Johannes Aloysius Martyni-Laguna

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Johannes Aloysius Martyni-Laguna ; Baptismal name: Carl Friedrich Martini (born January 20, 1755 in Zwickau , † April 19, 1824 there ) was a German private scholar .

Life

Johannes Aloysius Martyni-Laguna was the son of the businessman Carl Gottlob Martini and his wife Christiane Rosine Wüst.

He attended the Zwickau grammar school, the forerunner of today's West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau , in order to be trained as a pharmacist at his father's request . His teachers there were Christian Clodius (1694–1778), father of the philosopher and poet Christian August Clodius and Christian Daniel Longolius (1722–1795). The not insignificant fortune of his father enabled him to set up a larger library .

In 1772 he began studying theology and philology at the University of Leipzig , although he made philology his main subject. He heard lectures from Johann August Ernesti , Samuel Friedrich Nathanael Morus , Johann Friedrich Fischer , Christian August Crusius and Johann August Wolf (1750–1809). After completing his studies, he returned to his parents' house in 1779 and continued his education there as a theology candidate with the help of the Zwickau council library. After his only sermon in Zwickau, he was offered the vacant post of country preacher by the mayor, which he did not accept.

He initially lived in Dresden as Hofmeister to Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg , son of the Catholic Count of Johann Albericius von Hoffmannsegg (1718–1780), and in 1780 went to Warsaw as Hofmeister to the Count von Unruh . In his position in Dresden he became acquainted with the pupil's guardian, later Conference Minister Peter Carl Wilhelm von Hohenthal , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In Warsaw, he turned down Prince Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg's offer to go to Vienna as court master .

After he returned to his place of birth, he received several offers for various offices, including from the British Museum in London or as rector at the Pforta State School , at the Cathedral Gymnasium Magdeburg , as a professor of history in Dorpat or at the Princely School in Grimma . However, because he wanted to remain independent and devote himself to science and could also afford this financially, he turned down all offers.

He lived alternately in Dresden, where he had also built a large library in the course of time, and in Zwickau. In 1807 a fire broke out on his estate in Pöhlau near Zwickau, so that his library burned completely. He was particularly hard hit by the loss of the Miscellanea ecclesiastica and a manuscript on Lucan by Gottlieb Corte (1698–1731), which he wanted to complete.

He published in the Halleschen Allgemeine Zeitung , in the Jenaer Literaturzeitung , in the Morgenblatt for educated readers , in Thusnelda by Friedrich Raßmann and in memorabilia for the study and administration of the preacher by Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner .

He was friends with, among others, Christian Gottlob Heyne , Friedrich August Wolf , Johann Jakob Griesbach , Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More, Franz Volkmar Reinhard , Christoph Ammon , Johann Gottfried Gurlitt , Ludwig Wachler , Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus and Gottfried Seebode and stood with them on a permanent basis Correspondence.

Johannes Aloysius Martyni-Laguna got married in Warsaw and changed his name to Johannes Aloysius Martyni-Laguna by adding his wife's maiden name. He had two daughters, one of whom died in 1817; because of the death of his daughter, he wrote and published the dramatic poem Malaria or the hand from the cloud .

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SURNAME Martyni-Laguna, Johannes Aloysius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martyni-Laguna, Johannes Aloysius Karl Friedrich; Martyni-Laguna, Johannes Aloys; Martyni-Łaguna, John Aloys; Martyni-Łaguna, Ioannes Aloysius; Martyni-Laguna, Johann Aloisius; Martyni-Laguna, Joannes Aloysius; Martini, Karl Friedrich; Martini, Carl Friedrich; Laguna, Johannes Aloysius Martyni-; Laguna, Johannes Aloys Martini; Łaguna, John Aloys Martyni-; Laguna, Johann Aloisius Martyni-; JAML
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1824
Place of death Zwickau