Johann Georg Trendelenburg

Johann Georg Trendelenburg (born February 22, 1757 in Lübeck , † March 11, 1825 in Goysk, today Gójsk , Powiat Sierpecki ) was a German teacher and senator for the city of Danzig.

Life

Trendelenburg , who comes from a family of scholars in northern Germany, studied theology at the University of Göttingen and was appointed as a teacher (professor) at the Academic Gymnasium in Danzig, where he taught the Greek and Oriental languages. He was the founder of the teachers' college in Gdansk in 1801 and was best known for his grammar of the Greek language, which appeared in four editions between 1782 and 1796. During the French period he became senator of the Napoleonic Republic of Danzig in 1807 and after the return of the Prussians in 1814 remained responsible for the city's school system as a city ​​councilor . He died of a nervous attack on a trip to Goysk.

Fonts

• Comparison of the advantages of the German language with the advantages of the Latin and Greek: An award publication crowned by the Electoral Palatinate German Society in 1787 , Mannheim 1788
• Chrestomathia Flaviana sive loci illustres ex Flavio Josepho delecti et animadversionibus illustrati à Joan. George. Trendelenburg , Haug, Leipzig 1789
• Commentatio Critica In Historiam Pugnae Davidis Cum Goliatho I. Sam. XVII. XVIII. ... , Wedel, Danzig 1792
• Chrestomathia Hexaplaris / Adornata from Johanne Georgio Trendelenburg Lubecae , Bohn, Lipsiae 1794
• Beginnings of the Greek language , 4. verb. Ed., Barth, Leipzig 1796

literature

• Friedrich Koldewey :  Trendelenburg, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 572 f.

Web links

• Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Johann Georg Trendelenburg in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center