Johann Georg Müchler

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Johann Georg Müchler

Johann Georg Philipp Müchler (born September 23, 1724 in Drechow in Swedish Pomerania ; † August 9, 1819 in Berlin ) was a German educator , publicist and translator .

Life

Georg Müchler studied at the University of Greifswald . He then worked as an educator and private tutor and taught at a Berlin high school from 1750 . From 1759 he was a Latin and French teacher at the Collegium Groeningianum in Stargard in Western Pomerania . Due to dissatisfaction with school innovations that had been introduced at the Prussian grammar schools, he voluntarily gave up this position in 1773. He then worked as a private scholar for a while. In 1784 he became head of the Schindler orphanage in Berlin. From 1785 he was also professor of Latin at the military academy.

Müchler was the author of several well-known school reading books for English , French and Italian . He wrote educational writings, stood out with fictitious collections of letters and was the editor of several magazines. He was friends with Moses Mendelssohn . Together with him he wanted to have a monument erected in Berlin for the three deceased philosophers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Johann Georg Sulzer and Johann Heinrich Lambert and therefore wrote a letter to Frederick the Great, which he replied on April 24, 1785. In 1789 he published some of Mendelssohn's journal articles as a collection of volumes under the title Small philosophical writings . He has translated works by Alexander Pope and Voltaire as well as essays by James Harris and other authors.

Johann Georg Müchler was the father of Karl Friedrich Müchler .

Fonts

  • Instructive conversation between the father and his son about the first principles of religion and ethics . Along with an appendix translated from French: The religion of women . Berlin 1755, 180 pages ( full text ).
  • Admonition of the dead, in letters to the living . 1756.
  • Curiosities of August Wilhelm's Prince of Prussia, which also contain many incidents from the history of Brandenburg . Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1759. 80 pages ( full text ).
  • Letters from Sir Georg R. - to his friend Sir Carl B. - on Bavarian affairs . 1778.
  • Tables and questions about the finest in mythology . 1780. 94 pages.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The learned Teutschland - Lexicon of the now living German writers (Georg Christoph Hamberger and Johann Georg Meusel, eds.). Volume 18, Lemgo 1821, p. 745 .
  2. ↑ Selected library of the latest German literature . Volume 7, Lemgo 1775, p. 675 .
  3. ↑ Œuvres de Frédéric le Grand (Johann David Erdmann Preuss, ed.). Berlin 1856, Volume 27, pp. Xxvii .
  4. ↑ Moses Mendelssohn : Small philosophical writings . With a foreword by Johann Georg Müchler and a sketch of his life and character by D. Jenisch. Berlin 1789, 250 pages ( full text ).
  5. ↑ See for example: Shepherd poems . Translated from English, French and Italian by Johann Georg Müchler. Berlin and Leipzig 1759, 286 pages ( full text ).
personal data
SURNAME Müchler, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müchler, Johann Georg Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Drechow
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1819
Place of death Berlin