Johann Philipp Breidenstein

Johann Philipp Breidenstein (born April 9, 1724 or 1729 in Niederdorfelden , † January 18, 1785 in Gießen ) was a German scholar.

Life

Breidenstein came from Niederdorfelden . He initially worked as an organist in Hanau and edited several sonatas for the clavecin before becoming professor of camera science in Giessen . In 1773 he wrote the treatise True Means to keep a fruit theuration from a state forever in a speech investigated and determined . His Oratio inavgvralis de formanda ante omnia aerarii cvivsvis administrandi vel publici vel privati ​​designatione statvs, negotii rationarii veraeqve oeconomiae Basi et fvndamento dates from 1777; cum mvnvs professoris oeconomiae ruralis reiqve calcvlatoriae cameralis po in academia lvdoviciana svsciperet in avditorio ivridico . In 1779 he published his work Natural History of the Sperlings Teutscher Nation, along with many means to reduce its number and to keep him away from the ripe crops, young seeds and plants, cherry trees, fruit soils and scrub; for the benefit of the farmer . Friedemann Schmoll characterized this work as a “collection of common clichés” and a “call for extermination campaign” written entirely “with enlightenment intent”. In 1779 Johann Heinrich Merck tried to visit Breidenstein in Giessen, but did not find him there, as he reported in a letter to Luise von Göchhausen from July 13 to 22, 1779: "Our intention was directed at the author of the Spazen [.. .] But unfortunately he went away. "

literature

• Ulrike Leuschner (ed.), Johann Heinrich Merck. Correspondence , Volume 2, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0105-4 , pp. 250 and 255

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story from the Reformation to 1806 , 2nd volume, Göttingen 1782, p. 31, online
2. ^ Deux Jolies sonates pour le clavecin avec le violon. Composées by M ^r Jean Philippe Breiderstein, Directeur de la Musique et Organiste de l'Eglise d'Hanaw. Paris 1760.
3. ↑ http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1104644 . Here Breidenstein's year of birth is given as 1724, while Leuschner gives the year 1729.
4. ↑ http://www.librarything.com/author/breidensteinjohannph
5. ↑ Friedemann Schmoll, Kulinarische Moral , in: Rolf W. Brednich et al. (Ed.), Nature - Culture: Folklore Perspectives on Humans and Environment 32nd Congress of the German Society for Folklore in Halle from September 27th to October 1st , 1999 , Waxmann Verlag 2001, ISBN 978-3830911005 , here p. 219, note 21