Johann Zacharias Gleichmann

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Johann Zacharias Gleichmann (born before 1700 ; died 1758 ) was a German writer, lawyer and administrative officer.

Life

Little is known about Gleichmann's living conditions. He was a ducal secretary of Saxony-Weißenfels , a ducal Gotha court advocate and tax collector at Ohrdruf in Thuringia. The Jöchersche Schehrten -Lexicon suspects (decidedly unfriendly) that Gleichmann would have been “ appalled by his service as a tax collector; at least he whimpers several times in his writings about the Duke's disfavour and his poor circumstances ”. Similarly in Christoph Weidlich's Lexicon of Legal Scholars in Germany : “In almost all his writings he pimpsed that his head was still lying in the dust of misery, his circumstances would be very dangerous in certain matters, he would not be fully assured of the mercy of his most dear Duke , and the like. ”Weidlich also takes from the writings that Gleichmann was suspended from his tax collector's position:“ He gives the cause that he got into a bad state due to many Hauß-Creutz and other accidents, and an unfortunate man been. But it also seems as if his calculations were not the most correct ”. In fact, Gleichmann was hit by a family tragedy in 1731 when three members of his family were carried away by the red dysentery within a few days . His nine-year-old son Johann Justinian died on August 1st and his three-year-old daughter Juliana Catharina Elisabeth died on August 12th, and his wife Martha Christina died a few hours later.

Gleichmann is the author of numerous writings, published under just as numerous pseudonyms, which deal with questions of princely law, the German coinage and with a preference for critical and polemical treatment of sensational questions, for example the question of the truth of history is discussed in several of the Popess' writings Johanna treated. Some of these fonts are examples of neighbourhood's colored writing , i.e. collections of curiosities, oddities and anecdotes. The pseudonyms he uses are Claramandus, Clarus Michael Hellmond, Fridamandus, Johannes Curiosophilus, Johannes Sperante, Justamandus, Lunamandus, Miramandus, Puramandus, Sinceramandus, Variamandus, Veramandus and Waldorff , often with variants ( e.g. Fridemandus instead of Fridamandus ). Weidlich suspects that Gleichmann is not the actual name, but that Clarus Michael Hel (l) moon would be the correct name, which is obviously not the case. A noteworthy part of his work also includes replies, polemics and settlements with actual and supposed opponents, some of which were published under a pseudonym different from the author of the attacked script, probably with the intention of feigning the patronage of (impartial) third parties. Finally, Gleichmann's writings also include treatises written in Latin as well as some translations from French.

In the foreword to Die engeländische Banise (1754), a novel that follows Ziegler's Asiatic Banise , the otherwise unknown author Christian Ernst Fidelinus writes about Ziegler's Banise that it “contains so many clever and political rules and state maxims that I myself do not be ashamed to confess that I am in those An. In 1726, six hundred political rules and state maxims were issued, most of which I took from this incomparable banise. The mentioned work Six Hundred Exquisite Christian Political Rules was published in 1726 under the name Johanes Sperante, one of the pseudonyms used by Gleichmann, which is why Florian Gelzer suspects that Christian Ernst Fidelius is another pseudonym of Gleichmann. In addition, in the foreword of the 1754 novel Admirable Events Des European Herculiskus , which Patrick Bridgwater classifies as a forerunner of the gothic novel , Gleichmann expresses himself in a very similar way, naming the same models.

In addition to his writings, there are correspondences from Gleichmann, for example with the Frankfurt writer Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach , a letter to Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel and letters from Gleichmann to Johann Heinrich Callenberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Weidlich: History of the now-living legal scholars in Germany. Vol. 1. Merseburg 1748, p. 283 f. http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Freader.digitale-sammlungen.de%2Fde%2Ffs1%2Fobject%2Fdisplay%2Fbsb10740966_00298.html~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3DS.% 20283% 26% 23x202f% 3Bf. ~ PUR% 3D.
  2. Gleichmann: The good kind of a pious child. Jena 1731, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Farchive.thulb.uni-jena.de%2Fufb%2Freceive%2Fufb_cbu_00007091~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D .
  3. Gleichmann: Just tears. o. O. 1731, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Farchive.thulb.uni-jena.de%2Fufb%2Freceive%2Fufb_cbu_00007094~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D . Gleichmann had married Martha Christina Thil (born 1699 in Schmalkalden ), daughter of Johann Valentin Thil, mayor of Ohrdruf, in 1718. Two other children, Christian David and Friderica Sophia Dorothea, were alive in 1731.
  4. Weidlich gives 58 scripts, in the ADB the number of scripts is 61.
  5. Christian Ernst Fidelius: Die Engeländische Banise: Or incidents of the Princess of Sussex, communicated in a love and hero story of the curious world. Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig 1754, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fdigitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de%2Fvd18%2Fcontent%2Ftitleinfo%2F5218495~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D .
  6. Florian Gelzer: Conversation, gallantry and adventure: Romanesque narration between Thomasius and Wieland. De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3110937409 , p. 230, fn. 108.
  7. Patrick Bridgwater: The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective. International research on general and comparative literature, vol. 165. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2013, ISBN 9401209928 , p. 33http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DbmYgAgAAQBAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA33~ double-sided%3D~LT%3DS.%2033~PUR%3D
  8. Kalliope search on Gleichmann with sources in the holdings of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library and the Kassel University Library .
  9. Query on Gleichmann in the database on the individual manuscripts in the historical archive departments of the Francke Foundations (see [1] ).
  10. No. 9 in Weidlich's listing. Mentioned by Gleichmann in: On the benefit of coin science. In: Samuel Wilhelm Ötter: Doubled sample of a new newspaper. P. 155http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3Dym5eAAAAcAA~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA155~ double-sided%3D~LT%3DS.%20155~PUR%3D .