Johann Heinrich Mücke

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Johann Heinrich Mücke (born February 10, 1735 in Wittenberg , † March 11, 1799 in Grimma ) was a German educator and philologist. Mücke was the principal of the Princely School in Grimma .

Life

Johann Heinrich was born as the son of the former city judge and later city judge Johann Georg Mücke. In Wittenberg he had also received his first training from private teachers and at the local council school. It soon became clear that Mücke should complete a degree. For this purpose he was enrolled on October 16, 1745 at the university in his hometown . From November 4, 1749 to September 14, 1753, he attended the St. Augustin State School in Grimma , which was under the direction of Rector Heinrich August Schumacher (1685–1760). After holding a Greek farewell speech in Grimma, he returned to Wittenberg. Here he wanted to complete theological studies. The prerequisite for this, however, was a basic philosophy degree. At that time, Johann Georg Walther taught ethics in Wittenberg , history was taught by Johann Daniel Ritter , Greek language and literature by Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier , philosophy taught by Karl Gottlob Sperbach , logic by Ernst Christian Schröder and Karl Daniel Freyberg , mathematics by Georg Friedrich Baermann and Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Friedrich Weidler , physics Georg Matthias Bose , rhetoric Christian Crusius , he learned French from David Erdmann Meisler (1725–1784) and nature and international law from Johann Friedrich Hiller .

Two treatises of philological content by him come from that period. In addition, Karl Gottlob Hofmann , Joachim Samuel Weickmann , Christian Siegmund Georgi , Ernst Friedrich Wernsdorf , Friedrich Wilhelm Jahr and Christian Friedrich Schmidt taught at the theological faculty . Through the recommendation of Johann August Ernesti , he became tutor to Hofrat Schmiedel in Leipzig in 1758. On April 18, 1759, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate there on February 21, 1760 as a Master of Philosophy. After moving to the University of Göttingen for another two years , he returned to Leipzig in 1763. Here he was accepted into Ernesti's house, gave a celebratory speech in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig in 1765 and completed his habilitation in 1766 at the Leipzig University. In the same year he was noticed by the responsible Saxon education authorities, so that in 1767 he was given a position at the electoral state school St. Augustin in Grimma , where he worked alongside Johann Tobias Krebs as vice-principal. In 1782 he succeeded Krebs as rector of the institution. Mücke was described by his students as a strict trainer who, however, was able to meet high training expectations precisely because of this.

For example, the high school professor in Groß-Glogau went through Gottfried Günther Röller (1783–1869), Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni , Karl von Gersdorff , Gottlob August Baumgarten-Crusius , Detlev Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius (1786–1845), Johann Adam Gottlieb Kind (1747–1826), Karl Gottlob Kühn , Siegfried August Mahlmann , Johann Gottfried Seume , Gottlob Leberecht Schulze , Karl Gottlob Kühn, Christian Gottfried Körner and Gustav Friedrich Dinter completed his training. Mücke also founded a German reading library for the Grimmens students with German and French works.

After his death, some students intended to erect a memorial to him, but this failed because of the resistance of the people of Grimma. Nevertheless, a deeply moving farewell poem by his alumni has survived.

His son Gottlieb Heinrich Mücke (1792-1853) became a theologian in Nerchau and Fremdiswalde. A painting depicting him, measuring 59 × 80 centimeters, is in the archive of the grammar school in Grimma.

Works (selection)

