Johann Georg Wilke

Johann Georg Wilke (also: Wilcke ; born October 26, 1630 in Dresden ; † July 13, 1691 in Meißen ) was a German educator.

Life

Johann Georg Wilke was the son of Ambrosius Wilcke from Wittenberg, a trained barber, who was court and personal surgeon Johann Georg I and his wife Maria Berger, daughter of the cathedral provost administrator in Merseburg, she died in 1633.

After attending the electoral high school St. Afra in Meissen , he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on November 8, 1649 . He interrupted his studies from 1652 to 1654 due to lack of resources and in 1655 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. He then accompanied two noblemen on their educational trips that took him to Heidelberg , Speyer , France and Holland .

On his return he turned down offers for professorships at the universities of Wittenberg and Königsberg. Instead he became rector of the Princely School in Meißen, where he was introduced on February 21, 1664. He held this office until his death. He had married Maria, the daughter of the superintendent Konrad Barthels . He and his wife were buried in the St. Afra Church in Meißen. The tombstone is placed in the Taubenheim Chapel.

Wilke's son Georg Lebrecht Wilcke (* 1666 in Meißen; 1756 ibid) became Doctor theologiae , superintendent and cathedral preacher in Meißen. His son was the senior archivist and court and government councilor Georg Leberecht von Wilcke .

Works (selection)

de quatuor summis imperiis
The Saxon Cornelius Nepos. Leipzig 1682
Introduction to the useful school use of those Officiorum Ciceronis. Leipzig 1696
Christl. Theologiam in speculo.
Diss. De cruce Christi.
Diss. De vita Salomonis.
Diss. De rebus Judaicis ante Christum natum.
Diss. De poenitentia.
Diss. De vita Ciceronis ex plutarcho
Diss. De causa Rhodiorum ad Livium Libr. 39 usque 45.
Tract. De Festis Christianorum Oecumenicis.

literature

Nikolaus Müller : The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg. Magdeburg 1912, p. 55
Wilke or Wilcke, Johann George. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 56, Leipzig 1748, column 1667 f.

Web link

Publications by and about Johann Georg Wilke in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

^ Johann August Müller: Attempt for a more complete history of the Chursächsische Fürsten- und Landschule zu Meissen, Leipzig 1789, 2nd volume
^ Kurt Wensch: Archive history and genealogy: on the social origin of leading Saxon archivists. In: Contributions to archival science and historical research. ed. with the support of the Historical Commission of the Saxon Acad. der Wiss. on Leipzig by Reiner Groß and Manfred Kobuch, Böhlau, Weimar 1977, p. 155.

personal data
SURNAME	Wilke, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wilcke, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1691
Place of death	Meissen

[1] Johann August Müller: Attempt for a more complete history of the Chursächsische Fürsten- und Landschule zu Meissen, Leipzig 1789, 2nd volume

[2] Kurt Wensch: Archive history and genealogy: on the social origin of leading Saxon archivists. In: Contributions to archival science and historical research. ed. with the support of the Historical Commission of the Saxon Acad. der Wiss. on Leipzig by Reiner Groß and Manfred Kobuch, Böhlau, Weimar 1977, p. 155.