Johann Jakob Sell

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Johann Jakob Sell (born January 11, 1754 in Stettin ; † March 23, 1816 there ) was a German schoolmaster and historian .

Sell ​​received his education at the Szczecin Council School. From Easter 1771 he attended the University of Halle and took philological subjects there in order to prepare for the teaching post. After completing his studies, he initially took a position as a private tutor for a family on Rügen . In 1776 he received a teaching post at the Stettiner Ratsschule, where he soon became deputy rector. In this position he worked successfully for several years. In May 1783 he became a high school professor for history and rhetoric at the Royal High School in Stettin , which had assumed the character of an academy under the Swedish rule. Sell ​​eventually became rector of the grammar school, which in 1805 merged with the Stettiner Ratsschule to form the United Royal and City grammar school. He was a Freemason and belonged to the Stettiner St. Johannis Lodge to the three circles , as their master of ceremonies he served from 1787–1795.

Sell ​​was the head of the city ​​council in Stettin from 1809 .

Sell ​​published writings on Pomeranian history. His three-part book History of the Duchy of Pomerania (Berlin 1819–1820) came out only after his death. The first part of the latter book did not consistently withstand the criticism and was soon considered to be partly unreliable. The second and third parts, however, were still fully usable.

Works (selection)

  • Attempt a history of the Negro slave trade . Hall 1791 (online at MDZ)
  • Attempt of a history of the Pomeranian trade (1797).
  • Letters about Stettin and the surrounding area, written on a trip there in the summer of 1797 (1800).
  • About the changes that the Royal High School has undergone in the past century . Szczecin 1802.
  • History of the Duchy of Pomerania from the earliest times to the death of the last Duke, or to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 .
    • First part: From the division of Pomerania into Slavia and Pomerania to the division into the Duchy of Wolgast and Stettin, 1108–1295 . Berlin 1919, 488 pages, online . (This first part of the three-part book is in some places outdated by modern historical research.)
    • Second part: From the division of Pomerania into the Duchy of Stettin and Wolgast to the introduction of church improvement . Berlin 1919, 368 pages, online .
    • Third part: From the introduction of church reform to the Peace of Westphalia . Berlin 1820, 524 pages, online .
  • About the strong herring catch on the Pomerania and Rügen coasts in the 12th to 14th centuries (translated from Latin by DEH Zober), Stralsund 1831, 26 pages, online .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Georg Carl Lincke: History of the St. Johannis Lodge TO THE DREI ZIRKELN, formerly la partaite union in ORIENTE STETTIN . For the Säcular celebration of the Lodge on April 3rd and 4th, 1862. Stettin 1862, p. 47.

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personal data
SURNAME Sell, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sell, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1816
Place of death Szczecin