  • Diss. De Apolline epidemio. Witteberg 1755
  • De Numophylacibus apud Athenienses. Wittenberg 1755
  • Disp. de tribus capitulis concilii Chalcedonensis. Leipzig 1766
  • Progr. Lex principis annalis, in constitutione scholastica, Electoralibus scholis nuper renovata, tamquam publice privatimque utilissima commendatur. Leipzig 1773
  • Oratio adeundi muneris caussa habita. Leipzig 1782
  • Progr. Quo historia, philosophiae metropolis, commendatur, ad justos instiutioni scholasticae limites conltitueudos. Leipzig 1782
  • Progr. Quomodo veterum auctorum lectio ad disciplinam virtutis prosit. Leipzig 1784
  • Progr. Confutatur criminatio Erasmi: ubicunque regnat Lutheranism, ibi litterarum est interims; ас comparando instituitur, non minore quam Erasmum jure inter restitutores litterarum primo loco censendum esse Lutherum. Leipzig 1784
  • Progr. Ouomodo veterum auctorum lectio ad disciplinam virtutis prosit. Leipzig 1784
  • Progr. Dialectici ac rhetorici artificii in scriptis veterum notandi diligentia. Leipzig 1785
  • Elogium Jo. Tob. Krebsii. Leipzig 1786
  • Pr. De prudentia, primis naturae, in formanda adolescentia, recte utendi. Leipzig 1787
  • Progr. De rebus Christianorum testimonia ex Luciano. Leipzig 1789
  • Progr. Quid adjumenti sacrarum litterarum interpreti praestet Homeri cum sacris scriptoribus comparatio. Leipzig 1789
  • De doctrinae, -quem veteres imprimis Quintilianus commendant, orbe. Grimma 1790
  • Progr. In quo Plutarcho duce, quomodo suos quisque in virtute profectus possit animadvertere, disputatur. Leipzig 1791
  • Progr. Quomodo instituendi sint in schola adolescentes, ut, gaudere discant. Leipzig 1792
  • Progr. De meditatione mortis Platonica. Leipzig 1793
  • Progr. Quo vindictae divinae testem historiam et reverentiae numinis supremi magistram esse demonstratur. Leipzig 1794
  • Progr. Elogium Gottlob Henr. Richteri, scholae Grimmanae Mathematici. Leipzig 1796
  • In aestimandis vitae humanae miseriis, atque aerumnis, quid referat cavere, ne in alberutram partem modum excedas? Grimma 1798

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1809, Volume 9, p. 367 ( online )
  • A few words about a well-deserved schoolboy, the late Rector Mücke in Grimma. In: Newspaper for the elegant world. Verlag Georg Voß, Leipzig, 1804, p. 126, ( online )
  • Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Verlag Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen, 1816, Vol. 5, p. 16

Mücke tradition maintenance in Grimma

In the auditorium of the St. Augustin grammar school in Grimma there is a historical oil painting showing Rector Mücke.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3. Halle (Saale), 1966
  2. ↑ Albert Woman Location: Gimmenser album 1900. Association of former students Prince, Meissen, 1900
  3. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
  4. ^ Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle (Saale), 1917, pp. 547-548
  5. ↑ Georg Erler: The younger matriculation of the University of Leipzig 1559-1809, edited as a person and place register and supplemented by additions from the doctoral lists. Verlag Giesecke & Devrient, 1909, 3rd vol.
  6. ^ Hermann Masius: The relationship of the high schools to the development of our literature. In: Alfred Fleckeisen, Hermann Masius: New year books for philology and pedagogy. Verlag Teubner, Leipzig, 1864, 10 years, 2nd department, p. 548, ( online )
  7. ↑ Christoph Gottlieb Steinbeck: The German Patriot. A monthly magazine for the educated people, their leaders, teachers and other friends. Verlag FS priv. Landes-Industriecomtoirs, Weimar, 1803, 1st volume, p. 292 ( online )
  8. ↑ Christian Friedrich Lange: At the grave of their deserving teacher M. Johann Heinrich Mücke, loyal Rector of the Churfürstliche Landschule zu Grimma, who completed his pious life on March 11th, 1799, by all the alumni of the local country school. Grimma 1799 ( online )
  9. ^ Reinhold Grünberg: Saxon Pastor's Book. Verlag Ernst Mauckisch, Freiberg, 1940, Vol. 2, p. 612
  10. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representations of the older architectural and art monuments in Saxony. Verlag CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden, 1807, p. 110
  11. ↑ Sarah Schrempel: The picture dispute between the high school St. Augustin and the district museum Grimma. Grimma 2013, p. 65 in: ( Online PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Mücke, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1799
Place of death Grimma