Johann Heinrich August Schulze

Johann Heinrich August Schulze (born April 24, 1755 in Nordhausen ; † August 14, 1803 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) was a German Protestant clergyman, classical philologist and educator.

Life

After completing his academic career, he was for a time deputy principal in Helmstedt and Koventuale of the Mariental monastery . He later became rector in Zellerfeld , then in Osterode am Harz , from where he was called to Blankenburg as a garrison preacher. At the same time he became rector of the grammar school there, ducal Braunschweig consistorial councilor, prior of the Michaelstein monastery , vice superintendent and from 1802 superintendent in Blankenburg.

Schulz was not respected in his time. Very few people contacted him. His most important work was the textbook of the Christian religion for the upper school grades , which saw several editions. His encyclopedia of the Latin classics for the dramatic works of Seneca , Plautus and Terence also later received wide attention.

Publications

• Sample of a translation of Seneka's physical investigations, a letter of invitation. Goettingen
• Dialogus de oratioribus sive de causis corruptae eloquentiae, vulgo Tacito inscriptus adjecit, adnotatione selecta aliorum et sua illustravit. Leipzig 1788
• Lykurg's speech against Leocrates, Greek, reviewed and with notes, published on the use of schools. Brunswick 1789
• Brief historical explanation of the current Königl. Great Britain and Electorates. Braunschweig-Lüneburg coat of arms, as a memorial to his fellow friends about the recovery of George III. Claustal 1789
• Psyche, a fairy tale of Apulejus, Latin, with notes. Goettingen 1789
• Textbook of religion according to the principles of reason and Christianity, mainly for teaching in the upper school classes. Leipzig 1789, 1795, 1814
• Encyclopedia of the Latin Classics. Part 1 Selected plays from Plautus and Seneka. Braunschweig 1790; Part 2 Selected plays from Terence. Brunswick 1790
• Explanatory Notes on the Encyclopedia of the Latin Classics. Brunswick 1790
• About the Blankenburg city school and its changed facilities. Blankenburg 1792
• Participation in the distress of others, recommended as a human duty in a sermon the morning after the complete destruction of the city of Hasselfelde, together with a preliminary report. Helmstedt 1794
• Sermons to promote Christian attitudes and knowledge. Leipzig 1794
• Patriotic appeal and heartfelt plea for the early establishment of an expedient and extremely necessary servant police. Helmstedt 1798
• Confirmation action, carried out in the Michaelstein monastery church. Braunschweig and Helmstedt 1799

literature

• Heinrich Doering: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 82, ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung Lemgo, 1798, Vol. 7, p. 378, ( online ); 1803, Vol. 10, p. 640, ( online ); 1805, Vol. 11, p. 690, ( online );
• Karl Kehrbach: Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica. Verlag A. Hofmann & Co., Berlin, 1890, Volume 8, P. CXXXII,
• Herrmann Julius Meyer : The big conversation lexicon for the educated stands. In connection with statesmen, scholars, artists and technicians. Verlag Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen, 1851, p. 84, ( online )