Johannes Georgi (pedagogue)

Johann (es) Georgi (born April 10, 1632 in Platten ; † September 22, 1707 in Johanngeorgenstadt ) was a German teacher and rector . It is his merit that in his more than 52-year tenure as rector he completely rebuilt and fundamentally expanded the school system in Johanngeorgenstadt.

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Life

He was the son of Andreas Georgi, tailor and quarter master in Platten and his wife Susanna geb. Pollmer. Because of the Counter-Reformation , the Protestant church was not accessible, so he was baptized at home with Johann Jahn, the last Protestant pastor of Platen, and privately tutored by the schoolmaster Johann Richter. After he had attended Holy Communion in the rectory for the first time, his brother Zacharias, then cantor of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb , took him . , due to the increasing Counter-Reformation to himself and taught him a. a. in Latin. Then he went to school in Zwickau .

Because he could not stay there for more than a year and a half because of poverty, he went to school in Schneeberg , where he stayed for a year. He traveled from Schneeberg to Braunschweig , but was unable to attend school there for financial reasons. He was forced to go to other schools, especially in Halberstadt , Magdeburg , Lüneburg , Lübeck and the like. a. looking around to continue his studies. But because the flood of water at that time had washed away entire villages and caused the country to become very expensive, he went to the high school in Cölln on the Spree . After a few years he returned home and shortly afterwards he went to school in Annaberg , where he stayed for a while until he fell ill and was brought home because of it.

After his recovery he went to school in Schneeberg for the second time. From there he went to the university in Jena , where he fell ill again soon afterwards. But D. Dr. Chemnitius, professor and superintendent, because of his good behavior and singing into the choir there after his recovery, so that he could spend a year next to his clinical training, until finally a noble gentleman not far from Jena asked him to be an informer for his children.

But after he was about to have his books moved there and take up the position, his father brought him a letter from Gregor Röber, first city judge in Johanngeorgenstadt , who, along with other councilors, advised him, if he wanted, God and that To serve the next in school, he should go back to the Ore Mountains without delay , so that he might be preferred to a stranger in the city ​​of exiles there . He accepted this offer.

But because his employment was delayed, he was now teaching Christian Lehmanns , Pastor zu Scheibenberg , both youngest sons as D. Dr. Lehmann, who later became superintendent of Freiberg , and Magister Immanuel Lehmann, first rector of Annaberg and later of deacon of Görlitz , as he was brought there by Scheibenberg, for example when there were some official duties at weddings and funerals at Johanngeorgenstadt, and the same for the three years had to do.

Finally, after Johanngeorgenstadt had gradually expanded, JR Person, who was then electoral officials at Schwarzenberg, sent him the appointment for school service on July 13, 1655, which he also accepted and did all by himself until 1688. Twelve years before his end he was always ill and had a defeat almost every year, with tears in all his limbs. In particular, six years before his death he was very ill with a golden vein , which weakened his memory. He died at the age of 75. Georgistrasse was named after one of his descendants in his hometown.

family

Johannes Georgi became engaged to Maria Löbel, Georg Abraham Löbels , at that time a member of the council of Platten, afterwards Bergmeister zu Frühbuß , as well as the councilor and judge assessor's daughter, on September 29, 1659, and had the pastor in the church in Johanngeorgenstadt on October 23 Polykarp Weber, with whom he was married for 26 years and with her fathered 16 children, as eight sons and eight daughters. After three and a half years of widowhood, he married Anna Elisabeth Kießling, Johann Kießling, famous oculist and doctor's daughter von Grünhain , for the second time in 1688 , and fathered four children with her.

literature

• Funeral sermon to Johannes Georgi , Zwickau 1707

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the Exulanten- and Bergstadt Johann Georgen Stadt: In four parts introducing, I. The Exulanten condition and where it turns. II. The city's cultivation, growth and events that have occurred in it. III. The local mining industry, its origins, finding metals and all the mines. IV. The parish Hammerwerck Wittichsthal, as well as the Obere- and Untere-Jugel . Lanckisch and Kircheisen, 1723 ( google.de [accessed December 27, 2017]).
2. ↑ George Körner: Brief outline of some geographical-historical news from the mountain spot Bockau near Schneeberg in the Meissnian Ober-Erz Mountains: along with a number of neighboring places, mountains, rivers, etc. In which the life descriptions of all pastors of Aue, Bockau and Lauer from the time Reformation . Fulden, 1755 ( google.de [accessed December 27, 2017]).
3. ↑ Frdr Francke: Establishing story of Johanngeorgenstadt: communications from archive delete sources . Schumann, 1854 ( google.de [accessed December 27, 2017]).