Johann Samuel Fuchs

Johann Samuel Fuchs (born October 16, 1770 in Leutschau , † March 25, 1817 in Lemberg ) was superintendent of the Evangelical Church in Galicia , teacher and writer .

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Johann Samuel Fuchs was born in Leutschau (today Levoča, Slovakia ) in the Spis County of the Kingdom of Hungary . After graduating from the Evangelical Lyceum in Leutschau, he went to Debrezin for a year to learn the Hungarian language . He then worked as a rhetorician at the Protestant grammar school in Preßburg . In 1790 he moved to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and began studying at the " Alma Mater Jenensis ". In JenaFuchs lived the following two years and studied theology , rhetoric and philosophy with professors , Johann Christoph Döderlein , Johann Jakob Griesbach , Carl Christian Erhard Schmid , Johann August Heinrich Ulrich , Carl Leonhard Reinhold and Christian Gottfried Schütz .

In 1792 returned Fuchs in his Zipser home and took over when in Käsmark local noble family Szirmay a job as a tutor and educator . After the rector Martin Liedemann established an educational institution for pupils of Protestant noble families in Leutschau , Fuchs moved to this institute in 1796. During this period he also taught mathematics , classical languages and philosophy as a public professor at the Lyceum in Leutschau .

In 1809, Fuchs was appointed preacher to the Protestant parish in Käsmark and was also entrusted with the supervision of the elementary school there. In this office he worked until the beginning of 1813. Then he was recalled to Lemberg as pastor and to look after the Galician diocese, which had been orphaned since the death of Samuel Bredetzky in June 1812 . In the same year, Fuchs was appointed superintendent of the Protestant communities in Galicia and Bukovina . Fuchs was only able to exercise this office for four years, however, on March 25, 1817, he died at the age of 46 in Lemberg.

family

Johann Samuel Fuchs was married and had eight children, including the mining scientist Wilhelm Fuchs (1802-1853).

Fonts

• Institutiones logicae, usibus scholasticae juventutis accomodatae. Leutschau 1800.
• Elementa juris naturae. Leutschau 1803.

literature

• Jakob Glatz: Biographical News on Domestic Scholars. In: Intelligence Journal of the Annals of Literature and Art in the Oesterreichischen Kaiserthume . Born in 1811, second volume. Anton Doll, Vienna 1811.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Fuchs, Johann Samuel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 391 ( digitized version ).