Johann Georg Walther

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Johann Georg Walther (born April 3, 1708 in Oberörtmannsdorf ; † October 15, 1761 in Wittenberg ) was a German educator and rhetorician.

Life

Walther, who enjoyed his preparatory training at the grammar school in Zittau , had studied at the University of Leipzig since June 28, 1729 , where he obtained a baccalaureate on December 30, 1730 and a master's degree on February 8, 1731 . On November 9, 1742 he took up the post of rector of the school in Torgau . In 1744 he became a grammar school professor of history and Latin eloquence at the grammar school in Weißenfels and also its rector. At that time he emerged literarily with his six programs on the origin of sovereign power.

Recommended for university operations, Walther became an adjunct at the philosophical faculty of the University of Wittenberg on June 21, 1748 , and took on an extraordinary professorship for natural and international law there on August 26, 1748. In his lectures he dealt with the history of philosophy and the church, as well as rhetoric. After he had been given the full professorship of ethics and politics by Martin Hassen in 1750 , he expressed in vain the wish to swap the annoying chair for the professorship of rhetoric, his favorite subject. Unlike his predecessor Hassen, he also taught the history of philosophy, to which the statutes of the faculty expressly authorized the professor of morality and politics.

Otherwise he read about the three parts of moral philosophy, natural law, ethics and politics, but added "Oeconomica" . He gave a special lecture on the "Politica Externa" which the French called "l 'Art de negocier" . Gottfried Achenwall's compendium of statistics, which he had published in Göttingen in 1749 under the title "Outline of the latest political science of the most distinguished European empires and republics" , was also used by Walther for lectures in Wittenberg. Walther also took on organizational tasks at the university and in the summer semester of 1754 he managed the rectorate of the Wittenberg University .

Selection of works

  1. De Aera Templi cum Viro celeberrimo Leonardo Offerhausio disputatio. Leipzig 1741
  2. Diss. De Asiae vetevis divisione, máxime Herodotea, adversus b. Chph. Cellarii orbem antiquum. Leipzig 1741
  3. The difference of the sublime, in a speech based on the Hermogenis and Longini principles. Leipzig 1741
  4. Commentatio de Herodoto et Ctesia. Leipzig 1742
  5. Commentatio de primis Asiae monarchis, ad locum Aeschyli in Persis 761-788.Torgau 1744
  6. Progr. De veterum recentiorumque Historicorum nimio rerum memorabilium amore. Weißenfels 1744
  7. Progr. De Aulone Palaestinae. Leipzig 1744
  8. Commentatio I et II de providentia divina erga prosauos homines ante natum Servatorem. Leipzig 1744
  9. Progr. De antiquae et Musiccs et Philosophiae coniunctione atque hinc reserenda origine systematum. Leipzig 1744, 1745
  10. Progr. I - IV de origínibus infinitae potestatis. Leipzig 1744
  11. Animadversiones historicae, in quibus varia cum antiquae Historiae, Geographiae, Chronologiae, tum auctorum classicorum loca explicantur atque emendantur. Leipzig 1748
  12. Commentatio de Quinquennalibus et Decennalibus Imperatorum Romanorum, occasione tertiorum Quinquennalium in Saxonia et Polonia. Wittenberg 1748
  13. Progr. De iuris naturalis primis naturae fontibus. Wittenberg 1750
  14. Dissertation. Observationes de praescriptione inter liberas gentes, Auct. et Resp. Ge. Henr. de Pöllnitz. Wittenberg 1751
  15. Dissertation. de Actiacis Capitolinis aliisque agonibus Imperatorum Romanorum. Wittenberg 1752
  16. Dissertation. I et II de Autonomia Ecclesiae. Wittenberg 1755
  17. Dissertation. de canssis auetarum moralium civiliumque doctrinarum. Wittenberg 1757
  18. Dissertation. de societate generis humani in iure naturae et gentium controversa. Wittenberg 1759

literature

personal data
SURNAME Walther, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rhetorician
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberörtmannsdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1761
Place of death Wittenberg