Johann Joachim Eschenburg

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Johann Joachim Eschenburg, painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch , around 1793, Gleimhaus Halberstadt

Johann Joachim Eschenburg (born December 7, 1743 in Hamburg , † February 29, 1820 in Braunschweig ) was a German literary historian and university professor.

Life

Eschenburg's grave in the Magni cemetery in Braunschweig

He studied theology from 1764 in Leipzig and from 1767 in Göttingen . In that year, at the instigation of the Abbot of Jerusalem , he came to the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig as public court master . In 1770 he took over the public lecture on the history of literature for Johann Arnold Ebert . Eschenburg was appointed associate professor in 1773 and finally full professor of fine literature and philosophy in 1777 as the successor to the late Zachariae . From 1773 he was educator of Count von Forstenberg , an illegitimate son of Hereditary Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Braunschweig. From 1777 to 1820 Eschenburg gave the Duke of I. Karl founded the Brunswick ads out. From 1782 he was the librarian of the college. In 1786 he was appointed councilor. In 1795 he received a canonical at St. Cyriakus , whose last senior he was later. In the same year he was entrusted with the supervision of the censorship and the editing of the Braunschweigischer Schehrtenmagazin. In the course of the dissolution of the Collegium Carolinum and the conversion into a military academy, Eschenburg was retired in 1808. In 1814 he was appointed to the reopened college, where he served as a member of the board of directors and librarian. On the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service, he was appointed to the Privy Council of Justice in 1817. He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Göttingen and Marburg . As a close friend of Lessing , who died in 1781 , he also edited parts of his literary estate as part of the edition he was responsible for, such as the Paralipomena for the planned Laocoon continuation.

Eschenburg died in Braunschweig in 1820 and was buried in the Magnifriedhof there. The head of government in Lippe, Wilhelm Arnold Eschenburg, was his son.

Works

Eschenburg is best known as a Shakespeare translator, whose work he was the first to fully translate into German (13 volumes, Zurich, 1775/1782). He was the editor of several textbooks such as Textbook of Science Studies. An outline of encyclopaedic lectures (the 2nd, improved edition appeared in 1800). He also translated opera texts and oratorios from Italian into German, for example Gluck'sOrfeo ed Euridice ” from 1762 (Eschenburg's translation appeared in Carl Friedrich Cramer's “Magazin der Musik” in 1785 ).

In 1812 he wrote one of the articles on the history of Carolo-Wilhelmina (Volume 2), which, among other things, deals with the appearance of the spirit of Hofrat Melchior Dörrien in 1747 at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig.

Eschenburg also wrote the text for the melody by Georg Friedrich Händel, known as a Christmas song under the title Daughter Zion, rejoice .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Joachim Eschenburg  - Sources and full texts
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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Joachim Eschenburg: Draft of a history of the Collegii Carolini in Braunschweig. Verlag Friederich Nikolai, Berlin / Stettin 1812, OCLC 45222906 .
  2. The most beautiful songs and poems for Christmas. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, p. 144.