Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Mellmann
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Mellmann (born January 1764 in Klütz ; † April 12, 1795 in Georgenburg ) was a German classical philologist and pedagogue .
Life
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Mellmann is the son of the pastor of the Marienkirche (Klütz) , Ludwig Erich Mellmann (baptized August 13, 1717 in Wismar, † March 8, 1790 in Klütz). The lawyer Johann Dietrich Mellmann (1746–1801) is his older brother.
After first lessons at home, he attended the Katharineum in Lübeck from 1779 , where Johann Daniel Overbeck and Ludwig Suhl were his teachers. From 1782 he studied philology at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen .
On a recommendation from Christian Gottlob Heyne in 1786 he was appointed to succeed Christian Friedrich von Matthäi as rector of the Greek and Latin classes of the high school in Moscow connected to the Moscow University . In 1792 he also became professor at the University of Latin and Greek.
In 1795 there was a conflict over the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, which he represented in class and in a university speech of 1790 . The Moscow Metropolitan Plato (Peter Lewschin, 1737-1812) invited him to a conversation that led to Mellmann's release and expulsion from the Russian Empire. He was brought across the border by the military. When he arrived in East Prussia , he refused any food and died of his own will in Georgenburg.
Fonts
- Commentatio de causis et auctoribus narrationum de mutatis formis ad illustrandum maxime et diiudicandum opus Metamorphosium Ovidianum. Leipzig 1786 ( digitized version )
- Oratio de communi omnis educationis et institutionis consilio in solennibus anniversariis imperii ab augustissima et potentissima totius Rossiae autocratore Catharina II, optima patriae matre ante annum XXVIII suscepti ab universitate Mosquensi rite ac pie celebrandis AD XXVIII. Junii anni MDCLXXXX. Habita a Ioanne Guilelmo Ludovico Mellmann, Phil. D. et LL. AA. M. Litterarum humaniorum linguarumque Graecae et Latinae Professore PE Classium Graecarum et Latinarum in Gymnasio Universitatis Rectore. Moscow 1790
- Two Latin grammars for the lowest grades of the Moscow high school.
literature
- Friedrich von Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog on the year 1795. 2. Volume. Perthes, Gotha 1798, pp. 59–110 ( digitized version )
- Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume 9, Leipzig 1809, p. 67 ( digitized version )
- Steffen Dietzsch, Lorenz Grimoni (ed.): Kant the Europeans: Europeans on Kant , pp. 217–224. Husum: Husum 2010, ISBN 978-3-89876-504-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mellmann, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and pedagogue |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klütz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1795 |
| Place of death | Georgenburg |