Karl Gotthold Lenz

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Karl Gotthold Lenz (born July 6, 1763 in Gera ; died March 27, 1809 in Gotha ) was a German classical philologist , publicist and teacher.

Life

Karl Gotthold Lenz already showed a talent for ancient languages ​​as a pupil at the grammar school in Gera and then studied theology and classical philology in Jena , where he also taught the children of Christian Gottfried Schütz and worked on the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, which he co-founded . Then Lenz went to Göttingen for a year , where he heard Christian Gottlob Heyne and received his doctorate in 1789 with a thesis on orphic astronomical fragments.

After Lenz had worked for several years as a teacher at the Wichmann educational institute in Celle , he was invited by Rudolph Zacharias Becker from 1797 to 1800 as editor of the National-Zeitung der Deutschen in Gotha. In 1799 he became illustrious professor of ancient languages ​​at the local grammar school . From 1806 Lenz also headed the ducal coin cabinet. In 1807, the 19-year-old high school student Arthur Schopenhauer lived with him as a pension for a few months.

His brother Christian Ludwig Lenz (1760–1830) was a philologist and became director of the grammar schools in Nordhausen and Weimar.

Journalistic activity

Karl Gotthold Lenz developed a lively journalistic activity among others in the Nekrolog published by Schlichtegroll , the New Library of Fine Sciences and Freyen Künste , Wieland's Teutschem Merkur and with reviews in the Gothaischen learned newspapers , the General German Library and the Heidelberg Yearbooks of Literature .

The subjects of his numerous essays and books are classical philology and ancient cultural history as well as objects of current intellectual life, including the necrology on Karl Friedrich Bahrdt and the very distant necrology on Karl Philipp Moritz , who was attacked by Goethe in a Xenion :

Poor Moritz! How much have you not suffered in life.
Aeacus be fair to you; It was not simply angry with you.

Publications (selection)

  • On the use of flowers and wreaths of flowers near the graves. Goettingen 1787.
  • De Fragmentis Orphicis ad astronomiam et agri culturam spectantibus. Dissertation, Göttingen 1789 ( digitized version ).
  • History of women in the heroic age. Hanover 1790.
  • Experiment on the ancient mysteries of Sainte-Croix. From the French with annotations. Gotha 1790.
  • Explanatory Notes on Ovid's Metamorphoses for use in schools. Brunswick 1792.
  • About Rousseau's connection with women. 2 parts in 1 volume, hall 1792.
  • The plain of Troy, after Count Choiseul Gouffier and other travelers. Neustrelitz 1798 ( digitized version ).
  • Jean-Baptiste Le Chevalier : Journey to Troas or Painting of the Plain of Troy in its Present State. After d. Franz. D. 2nd edition. Altenburg / Erfurt 1800 ( digitized ).
  • The goddess of Paphos on ancient sculptures and Baphomet. Gotha 1808 ( digitized version ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Krischke: Schopenhauer in Gotha. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2013. Excerpt
  2. In: Friedrich Schlichtegroll (Ed.): Nekrolog on the year 1792. Third year. First volume. Pp. 119–225 ( digitized version in Google book search).
  3. In: Friedrich Schlichtegroll (Ed.): Nekrolog on the year 1793. Fourth year. Second volume. Pp. 169–276 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
  4. In: Friedrich Schiller: Complete Works, edited on the basis of the original prints by Gerhard Fricke and Herbert G. Göpfert in conjunction with Herbert Stubenrauch. Vol. 1st 3rd edition, Hanser, Munich 1962, p. 499.