Jonathan August Weichert

Jonathan August Weichert (born January 18, 1788 in Ziegra ; † July 23, 1844 in Grimma ) was a German classical philologist and educator. Weichert was officially rector of the Princely School Grimma for 30 years (de facto 35 years).

Life

Jonathan August was the son of pastor Johann Gottlob Weichert (* 1750 in Dittersbach near Frankenberg; † 1818 in Burkersdorf ). Weichert was initially trained by his father and attended the Saxon State School St. Afra in Meissen from September 14, 1801 to September 6, 1806 . On December 5, 1806 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , where he began to study theological sciences at the request of his father. To this end, he attended the theological lectures of Michael Weber , Karl Ludwig Nitzsch , Johann Friedrich Schleusner , whose family he was later, Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner and Heinrich Leonhard Heubner . To study the theological sciences at that time, a basic philosophical framework was necessary. These included the lectures on ethics, which Karl Ferdinand Schmid taught at the time, the lectures on history, which Johann Matthias Schröck (1733-1808) passed on, the lectures on Greek language and literature, which were led by Abraham Gottlieb Raabe , lectures on logic, which Johann Christian August Grohmann led, and also lectures on rhetoric, which were given by Johann Christian Henrici .

He was particularly influenced by the then adjunct of the philosophical faculty Christian August Lobeck , who encouraged Weichert to study classical ancient authors and their literature. Led in this way, he acquired the academic degree of Magister (doctor) in philosophy on October 17, 1808 . Motivated by Lobeck, he applied for a vice-principal position at the Wittenberg grammar school, which he received on March 11, 1809 and in the same year, on March 14, completed his habilitation at the Wittenberg university as a master's degree. As a teaching master's degree, he had thus acquired the right to hold private lectures and, after Lobeck left, he became rector of the Wittenberg grammar school on December 29, 1810. Weichert had tried to raise the educational level of the institution. These efforts were prevented by the Wars of Liberation . Since Wittenberg, as a fortress town of Saxony at that time, was an alliance partner of Napoleon, the town was attacked by the Prussian allies. That is why Weichert had to leave Wittenberg in November 1813 to find a new home in Beucha for a short time . Dissatisfied with the situation in Wittenberg, he reapplied for a job at the Dresden consistory.

These efforts brought him the position of professor of theology at the St. Afra School in Meißen in April 1814 . In April 1818 Weichert took over the fourth professorship in Meißen and had found enough time and leisure for his literary work. This changed on November 30, 1818, when he was assigned as a substitute to the ailing and decrepit rector of the St. Augustin grammar school in Grimma, Friedrich Wilhelm Sturz . He took over this task on April 30, 1819 and in 1820 drafted an education plan that deviated from the old principle of formal education and switched to the new principle of old-class education in the mother tongue. This set the trend in the Saxon educational landscape. After a fall discharge, Weichert became the rector of the facility on October 1, 1823. During his tenure, the school in Grimma was rebuilt. As a strict instructor, he attached great importance to the history of Latin literature, promoted the teaching of the French language and enabled the institute's adjuncts to act as teachers of the same. As one of the first Saxon teachers, he became a knight of the Saxon civil service order in 1838 and he was a member of the Latin Society in Jena . Weichert was retired in 1843 and died a year later.

Weichert tradition maintenance in Grimma

In the auditorium of the St. Augustin high school in Grimma there is a historical oil painting showing Weichert.

Works (selection)

