Johann Georg Scheffner

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Johann Georg Scheffner
Scheffner (1805)

Johann Georg Scheffner (born August 8, 1736 in Königsberg ; † August 16, 1820 there ) was a German lawyer , writer , translator , Prussian civil servant, enlightener and Freemason .

Life

The father was a Prussian civil servant and landlord. After studying law from 1752 to 1759 at the Albertus University in Königsberg , he took part in the Seven Years' War as a volunteer . On January 28, 1761 he was accepted into the Königsberg Masonic lodge to the three crowns . In 1765 he married Susanne Elisabeth (Babet, Babette), née Bouissont (* February 7, 1734 , † June 21, 1813 ). Since that year he was in the civil service, first as secretary of the War and Domain Chamber in Königsberg, then with the stations in 1767 as War and Tax Council in Gumbinnen in the same function, 1770 to Königsberg and from 1772 to 1775 to Marienwerder . After retiring from civil service in 1775, he initially lived in Stolzenberg near Danzig . Then on acquired goods, first in 1780 on Gut Sprindlack near Tapiau , then on Gut Eberswalde in East Prussia. In 1788 , the lodge Zu den drei Kronen bought Scheffner's library for 3,000 thalers. In 1795 he moved back to Königsberg . In 1809 he left his garden plot for the Botanical Garden (Königsberg) .

In the last years of his life he was involved in the construction of the Landwehr cross on the Galtgarben .

Free spirits

His writings give an insight into the life of Königsberg at the time of the Enlightenment . He was Immanuel Kant's longtime and closest friend and was part of his round table. He was also close friends with Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel and Christian Jakob Kraus . He was also known to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Johann Christoph Gottsched and Johann Georg Hamann . As a connoisseur of German-language literature , triggered by a reviewers' dispute since 1766, he conducted amicable correspondence with Johann Gottfried Herder ; both knew each other from Königsberg and, like Kant, Hamann and Hippel, were regular guests at the Keyserlings' court of muses . Scheffner's erotic and frivolous poems are unique in German literature of the time. He is considered a Kantian who was the only German who tried to develop an erotic philosophy similar to the French .

Works

  • Young poems . Kanter, Königsberg 1761. ( digitized 2nd edition 1762 )
  • Campangen poems to pass the time in the camp . Dresden 1761. ( digitized version )
  • Friendly poetry of a soldier . Birnstiel, Berlin 1764.
  • Poems in the taste of the Grécourt . Dodsley, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1771. ( digitized version )
  • The faithful shepherd . A shepherd game. Hinz, Mitau 1773. (translation after Battista Guerini)
  • Erotic poems . Stahlbaum, Berlin 1780. ( digitized version )
  • Poems after life . 1786 ( digitized from 5th edition Paris 1792 )
  • Ernst and Minette . A novel with a few supplements. Cythere 1791. ( digitized version )
  • Aehrenlese from the calendar field for the year 1794 . Berlin 1794.
  • The kisses of John Second . 1798. ( digitized version )
  • Thoughts and opinions about some things in service and about other things . Nicolovius, Königsberg 1802. 2 volumes. ( Digital version of the 2nd, increased edition 1804 )
  • Latecomers . (Masonic songs). Nicolovius, Königsberg 1803.
  • PM about freemasonry in Schenkendorf's studies. 1808.
  • A four-leaf clover grown under snow and ice . 1813.
  • My life as I, Johann George Scheffner, described it myself . Neubert, Leipzig 1816. ( digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 )
  • 1884 Subsequent delivery to: My life ...
  • 1918–1938 Warda, Arthur (Hg) / Diesch, Carl (Hg) Letters from and to Johann Georg Scheffner, 5 vols. (Munich / Leipzig)

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Lenning: General Handbook of Freemasonry. Max Hesse′s Verlag, Leipzig 1901

literature

  • Emil Brenning :  Scheffner, Johann George . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 685-688.
  • Carl Diesch : Johann Georg Scheffner , in: Kurt Forstreuter , Fritz Gause (ed.): Old Prussian Biography , Vol. 2, p. 600 f.
  • Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Johann Georg Scheffner , in: Königsberg life in Rococo. Important contemporaries of Kant . Writings from the JG Herder-Bibliothek Siegerland, Vol. 7, Siegen 1981, pp. 33-52.
  • Uwe Hentschel: Erotic poetry and civil good behavior using the example of Johann George Scheffner , in: Wirkendes Wort 1993/1, pp. 25–35.
  • Simon Bunke (ed.): Johann George Scheffner: Poems after life. Hanover 2008, ISBN 978-3-86525-093-3
  • Simon Bunke (ed.): Johann George Scheffner: Ernst and Minette. An erotic novel with a few supplements and seven lascivious copper plates. Hanover 2009.
  • Simon Bunke: "Versified ejaculations." Poetological aspects of German-language erotic poetry in the late 18th century. In: German Pornography in the Enlightenment . Edited by Martin Mulsow u. Dirk Sangmeister. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, pp. 505-523.

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personal data
SURNAME Scheffner, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheffner, Johann George; Treu, Charles (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1820
Place of death Koenigsberg