Johann Hortzschansky

Johann Hortzschansky ( Upper Sorbian Jan Hórčanski ; born May 19, 1722 in Breitendorf , † December 18, 1799 in Görlitz ) was a Sorbian high school teacher and historian.

Life

Hortzschansky attended grammar schools in Löbau and Bautzen and enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on May 18, 1743 . He later became a private tutor for several families before he became a teacher at the grammar school in Görlitz in 1759. There he found a job in 1765 as a sub-librarian at the council library and in 1768 became the first teacher at the grammar school. He wrote many writings on the history of Görlitz and the Wendish language . In this he also translated some songs that were incorporated into the Wendish hymnbook. He also had 600 occasional poems appear in print.

Publications (selection)

• Prjeoja Proba sserskich Kyrlischow; an attempt at int Wendish translated songs. Lübau 1748.
• Historical news of the Görlitz scholarships. Goerlitz 1765.
• First rehearsal of some songs translated from German into Wendish. Löbau 1768 they were later included in the Wendish hymnal
• Benjamin Schmolke'ns the sinner who should approach his Jesus; translated into Wendish. Bautzen and Löbau 1768.
• Historical news of bird and target shooting in Upper Lusatia in general and in Görlitz in particular. Goerlitz 1770.
• Taught by the Upper Lusatian. Societies. Goerlitz 1770.
• News of the Pirna peace treaty made in 1634, as can be found in handwriting in the library in Görlitz. Goerlitz 1771.
• News of the journals published in Upper Lusatia or those written by Upper Lusatians Goerlitz 1773; Continued news of this, Görlitz 1774; 2-4 Continuation. Görlitz 1775-1776; Addendum to this, Görlitz 1777.
• Description of some of the improvements in the city of Görlitz. Goerlitz 1780.
• Historical description of the Franciscan or Minorite monastery in Görlitz in connection with the Trinity Church; started by Chr. Knauth and then continued from the 4th to the 22nd piece Görlitz 1780–1798.
• Progr, something of the merits of those von Gersdorf for churches and schools. Goerlitz 1782.
• Brief message from some families in Görlitz who have received letters of adele or coat of arms, Görlitz 1783, continued in 1784.
• A straw wreath speech. Zittau 1784.
• King in Prussia; Karl Friedrich II, completely original. Zittau 1786.

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1806, vol. 6. p. 128
• Publication - Gruber : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste 2 section, part 11, p. 76
• Friedrich Pollack: The discovery of the foreign - perception and representation of the Lusatian Sorbs in the learned literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. Sorbian Institute, Bautzen 2012, p. 110f.