Johann Jakob Hottinger (philologist)
Johann Jakob Hottinger (born February 2, 1750 in Hausen near Ossingen , Canton Zurich , † February 4, 1819 in Zurich ) was a Swiss philologist, translator and writer.
Life
Johann Jakob Hottinger was the son of the pastor of Ossingen, Johann Heinrich Hottinger, thus great-grandson of the theologian Johann Jakob Hottinger (1652–1735) and great-great-grandson of the orientalist Johann Heinrich Hottinger .
Hottinger attended the Collegium Carolinum in Zurich , where he was supported by Johann Jakob Steinbrüchel and Johann Jakob Breitinger ; also Johann Jakob Bodmer was one of his teachers. In 1769 he was ordained a priest. On a scholarship, he traveled to Yverdon and Geneva in 1770 , then to Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1774.
In spring 1774 he was appointed professor of eloquence at the Carolinum in Zurich and traveled back to Switzerland via Holland and France. Hottinger soon became known through a polemic against Johann Caspar Lavater ( letters to the author of the news ... ) published in 1775 and his satirical letters from Selkof to Welmar (1777) directed against Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther .
From 1789 Hottinger was professor of the Greek and Latin languages at the Collegium Humanatis. After Steinbrüchel's death, on February 28, 1796, he finally received his professorship in the Greek language and Philologiae sacrae (hermeneutics) at the Carolinum and the associated canonical .
Hottinger was considered an influential representative of the Zurich Enlightenment. In addition to his philological editions and translations, Hottinger also worked as a literary writer, among other things as the author of patriotic dramas and as the founder of the library of the latest theological, philosophical and beautiful literature . In 1796 he wrote the widely acclaimed biography of Salomon Geßner .
Works
Fiction
- Publication of the New Attic Museum (Zurich 1802-10) with Christoph Martin Wieland and Friedrich Jacobs
- Library of the latest theological, philosophical and beautiful literature (Zurich 1784–1786)
- Prize writing attempt to compare German poets with the Greeks and Romans (Mannheim 1789)
Classical Philology
- Opuscula oratoria (Zurich 1816)
- Opuscula philosophica, critica atque hermeneutica (Leipzig 1817)
Editions
Translations
- Cicero: De divinatione (Zurich 1789)
- Cicero: De officiis (Zurich 1800)
- Theophrast : Characters (Munich 1810)
Biographies
- Acroama de Bodmero (Zurich 1783)
- Salomon Geßner (Zurich 1796)
literature
- Georg von Wyß: Hottinger, Johann Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 195-198.
- Rudolf Pfister : Hottinger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 656 f. ( Digitized version ). (Family item)
- Dietrich Seybold: Johann Jakob Hottinger (1750-1819) . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 876.
- Rosmarie Zeller: Hottinger, Johann Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Jakob Hottinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Estate of Johann Jakob Hottinger (philologist) in the Zurich Central Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hottinger, Johann Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss philologist, translator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hausen , Canton of Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1819 |
| Place of death | Zurich |