Johann Georg August Galletti
Johann Georg August Galletti (born August 19, 1750 in Altenburg , † March 16, 1828 in Gotha ) was a German historian and geographer , author of numerous histories and textbooks of contemporary importance.
Life
Galletti was born the son of an Italian opera singer who had a job at the Gotha Court Theater. From 1768 to 1772 he studied law , then history and geography at the University of Göttingen and was then tutor in Gräfentonna, where he published his first works (a Latin grammar, instructions on geometry and "History and description of the Tonna rule").
Galletti was from 1778 to 1819 grammar school professor for Latin and German at Gothaer Gymnasium Illustre , later professor for history and geography. In 1816 he became ducal councilor and "historiographer of the Gotha land" before he retired in 1819. From 1808 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Works
Galletti became known for his more than 50 works on European and German, Thuringian and Gotha history (5 volumes of the history and description of the Duchy of Gotha , 6 volumes of the history of Thuringia ). Galletti was the first German historian to write a complete history of the French Revolution (1808–1811). He received international recognition for his 27-volume work on world history and numerous history and geography textbooks.
Better known than through his scientific work - Schiller is said to have declared him the "most boring and mindless historian who has ever lived" - his slip of the tongue called " catheter blooms ", allegedly collected by his students and later published as Gallettiana .
death
Galletti found his final resting place at the Gotha cemetery I . When the cemetery was closed in 1904, his gravestone was moved to the cloister of the former Augustinian monastery , where it still stands today. Galletti's original grave is located in today's school yard of the Arnoldischule , near the large entrance stairs.
Honors
The historian's hometown Gotha commemorates the historian with Gallettistraße, the “Galletti” daycare center and the “Galletti” cultural club. From 1988 to 1992 there was also a "Café Galletti" on Klosterstrasse.
Absent-mindedness
The authenticity of the sayings ascribed to him is often doubtful, although the oldest collection, published in book form by the bookseller Gustav Parthey in Berlin in 1866, is most likely to actually contain what was said in Galletti's lessons.
“With some other learned men he had the weakness in common that he became distracted during lessons. At such moments he is said to have once determined the height of the Chimborasso by miles, at another time, when listing the products of East India, mentioned ivory among the minerals, and at last once quite naively uttered: 'Gotha is on two rivers, namely on the Eisenach and Erfurt Chaussée. ' It was striking that with his memory, which was extremely faithful for historical objects, he could by no means retain the names of some of his pupils, and aroused laughter through the strangest mix-ups. These small defects were covered by the nobility of his mind and heart. "
Some samples of his sayings:
"After the Battle of Leipzig you saw horses with three, four or even more legs shot off, running around without a master."
“When I saw you from afar, Councilor Ettinger, I thought you were your brother, the bookseller Ettinger , but when you got closer I saw that it was you yourself - and now I see that you are your master Are brother. "
"I'm so tired that one leg can't see the other."
"The English wouldn't make nearly as much leather if they just tanned their own skins."
"As far as birds are concerned in Saxony, the humming ox is the largest."
Others
In the novel Dinner for One in Goth'sch it is claimed that Johann Georg August Galletti was the model for the character of Mister Winterbottom in the famous sketch Dinner for One . From 1811 until his death, as a close friend of Duchess Sophie Karoline Amalies of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg, he celebrated the princess's birthday every year in the Gotha Winter Palace (together with his contemporaries, the publisher Justus Perthes , the entrepreneur Ernst-Wilhelm Arnoldi and Colonel Maximilian Franz Karl Ritter von Gadolla). After the death of her friends, the Duchess instructed her servant to take over the part of the deceased drinking and tapping into words. According to the novel, the anecdote of this strange birthday ritual came to Great Britain in 1845 after Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , the Duchess' favorite grandson, where she was accidentally rediscovered in the 1930s by the playwright Lauri Wylie first adapted as Dinner for One for the stage, with Professor Galletti becoming Mr. Winterbottom .
In the play Dar ninezschsde Gebordsdaach or Dinner for One in Gotha, which was performed on New Year's Eve in Gotha from 2009 to 2017, the servant's actor also quotes some sayings based on Galletti's catheter blossoms while toasting.
Fonts (selection)
- History and description of the Duchy of Gotha. 4 parts. Ettinger, Gotha 1779–1781; 5th part 1824.
- History of Thuringia. 6 volumes. Dessau 1782–1785.
- Small world history for teaching and entertainment. 27 parts. Ettinger, Gotha 1797-1819.
- History of the Seven Years' War. Ettinger, Gotha 1806.
literature
- August Beck: Galletti, Johann Georg August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 332 f.
- Helmut Minkowski (ed.): The largest insect is the elephant. Professor Galletti's all of the catheter blossoms ; Munich 1965 (732 numbers, many not by Galletti)
- Johann Georg August Galletti: Gallettiana - delightful and thoughtful to read ; Bad Langensalza: Verlag Rockstuhl , 2006; ISBN 978-3-938997-48-2
- City administration Gotha, garden department (ed.): From the old Gottesacker to the main cemetery: a stroll through the cemeteries of the city of Gotha . Gotha 1995
- Andreas M. Cramer: Dinner for One in Goth'sch. The almost true story of the dinner ; KreativWerkstatt, Gotha 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Georg August Galletti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Johann Georg August Galletti in the German Digital Library
- German Galletti website (more Galletti sayings and texts about Galletti)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Helmut Roob, Günter Scheffler: Gothaer personalities . 2nd Edition. Rhino-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-932081-37-4
- ^ Andreas M. Cramer: Dinner for One auf Goth'sch , Gotha 2011, pp. 74f.
- ↑ Dinner for one in Goth'sch
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galletti, Johann Georg August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1828 |
| Place of death | Gotha |