Lorenz Adam Bartenstein

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Lorenz Adam Bartenstein (born August 28, 1711 in Heldburg , † February 25, 1796 in Coburg ) was a German Protestant clergyman, educator and headmaster.

Life

Lorenz Adam Bartenstein was the son of the rector and later deacon of Heldburg, Adam Bartenstein (born October 5, 1675 in Westhausen; † July 18, 1726 in Heldburg) and his wife Kunigunde († 1780), the youngest daughter of the deacon Schumann. He also had a sister and six brothers.

He received his first lessons from his father in Latin and Greek ; when his father was appointed deacon in 1723, Hebrew lessons were added. In the year his father died, he went to the Coburg high school Casimirianum , to the then rector Albrecht Meno Verpoorten and the teachers Johann Konrad Schwarz , Bonifacius Heinrich Ehrenberger (1681-1759), Johann Gerhard Meuschen and Johann Daniel Gihnlein ; He received Hebrew lessons from the then court medicus Ernst Friedrich Justin Heimrich.

He studied theology , mathematics , logic , physics and natural law at the University of Jena and attended theological lectures with Johann Reinhard Rus , Johann Gottfried Tympe , Hoffmann, Johann Georg Walch , with Georg Erhard Hamberger and Johann Bernhard Wiedeburg, physics and mathematics, and with Heinrich Köhler, logic and natural law. To prepare for a teaching position, he also learned French and Italian .

After he had finished his studies, he became court master of the two Counts of Auersperg and some Countesses of Windisch Graetz , including Constantia von Windisch Graetz (1721–1763), who later married Friedmann Graf von Werthern , in Burgstall in Styria . After the outbreak of war during the War of the Austrian Succession in 1741, he went to Coburg with the now adult sons of Count Auersperg in 1742 in order to train them there, with the support of Johann Ulrich Tresenreuter .

In 1743 he was offered the post of city school rector in Coburg and took up the post on October 9, 1743. During this time he also gave sermons and was inclined to accept a preaching position outside of Coburg, although Duke Franz Josias asked him to stay and in 1748 commissioned him to teach Prince Christian Franz in mathematics; Due to the good teaching he was from 1751 to 1755 mathematics teacher of his brother Friedrich Josias .

In 1756 he was commissioned to teach geometry to the students of the pedagogy , and shortly afterwards he was appointed professor of mathematics, astrology , religion and poetry and now taught at the grammar school; 1764 still came rhetoric lessons to after the previous teacher Johann Friedrich Gruner after Hall had been called. In 1774, the philosophy faculty of the University of Erlangen appointed him a master's degree .

After the death of the previous rector Johann Casimir Happach (1726–1783), he was promoted to director of the Casimirianum grammar school in 1783 and appointed to the consistorial council .

Lorenz Adam Bartenstein had been with Johanne Euphrosyne, born on July 16, 1744. Böttner married. The names of his eight sons and six daughters are known:

  • Josephe Christian Sabine, married to Johann Christian Briegleb (1741–1805), professor at the Casimirianum high school and its later rector.

Writing

In addition to newspaper articles on mathematical problems in the Coburg Intelligence Journal , he published educational writings and numerous programs for teaching mathematics, religion, Latin and a simplified instruction on the Greek language . From 1743 to 1751 he published 180 occasional poems on both happy and sad occasions.

Fonts (selection)

  • Johann Ernst Zang; Lorenz Schumann; Johann Werner Krauss; Lorenz Adam Bartenstein; Lukas Schumann; Johann Martin Brehm: The credible sensation of Jesus the beginner and finisher of the faith, which should be presented in a Christian corpse sermon held here at the mass-rich corpse-funeral of Mr. Laurentii Schumann, and should be prepared for printing . Hildburghausen: Pentzolt, 1721.
  • Albrecht Meno Verpoorten; Lorenz Adam Bartenstein; Johannes Gottlieb Eyring: De Vero Fidei Et Confessionis, Ipsivsqve Ecclesiae Christianae Fvndamento: ad Matth. XVI, 17, 18; Disputatio Ivbilaea, Avgvstae Confessionis Avgvstanae Anno Saecvlari Altero . Cobvrgi: Hagen, 1730.
  • Religionis Christianae Excellentiam Ex Insigniter Commendato Amoris Studio Asserendam, Atque Demandati Sibi Profess. Extraord. Ill. High school. Casim. Munus Auspicandum Duxit Laurent . Coburgi: Otto, 1757.
  • Easier instruction on the Greek language . 1758.
  • Latinae linguae commendatio ex ipsa eam discendi difficultate et molestia repetia . Coburgi Findeisen 1765.
  • Thoughts On the moderation of the strict mathematical teaching in the lecture of the beginnings: Wormit announces the mathematical lectures to be held / Lorenz Adam Bartenstein, public teacher of math and poetry and pedagogy of the Gymnasii Academici in Coburg . Findeisen University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt 1766.
  • Praemissa lunulae Hippocratis Chii descriptione solennem inaugurationem Ioannis Friderici Facii professoris ordinarii Graecae linguae in illustri Gymnasio Casimiriano . Coburgi: Formis Ahlianus, 1784.

Literature (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbooks of the ducal Saxon residence city of Coburg: The older and oldest history of the city and the country of Coburg. S. 190. Ahl, 1853 ( google.de [accessed June 8, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Bartenstein, Lorenz Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartenstein, Laurentius Adamus; Bartensteinius, Laurentius Adamus; Bartenstein, Laurents Adam; Bartenstein, Laurenz Adam; Bartenstein, LA; Bartenstein, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, educator and school principal
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Heldburg
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1796
Place of death Coburg