Johann Heinrich Zopf

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The polymath Johann Heinrich Zopf (born April 6, 1691 in Gera ; † February 1, 1774 in Essen ), son of court preacher Johann Caspar Zopf and his wife Anna Katharina von Kretsch, author of numerous school books, was a pietist , teacher and historian .

Life

Johann Heinrich Zopf studied philosophy, theology and philology at the University of Jena from 1711 to 1715 , where he obtained his doctorate and qualified as a private lecturer. In 1716 he was offered a position as a teacher at the Pädagogium Halle . During the following three years he stayed there and got to know Gotthilf August Francke , with whom he also corresponded later. In 1719 he was appointed director of the Essen city school , a Lutheran grammar school. He held this position until his death in 1774. At the same time, as usual, he received a preacher position at the Marktkirche. On May 28, 1722 he married Juliana Elisabeth Krupp (August 19, 1702– May 1, 1749) from Essen, the daughter of the mayor Arnold Krupp. The marriage had fourteen children. Most died young, however. In 1724 he turned down an offer to become the director of the grammar school in Soest.

In 1729 he published his “Foundation of Universal History”, a very successful school book that had 17 new editions during his lifetime and was later even translated into French and updated as: Précis d'histoire universelle, politique, ecclésiastique et littéraire , depuis la création du monde jusqu'à la paix de Schœnbrunn, continuée sur un plan plus étendu, et augmentée d'une Histoire de la révolution française . As a school reformer who placed value on a practice-oriented education, Zopf supported his students decisively, the later reform pedagogues Johann Julius Hecker and Andreas Petrus Hecker . He inspired them early on for the ideas of Halle Pietism . In addition, the polymath was also interested in the phenomenon of vampirism.

Publications

  • Co-author: De simulatione pseudo-politica . 1720.
  • Co-author: De perfectione vera et imaginaria . 1722.
  • Progr. De licentia seculari . 1722.
  • Co-author: Diss. Mor. De aemulatione . 1724.
  • Commentatio Physico-Moralica de Providentia Dei Fulminantis, Contra Profanas Atheorum Et Naturalistarum Cavillationes Vindicata (1728). ISBN 1-168-79218-5 .
  • Foundation of Universal History (1729). ISBN 1-104-81445-5 .
  • Co-author: De baptismo hyper tōn nekrōn ex I. Cor. XV. 29: dissertatio theologico philologica . 1731.
  • Co-author: Dissertatio de Vampyris Serviensibus . Duisburg 1733.
  • Introdvctio In Antiqvitates Sacras Vetervm Hebraeorvm: Cvm Aliqvali Fasciarvm Typicarvm Evolvtione Conivncta Atqve Vsvi Praelectionvm Pvblicarvm Adcommodata Hall 1734.
  • Ivrisprvdentia Natvralis, or short-term and clearly explained basic principles of natural legal wisdom: Halle 1734 designed for the useful and indecent use of the student youth .
  • Logicaenvcleata, or, Facilitated Sanity. With preface by Johann Georg Walch . 1735.
  • Co-author: The life and activity of the justifying faith: the strange question was whether inner good works are present in faith, if it justifies it? ...; For the necessary doctrinal and honorary rescue of the highly deserved Jenaic theologian D. Iohannis Francisci Bvddei against the error and denigration of Mr. D. Ioh. Daniel Klvge in Dortmund . 1735.
  • De eo qvod ivstvm est circa cruentionem cadauerum . 1737.
  • Programma de Friderici Barbarossae singularibus in ordinem litterarium meritis . 1745.
  • Co-author: Father Renatus le Bossu, ... supervisor of the library of the abbey of St. Genovefa in Paris, treatise on the heroic poem . 1757.
  • Co-author: The Hebrew and Chaldean grammar of ... Johann Andreas Danzens, translated into German ... by George David Kypken: Appendix to the German translation of the Danzian grammar 1757.
  • From Portugall, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Italy: In addition to a complete register. Volume 1. Latest geography in all four parts of the world: in which, after a brief preparation, the position and division of the countries, the most distinguished cities, ... are described by the geography in general as well as by the planiglobio or the whole globe. 1762.
  • From England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Prussia, Poland, Russia, Hungarn, Turkey as well as Asia, Africa, America and the unknown countries: In addition to a complete register. Volume 2 by Johann Heinrich Zopfens Direct. Gymn. Eating. Latest geography in all four parts of the world: in which, after a brief preparation, the position and division of the countries, the most distinguished cities, are described by the geography in general as well as by the planiglobio or the whole globe . 1763.
  • Introductio ad lectionem cursoriam veteris testamenti continens praecognita lectiones Biblicae de Auctore ... una cum partitione ... et analysi accedit quadriga dissertationum ... . 1763.

literature

  • Hugo Bloth: Building bridges between the Burg- and Gröning'schen Gymnasium in Essen and Stargard for more than 150 years. In: Festschrift 150 years of the Burggymnasium Essen . Essen 1974, pp. 32-35.
  • Eduard Heyden: Gallery of famous and strange Reussenlanders: a biographical collection . Frankfurt am Main 1858, pp. 171f.
  • Karl Overmann: The history of the higher educational institutions in Essen in the 17th and 18th centuries with special consideration of the Evangelical Lutheran Gymnasium and its director Johann Heinrich Zopf. In: Essener contributions 46, 1928.
  • Johann Heinrich Zopf . In: Louis-Gabriel Michaud: Biography universelle ancienne et modern. Histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers . Second edition 1843–1865.

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  2. ↑ Common Union Catalog (GVK) , as of January 25, 2007
  3. ↑ Vampiri Europeana: A Chronological Listing ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-lib.usc.edu
personal data
SURNAME Zopf, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, clergyman and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1774
Place of death eat