Johann Praetorius (musician)

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Johann Praetorius (also: Prätorius ; born January 27, 1634 in Quedlinburg ; † February 21, 1705 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German educator , astronomer and musician .

Life

He was the son of Johann Praetorius , the principal of the school in his hometown, which he had attended himself. On January 29, 1653, he began studying at the University of Wittenberg , where he attended lectures on rhetoric and poetry with August Buchner . He began studying theology during that time. After recovering from an illness in Karlsbad , he frequented the University of Jena , where he studied mathematics with Erhard Weigel and continued his theological studies. In 1660 he became a master of philosophy and soon afterwards an adjunct of the philosophy faculty. Due to his success during his college days in Jena, he became a private teacher at the court of Duke Ernst von Gotha and was also a teacher of mathematics at the grammar school there.

Two years later he became rector of the city school in Soest and in 1675 rector of the grammar school in Halle (Saale). He remained in this office for thirty years and during that time had shaped the grammar school into a flourishing Lutheran educational establishment. In addition, Praetorius had also made a name for himself as a composer, with the "Oratorio David" created by him being performed in Halle. None of his compositions have survived. He also appeared as an astronomer with a paper on observing a comet. Many students passed through his school. So here z. B. George Frideric Handel , Adam Erdmann Mirus and Johann Burchard Freyenstein to name.

In 1684 he married Anne Katharina, the daughter of the cantor at the grammar school in Merseburg, Samuel Mylius, who he lost again in 1690 when a dead daughter was born.

Works

  • Carmina
  • Programmata
  • Argutas inscriptiones
  • Panegyricos seromones
  • Disputationes physicas, ethicas and politicas: Cum Appendice Depulsionis Criminationum, quae in Illam ibi hoc nomine sparguntur Programma Natalitium, Historiam exhibens Observationum Cometae Ao. 1680. mense Novembri Lipsiae primum conspecti. Hall 1680
  • Physica Meletemata Disputationibus Viginti Et Quinque Comprehensa.

literature

  • Johann Praetorius. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 29, Leipzig 1741, column 148.
  • Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg, which belongs to the Duchy of Magdeburg, and of all the cities, palaces, offices, Manors, aristocratic families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages, especially the cities of Halle, Neumarckt, Glaucha, Wettin, Löbegün, Cönnern and Alsleben; From Actis publicis and credible ... news, collected diligently, reinforced with many unprinted documents, adorned with copperplate engravings and abstracts, and provided with the necessary registers. Emanuel Schneider, Hall 1749/50. Vol. 2, p. 690, no. 439
  • Gustav Schilling: Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences: or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst. Verlag Franz Heinrich Köhler, 1841 vol. 5, p. 535, ( online )
  • Salomon Kümmerle: Encyclopedia of Protestant Church Music. Vol. 2, p. 728
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon. ( Online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation UWB (AAV IV 53, 11)
  2. ↑ Presumably the programs that were created during his time as rector in Halle and that the respondents had to hold as defense
personal data
SURNAME Praetorius, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Praetorius, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, astronomer and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1705
Place of death Halle (Saale)