Johann Heinrich Jung (historian)

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Regina Stuber 2016 during her lecture on the library director Johann Heinrich Jung in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library

Johann Heinrich Jung (also: Junge ; * April 8, 1715 in Osnabrück ; † April 14, 1799 in Hanover ) was a German historian , court historian in Hanover, librarian and library director, university teacher, lawyer and prince educator in London .

Life

Johann Heinrich Jung studied Roman law , constitutional law and various historical subjects, initially at the University of Jena with Johann Salomon Brunnquell , Christian Gottlieb Buder and Heinrich Köhler , and at the University of Leyden with Johann Jacob Vitriarius , Johann Ortwin Westenberg and Burmann .

At the instigation of the Electoral Hanoverian State Minister Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen , Jung settled in Göttingen in 1740 , where he worked as the University Secretary of the Georg August University in 1746 and 1747 . Also in 1747, Jung was appointed to the English court , which was established in London as a result of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . There, Jung taught for several years on behalf of Friedrich Ludwig von Hanover, the heir to the throne , his son, the Prince of Wales and later King of the British Empire , Georg III. , in the subjects of history and fine sciences .

After the unexpected death of his client in 1751, Johann Heinrich Jung went to Rotterdam , where he taught law, history and eloquence at what was then a grammar school .

On the basis of his dissertation De sanctitate judiciorum ... filed in 1759 (see the section on writings ), Johann Heinrich Jung was appointed a doctor of both rights by the law faculty of the University of Göttingen .

After the death of the librarian Christian Ludwig Scheidt , who worked in Hanover , Johann Heinrich Jung was appointed his successor in 1762. At the same time he was raised to the rank of royal British and electoral Brunswick court and consistorial councilor and appointed historiographer of the Welf house of Brunswick-Lüneburg . Jung now held these positions for almost 40 years until his death in Hanover in 1799.

Jung's writings include the fifth and last part of the Guelf source history Origines guelficae , published in 1780 , on which his predecessors Leibniz , Eckhart and Scheidt had already worked. He wrote his last work as custodian of the Hanoverian reliquary treasure under the Latin title Disquisitio antiquaria de reliquiis et profanis et sacris earumque cultu .

Fonts (selection)

  • Tabula Academica, exhibens urbes Academiarum suarum celebritate ac nomine inclutae , three editions: Leyden 1736, increased in Göttingen in 1741, again increased in 1749 in London
  • De sanctitate judiciorum ab Imperatoribus romanis partim restituta partim labefactata (Trajecti ad Rhenum 1759) , dissertation at the University of Göttingen, 1759
  • Historiae Antiqvissimae Comitatvs Benthemiensis Libri Tres. In Qvibvs Svbinde Explicantvr Res Vicinarvm Regionvm Principvm Hominvmqve Illvstrivm. Accedit Codex Diplomatvm Et Docvmentorvm Ex Avtographis Maximam Partem Editorvm. Cvm Sigillis Ac Scriptvrae Veteris Speciminibvs In Aes Incisis / Avctore Joanne Henrico Jvngio JCto Potent. M. Britanniae Regi Electori Brvnsv. Lvneb. A Consiliis Avlae Et Consistorii Bibliothecae Regiae Hannoveranae Praefecto Avgvstae Domvs Gvelficae HHanoverae ; Osnabrugi: Schmid; Hanoverae: Pockwitz, 1773
  • Origines guelficae , 5th volume, 1780
  • Joannis Henrici Jvngii: Icti ... Bibliothecae Regio-Hanoveranae Praefecti ... Disqvisitio Antiqvaria De Reliqviis Et Profanis Et Sacris Earvmqve Cvltv. : Accedit Lipsanographia Sive Thesaurus Electoralis Brunsvico-Luneburgicus , Hanoverae: Jo. Wilhelm Schmid, (Hanoverae: Pockwitz) 1783
  • Textbook of the Staats-Polizey-Wissenschaft [Staats-Polizei-Wissenschaft], reprint of the original edition (from Leipzig: Weidmann, 1788) in Fraktur , Frankfurt (Main): Keip, 1970

literature

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation , Vol. 2, Bremen: Schünemann, 1823, pp. 484–487; Digitized version of the SuUB Bremen
  • Rainer Hehemann (edit.): Biographical handbook on the history of the Osnabrück region (= series of publications on the Osnabrück Cultural Region of the Landschaftsverband Osnabrück eV , issue 3), ed. from the Landschaftsverband Osnabrück eV, Bramsche: Rasch, 1990, ISBN 3-922469-49-3 , p. 152

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g August Ritter von Eisenhart: Jung, Johann Heinrich , in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Bd. 14 (1881), pp. 695–696
  2. ↑ Jung, Johann Heinrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on July 12, 2005, last accessed on April 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, court historian, librarian and library director, university professor, lawyer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1799
Place of death Hanover