Johann Heinrich Ayrer

Johann Heinrich Ayrer (* 1732 in Coburg ; † January 6, 1817 in Göttingen ) was a German academic riding instructor .

Life

Johann Heinrich Ayrer has dedicated himself to the art of riding since he was fourteen and learned on various German riding tracks . In 1749 he was given supervision of the stable of Field Marshal Johann Philipp Graf Harrach in Vienna, where he also visited the imperial riding school. In May 1750 he went with the imperial stables to Pressburg to the Hungarian state parliament. For four and a half years from 1751 he accompanied the General Feldzeugmeister Graf von Harsch to Italy. At the beginning of the Seven Years' War , Ayrer received a call from Count Esterházy, whom he accompanied on the campaigns in 1756 and 1757 to Bohemia . After that he was in the service of Count von Morzin in Vienna.

In 1760 Ayr became stable master with the rank of full professor and precedence over the extraordinary professors at the University of Göttingen .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers . Volume 2. Bremen 1823, p. 69