Johann Theodor Jablonski

Johann Theodor Jablonski (born December 15, 1654, probably in Danzig ; † April 28, 1731 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant pedagogue and lexicographer and councilor . In 1721 he published the General Lexicon of the Arts and Sciences, Germany's first universal alphabetical reference work.

Life

His father was the preacher Figulus, who was born in Jablůnka in Moravian Wallachia and had changed his name to his place of birth because he had been persecuted several times as Bishop of the Bohemian Brethren . He had found asylum in Danzig.

Johann Theodor Jablonski came to Amsterdam early on and was raised there by his grandfather, the great pedagogue Johann Amos Comenius until 1669. After his death he returned to Germany in 1670 and was a student at the Joachimsthal School in Berlin. In 1672 he studied at the Albertina in Königsberg and then went to the Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder , where he continued his studies until 1674. Together with his brother Daniel Ernst Jablonski he made a trip to the Netherlands and England in 1680 .

In 1687 he became secretary of Princess Marie Eleonore von Anhalt-Dessau, who was married to Prince Radziwill , daughter of Prince Johann Georg II , and followed her to Poland . Soon afterwards, probably after Prince Radziwill's death in 1689, he accepted the same position with Duke Heinrich von Sachsen-Weißenfels-Barby . Finally he went back to Berlin in 1700, where he was on the one hand tutor to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia and on the other hand secretary at the Electoral Prussian Society of Sciences (later "royal"), which his brother founded together with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the same year would have. Jablonski was most recently royal Prussian court advisor in Berlin.

General Lexicon of the Arts and Sciences , title page and title page of the first edition, Leipzig 1721

Works

Jablonski's works sprang from his main educational activity. His main work is the Allgemeine Lexikon der Künste und Wissenschaften , a real dictionary that appeared in 1721.

In the years 1711–1712 he published a French-German and German-French dictionary and a grammar of the French language under the pseudonym Pierre Rondeau . He also translated the text De moribus Germanorum (the "Germania") by Tacitus by 1724 and wrote an ethics for the Prussian prince (a Christian doctrine of virtues published in 1715 for private use).

literature

• Literature by and about Johann Theodor Jablonski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Döring : Jablonksi. In: JS Versch , JG Gruber (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste . Sect. 2, Th. 13 (supplements), Leipzig 1836, p. 21.
• Bernhard Kossmann: German universal lexica of the 18th century. Their nature and their informational value, illustrated using the example of Jablonski and Zedler. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade, Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968, pp. 2947-2968, especially pp. 2950-2952.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Theodor Jablonski  - Sources and full texts