Johann Leonhard Frisch

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Johann Leonhard Frisch (born March 19, 1666 in Sulzbach , † March 21, 1743 in Berlin ) was a German teacher, linguist and naturalist , entomologist and a well-known Berlin engraver .

Life

His father was a lawyer and civil servant in Nuremberg, his mother the daughter of a Strasbourg goldsmith. He went to the Lorenz School in Nuremberg and learned Greek there at an early age. When his father was transferred to Schnabelwaid , he was taught by private tutors and from 1680 he was back in Nuremberg at the grammar school. From 1683 he studied in Altdorf near Nuremberg , from 1686 in Jena and from 1688 in Strasbourg . He partially financed his studies himself, for example by teaching German to French people in Strasbourg. He traveled through France and Switzerland and then passed the candidate exam in theology in Nuremberg. From 1691 he traveled again through Europe (Vienna; Hungary - where he came into conflict as a representative of a preacher in Neusohl and had to flee; participation in the Turkish wars on the imperial side as an interpreter; Venice). In 1693 he was back in Nuremberg, turned to agriculture and became estate manager in Arnstein and Blankenburg in the Harz Mountains. On the mediation of the Stiftspröpstin in Quedlinburg, he became a private tutor to a nobleman. From 1698 he went on trips again (Mainz, Cologne, Netherlands, Hamburg, Berlin). In Berlin he stayed at the Nikolaikirche at the persuasion of the Deacon Astmann († 1699), who had previously worked as a Pietist pastor in Diespeck and Bayreuth, and was initially a private tutor and, on the mediation of Philipp Jacob Spener, from 1698 a teacher at the Gymnasium zum Grau Kloster . At the Gray Monastery he was initially sub-rector, from 1708 vice rector and from 1727 rector. In 1699 he married Sophie Elisabeth Dornmann from Blankenburg in Berlin.

He was the father of the copper engraver Johann Helfrich Frisch (1707–1758) and the grandfather of the Berlin court painter Johann Christoph Frisch (1738–1815).

From 1706, on the initiative of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Frisch was a member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences in Berlin and was one of its formative members in the early days of the academy. Natural history illustrations formed an important part of his work, also outside the academy. In the first half of the 18th century he made whole series of zoological drawings, especially of birds and fish, especially their beaks and bits. These drawings were each explained with an essay. He became famous for his work on two extensive zoological copper panels on insects and birds in Germany, which his two sons Philipp Jacob (1702–1753) and Johann Helfrich had to continue. Only his grandson Johann Christoph could finally complete the bird work. On May 28, 1725, Johann Leonhard Frisch with the academic surname Vegetius was elected member ( matriculation no. 380 ) of the Leopoldina .

He also wrote about mulberry trees and silk production and created German-Latin and German-French dictionaries.

He was involved in the early production of Berliner Blau and it is first mentioned in one of his letters to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from 1708.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Leonhard Frisch  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950, OCLC 42823280 ; New edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Ph. C. W. Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt an der Aisch 1828–1978. Ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 123.
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Johann Leonhard Frisch. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 25, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Kärin Nickelsen: "On employera les meilleurs engraver pour les Figures". Draftsman and engraver of the Berlin Academy of Sciences 1700–1806 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 212 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Frisch, Johann Leonhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vegetius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1666
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzbach
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1743
Place of death Berlin