Johann Martin Wenck

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Johann Martin Wenck (born March 13, 1704 in Heftrich ; † December 19, 1761 ) was a German educator and librarian .

Life

Johann Martin Wenck came from a family of pastors , who was born on March 13, 1704 in Heftrich as the son of Konrad Henrich Wenck (1670–1733). His father was Johann Reinhard Wenck (1645 to 1690) and his Konrad Wenck grandfather was Marsilius Wenck, who lived from 1601 to 1686. Johann Martin Wenck received his training at a grammar school in Idstein and studied from 1722 to 1725 at the University of Jena . The following five years were years of travel that took him through Lower Saxony . Then it took him to Hamburg , where he made friends with the philologist Johann Albert Fabricius and the theologian Johann Christoph Wolf .

Wenck spent around 1730 to 1732 in Leipzig , where he became a teacher in an orphanage . In 1733, through his father's mediation, he became court chaplain in Mosbach and taught at the Idstein grammar school from the following year. Soon he became vice rector at the school and then vice rector in 1738 . He held the position until 1746; This year, namely one of the vice-rector offered him Pedagogium Ludwig George High School in Darmstadt and court librarian to be. In this function he rearranged the book stocks according to areas of knowledge and arranged them "at the same time according to the size and beauty of the volumes" (1751). This corresponded entirely to the baroque mentality that followed the need for representation.

He then took up the post of management of the court library in 1750 after the death of Johann Philipp Jung ; two years later also the initially promised position as principal of the school. His students included Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , Helfrich Peter Sturz and Johann Heinrich Merck .

Wenck passed away on December 19, 1761 at the age of 58 as a result of a "heated breast disease". He left two sons, one of whom became a historian : Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck lived from September 4, 1741 to June 15, 1810. This in turn left the lawyer Karl Friedrich Christian Wenck . Johann Wenck's second son was the historian and educator Helfrich Bernhard Wenck .

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SURNAME Wenck, Johann Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Booklet
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1761