Johann Seivert

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Johann Seivert (pseudonyms: Johann Trevies, Johann Strevei, S **; * April 17, 1735 in Hermannstadt , † April 27, 1785 in Hammersdorf ) was a Transylvanian-Saxon historian and poet. He wrote the first published German-language dictionary of writers in his region and is considered a pioneering researcher in the field of inscription research and numismatics .

Life

Johann Seivert was born into a middle-class family in Sibiu. His parents were Daniel Seivert (tailor and member of the city council) and Agnetha Gierlich. From 1751 Seivert studied at the Hermannstädter Gymnasium. The then rector of the Hermannstädter Gymnasium, Andreas Schun, played a decisive role in the upbringing of the young Seivert . In 1754, the 19-year-old Seivert passed a public examination which was so successful that he was able to study abroad. Seivert then studied theology and philosophy at the University of Helmstedt for three years . After his return, Seivert initially taught as a teacher at the Hermannstädter Gymnasium, where he was an associate professor , then a collaborator and finally vice principal . In 1764 Seivert gave up teaching and became a deacon of the monastery church of St. Elisabeth in Sibiu, then Wednesday preacher and from March 8, 1771 archdeacon or city preacher at the Parochial Church. A few months later, on November 16, 1771, he was called to the parish of Hammersdorf, where he worked as a pastor until his death.

Seivert also dealt with numismatics and built up a large and valuable collection of Roman and Transylvanian coins, which after his death was bought by the royal Transylvanian court advisor Johann Nepomuk Graf Esterházy and the Brukenthal coin collection .

Writings and works

Fonts

  • The coins of Rom. Quays. House and the tyrants, except for the emperor Heraclius according to the degrees of their rarity. Schulz Witwe, Vienna 1765, ( digitized ).
  • Inscriptiones monumentorum Romanorum in Dacia mediterranea. Trattner, Vienna 1773, ( digitized ).
  • The Saxon City Pastors of Sibiu. Barth and Son, Sibiu 1777, ( digitized version ).
  • Messages from Transylvanian Scholars and Their Writings. Weber and Korabinski, Pressburg 1785, ( digitized version ).
  • Brief history of the Provincial Mayor of Sibiu in Transylvania. Hochmeister, Sibiu 1792, ( digitized version ).

Poetic works

  • Frank thoughts of ghosts. sn (di: Georg Otto), Frankfurt and Leipzig (di: Coburg) 1757, ( digitized ).
  • Transylvanian trifles. Georg Otto, Coburg 1758, ( digitized version ).
  • The Christ. 2 pieces. Barth, Sibiu 1773, 1780.
  • To Dacien on the death of Marien Theresa the Great 1780. Barth, Hermannstadt 1780, (Also in: Monuments dedicated to the immortal memory of Marien Theresa. Poetischer Part. Trattner, Vienna 1784, pp. 73–74 ).
  • Hypochondriacal ideas. Weber and Korabinski, Pressburg 1784.

Articles in journals (selection)

  • Transylvanian letters on various patriotic objects. (1-21). [Contributions mostly of historical content.] In: Most gracious-privileged advertisements of all-imperial-royal hereditary countries, published by a society. Vienna, vol. 5, 1775; Vol. 6, 1776, ( digital copies ). 19 of these letters were reprinted in partly increased and improved form in Ungrischen Magazin , Vol. 1–3, 1781–1783.
  • From the Transylvanian-Saxon language. In: Ungrian magazine . Vol. 1, Piece 3, 1781, pp. 257-282 .
  • The Counts of the Saxon Nation and Hermannstadt royal judges in the Grand Duchy of Transylvania. In: Ungrian magazine. Vol. 2, Stück 3, 1782, pp. 261-302 ; Vol. 3, Item 2, 1783, pp. 129-163 , Item 4, pp. 393-432 .
  • The high song of Solomon in Transylvanian-Saxon language. In: Ungrian magazine. Vol. 4, Piece 1, 1787, pp. 22-34 .
  • Contributions to the religious history of Sibiu in Transylvania, in the years 1521–1546. In: Ungrian magazine. Vol. 4, Piece 2, 1787, pp. 154-211 .
  • From the origin of the Burzenland Saxons or Germans in Transylvania. In: Ungrian magazine. Vol. 4, Piece 2, 1787, pp. 211-223 .
  • Sibiu. In: Ungrian magazine. Vol. 4, Piece 4, 1787, pp. 397-407 .
  • Draft by the Transylvanian Catholic Bishops of Weissenburg. In: Transylvania quarterly. Vol. 1, No. 2, 1790, pp. 171-208 , No. 3, pp. 249-282 , No. 4, pp. 345-376 .
  • Sketch of the Superintendent Augsburg Confession, in the Grand Duchy of Transylvania. In: Transylvania quarterly. Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1791, pp. 1-35 .
  • From the Transylvanian-Saxon national privilege of King Andreas des Zweyten. In: New Ungrian Magazine. Vol. 1, Piece 4, 1791, pp. 305-347 .
  • Of the privileges and freedoms of the Saxon nation in Transylvania; according to the specifications of the privilege granted by King Andreas II / of the year 1224. In: Transylvania quarterly. Vol. 4, No. 2, 1795, pp. 129-169 .
  • Contribution to the learned history of the Transylvanian Unger and Szekler. In: Transylvania quarterly. Vol. 5, No. 3, 1797, pp. 202-256 , No. 4, pp. 289-332 ; Vol. 6, No. 2, 1798, pp. 149-170 , No. 3, pp. 219-246 , No. 4, pp. 297-315 ; Vol. 7, Issue 1, 1801, pp. 1-23 , Issue 4, pp. 273-284 .
  • Chronological index of the pastors of the Sibiu chapter from 1327 to the present day. In: Transylvania Provincial Papers. Vol. 2, 1807, pp. 103-135, 195-220; Vol. 3, Issue 1, 1808, pp. 1-21 .

