Martin Span

Martin Span (born November 10, 1757 in Pfaffenhofen , † around 1840 in Vienna ) was an Austrian educator and author.

Life

Martin Span initially studied humanistics at the (monastery?) Elchingen and later philosophy and law at the universities of Dillingen , Vienna and Paris .

In 1783 he returned from France and settled in Vienna . In 1789 he was hired as a professor in St. Pölten and in 1791 he was transferred to Vienna as a professor of rhetoric and the Greek language at the St. Anna high school (from 1807: Schottengymnasium ). As a teacher of history, geography and statistics, he also taught the Austrian Crown Prince Ferdinand I. On August 21, 1800, Franz Grillparzer was examined at St. Anna-Gymnasium, the examination certificate received in the Grillparzer archive is signed by Professor Martin Span.

In 1809 he retired and received both a pension for his work as a professor and a further pension for his teaching work with the Crown Prince.

Martin Span married on August 27, 1789 in Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

Plaute; Martin Span: MA Plauti comoediae superstites viginti novissime recognitae, ac notis et indice verborum illustratae. Viennae, 1792.
Address to the Roman-German Emperor Joseph II. Vienna: M. Span, and in Commission of the Camesinaische Buchhandlung, 1807.
Martin Span; August von Kotzebue; Paul Gotthelf grief; Karl Friedrich Enoch Richter; FC W Vogel: Memorandum against the reprinting of books: the ambassadors gathered at the Vienna Congress. Vienna 1815.
JG Christ. Edlen von Kessler's Austrian Business Lexicon, or, collection of all types of written essays: which can be used in political, financial, commercial, mining, agricultural and domestic matters, for example. Vienna Mösle around 1816.
Novi versus memoriales de nominum generibus, item de praeteritis verborum et supinis: ad usum juventutis Germanica cum interpretatione concinnati. Viennae: Geistinger, 1818.
Martin Span; Ippolito Pindemonte: Hermann the Cheruscan: a tragedy in five acts. Vienna: A. Pichler, 1819.
Johann Christoph Adelung : Orthographic and ethmological pocket dictionary of the German language: for use by everyone, but especially for students, civil servants, business people and traders. Editor: Martin Span. Vienna; Trieste: Geistinger, 1819.
Universa phraseologia latina. Secundis curis Sallustiana, Caesareana, Liviana, Corneliana, etc. phraseologiis, ac denique indice verborum, quae in foro militari, civili, sacroque obtinent, locupletata, et ad usum juventutis litterarum studiosae accommodata. Viennae, Tergesti, apud J. Geistinger, 1824.
Justified appreciation of German poetry and poets: with comparative parallels of their attempts at art, as a means of developing aesthetic judgment, or answering the copulative question: To what degree of training did the language of German poetry from the year 1740 until now, and how can it be brought closer to the necessary perfection? Vienna: Verl. D. Schrämblischen Buchdr., 1826.

He published some essays in the Graeffer Conversationsblatt by Franz Graeffer :

Was Shakespeare a Scholar? (1820, nos. 41 and 42);
About the beautiful German literature. To an Englishwoman (1820, nos. 138 and 139);
Göthe as a poet (1821, nos. 8 and 9)

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Span, Martin . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, p. 56 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ General literary gazette or annals of the entire literature for the speedy publication of various news from the field of learning and art: 1801, p. 336 . Roch, 1801 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2018]).
^ BLKÖ: Span, Martin - Wikisource. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
^ Georg Christoph Hamberger: The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers, starting with ---. Advanced v. Johann Georg Meusel. 5. Probably u. verb. Ed., P. 553 . Meyer, 1798 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2018]).
^ Austrian National Library: ÖNB-ANNO - Annual Report Schottengymnasium Wien, p. 42. Retrieved on April 15, 2018 .
↑ Annual report of the Gymnasium zu Schotten in Vienna, p. 9 . Gerold, 1857 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2018]).
↑ Martin Span: Speech on the Roman-German Emperor Joseph II . M. Span, and in Commission der Camesinaische Buchhandlung, 1807 ( google.de [accessed on April 13, 2018]).
↑ Franz Grillparzer: Grillparzer's autobiography and portraits, p. 225 . Wiener Drucke, 1923.
↑ Wedding book - 02-02 | 01., Franciscans | Vienna, rk. Archdiocese (eastern Lower Austria and Vienna) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Span, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pfaffenhofen
DATE OF DEATH	around 1840
Place of death	Vienna

[1] General literary gazette or annals of the entire literature for the speedy publication of various news from the field of learning and art: 1801, p. 336 . Roch, 1801 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2018]).

[2] BLKÖ: Span, Martin - Wikisource. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .

[3] Georg Christoph Hamberger: The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers, starting with ---. Advanced v. Johann Georg Meusel. 5. Probably u. verb. Ed., P. 553 . Meyer, 1798 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2018]).

[4] Austrian National Library: ÖNB-ANNO - Annual Report Schottengymnasium Wien, p. 42. Retrieved on April 15, 2018 .

[5] Annual report of the Gymnasium zu Schotten in Vienna, p. 9 . Gerold, 1857 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2018]).

[6] Martin Span: Speech on the Roman-German Emperor Joseph II . M. Span, and in Commission der Camesinaische Buchhandlung, 1807 ( google.de [accessed on April 13, 2018]).

[7] Franz Grillparzer: Grillparzer's autobiography and portraits, p. 225 . Wiener Drucke, 1923.

[8] Wedding book - 02-02 | 01., Franciscans | Vienna, rk. Archdiocese (eastern Lower Austria and Vienna) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .