Johann Gottfried Stallbaum

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Johann Gottfried Stallbaum ( Latin : Godofredus Stallbaumius ; born September 25, 1793 in Zaasch bei Delitzsch , † January 24, 1861 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist and rector of the St. Thomas School in Leipzig .

Rector Stallbaum (1861)
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Life

He was born in 1793 as the son of a farming family in Zaasch (today part of Neukyhna ). He received his first lessons in the village school and from a private scholar . From 1808 to 1815 he studied at the Thomas School in Leipzig under Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost .

From 1815 to 1818 he studied classical philology and Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . During this time he was supported by Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann , Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn and Christian Daniel Beck . He later received his doctorate as Dr. phil.

In 1818 he was appointed as a teacher at the Francke Foundations in Halle. Here he laid the foundation for his later fame as the explainer of Plato . His talent was encouraged again, this time by August Hermann Niemeyer . Stallbaum was associated with the Thomas School from 1820 until his death, where he worked from 1832 to 1835 as vice rector and from 1835 as rector .

He was known for his free speech in Latin and German. Finally , he completed his habilitation on the subject of diatribe in Platoni's Politicum and was appointed associate professor for classical philology at Leipzig University in 1840 . He gave lectures on Aristophanes , Horace and Plato.

Stallbaum was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Saxon Order of Albrecht .

Appreciation

The Stallbaum Street , a residential street in Gohlis was named in 1900 after him.

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Web links

Commons : Johann Gottfried Stallbaum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 13.