thus the opposite point of view of the two Zurich scholars Johann Jakob Bodmer and Johann Jakob Breitinger .

In 1751 he became a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• Attempt of a historical and physical description of the Swiss icebergs. Zurich 1751 ( doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-8556 ); 2nd edition 1753 ( digitized ).

literature

• Leonhard Beriger:  Altmann, Johann Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 226 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Ischer: Johann Georg Altmann. In: New Years Papers of the Literary Society of Bern. Bern 1903, pp. 3-100.
• Hanspeter Stucker: Altmann, Johann Georg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Gottlieb Ludwig Studer :  Altmann, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 371.

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Altmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Publications by and about Johann Georg Altmann in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Images and texts from L'état et les délices de la Suisse and from JG Altmann's attempt at a historical and physical description of the Swiss icebergs can be found on the VIATIMAGES portal.