Johann Karl Zeune

Johann Karl Zeune (born October 29, 1736 in Stolzenhain , † November 8, 1788 in Wittenberg ) was a German philologist . He is the father of Johann August Zeune , the founder of the first institution for the blind in Germany .

Life

The farmer's son Andreas Zeune attended high school in Zeitz and then matriculated at the University of Leipzig . Here he concentrated on studying philology and in 1775 applied for an extraordinary professorship at the philosophical faculty, which he was then entrusted with in the autumn of the same year.

After he had published the writing of his teacher Johann Friedrich Christ treatises on literature and works of art, mainly of antiquity , in 1776 , he went to the University of Wittenberg , where he took over the full professorship for the Greek language. He edited numerous classic works with critical and explanatory comments, including writings by Xenophon , Macrobius and Terence , and provided a new edition (Leipzig 1777) of the French scholar François Viger De praecipuis Graecae dictions idiotismis (Paris 1627), which is important for Greek linguistics. . In Wittenberg (1776–1788) he read about the New Testament at least until 1785, but no longer in its entirety, but about selected parts, also about Xenophon, Homer, Aristophanes, Demosthenes, the Jewish antiquities of Josephus, Isocrates and Plato.

Web links

• Max Mendheim :  Zeune, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 129.
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1816, p. 387 ( online )
• Friedrich August Weiz : The learned Saxony or directory of those in the Churfürstl. Saxon. and incorporated countries of contemporary writers and their writings. Verlag Carl Friederich Schneider, Leipzig, 1780, p. 285