Johann Polz (pedagogue, 1605)

Johann Polz , also Poltz , Johann Polz II (born April 30, 1605 in Lüsse (Bad Belzig) , † December 9, 1675 in Lübeck ) was a German educator and librarian .

Life

Polz was a son of the pastor in Lüsse Adam Poltz and his wife Catharina, nee Belling. He attended schools in Halle (Saale) and Gardelegen as well as the academic high school in Hamburg and studied from 1633 at the University of Helmstedt . In 1645 he became the successor of the eponymous (relative?) Johann Pol (t) z , called Bohemus because of his origins from Schönwald (probably today's Krásný Les ) near Karlsbad, Rector of the Great City School in Wismar .

In 1654 the council of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck appointed him as successor to Jacob Kockert as sub-rector at the Katharineum in Lübeck . It was introduced on November 2, 1654. This position was also associated with the management of the city library . On March 15, 1664, he was promoted to succeeding Heinrich Bangert, who had been elected rector.

He was married to Dorothea, nee Meier († February 23, 1664), a daughter of the mayor of Heiligenhafen . The couple had three daughters and a son, born in 1660, who was also called Johann Polz. After studying in Rostock and Wittenberg, he became vice rector, then rector of the Johanneum in Lüneburg , lastly pastor of Preetz and died there in 1705. His son, also Johann Poltz († 1741), was pastor of Neukirchen near Oldenburg in Holstein .

Works

Polz mainly wrote occasional and memorial writings.

literature

Abraham Hinckelmann : Programma, In Funere Clarissimi Doctissimiq [ue] Viri Dn. Johannis Polzii, Gymnasii Con-Rectoris optime meriti Quod Ad D. Catharinae Aedem D. XVIII. Calend. Ianuarii AC MDCLXXVI. Deducendum Est / [Lectoribus Honoratissimis SPD Abraham Hinckelmann / GR] [Sl], 1676

Digitized copy of the copy in the Göttingen University Library

Jacob von Melle : Thorough news from the Kayserlichen, Freyen and the H. Römis. Imperial City of Lübeck 3rd edition 1787 edition. by Johann Hermann Schnobel , p. 361

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Vol. 6, Bremen: Heyse 1819, Col. 546
Gustav Willgeroth : The teachers of Gr. Stadtschule zu Wismar from its first beginnings in 1541 to the end of the 18th century. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 98 (1934), pp. 157-206

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Web links

Publications by and about Johann Polz in VD 17 . (some of these can be assigned to Johann Poltz Bohemus † 1645)

Individual evidence

↑ The information sometimes found on February 23rd is confused with the date of his wife's death.
↑ The news that he was previously rector in Berlin is probably based on a mix-up with his predecessor (Willgeroth); also the information that he studied in Wittenberg and received his master's degree.
↑ According to Willgeroth (lit.)

personal data
SURNAME	Polz, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Poltz, Johann; Polz II, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belzig
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1675
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] The information sometimes found on February 23rd is confused with the date of his wife's death.

[2] The news that he was previously rector in Berlin is probably based on a mix-up with his predecessor (Willgeroth); also the information that he studied in Wittenberg and received his master's degree.

[3] According to Willgeroth (lit.)