Johann Georg Bock
Johann Georg Bock (born May 12, 1698 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † July 7, 1762 there ) was a German literary scholar and poet.
Life
The son of the Königsberg town surgeon Georg Bock († 1729) and his wife Barbara (née Ditter) is the brother of the Königsberg professor Friedrich Samuel Bock .
Johann Georg Bock had received his basic training in Königsberg and had enrolled at the University of Königsberg on September 1, 1714 . Here he completed a basic philosophical course , especially under Johann Valentin Pietsch . At that time he developed a deep friendship with his fellow student Johann Christoph Gottsched . In 1726 he moved to the University of Halle , where in 1727 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences.
After returning to Königsberg, he became a lecturer at the Königsberg University on October 14, 1728, a member of the Berlin Society of Sciences in 1732 and, in the winter semester of 1732, an associate professor of logic and metaphysics. In 1733 he was appointed full professor of poetry. In 1758 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and in the summer semester of 1762 he was elected rector of the Königsberg Alma Mater .
He died during his tenure as rector.
Works (selection)
- Dissertatio academica prior I & II. Solemnis posterior de pulchritudine carminum. Koenigsberg 1733.
- The German Aesop, consisting of three hundred and twenty-four instructive fables which were drafted in bound writing and delivered piece by piece as moral weekly papers. Koenigsberg 1743.
- Jubilee speech at the second jubilee celebration of the Königsberg Academy. Koenigsberg 1744.
- Poems. Königsberg 1756 (online)
- Idioticon prussicum; or, draft of a Prussian dictionary. Koenigsberg 1759.
editor
- Of Mr. Johann Valentin Pietschen ... Bound writings in an enlarged collection brought to light by Johann George Bock. Königsberg 1740. (online)
Life
- Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1802, vol. 1, p. 437. (online)
- Johann Christoph Adelung : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1784, Vol. 1, Sp. 1942.
- Bock, Johann Georg. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 3, Leipzig 1752, column 1468.
- Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Johann Friedrich Gleditzsch, Leipzig 1823, 1st section, 11th vol. P. 127 (online)
- Detlef Döring , Rudiger Otto: Johann Christoph Gottsched - Correspondence - Historically critical edition. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023292-9 , p. 569 (online sample)
- Robert Seidel: Between rhetorical poetics and philosophical aesthetics. In: Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski: The University of Königsberg in the early modern period. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20171-5 , p. 139 ff.
Web links
- Index Königsberg Professors
- Research Center for Cultural Studies Engi
- Bock, Idioticon prussicum, 1759.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bock, Johann Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1698 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1762 |
| Place of death | Königsberg (Prussia) |