Johann Gottlieb Lehmann (philologist)

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Johann Gottlieb Lehmann (born May 25, 1782 in Sonnewalde ; † May 30, 1837 in Luckau ) was a German high school teacher and classical philologist .

Life

Johann Gottlieb Lehmann was born in Sonnewalde as the son of the mayor of the same name, Johann Gottlieb Lehmann (1753–1836) and his wife Johanne Renate Lehmann (1755–1838), daughter of the superintendent Richter.

He received his first lessons from Rector Löscher in Sonnewalde. In 1792 he came to the Senftenberg City School , which was then headed by Rector Benjamin Jentzsch. In 1795 he went to the St. Thomas School in Leipzig and, due to his skill in singing, received a position in the alumni ; his teachers there were Johann Friedrich Fischer , Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost , Johann Friedrich Jacob Reichenbach , Christian August Kriegel (1732-1803), Gottlob Leberecht Friedel (1761-1821) and Gottfried Tauber (1766-1825). At school he made friends with Karl Friedrich Salomon Liscovius , later professor of general therapy and drug theory at the University of Leipzig , with Amadeus Wendt , later professor of philosophy at the University of Göttingen and Karl Heinrich Krahner (1779–1864), later superintendent in Luckau and maintained these friendly contacts until his death. At the end of school he dedicated the Latin treatise Explanatio loci e Ciceronis de Nat. Deor. the then mayor Heinrich Friedrich Innocenz Apel and the school principal Christian Gottlob Einert . He left the Thomas School in 1802 to study theology and philology at the University of Leipzig.

During his studies in Leipzig he received special support from his great uncle notary Vollbrechtshausen, Christian Gottlob Einert, mayor of Leipzig since 1802, and Christian Daniel Beck , professor at the university, who provided him with free meals and grants. Christian Daniel Beck also entrusted him with teaching his sons and he was a member of his philological seminar.

During his studies he was particularly concerned with ancient languages ​​and acquiring previous knowledge of philosophy. After he had started the theological studies, he dealt with philology and applied it to the New Testament exegesis and tried to form the system of dogmatics from the results . He has attended lectures by Friedrich August Carus (psychology, philosophical morality, history of philosophy), Carl Friedrich Hindenburg ( experimental physics ), Christian Gottlieb Seydlitz ( metaphysics ), Johann Georg Eck (literary history), Christian Daniel Beck (general history, hermeneutics and Roman antiquities , Explanation of Greek and Roman writers, exegesis and church history), Gottfried Hermann (explanation of Greek and Roman writers), Christian Gottlieb Kühnöl ( Hebrew ) and Johann August Heinrich Tittmann (symbolism), whose philological society he was also a member.

In 1805 he was promoted to master's degree and passed the theological candidate exam in Dresden with Johann August Heinrich Tittmann and Franz Volkmar Reinhard . He then accepted a position as private tutor with Friedrich von Bülow (1760-1831) in Beyernaumburg to teach his only son.

In 1808 he was appointed vice-principal at the Lyceum in Luckau after he had applied on the advice of his friend Karl Heinrich Krahner, who was now a deacon in Luckau; when he was hired, Johann Daniel Schulze (1777–1856) was the rector of the Lyceum. In 1820, on the recommendation of Rector Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost, he was called back to the Thomas School in Leipzig as the third teacher, and at the same time he was appointed librarian at the council library . During this time he associated with his friends Karl Friedrich Salomon Liscovius , Amadeus Wendt , Christian Friedrich Illgen (1786–1844), professor at the University of Leipzig and the preacher Wolf.

In 1822 he was appointed as the successor to the rector Johann Daniel Schulze, who went to Duisburg , at the grammar school in Luckau and received the title of royal director in 1829 and in 1831 a personal annual allowance of 200 Reichstalers . Due to his uninterrupted influence, the grammar school initially received the fourth senior teacher position and in 1832 a new school building as well as two other new senior teacher positions for mathematics and physics.

On September 27, 1811 he married Christliebe Salome (* 1792; † 1821), the youngest daughter of the late pastor Johann Christian Wilhelm Israel (1731–1809) in Luckau, through which his friend Karl Heinrich Krahner also became his brother-in-law, because he was married to his wife's eldest sister. During their ten-year marriage, they had two sons and four daughters, one of whom a son and a daughter died shortly after birth.

He married Amalie, the eldest daughter of the deacon who used to work in Golßen and later lived in Naumburg , Johann Christian Karl Förtsch (1771–1842). This marriage resulted in five daughters, the third child of whom died early.

Memberships

He was a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences and the Historical-Theological Society of Leipzig .

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SURNAME Lehmann, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonnewalde
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1837
Place of death Luckau