Johann Peter Miller (classical philologist)

Johann Peter Miller (born October 22, 1705 in Scharenstetten ; † November 17, 1781 in Ulm ) was a German classical philologist and pedagogue.

Life

Miller's father was the theologian Johann Peter Miller (1665–1740), then a preacher in Scharenstetten, later in Ulm . One of his brothers, the later Ulm preacher Johann Martin Miller (1693–1747), was the father of the preacher at the Ulm Minster and professor of oriental languages, Johann Michael Miller (1722–1774), and the important Göttingen professor of theology, Johann Peter Miller (1725-1789).

Miller attended the Ulm grammar school until 1721 (today: Humboldt grammar school ). He then studied theology and philology, first in Tübingen , from 1724 in Jena (among others with Johann Franz Buddeus and Johann Georg Walch ) and finally from 1729 in Leipzig . There he worked alongside his studies as a private tutor for the children of the lawyer Karl Otto Rechenberg (1689-1751) and wrote articles for the 3rd edition (1730-1732) of the General Historical Lexicon , which was published in the Leipzig publishing house by Thomas Fritsch and after whose death was postponed by his son, the Saxon lawyer Thomas von Fritsch . Due to a serious illness lasting several weeks, Miller had to give up this work and accepted Fritsch's offer to work in Dresden as his court master and librarian.

In Dresden, in addition to his library work, he worked on the two-volume continuation of the general historical lexici published by Georg Saalbach in Leipzig in 1740 . In the same year he went back to Ulm and taught at the grammar school there until his death, first as sub-rector and professor of the Greek language, from 1743 in the position of prorector and professor of history, and finally from 1752 as rector of the grammar school. From 1743 he was also head of the Ulm City Library.

His numerous publications include the Berlin editions of the Latin classics, which he edited from 1745 to 1772 by Haude and Spener .

Miller's sons were the lawyers Marx Tobias Miller (1742 – after 1800) and Gottlob Dietrich Miller . One of his daughters was married to the professor of history and theology Adolph Friedrich Schemer (1732–1796).

literature

• Albrecht Weyermann : News from scholars, artists and other strange people from Ulm . Ulm 1798, pp. 399-404 ( GBS )
• Friedrich Carl Gottlob Hirsching : Historical-literary manual of famous and memorable people who died in the 18th century . Volume 5, Department 2. Schwickert , Leipzig 1801, pp. 14–16 ( GBS )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Vol. IX. Leipzig 1809, pp. 173–177 ( GBS )
• Hermann Arthur Lier:  Miller, Johann Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 748 f.