Nikolaus Köppen
Nikolaus Köppen (born August 7, 1668 in Wolgast , † April 14, 1739 in Greifswald ) was a German professor of oriental languages .
Life
Nikolaus Köppen was the son of Emanuel Köppen, registrar at the Wolgast court court , and his wife Emerentia Rose. Because of military unrest, his mother first moved with him to Greifswald and then to Stralsund . There Köppen went to the city high school. The father died in 1679. After attending the Greifswald city school , Köppen came to the University of Greifswald in 1685 . He learned the ancient languages from Heinrich Brandanus Gebhardi and theology from Jakob Henning and Nikolaus Dassow. Köppen then went to Wittenberg and in 1692 to Leipzig and Halle .
In 1693 Köppen received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty in Greifswald. He was then tutor to Alexander Caroc for two years .
He then went to Hamburg to see Johann Friedrich Mayer . With Esdras Edzardus and Martin Murray he devoted himself to rabbinical studies.
Returned to Greifswald via Kiel , Köppen was from King Karl XII. Appointed associate professor of philosophy in 1699. In 1704 he disputed under Johann Friedrich Mayer and became a baccalaureus in theology.
During the occupation of Swedish Pomerania by Denmark , the Danish King Frederick IV appointed him full professor for oriental languages in 1718.
In 1727 Köppen married Christina Dorothea Helwig, the daughter of Professor Christoph Helwig . The marriage remained childless.
See also
literature
- Dirk Alvermann , Birgit Dahlenburg : Greifswald heads. Scholar portraits and life pictures from the 16th to 18th centuries Century from the Pomeranian State University. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01139-1 , p. 114f.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Albrecht Joachim von Krakevitz | Rector of the University of Greifswald 1723 |
Joachim Andreas Helwig |
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Christian Stephan Scheffel | Rector of the University of Greifswald 1731 |
Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Köppen, Nikolaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koppenius, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist (orientalist), rector of the University of Greifswald |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1668 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolgast |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1739 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |