Johann Georg Büsch

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Johann Georg Büsch 1856.

Johann Georg Büsch (born January 3, 1728 in Altenmedingen near Lüneburg , † August 5, 1800 in Hamburg ) was a German educator and journalist .

life and work

Idealized view of the Hamburg school and workhouse (1800). In the foreground on pedestals engraved with the names of the important Hamburg social workers: Bartels, Büsch, Voght , Günther, Sieveking (steel engraving by L. Wolf, 1805)
Büsch tomb 1794, Heckengarten Museum HH-Ohlsdorf
Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

At the age of three Büsch came to Hamburg with his parents, where his father, Paul Christoph Büsch , had received a preaching position at the main church of St. Michaelis . Büsch attended the Johanneum from 1741 and the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg from 1746 . His teachers were Hermann Samuel Reimarus and Michael Richey . From 1748 he studied in Göttingen at the Georg-August University theology . Then he went back to Hamburg as a private teacher. In 1756 he became a teacher of mathematics at the Academic Gymnasium. He carried out this activity until his death.

In 1771, Johann Georg Büsch took over the management of the commercial academy founded by the merchant Friedrich Christian Wurmb at the end of 1767, a private school for the training of young business professionals known far beyond Hamburg. The most famous students included Alexander von Humboldt , Ernst-Wilhelm Arnoldi and Carsten Niebuhr , but also a number of respected Hamburg merchants ( Georg Heinrich Sieveking , Johann Michael Hudtwalcker , Martin Johann Jenisch ).

In numerous writings, he devoted himself to various problems in the field of economic theory and practice and published the Hamburg advertisements of learned things and - together with Christoph Daniel Ebeling - the action library. In addition, Büsch was one of the co-founders and most committed members of the "Hamburg Society for the Promotion of the Arts and Useful Trades" ( Patriotic Society ). In 1794 he published a detailed autobiography entitled Ueber the course of my mind and my activity . Even after Büsch was almost blind in the last years of his life, he worked tirelessly until his death in 1800.

Johann Georg Büsch owned a library of 3,200 books, most of which dealt with the subject of mathematics. After his death it was bought up for the city ​​library with the help of donors and the Admiralty College. He also owned a collection of physical and mathematical instruments similar to the Kirchhof collection .

Büsch was friends with, among others, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Christian Adolph Overbeck and Gottlob Friedrich Ernst Schönborn ; he was part of Klopstock's reading society . He was a Freemason in a previously unknown lodge, probably also an Illuminat .

Johann Georg Büsch married Margarete Augusta Schwalb in 1759. There are five sons and five daughters from the marriage. The daughter Friederike Elisabeth Büsch married Piter Poel . The daughter Wilhelmine married Hieronymus Sillem . The sons Karl August and Ernst became merchants.

As early as 1794, Büsch had bought a stele with his portrait relief as a tombstone. In 1797 his wife was buried; today's location of the Heckengarten open-air museum on the Ohlsdorf cemetery . The (now illegible) inscription reads: "AS A NOBLE - AS A TEACHER GREAT - TO WORK FOR WITH AND AFTER WORLD - THAT WAS HIS LIFE - AIM". In 1802 the Patriotic Society erected the Büsch memorial in his honor . Today it is located on Theodor-Heuss-Platz near the Dammtorbahnhof . Büschstrasse in Hamburg's Neustadt district has been named in his honor since 1841. Karl Marx quotes Büsch's additions to his theoretical-practical presentation of the action in its diverse dealings (vol. 2, 1798, p. 232 f.) In the third volume of Das Kapital . In the area of ​​the Ohlsdorf Althamburg Memorial Cemetery there is a collective grave (“Professors at the Gymnasium Academicum”) in honor of Johann Georg Büsch and others.

Fonts

  • Hamburg ads of learned things , Hamburg (since 1759)
  • Treatise on the real basis of the bill of exchange law together with a contribution to the history of the same , Hamburg 1770.
  • Writings on economics and action , 3 volumes, Hamburg 1784.
  • Encyclopedia of the historical, philosophical and mathematical sciences , 2 volumes, 2nd edition. Hamburg 1795 (digitized edition 1775)
  • On the question: Does a people, with the intention of enlightenment, win when their language becomes universal language? , Hamburg 1787. (digitized version)
  • Theoretical-practical presentation of the action in its various businesses. 2 volumes Hoffmann, Hamburg 1792 ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 , each digitized and full text in the German Text Archive )
  • Attempt to create a history of the Hamburg act , Hamburg 1797 (digitized version)
  • Action library, 1784–1797, (together with Christoph Daniel Ebeling)
  • Experience. 5 volumes. Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, Hamburg 1790–1802
  • Treatise on the circulation of money with ongoing consideration for state economy and action . 2. verm. And verb. Edition 2 volumes Hamburg, Kiel 1800 (Reprint Avermann, Glashütten im Ts. 1977)
  • All writings on the plot , 3 volumes, Hamburg 1824 (published posthumously)
  • Remarks on a trip through part of Sweden in 1780 , in Christoph Daniel Ebeling, Neue Sammlung von Reiseeschritten, 5th part , Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1783, ( online )

literature

Portraits

  • Loeser Leo Wolf (1775–1840), Johann Georg Büsch , based on a template by Georg Ludwig Eckhardt (1770–1794), engraving, 10.1 × 17 cm, Altona, undated, ( online , Det Kongelige Bibliotek , Copenhagen )
  • Johann Joachim Faber (1778–1846), Johann Georg Büsch with a picture of the monument, engraved from a template by Johann Renatus Lüderitz, undated, undated, copper engraving, 44.5 × 33.5 cm. ( online , Hamburg State and University Library)
  • Digital portrait index (online) , Photo Archive Photo Marburg
  • Tripota - Trier portrait database

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Georg Büsch  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founded in 1767, initiator Friedrich Christian Wurmb, opened in 1768, see Johannes Classen, The former commercial academy of Professor JG Büsch ... p. 6.
  2. ↑ List see Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers ...
  3. ↑ Johann Georg Büsch: About the course of my mind and my activity. (=  Experiences. Volume 4). Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, Hamburg 1794.
  4. ↑ Christian Petersen : History of the Hamburg City Library , Verlag Perthes, Besser & Mauke, 1838, p. 92 ff, (online)
  5. ↑ J. Smidt (Ed.): Hanseatische Magazin. 5th volume, Friedrich Wilmans, Bremen 1801, Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer, physical cabinet of the late Senator Kirchhof in Hamburg. P. 28 (footnote).
  6. ^ Eberhard Kellers: Burial grove and crypt: the tombs of the upper class on the old burial grounds in Hamburg. (= Workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Hamburg. No. 17). Verlag Christians, 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1294-3 , p. 75 and p. 133 (No. 49, Johann Georg Büsch)
  7. ^ Inscription on the front of the tombstone at genealogy.net
  8. ↑ Barbara Leisner: The Hamburg Main Cemetery Ohlsdorf , Volume 2, Page 20 No. 43
  9. ↑ Christian Hanke: Hamburg's street names tell a story. 4th edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-929229-41-2 , p. 234.
  10. ^ Marx-Engels works . Volume 25, p. 625 f. See also Marx-Engels Complete Edition, Section IV. Volume 32, p. 167 f. No. 179, 180 and 181.

Remarks

  1. ↑. Residential address 1800 "Büsch, Joh. Georg, Professor, Neust. Fuhlentwiete, no. 94. “in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library
personal data
SURNAME Büsch, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenmedingen near Lüneburg
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1800
Place of death Hamburg