Matthias Friedrich Watson
Matthias Friedrich Watson ( Latvian Matīss Frīdrihs Vatsons ; born January 18, 1732 in Königsberg , † March 8, 1805 in Mitau ) was a German educator.
Life
Origin and family
Watsons came from an originally Scottish family. His parents were the Prussian war and domain councilor Matthias Watson and Johanna Albertine, née. from Sommerfeld. He was married to Agathe Dullo († 1801) since 1772, with whom he had three daughters and two sons, including the pastor Karl Friedrich Watson (1777-1826).
Career
Watson attended the Collegium Fridericianum from 1738 to 1746 and then studied from 1746 to 1752 at the Albertus University of Königsberg . He completed his training there in 1753 as Mag. Phil. from, but matriculated in Frankfurt / Oder that same year , further studies in Berlin , Göttingen and Kassel followed.
From 1756 to 1759 he taught as an associate professor for poetry at the Albertus University in Königsberg. In 1759 he moved to Mitau, where he was rector of the large city school until 1774 and again from 1781 to 1804 . From 1774 to 1805 he taught the Latin language and literature at the Academia Petrina in Mitau.
Watson was a member of the Royal German Society and editor of Mitauschen Zeitung . He has written several essays, essays and speeches in Latin and German.
literature
- Old Prussian Biography , Volume 2, Marburg / L. 1967
- Karl Dannenberg : On the history and statistics of the high school in Mitau. Mitau 1875, pp. 4-5
- Carlo Denina : La Prusse littéraire sous Frédéric II. , Volume 3, 1793, pp. 464-465
- Friedrich Konrad Gadebusch : Livonian library in alphabetical order. Riga 1777, p. 285
- Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Literary News from Prussia , Volume 1, Leipzig and Dessau 1781, pp. 203-204
- Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland: or lexicon of the now living German writers. Volume 8, Lemgo 1800, p. 354 ; Volume 13, Meyer, Lemgo 1806, p. 391
- Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard von Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 4, Mitau 1832, pp. 474–476
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Matthias Friedrich Watson. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Index entry for Matthias Friedrich Watson in the Deutsche Biographie
- Erik-Amburger - Database at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
Individual evidence
- ^ H. Preuschhof: The Scottish Watson family in Pomerania, Old Prussia and Courland. In: Archiv ostdeutscher Familienforscher , 2, 1960, 49–53.
- ^ Sendings of the Courland Society for Literature and Art , Volume 3, Mitau 1847, p. 133 (FN **).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watson, Matthias Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1805 |
| Place of death | Mitau |