Johann Ludolf Bünemann

Johann Ludolf Bünemann (also Johann Ludolph Buenemann ; born June 24, 1687 in Calbe (Saale) , † July 1, 1759 in Hanover ) was a German classical philologist and literary historian .

Life

Bünemann received his first training at the Calber School . Then he went to the school in Salzwedel , then to Magdeburg for further education . In 1706 he began studying at the University of Halle before becoming a teacher at the Pädagogium Halle in 1708 . In 1712 he followed a call as rector at the Minden high school and as a librarian at the Minden government library.

Bünemann went to Hanover in 1739. There he became rector of the Hannover City School . In the meantime he had bought a library with a volume of around 8,000 volumes bit by bit, but had to sell some of it again in order to be able to support his family.

The lawyer and writer August Rudolph Jesaias Bünemann was his son.

Works (selection)

• Doctorum Westphalorum vitae , 3 volumes, 1713–1716.
• De bibliothecis Mindensibus antiquis et novis, occasione actus oratorii , Detleff, Minden 1719.
• Historiam Domus Et Fratrum Praedicatorum Sive Dominicanorum, Templi Paulini , Detleff, Minden 1730.
• Catalogus Msstorum membranaceorum et charteceorum, item librorum , 1732.

Editions

• Sebastian Castellio : Biblia Sacra , Walther, Leipzig 1734.
• Lactantius : Opera Omnia , with explanations, 2 volumes, Walther, Leipzig 1739.

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 1, Fleischer, Leipzig 1802, pp. 686–688.
• Karl Felix Halm :  Bünemann, Johann Ludolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 540.
• Bünemann, Johann Ludolph . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 2 : Bohacz – Ebhardt . KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-23162-8 , p. 207 .

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Ludolf Bünemann  in the German Digital Library