Johann Gottlieb Lessing
Johann Gottlieb Lessing , also Johann Theophilus Lessing (born November 12, 1732 in Kamenz , † October 6, 1808 in Chemnitz ) was a German educator .
Life
family
Johann Theophilus Lessing was the son of the Kamenz archdeacon Johann Gottfried Lessing and his wife Justina Salome (née Feller) (1703–1777). Of his eleven siblings are known by name:
- Johann Gottfried Lessing (born November 30, 1725 in Kamenz; † December 3, 1725 there);
- Dorothea Salome Lessing (born February 4, 1727 in Kamenz, † September 9, 1803);
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born January 22, 1729 in Kamenz, † February 15, 1781 in Braunschweig );
- Friedrich Traugott Lessing (born January 18, 1731 in Kamenz; † April 26, 1734 there);
- Gottfried Benjamin Lessing (born December 12, 1735 in Kamenz; † January 4, 1764 ibid), lawyer;
- Gottlob Samuel Lessing (born January 23, 1739 in Kamenz, † October 9, 1803 in Namslau ), lawyer and Prussian domain office justiciary ;
- Karl Gotthelf Lessing (born July 10, 1740 in Kamenz, † February 17, 1812 in Breslau );
- Erdmann Salomon Traugott Lessing (born October 13, 1741 in Kamenz, † April 1760 in Warsaw );
- David Gottlieb Lessing (born December 21, 1744 in Kamenz; † February 8, 1745 there).
Johann Theophilus Lessing was married to Friederike Amalie (née Hagemann) (* unknown; † July 25, 1818 in Chemnitz ). They had two children together:
- Friederike Amalie Lessing;
- Friedrich Theophilus Lessing, bailiff.
Career
Johann Theophilus Lessing attended school in Kamenz and studied theology at the University of Wittenberg . After completing his studies, after several years of private tutoring , he tried in vain for a clerical office and became vice rector in Pirna in 1768 , until he came to the Lyceum on Jakobikirchplatz in Chemnitz as vice rector in 1778 ; In 1805 he became rector of the lyceum.
Writing
With his signature Eclogae regis Salomonis he tried in 1777 before Johann Gottfried Herder , the hypothesis to justify that the Song of a kind anthology was erotic songs and having no uniformity. He compares the individual idylls that he reconstructs with those of Theocritus and Virgil . He published other theological writings.
Fonts (selection)
- Tristia prophetae Jeremiah . Leipzig 1770.
- Eclogae regis Salomonis . Leipzig 1777.
- Observationes in vaticinia Jonae et Nahumi . Chemnitz 1780.
- Baritus . Leipzig 1782.
Literature (selection)
- Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried: Lessing, Johann Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 449 f.
- Johann Gottlieb Lessing . In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexikon - continuations and additions, 3rd volume. Delmenhorst 1810. p. 1688.
- C. Kirchner: Johann Theophilus Lessing and the Chemnitz Lyceum at the end of the previous and the beginning of this century . Chemnitz 1882.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical commission at the royal. Academy of Sciences: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 19 . 1st edition. Duncker & Humblot, Munich / Leipzig 1884, p. 756 ( wikisource.org [accessed July 17, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lessing, Johann Gottlieb |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lessing, Johannes Theophilus; Lessingius, Johannes Theophilus; Lessing, Johannes Theophil; Lessing, Johann Theophil; Lessing, Johannes Gottlieb; Lessing, Johann Theophilus; Lessing, Joannes Theophilus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1808 |
| Place of death | Chemnitz |