Editorships

  • Joannis Lebelius (di: Johann Lebel): De oppido Thalmus, Carmen historicum. Barth, Sibiu 1779.
  • Samuel Köleséri von Keres-Eer : Auraria Romano-dacica, una cum Valachiae cis-alutanae subterraneae descriptione Michaelis Schendo. 2nd Edition. Landerer, Preßburg et al. 1780, ( digitized version ).

Works attributed to Seivert

  • S ...: language of reason, or philosophical self-talk. Hochmeister, Sibiu 1780, ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Gottlieb Windisch : Geography of the Grand Duchy of Transylvania (= geography of Hungary. Part 3). Lion, Pressburg 1790.

literature

  • Ágoston Zénó Bernád: A hermit against the lap sin of the historian. Research conditions and scientific working method of Johann Seivert based on his writings in Ungrischen Magazin. In: Norbert Bachleitner, Andrea Seidler (ed.): On the medialization of social communication in Austria and Hungary. Studies on the press in the 18th and 19th centuries (= Finno-Ugrian Studies in Austria. 4). LIT, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0500-5 , pp. 97–117.
  • Péter Lőkös: Johann Seivert írói életrajzi lexikona: News from Transylvanian scholars and their writings. In: István Csörsz Rumen, Béla Hegedűs, Gábor Tüskés, Annamária Bretz (eds.): Historia litteraria a XVIII. században. Universitas, Budapest 2006, ISBN 963-967101-0 , pp. 143-152.
  • Ágoston Zénó Bernád: "So I saw it as a sacrifice that I owed our deserving fathers ...". On the genesis of the work and the history of the editions of Johann Seivert's Nachrichten von Siebenbuergischen Scholars and their writings. In: Viennese electronic contributions from the Institute for Finno-Ugric Studies. 2006/7, (PDF; 367 kB).
  • Răzvan Stoica: Joy of life, faith in God and erudition in the writings of Johann Seivert. In: Joachim Wittstock , Stefan Sienerth (ed.): The German literature of Transylvania. From the beginnings to 1848. Half volume 2: Pietism, Enlightenment and Vormärz (= publications of the Südostdeutschen Kulturwerk. Series B: Scientific works. 82). Verlag Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-88356-134-7 , pp. 71-75.
  • Stefan Sienerth: History of the Transylvanian-German literature in the eighteenth century. Dacia, Klausenburg 1990, ISBN 973-35-0146-8 .
  • Andreas Scheiner: Contribution to a history of Transylvanian-German language feeling. In: Archives of the Association for Transylvanian Cultural Studies. New series Vol. 45, H. 1/2, 1929, pp. 432-541.
  • Georg Daniel Teutsch :  Seivert, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 664 f.
  • Georg Daniel Teutsch: Speech at the opening of the 38th General Assembly of the Association for Transylvanian Cultural Studies. In: Archives of the Association for Transylvanian Cultural Studies. New series Vol. 20, H. 2/3, 1886, pp. 205–214, here pp. 208–211.
  • József Szinnyei: Czvittinger követői. In: Figyelő. Vol. 2, 1877, pp. 111–121 , (see also in: József Szinnyei: A magyar irodalomtörténet-irás ismertesése. 2., javitott és bővített kiadás. Eggenberger, Budapest 1878, pp. 14–15).
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Seivert, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 35–38 ( digitized version ).
  • Joseph Trausch : Writer's lexicon or biographical-literary thought sheets of the Transylvanian Germans. Volume 3. Gött & Sohn, Kronstadt 1871, pp. 286–294 .
  • Karl Gottlieb von Windisch: Contribution to the future biography of the amiable author of this news, from his friend KG v. Windisch. In: Johann Seivert: Messages from Transylvanian scholars and their writings. Weber and Korabinski, Preßburg 1785, pp. XV – XXII .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Published anonymously.
  2. ↑ a b Published under the pseudonym Johann Strevei.
  3. ↑ This assumption was expressed by the literary historian Stefan Sienerth. Whether or not Seivert actually hides behind the pseudonym "S ..." has not yet been clarified. (See: Stefan Sienerth: History of Transylvanian-German Literature in the Eighteenth Century. 1990, p. 109 f.).
  4. ↑ According to Lukas Joseph Marienburg , this geography of Transylvania is said to have been reproduced verbatim for the most part from Seivert's manuscript. (Cf. Constantin von Wurzbach : Seivert, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th Part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 35-38 ( digitized ).).
personal data
SURNAME Seivert, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seifert, Johann; Seiwert, Johann; Seivert, János (Hungarian); Trevies, Johann (pseudonym); Strevei Johann (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian scholar, lexicographer, historian and dialect researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1785
Place of death Hammersdorf