Johann Wilhelm Bartsch
Johann Wilhelm Bartsch (born February 23, 1750 in Leipzig , † October 16, 1828 in Gera ) was a German educator , polymath and landowner .
Life
Johann Wilhelm Bartsch was born as the son of Johann Thomas Bartsch (* unknown; † 1774), senior court actuary in Leipzig and his wife Johanna Rosina, a sister of the liege lord Johann Wilhelm Cramer. His father was a great-grandson of Dr. Christoph Limmer (1614–1685), High Princely Saxony-Weißenfels secret secretary and later Chamber Commerce Councilor.
In 1760 his mother stayed with him in Gera because of the Seven Years' War and placed him in the local grammar school " Rutheneum ", where he stayed until 1763, then they returned to Leipzig. Here he finished high school at the Thomas School . The principal of the school, Johann Friedrich Leissner († 1767), was a friend of his father's and aroused in him an inclination for mathematics.
He began studying law at the University of Leipzig , making use of the opportunities to study in the libraries of Professors Christian Garve and Christlieb Benedict Funk . He listened to the lectures of Carl Gottfried von Winckler and Christian Gottlieb Haubold in physics and philosophy, and those of Johann August Ernesti , Johann Gottlob Böhme and Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck in history. He finished the law course and passed the exam.
After his father died in 1774, Johann Wilhelm Bartsch devoted himself to mathematics and physics with great interest.
In 1778 he moved back to Gera with his mother, but she and his younger brother died there after a few weeks. Because he inherited his mother's possessions, he decided to stay in Gera. In October 1778 he was appointed mathematics teacher at the grammar school in Gera.
In the fire of Gera in 1780, the old town was completely destroyed (of 897 buildings, 785 were destroyed) and he lost his house, his books and his instruments.
In 1797, after the death of his uncle, the liege lord Johann Wilhelm Cramer, he inherited the Zeulsdorf estate near Gera, and thus became its last liege lord until 1815.
In 1798 he asked for his dismissal as a teacher at the grammar school and received the title of Chamber Commission Council.
In 1814 he sold the Zeulsdorf manor after he had continuously farmed there and acquired a house with a garden in Gera, which he had converted so that he could conduct astronomical and physical observations.
On his fiftieth anniversary of service as a country estate (in 1778 he had already become the owner of Hintersöllmnitz, which belonged to the Söllmnitz manor ; he sold it when he inherited the Zeulsdorf manor), the sovereign appointed him landscape director .
1798 married Johann Wilhelm Bartsch Sophie (* unknown; † November 23, 1827), a daughter of the Gera merchant Justus Amadeus Ebeling; the marriage remained childless. At the time of his death he was Erb -, Lehn - u. Lord of the court in Oberröppisch and already had several foundations , the high school in Gera also received a significant amount as a universal heir, with the condition that a teacher of mathematics and physics should be paid from the interest. The school for the poor also received greater financial support.
Individual evidence
- ^ New necrology of the Germans. Seventh year, 1829 . First part. Bernh. Ms. Voigt, Ilmenau 1831, p. 36–37 ( google.de [accessed on February 16, 2018]).
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia: Aachen - Braniss . Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-094657-2 , p. 388 ( google.de [accessed on February 16, 2018]).
- ↑ Team Gera Chronicle: Gera Chronicle - Chronicle "Query Bartsch". Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Leipziger Zeitung . 1828, p. 2656 ( google.de [accessed on February 16, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bartsch, Johann Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator, polymath and landowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1828 |
| Place of death | Gera |