Karl Heinrich Seibt

Karl Heinrich Seibt

Karl Heinrich Ritter von Seibt (born March 21, 1735 in Mariental (Upper Lusatia) , † April 2, 1806 in Prague ) was a German educator and Catholic theologian in Bohemia.

Life

Seibt was the son of a monastery secretary and later cathedral clerk in Bautzen. He received his first training in the Marienthal monastery and continued his training from 1745 to 1750 with the Piarists in Kosmanos, Bohemia. He completed philosophical and aesthetic studies from 1751 at the University of Prague and 1756 at the University of Leipzig , where he was influenced by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and Johann Christoph Gottsched . The Seven Years' War at that time prompted him to return to Prague, where he gave free lectures at the Wendish seminary .

In 1763 Maria Theresa appointed him as the first extraordinary professor of fine sciences and ethics in Prague as part of her educational reform of the Enlightenment . After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1775, he became director of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and director of the three Prague grammar schools. In 1784 he became rector of the Alma Mater and in 1785 rose to full professor of theology and philosophy. In 1794 he was knighted for his services to education and was dean of the philosophical faculty in the same year . After retiring in 1801, he died in his last place of work.

Grimm counts Seibt to the most important and influential thinkers in the Habsburg monarchy in the age of the enlightened absolutism . For the first time he did not teach in Latin, but in German, and stimulated the scientific and cultural scene in Prague. His contemporary Franz Martin Pelzel wrote : "Hardly a few years passed before the excellent writings of the beautiful German spirits were in everyone's hands". He exerted a strong influence on the next generation of scientists in Bohemia, including, for example, Josef Dobrovský .

Works

• On the influence of the beautiful sciences on the development of the understanding; a speech. Prague 1764
• Funeral speech, consecrated to the most blissful arrival of Franz I, Roman Emperor. Vienna 1765
• Of the use of morality in eloquence. Prague 1767
• Writing to the unknown translator of the Treatises of Virtues and Rewards. Prague 1769
• The difference between the delicate in the court and curial style. Prague 1769
• Academic preparatory exercises from his lectures on German writing. Prague 1769
• Academic speeches and papers. Prague 1771
• Academic preparatory exercises from the lectures he gave on German writing. Prague 1771
• Talk of the influence of education on the happiness of the state. Prague 1771
• Of the aids to a good German writing style, a speech picks up some relevant elaborations. Prague 1773
• On the advantages of a sensitive heart, a speech. Prague 1773
• Gabrieli Montalte, a tragedy in an act. Dresden 1776 ( digitized version )
• Catholic teaching and prayer book. Prague 1779, Bamberg 1780, Salzburg 1780, Salzburg 1783, Munich 1816 ( digitized version )
• New Catholic text and prayer book. 2nd rightful, thoroughly improved and much increased edition. Prague and Dresden 1783, 3rd edition Salzburg 1784, Prague 1788 (1787), Salzburg 1790, Prague 1816, Augsburg 1818
• Academic flower picking. Prague 1784 ( digitized version )
• Text and prayer book for Catholic youth. Bamberg and Würzburg, 1792, ( digitized version ); 1839, Augsburg, 1839, 4th edition, ( digitized ); Augsburg, 1846, 5th edition, ( digitized version );
• Theory of wisdom, dealt with practically in academic lectures. Prague 1799 2nd vol., 2nd edition Prague 1815 2nd vol. ( Digitized vol. 2 ), 3rd edition Prague 1824 2 vol. ( Digitized vol. 1 )

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Mayer, Lemgo, 1789, 7th volume, p. 437, ( online ); 1803, Vol. 10, p. 659, ( online ); 1825, vol. 20, p. 413, ( online ).
• Memorial stone on Karl Heinrich von Seibt. In: CM Wieland: Der teutsche Merkur. Weimar, 1807, 1st volume, p. 175 ( online ).
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 171, ( online ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Seibt, Karl Heinrich Ritter von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 326–329 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Heinrich Reusch :  Seibt, Karl Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 613.
• Karl Wotke: Karl Heinrich Ritter von Seibt as director of the Bohemian high schools. Self-published, Vienna, 1905.
• Karl Wotke: Karl Heinrich Seibt - the first university professor of the German language in Prague a pupil of Gellert and Gottscheds. Self-published, Vienna, 1907.
• Ferdinand Seibt : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich, 2003, ISBN 978-3-486-56248-4 , Vol. IV, p. 25.

Web links

• On the Influence of Education on the Happiness of the State, 1771 (PDF; 143 kB).
• The daily sacrifice of a true Christian, or exquisite prayers composed for church use. Augsburg 1842 (16th edition)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Schlesinger : History of Bohemia. 1889. p. 617