Johann Gottlieb Schummel

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Johann Gottlieb Schummel (born May 8, 1748 in Seitendorf near Hirschberg , † December 23, 1813 in Breslau ) was a German writer and teacher .

Life

Schummel, whose father was a teacher, studied theology in Halle from 1767 to 1769 . After his studies (dropped out of poverty) he became a teacher in 1771, first in Magdeburg . There he edited the weekly conversations (1777–1779) together with Johann Samuel Patzke and Berklan . After working at the Knights' Academy in Liegnitz , he was teacher and rector at the Elisabet Gymnasium in Breslau from 1788 until his death . The style of his narratives follows the novels of Lawrence Sterne . Schummel later advocated a pro-Prussian moderate enlightenment .

His satirical novel Spitzbart was filmed on GDR television under the title Schulmeister Spitzbart . In the midst of a time that was fascinated by the educational ideas of Johann Bernhard Basedow , by the upbringing for an abstract idealism and individual ingenuity, a satire had to be carried out on all those lofty projects that needed to be realized on the most elementary pedagogical skills and on the economic prerequisites was missing, both supporters and bitter opponents on the scene.

Much in the biography of the young Schummel, his experiences with his parents and school, show astonishing parallels with the life of the more talented poet Karl Philipp Moritz . He read his predecessor, but criticized Schummel's Sensitive Journeys particularly categorically in Anton Reiser :

"As he wrote the verdict of Schummel, for example, in The Sensitive Travels through Germany : an exercitium extemporaneum, because the author himself confessed that he had merely written down all the different things in this thick book so that one should judge which subject in he would probably best suit himself to writing. (...) It was not easy for Reisern to regret the time he had spent reading it with any book more than he did on these sensitive journeys. "

At least Moritz admits in a conciliatory way:

"The author of these sensitive journeys later made up for this exercitium extemporaneum with his goatee."

Even Goethe commented disparagingly of Schummels Travel Book.

Works

  • Sensitive journeys through Germany , 3 vols., Verlag Samuel Gottfried Zimmermann, Wittenberg and Zerbst 1771/1772.
  • The Duel: A comedy in Drey Aufzügen by the author of the Sensitive Journey through Germany , 1773. New edition (with an afterword edited by Alexander Košenina): Wehrhahn-Verlag, Hanover 2012, ISBN 978-3-86525-189-3 .
  • Translator library for the use of translators, school men and lovers of old literature , Wittenberg and Zerbst 1774.
  • Fritzen's journey to Dessau , Leipzig, Crusius, 1776.
  • Goatee, a comical and tragic story for our educational century , 1779. New edition: CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 978-3-40609-078-3 .
  • Wilhelm von Blumenthal or The Child of Nature , 2 volumes, 1780/1781.
  • Description of the manners and customs in Italy / by Joseph Baretti ... Translated from the second English edition, and accompanied by notes and additions by Johann Gottlieb Schummel, Professor of History at the Ritter-Academie zu Lignitz Volume Part 1
  • Description of manners and customs in Italy / by Joseph Baretti ... Translated from the second English edition, and accompanied with notes and additions by Johann Gottlieb Schummel, Professor of History at the Ritter-Academie zu Lignitz, Volume Part 2
  • The little Voltaire. A German life story , 1782.
  • Moral library for the young German nobility , 1785.
  • Schummel's journey through Silesia in Julius and August 1791 , Breslau 1792.
  • The revolution in Scheppenstedt , 1794.
  • The good of the state, built on discord , 1798.
  • Apology by Countess Lichtenau , 1808.
  • Goatee, a comic-tragic story. With a foreword and Notes from CG von Maassen . Munich, Georg Müller, 1920. ( The books of Thelem Abbey . Vol. 34.)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Part 1, - online , 1781
  2. ↑ Part 2, - online , 1781

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personal data
SURNAME Schummel, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Seitendorf near Hirschberg
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1813
Place of death Wroclaw