Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt

Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt

Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt , religious name Adauctus a Sancto Germano (Czech Mikuláš Adaukt Voigt ; born May 14, 1733 in Oberleutensdorf , † October 18, 1787 in Nikolsburg ) was a Bohemian piarist and scholar. He is considered to be the founder of scientific numismatics in Bohemia.

Life

Voigt grew up speaking German in Oberleutensdorf. In 1747 he entered the Piarist order in Slaný . During this time he also learned the Czech language. He then studied theology and philosophy at the Jesuit college in Komotau and at the Piarist college in Litomyšl . In 1758 he was ordained a priest in Olomouc .

He then worked in Kirchberg as a preacher and from 1760 as a teacher of poetry and rhetoric. In 1766 Voigt returned to Bohemia as a teacher of philosophy in Slaný. From 1769 he taught mathematics at the Piarist high school in Kosmonosy . In 1770 Gelasius Dobner appointed him to teach at the Piarist High School in Prague . There he was Dobner's deputy as Vice Rector from 1771. Voigt's scientific works were created in the context of the Catholic scholarly Enlightenment of Dobner. He cataloged the numismatic collection of the Bishop Emmanuel Ernst von Waldstein , described the hoard of coins from Podmokl , the Bohemian coins in chronological order and under Maria Theresa coined Schau- and medals . He also wrote works on the Czech and Moravian literary and art history .

In 1777 Voigt accepted a call as a full professor of history at the University of Vienna , where he was also appointed curator of the coin collection of the court library . In 1784 Voigt resigned from his offices in Vienna for health reasons and moved to the Piarist monastery in Nikolsburg . The reason for this was also his disapproval of the Josephine reforms . Until his death, he worked as the librarian for Prince Dietrichstein in Nikolsburg.

Publications

• Write to a friend of the one at Podmokl in the Hochfürstl. Gold coins found in the villages of the Fürstenberg rule Pürglitz in Bohemia , Prague 1771.
• Description of the previously known Bohemian coins according to chronological order: together with a brief description of the life of the mint princes and others on which they were minted: with interspersed historical news from mining in Bohemia Prague 1771–1787, 4 vols., With vignettes by Johann Balzer
• Effigies virorum eruditorum atque antificum Bohemiae et Moraviae , Prague 1773–1782, 4 vols., German-language edition under the title Illustrations of Bohemian and Moravian Scholars and Artists
• Acta litteraria Bohemiae et Moraviae , Prague 1774–1783, 2 vols.
• Study of the introduction, use and modification of letters and writing in Bohemia , Prague 1775
• Attempt at a history of the University of Prague , Prague 1776
• Uiber the use of the vernacular bey public services , Vienna 1783
• Nummi Germaniae medii aevi, qui in Nummophylacio caesareo vindobonensi adservantur, eos ordine chronologico disposuit, descripsit et, ubi opus fuerat, illustravit , Vienna 1783
• Thoughts on the Piarist Constitution and Type of Teaching , Brno 1787
• On the Spirit of the Bohemian Laws in Different Ages , Dresden 1788
• Life of Prince Franz and Cardinal von Dietrichstein . With notes and an appendix by Fulgentius Schwab , Leipzig 1792

literature

• Herder's Conversations Lexicon . Freiburg im Breisgau 1857, Vol. 5, pp. 638-639
• Brekle, Herbert E .; Dobnig-Jülch, Edeltraud; Höller, Hans Jürgen; Weiß, Helmut: Bio-bibliographical handbook on linguistics of the 18th century , Bd. 8 Schu-Z. De Gruyter, Tübingen 2005 p. 422

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic