Martin Friedrich Pitiscus

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Martin Friedrich Pitiscus (born September 25, 1722 in Hamburg ; † November 12, 1794 ibid) was a German orientalist and librarian .

Life

Pitiscus was the son of a Hamburg wine merchant, but he spent most of his youth with a relative, the cathedral preacher Claassen in Schleswig . In 1740 he returned to Hamburg, where he studied at the Academic Gymnasium , after which he attended from 1745 the University of Jena to theology to study. When he returned to Hamburg he became a candidate for the Ministry of Spirituality, that is, a candidate for a pastor's position. In 1756 he became a catechist at the “work and poor house”.

In 1768 he was appointed professor for oriental languages ​​at the Academic Gymnasium as the successor to Hermann Samuel Reimarus . At the same time he was promoted to second librarian in the city library, today the State and University Library of Hamburg , and in 1784 to the first librarian. Pitiscus cataloged together with the second librarian Paul Dietrich Giseke (1741–1796) the book inventory in the real catalog. When this work was completed in 1788, Pitiscus estimated the proportion he had worked on at 60,000 volumes. He then worked on the library's manuscript holdings until his death. This catalog, updated, is still in use today.

In 1762 Pitiscus wrote the text for Georg Philipp Telemann's Passion Music The Story of the Reconciliation of Sinful Man through the Blood of Jesus Christ .

Works

  • Attempt from the religion of the ancestors of the human race. Piscator, Hamburg 1768
  • On the Canon of the Old Testament Books. Herold, Hamburg 1776
  • To assess the fragments published by Hofrath Leßing by an unnamed person from Tuldung der Deisten. Harmsen, Hamburg 1779
  • Handwritten complete directory of the manuscripts of the Hamburg City Library. Hamburg 1794

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petersen City Library , p. 152f.
  2. ↑ Package: text booklet, epilogue

literature

  • Christian Petersen: History of the Hamburg City Library , Hamburg 1828.
  • Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers , Volume 6, Hamburg 1873, No. 3013, Martin Friedrich Pitiscus.
  • Johannes Pausch: Text booklet on G. Ph. Telemann The story of the reconciliation of sinful people through the blood of Jesus Christ ... (concert program) Hamburg 1994.

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personal data
SURNAME Pitiscus, Martin Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1794
Place of death Hamburg