Johann Georg Eck

Johann Georg Eck

Johann Georg Eck (born January 23, 1745 in Hinternah , † November 20, 1808 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist . He was professor for ethics, politics and poetry at the University of Leipzig and in the summer semesters 1788, 1794, 1798, 1802 and 1806 its rector.

Life

Eck was the son of pastor Johann Georg Eck (1709–1784), who was pastor from 1735 to 1757 in Hinternah in the Saxon office of Schleusingen and then until his death in Kühndorf . In Schleusingen he attended grammar school from 1753 to 1763 and then studied theology at the University of Halle . In 1765 he acquired his master's degree and passed the candidate examination as a theologian the following year.

Since 1768 Eck was a member of the academy of non-profit science in Erfurt . In that year he also began to give lectures at the University of Leipzig, where he became associate professor of philosophy in 1770 and full professor in 1781. While he was teaching ethics and politics as a professor from 1782, he took over the chair of poetry in 1791. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University and was Rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters 1788, 1794, 1798, 1802, 1806 .

For more than 30 years, Eck was the master of the chair of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms .

Works

• Commentatio pro sanctitate mysterium. Leipzig 1767
• Diss. De Darete Phrygio. Leipzig 1768
• Diss. De Augerio Gislenio Busbequio. 1768
• Lazarus Bonamicus. 1768
• Alexandra Scala. 1769
• De temperanda veritatis exornatione. 1770
• Hippolyta Taurella, ad Hagedornium epistola. 1770
• Gellert's recommendation. 1770
• About the hortensia. 1771
• De Joh. Wendelio, Rector Suhlano. 1771
• Reiskii Vita. In Harlessi Vitt. philol. T. IV.
• Wendeli Carmen de laudibus Suhlae, cum praestione & notis. 1772
• My fatherland, an ode. Schleusingen 1773
• De Arete philosopho. Leipzig 1775
• About the Aspasia. Leipzig 1777
• Ode, in Gymnasii Hennebergici festo seculari secundo. Leipzig 1777
• Life of Friedrich Immanuel Schwarzen. Böhme, Leipzig 1787.
• Biography of Joh.Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopfs , Leipzig 1794 ( digital version of the SLUB Dresden, PDF, 20 MB)
• Biographical and literary news from the preachers in the Electoral-Saechsische Antheile of the feuded Graffschaft Henneberg since the Reformation , Leipzig 1802

literature

• Friedrich August Eckstein :  Eck, Joh. Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 602 f.
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers. ( Online )

Web links

• Literature in the Saxon Bibliography
• Entry at www.erfurt-web.de ( Memento from May 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive )