Johann Georg Peter Möller

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Johann Georg Peter Möller (born September 19, 1729 in Rostock ; † May 9, 1807 in Greifswald ) was a German historian and philologist .

Life

The son of the Rostock lawyer Johann Peter Möller, doctor of both rights and ducal-Holstein judiciary, and his wife, née Westphal, first received private lessons. From 1745 he studied theology and philosophy at the University of Rostock , where he took part in public disputations and defended his own writings.

On the recommendation of Johann Joachim Spalding , he was employed as a private tutor for Count von Bohlen, a councilor in Swedish Pomerania , in 1752 . During this time he stayed with his son first in Stralsund, then for a year at Spalding in Lassan and finally on the Bohlenschen estates.

In 1755 he received his master's degree from the University of Greifswald . During the Seven Years' War in 1757 he went to Sweden with the children of the government councilor Count Jakob Philipp von Schwerin and a younger Count von Bohlen , where he stayed until 1764. There he acquired extensive knowledge of Swedish and English as well as of Nordic history .

In 1765 he was appointed full professor of history and eloquence at the University of Greifswald by the Swedish King Adolf Friedrich and took up his position the following year. In 1769, 1789 and 1799 he was elected rector of the university. From 1786 to 1796 he was also head of the Greifswald University Library .

From 1765 he wrote for the "Neue Critischen Nachrichten" published by Zobel and Johann Carl Dähnert , in which, among other things, Swedish literature was made known in Germany. Later he took over the editing of the magazine independently. From 1775 to 1807, since 1780 at his own expense, he published 33 volumes under the title “Latest Critical News”. He also wrote articles for various other magazines. He published works and writings on the history of Pomerania and in memory of deceased scholars. He translated writings on the topography, political science and history of Sweden as well as poetry from Swedish into German. His Swedish-German dictionary, which he brought out in a new edition in 1801, was of particular practical importance.

Möller received the title of royal councilor in 1797 . In 1798 he was made a knight of the Wasa order . In 1777 he was admitted to the Royal Patriotic Society in Stockholm, 1780 to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and 1793 to the Royal Swedish Academy of Literature, History and Antiquity.

family

Johann Georg Peter Möller was a grandson of Otto Peter Möller (1664–1746), a pastor at the Jakobikirche in Rostock and his wife Magdalena, a daughter of the theologian Josua Arnd . One of his father's brothers was Carl Heinrich Möller , assessor at the Wismar Tribunal . His mother was a daughter of the Schwerin cathedral preacher Georg Westphal and sister of the later Holstein minister Ernst Joachim Westphal .

In 1768 he married the youngest daughter of Johann Franz von Boltenstern (1700–1763), assessor at the Wismar Tribunal. With her he had the son Gustav (1770-1847), who became the director of the Greifswald court .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Johann Georg Peter Möller's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Rektorenchronik 1700–1799 at www.uni-egoswald.de.
predecessor Office successor
Karl Friedrich Rehfeld Rector of the University of Greifswald
1769 		Bernhard Friedrich Quistorp
predecessor Office successor
Lambert Heinrich Roehl Rector of the University of Greifswald
1789 		Georg Brockmann
predecessor Office successor
Andreas Hulten Rector of the University of Greifswald
1799 		Gottlieb Schlegel
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Johann Georg Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1807
Place of death Greifswald