Johann Philipp Crollius

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Johann Philipp Crollius (born January 1, 1693 in Heidelberg , † January 14, 1767 in Zweibrücken ) was a German educator and historian .

Life

The son of the reformed Heidelberg theology professor and university rector Johann Lorenz Crollius (1641–1709) from his first marriage to Anna Margaretha Meisterlin grew up in Marburg , where his parents fled in May 1693 after taking Heidelberg during the War of the Palatinate Succession . After the death of his parents, he studied in Basel with the theologian and historian Jacob Christoph Iselin (1681–1737), the friend of his deceased father, who took the boy in and supported him as much as possible. When Duke Gustav Samuel Leopold wanted to bring the Zweibrücker Gymnasium illustre , later the Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium , to a higher reputation in 1721 , the barely 28-year-old Crollius was appointed rector and professor of history and eloquence in Zweibrücken. He has been promoting school attendance since 1721 by publishing the annual graduation speeches , the orationes , in printed form. In addition, he started a book collection at the school in 1725, from which later, increased by the princely book collection, the " Bibliotheca Bipontina " arose. Also in 1725 he married Margaretha Gabriela Joannis, the daughter of his predecessor, in his first marriage, and in 1741 in his second marriage to Maria Caesar.

Johann Philipp Crollius stands as a grammar school rector in Zweibrücken as well as a historian alongside his father-in-law Georg Christian Joannis and his son Georg Christian Crollius . His and his high school students' speeches are often the first scientifically substantiated presentations of the respective topic. Subjects from the regional history of Pfalz-Zweibrücken were given preference .

Works

author

Place of printing is Zweibrücken: // Oratio de celebri quondam Alexandrinorum Museo , 1721. // Oratio de publica populi Bipontini laetitia , 1734. // Allocutio votiva , 1734. // Werschweiler Monastery . In the Zweibrücken calendar 1738. // Verum sermonis Latini pretium usumque edocet , 1750. // Prolusio de Westrasia , 1751 .

editor

The place of printing is Zweibrücken. The speeches appeared under the names of the students: // Oratio de Castro Trifels , Henning Nicolaus Johannes Schlaaff, 1726. // Oratio de Cussella , Adolph Balthasar Euler, 1726. // Oratio de Meisenhemio , Gabriel Brynolph Sundahl, 1727. // Oratio de Hornbaco , Christoph Keller, 1728. // Oratio de Tabernis Montanis , Friderich Julius Marx, 1730. // Oratio de Biponto , Johann Wilhelm Cnefelius, 1731. // Oratio de Dioecesi Beckelnhemensi , Johann Casimir Fuchs, 1732. // Oratio de Anvilla , Georg Friedrich Ludwig Müller, 1755–1767.

literature

• Wegele :  Crollius, Georg Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 604 f.
• Lars G. Svensson: The history of the Bibliotheca Bipontina , Kaiserslautern 2002.
• Kurt Schöndorf; Ernst Wenzel: Johann Philipp Crollius - a biography of Johann Georg Wentz . In: Mitteilungen des Historisches Verein der Pfalz 103 (2005), pp. 229–242.

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