Karl Georg Jacob

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Karl Georg Jacob (born May 7, 1796 in Halle ; † July 3, 1849 there ; also Carl Georg Jacob ) was a German high school teacher and historian .

Life

The son of a doctor in Halle first attended grammar school in Halle, then from 1811 the monastery school in Roßleben . In 1815 he voluntarily took part in the campaign against Napoleon , before going to the University of Halle at the end of the year , where he studied philology and history . In 1819 he was with the dissertation Observationes in aliquot Xenophontis loca for doctor of philosophy doctorate and then in 1820 adjunct to the country Pforta .

In 1826 he followed a call to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Cologne , but in 1831 he returned to the Pforta state school as a professor . October 1, 1846, he appeared there due to health restrictions in the retired and went back to Halle. In Halle he suddenly died of a stroke .

Works (selection)

  • Walter Scott. A biographical and literary attempt , Cologne 1827.
  • Characteristics of Lucian's from Samosata , Hamburg 1831.
  • Quaestiones epicae seu symbolae ad grammaticam latinam poeticam , Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1839.
  • BG Niebuhr ’s letter to a young philologist. With a treatise on Niebuhr's philological effectiveness and some excursions edited by Dr. KGJ , Leipzig 1839.
  • De usu numeri pluralis apud poetas latinos , Naumburg 1841.
  • Contributions to French history , Leipzig 1846.

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