Johann Gottlieb Waldin
Johann Gottlieb Waldin (born October 28, 1728 in Gera ; † July 13, 1795 in Marburg ) was a German university professor .
Life
family
Johann Gottlieb Waldin was born the son of the cloth and stuff worker Johann Christoph Waldin and his wife Regina.
education
He attended the Gymnasium Gera , his teachers there were Johann Andreas Schwalb, Johann Gottfried Hauptmann (1712–1782) and Johann Andreas Buttstedt (1701–1765).
In 1748 he began his studies at the University of Jena . He attended lectures on philosophy and oriental literature from Johann Peter Reusch , Christian Friedrich Polz , Johann Gottfried Tympe , Friedrich Samuel Zickler , Johann Friedrich Hirt and Georg Peter Zenckel , on mathematics and physics from Georg Erhard Hamberger and Johann Friedrich Wideburg, from Joachim Erdmann Schmidt on state history and with Johann Peter Reusch on theology .
Hofmeister
After completing his studies, he received a position as court master with the young Count von Reuss and thereby extended his stay in Jena, from which time he became interested in academic teaching.
University of Jena
Johann Gottlieb Waldin received his doctorate on January 21, 1755 as Dr. phil. with the venia legendi at the University of Jena. In 1758 he became a private lecturer in mathematics and philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty in Jena; In 1765 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy. He also chaired the Philosophical Society in Jena.
University of Marburg
On May 23, 1766, on the recommendation of Johann Georg Estor , he was appointed full professor of philosophy and mathematics at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Marburg and held his inaugural lecture on August 14, 1765. From 1766 to 1795 he gave lectures on pure and applied mathematics , from 1767 to 1768 and from 1776 to 1795 on logic and metaphysics , from 1766 to 1795 on ethics , philosophical ethics , natural law , natural theology , physics and in the period from 1774 to 1774 1795 on general natural history. In 1768, 1774, 1781 and 1790 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty and in 1771 and 1783 Vice Rector . One of his students was the later theologian Johann Heinrich Wepler .
He also dealt with alchemical processes, but he used more financial means for these experiments than he earned.
Minerals cabinet
Waldin, who also gave lectures on mineralogy , got access to the mineral and rock collection of the geologist Nathanael Gottfried Leske , which was also known as the Museum Leskeanum , when he was appointed professor of finance and economics at the University of Marburg in 1786 . Leske sent his collection in advance, but had an accident on his journey with his carriage and died shortly afterwards. Waldin suggested the Landgrave Wilhelm IX. proposed to purchase the collection in order to build a Hessian mineral collection. However, the landgrave refused to buy it because the price of 6,000 Reichstalers seemed too high to him. Waldin then suggested that responsible miners should be instructed to send ore stages , rock samples and fossils from all Hessian mines to the University of Marburg. The Landgrave accepted this suggestion and on July 29, 1790, entrusted him with the supervision of the Hessian Minerals Cabinet . Shortly afterwards he received large quantities of rock samples, minerals and fossils that came from the mines and smelters in Frankenberg , Homburg and others; since then, the collection has also appeared as a mineralogical museum . In 1791 the Landgrave assigned him as inspector the public supervision of the collection, which was in the university under the library. After his death, the cabinet was continued by Johann Christoph Ullmann .
Trivia
The mineralogical museum of the Philipps University of Marburg is located today in the granary and bakery of the Teutonic Order built in 1515 on Firmaneiplatz. The collection currently comprises, in two superimposed halls with a total area of 600 square meters in 51 wall and display cases, around 60,000 minerals, around 55,000 rock samples, 15,000 raw gemstone samples and 150 meteorites, of which around 3,000 are exhibits. This inventory makes it the largest mineralogical collection in Hesse and also establishes its reputation as one of the most important specialist museums in Germany.
Memberships
- Member of the Latin Society in Jena.
- Member of the Academy of Sciences in Giessen .
- Member of the Society of Natural Sciences in Gdansk .
Fonts (selection)
- Johann Gottlieb Waldin; Johann Christoph Cramer: De MT Ciceronis Philosophia Platonica Oratio: Quam in Amplissimae Societatis Latinae Quae Ienae Floret Consessu Ut Sodalis Consequeretur Publice Recitavit Ioannes Gottliebius Waldinus Geranus; Accedit Oratio Qua Eumdem Societatis Iussu Ac Nomine Sodalem Publice Declaravit Ioannes Christophorus Cramerus, Schmonensis, Thuri . Ienae: 1753
- Johann August Schlettwein ; Waldin, Johann Gottlieb: Johann August Schlettwein's modest defense of his recent explanations and rescues of the moral concepts of the court councilor Darjes of virtue, vice and human weakness, against the objections that Herr Waldin made against them . Jena 1753.
- Johann Gottlieb Waldin; Christoph Friedrich Ludewig: De legibus positivis divinis universalibus disquisitio . Jena 1757.
- The possibility of the resurrection of the body on the grounds of reason proved . Altenburg judge 1764.
- Jus legationis universale occasione arresti legato comiti de Wartensleben Cassellis dati . Marburg Cattorum 1771.
- Observation of an extraordinary rainbow . Rotenburg an der Fulda Hermstädt 1777.
- The Frankenberg Petrifications . Marburg 1778.
- First reasons of general theoretical philosophy or metaphysics . Marburg: Bayrhoffer, 1781.
- First reasons for the general and particular doctrine of reason . Marburg Frankfurt Leipzig Bayrhoffer 1782.
- Theses philosophicae . Marburgi Bayrhoffer 1782.
- The principles of natural theology proved and elucidated from the edifice of the world, along with their most recent and most important disputes . Marburg Bayrhoffer Marburg 1786.
- The Hessian Mineral Cabinet at the Fürstl. Hessian University of Marburg.
Literature (selection)
- Johann Gottlieb Waldin . In: Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer , Volume 16. Marburg 1812. P. 415 f.
Web links
- Johann Gottlieb Waldin . In: Hessian biography of the state historical information system Hessen ( lagis ).
- Portrait of Johann Gottlieb Waldin . In: Philipps University of Marburg, Faculty 12, Mathematics and Computer Science.
Individual evidence
- ^ Philipps University of Marburg - Mineralogical Museum of the Philipps University. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
- ^ Mineralogical collection and museum • Scientific collections. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Waldin, Johann Gottlieb |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waldin, Johannes Gottlieb; Waldinus, Joannes Gottlieb; Waldinus, Johannes Gottliebius; Waldinus, Johannes Gottlieb; Waldinus, Ioannes Gottliebius; Waldinus, Ioan. Gottlieb .; Waldinus, Joannes Gottliebius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1728 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1795 |
Place of death | Marburg |