Johann Jacob Gottlieb Scherbius
Johann Jacob Gottlieb Scherbius (born December 28, 1728 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 27, 1804 there ) was a German teacher and headmaster with a Turkish migration background.
origin
Scherbius's father, a Turk by the name of Pery Cherbi, was picked up next to his dead father as a three-year-old boy in 1687 on the battlefield between Belgrade and the Palotta fortress and sold to a Viennese postman for 15 gulden. Through several hands, for example through the Nuremberg bookseller Johann Georg Endter , Pery Cherbi came to the rector of the University of Altdorf Georg Richard Kammer , who after a year of teaching in Christianity had him publicly baptized in Nuremberg on June 18, 1690 in the name of Georg Gottlieb and then him made it possible to train as a book and copperplate printer. Georg Gottlieb (Pery) Scherbius settled in Frankfurt after 1720.
Life
Johann Jacob Gottlieb Scherbius was born on December 28, 1728 as the son of the Turkish-born book and copperplate printer Pery Scherbius in Frankfurt. Johann Jacob Scherbius studied theology in Jena and Leipzig . Since the Protestant candidate of theology could not find a job at first, he returned to Frankfurt and hired himself as a private teacher. Of particular interest is his three years as a private tutor in the house of the Goethe family from November 1756 to February 1760, during which he taught the children Johann Wolfgang and Cornelia for 50 Kreuzer monthly in Latin and Greek. In the Juvenilia Goethe his comments have been preserved in Goethe exercises. Another important private student of Scherbius was the forest manager and politician Carl Heinrich Georg von Heyden .
In the meantime Scherbius had been appointed praeceptor at the Frankfurt high school in 1758 . On August 14, 1758, Löbl married. Gymnasii tertiae Classis Collega the maid Anna Catharina Elisabetha Collenberg. The son Johann Justus Scherbius (* 1762) emerged from this marriage . Scherbius' first wife died on December 7, 1765. The widower Catharina Elisabetha Bachmann married on August 3, 1766. The second marriage lasted until 1800. From 1766 to 1798 Scherbius was vice rector of the grammar school and thus had a managerial function with his own powers. On October 27, 1804, the retired vice rector of the grammar school Johann Jacob Gottlieb Scherbius died in Frankfurt.
Johann Jacob Gottlieb Scherbius in literature
In 1794, Friedrich Karl Ludwig Textor wrote the first play in the Frankfurt dialect with the title Der Prorector , the title hero of which is a caricature of his teacher Scherbius.
literature
- Elisabeth Mentzel: Wolfgang and Cornelia Goethe's teacher Leipzig, Voigtl, 1909, p. 118 ff.
- Rudolf Payer-Thurn: Goethe a picture book Leipzig, Schulz Verlag, p. 3.
- Christoph Michel (Ed.): Goethe Frankfurt, Insel Verlag, 1998 p. 37
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . P. 273
Individual evidence
- ^ Textor, Friedrich L .: The Prorector . A comedy in 2 acts. Carl Körner, Frankfurt 1839 ( digitized [accessed April 10, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherbius, Johann Jacob Gottlieb |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scherbius, Johann Jakob Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1728 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1804 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |