Johann Georg Gesner

Johann Georg Gesner , also Geßner (born November 21, 1729 in Gunzenhausen , † May 1, 1779 in Lübeck ) was a German educator and librarian.

Life

Gesner was a son of Gunzenhausen's senior medical officer and later court and personal physician in Stuttgart Johann Albrecht Gesner (* 1695 in Auhausen ; † 1760 in Stuttgart). He attended high school in Ansbach and from 1748 the University of Göttingen with his uncle, the professor and university librarian Johann Matthias Gesner . After completing his studies in 1751, Gesner first worked as a private tutor with Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen and then as a collaborator (assistant teacher) at the Ilfeld monastery school . In 1755 he was appointed sub-rector at the Katharineum in Lübeck , where he remained until the end of his life. Associated with the sub-rectorate was the management of the Lübeck city library , which received a significant increase in his tenure in 1759 with the library of pastor Heinrich Scharbau . In 1763 he was promoted to vice rector with retention of the librarianship . His successor was Ludwig Suhl in 1779 .

Gesner's lasting library achievement lies in his first directory of the cimelies and incunabula of the city library, the first part of which he presented in 1769 as a celebratory gift at the inauguration of Mayor Friedrich Green (1701–1773) and Councilor Anton Diedrich Wilken . The second part followed as a ceremony for the inauguration of Mayor Hermann Georg Bünekau and Councilor (and later Mayor) Gabriel Christian Lembke . His successor Ludwig Suhl published a revised version in 1782.

Works

• Investigation of the question: whether the neighborhood of the sea harms a city? 1756
• De signis atque imaginibus in Bibliotheca Lubecensis. Part 1 1757, Part 2 1757, Part 3 1761
• Sr. Magnificenz pays his most obedient congratulations to the noble and wise gentleman, Mr. Friederich Green ... and hands them the beginning of a list of rare books that are in the public library. Lübeck: Green 1769

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

• To the noble and wise gentlemen Mr. Johann Friedrich Bagge and Mr. Johann Friedrich Brandt ... new, distinguished members of a ... council who ... the city of Lübeck ... pays his most devoted congratulations on September 25, 1772 and presents them with the third piece of the List of Rare Books in the Public Library , Green, 1772
• Directory of rare books that are in the public library. Lübeck: Green 1777
• The second part of a directory of rare books in a Hochweise Raths and the Scharbauische Library. Lübeck: Green 1778
• The third part of a directory of rare books in a Hochweise Raths and the Scharbauische Bibliothek. Lübeck: Green 1779

In line with his office, Gesner wrote a large number of personal and occasional publications, such as:

• Life and merits of the noble, highly learned and highly experienced gentleman: Mr. Franz Jacob von Melle of the drug expertise Doctors and highly deserved Physici of the Heil. Rom. Reichsfreyen Stadt Lübeck compiled from printed and written articles and dedicated to the memory of this great and happy doctor on request. Lübeck: Green 1770

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland: or, Lexicon of the now living German writers. 3rd edition Lemgo: Meyer 1776, p. 334f
• List of the writings printed before 1500, in the Lübeck public library / first collected and edited by Johann Georg Gesner, compared again with the originals, with some changes, additions and a preface for printing promoted by Ludwig Suhl. Lübeck: Donatius 1782 ( digitized copy from the Austrian National Library )
• List of the writings printed from 1500 to 1520 in the Lübeck public library / first collected and edited by Johann Georg Gesner, compared with the originals, with some changes and additions to the print promoted by Ludwig Suhl. Lübeck: Donatius 1783

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacob von Melle : Thorough message from the Kayserlichen, Freyen and the H. Römis. Imperial City of Lübeck 3rd edition 1787 edition. by Johann Hermann Schnobel , pp. 359, 362 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ For a selection see Das schehre Teutschland (Lit.)