• De Nonno Panoplitano. Wittenberg 1810
• Epistola critica de C. Valerii Flacci Argonauticis. Leipzig 1812 ( online )
• Patri optimo ac dilectissimo, Johanni Gottlob Weichert, annum aetatis LX the 7th Sept. 1813 auspicanti congratulations. Wittenberg 1813
• Genethliacon Patri inscripsit. Wittenberg 1813
• Pomponii Malae de Situ Orbis Libri tres Commentario Car. Henr. Tzchuckii breviori in usum Scholar. Instruxit. Leipzig 1816 ( online )
• Val. Flacci Argonauticon lib. VIII. Notis crit. Et dissertat. De versibus aliquot P. Virg. Mar. Et Caj. Val. Flacci injurio suspectis adjecit. Meissen 1818
• Homeri Iliados Rhapsodia A sive Liber I. cum excerptis ex Eustathii commentariis et scholiis minoribus nec non victorianis Editio altera et auctior. Meissen 1818
• Commentatio I. De versu Poetarum Epicorum Hypermetro. (Memor. Annivers. - scholae regiae Grimm. Indicit.) Grimma 1819
• Rhapsodia I. sive Liber IX. 1821
• Rhapsodia Λ sive Liber XI. 1821
• Obitum Viri perill ac generos Lud. Honorary fr. De Rackel - Collegar. Et discipulor. Nomine luget. Grimma 1820
• About the life and poem of Apollonios of Rhodes. Meißen 1821 ( online )
• Commentatio de Forbita Timagensis aemulatore ad loc. Horat. I. epist. 19, 15 explic. Grimma 1821
• Illustriss. Ac generos. Viro Hans Aug. fear. De Globig. - Congratulations regia schola Grimmensis. Grimma 1821
• Commentatio de Q. Horatii Flacci Obtrectatoribus. Grimma 1821
• Commentario de turgido Alpino sive de M. Furio Bibaculo, poeta Cremonensi, ad locum Horatii I. Satyr. 10, 36 explicandum Commentatio. Grimma 1822
• Commentatio I. de C. Helvio Cinna Poeta. Grimma 1822
• Commentatio II. De C. Helvio Cinna Poeta. Grimma 1823 ( online )
• Anthologia Graeca sive Collectio Epigrammatum ex Authol. Size Palat. Meissen 1823
• Words of consecration. Spoken at the inauguration of the new dining room in the royal Saxon state school in Grimma on August 11, 1823. Grimma 1824
• Commentatio de Titio Septimio Poeta. Grimma 1824
• Epistola qvam viro praecellenti Doctissimo clarissimo M. Friderico Gvilelmo Stvrzio Illustris Moldani nuper Rectori et Professori primo Honorificentissimam muneris vacationem et otium et viro amplissimo Doctissimo clarissimo M. Iohulanni Ernesto Rvdolpho Kaevuleri Fausto sausage Professor from grat. Grimma 1824 ( online )
• Commentatio I. de Medea oestro percita ad illustrandam imaginem vasculi prope Cannas in Italia reperti. Grimma 1824 ( online )
• Commentatio de C. Licinio Calvo, Oratore et Poeta. Grimma 1825
• Prolusio prima de Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolis. Grimma 1826
• Commetatio I. de Laevio Poeta ejusque carminum reliquiis. Grimma 1826
• Commentatio II de Laevio Poeta ejusque carminum reliquiis. Grimma 1827
• Commentatio de C. Valgio Rufo Poeta. Grimma 1827
• Commentatio De Domitio Marso poeta. Grimma 1828 ( online )
• Encaenia illustris apud Grimam Moldani indicit. Grimma 1828
• De antique Scholarum Provincialium disciplina ejusque salubritate. Oratio in Encaeniis Moldani habita. Grimma 1828
• Commentatio De Hostio poeta, ejusque Carminum Reliquiis. Grimma 1829 ( online )
• Commentatio I. de L. Vario Poeta. Grimma 1829
• Commentatio II. De L. Vario Poeta. Grimma 1830
• Commentatio III. de L. Vario Poeta. Grimma 1830
• Poetarum latinorum Hostii, Laevii, C. Licinii Calvi, C. Helvii Cinnae, C. Valgii Rufi, Domitii Marsi aliorumque vitae et carminum reliquiae. Leipzig 1830 ( online )
• Confessionis Fidei Augustanae Memoriam saecularem indicit. Grimma 1830
• Lectionum Venusinarum Partic. I. Grimma 1832 ( online )
• Commentatio I de Cassio Parmensi Poeta. Grimma 1832, 1834
• Lectionum Venusinarum Partic. II. Grimma 1833
• Commentatio II de Cassio Parmensi Poeta. Grimma 1833, 1834 ( online )
• About the religious instruction at the Königl. State school in Grimma. Grimma 1834
• De Lucii Varii et Cassii Parmensis vita et carminibus. Grimma 1836 ( online )
• De imperatoris Caesaris Augusti scriptis reliquiis. Grimma 1836
• Lectionum Venusinarum libellus. Grimma 1843
• Imperatoris Caesaris Augusti scriptorum reliquiae. Grimma 1846 ( online )

literature

• Conversational lexicon of the latest time and literature. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1834, 4th vol. P. 901 ( online )
• Conversations Lexicon of the Present. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1841, vol. 4, 2nd section, p. 362 ( online )
• General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1848, vol. 15, p. 186 ( online )
• Otto Wigand: Wigand's conversation lexicon for all stands. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig, 1852, p. 108 ( online )
• Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the Past and Present, or Latest Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Textiles. Verlag HA Pierer, Altenburg, 1865, 4th edition, vol. 19, p. 18, ( online )
• Georg Müller:  Weichert, Jonathan August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 442 f.
• Jonathan Augustus Weichert: Commentatio I. de Imperatoris Caesaris Augusti scriptis eorumque Reliquiis. Reimer, Grimma, 1835, p. VI, ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel , Johann Wilhelm Sigismund Lindner: The learned Teutschland, or, Lexicon of the now living Teutschen writers. Verlag Meyerische Hof-Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1827, vol. 21, p. 404, ( online )
• New necrology of the Germans. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1846, 22nd year (1844), 1st part, p. 1017, ( online )
• From the letters of an old principal's school principal. In: Johannes Ilberg, Richard Richter: New year books for classical antiquity and for pedagogy. Verlag BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1900, 6th volume, pp. 59-64

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reinhold Grünberg: Saxon Pastor's Book. Verlag Ernst Mauckisch, Freiberg, 1940, Vol. 2, p. 997
2. ↑ August Hermann Kreyssig: Afraner album. List of all pupils at the royal state school in Meissen from 1543 to 1875, 8422 in number. CE Klinkicht & Sohn, Meissen, 1876, p. 399
3. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3; Halle (Saale), 1966, p. 495
4. ↑ Sarah Schrempel: The picture dispute between the high school St. Augustin and the district museum Grimma. Grimma 2013, p. 65 in: ( Online PDF )