Johann Gottlob Benjamin Arrow
Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil (born November 10, 1732 in Freiberg , † September 28, 1800 in Rammelburg ) was a German lawyer and writer .
Life
He attended high school in Chemnitz and studied from 1752 at the University of Leipzig jurisprudence . In 1763 he became court master of the young Karl August Freiherr von Friesen at Rammelburg Castle . After his doctorate as Dr. jur. (1768) he was judiciary and bailiff at Rammelburg.
He was personally known to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . From 1793 he was a member of the Academy of Useful Sciences in Erfurt .
Pfeil was involved in the introduction of two new literary styles in Germany: Together with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson (1755), his Lucie Woodvil (1756), a "bourgeois tragedy of deterrence" , founded the new genre of bourgeois tragedy . And his attempt in moral tales (1757) takes into account English and French narrative traditions. The message of virtue is more important than originality.
He was married to Johanna Groß († August 17, 1777) from Leipzig , with whom he had two children. In his second marriage, Pfeil married Eva Clara Johanna Leonardine Göckingk († December 5, 1792) on September 29, 1778, the sister of the poet and economist Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk (1748–1828). Eight children emerged from this marriage, including the later “forest classic” Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil .
Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil died of a stroke and was buried on October 1st, 1800 in the cemetery of the Barons von Friesen .
Works
- Lucie Woodvill , Trauerspiel, 1756 ( Ed. Leipzig 1786 online - Internet Archive ). - New edition, ed. v. Dietmar Till: Wehrhahn Verlag , Hannover 2006, ISBN 3-932324-86-2
- The story of Count von P. , Vienna 1766 (Printer: Thomas von Trattner , online - Internet Archive )
- Trial in moral stories , Lankischens Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1757. - New edition ed. v. Alexander Košenina : Röhrig Verlag, St. Ingbert 2006, ISBN 3-86110-361-3
literature
- Erich Schmidt: Arrow, Johann Gottlob Benjamin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 655-657.
- Dirk Sangmeister: Very Christian, very boring: “The happy island” (1781). How Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil tried to continue the “Insel Felsenburg” . In: Yearbook of the Johann Gottfried Schnabel Society 8, 2004–2005, ( Schnabeliana 8, ISSN 1430-7014 ), pp. 115–124.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil at Zeno.org .
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- TextGrid: biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ D. Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil: Prize book of the best and most practicable means to remedy child murder without favoring fornication with additions and a sixfold appendix relevant matters . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1788
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arrow, Johann Gottlob Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1800 |
| Place of death | Rammelburg |