Paul Daniel Longolius

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Paul Daniel Longolius (born November 1, 1704 in Kesselsdorf near Dresden , † February 24, 1779 in Hof ) was a German philologist, historian and encyclopaedist.

origin

His parents were the pastor Johann Daniel Longolius (1671–1734) and his wife Johanna Magdalena Kölbel .

Life

He first received private lessons and then went to the Dresden Kreuzschule. In 1724 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig, where on February 12, 1728 he was also a baccalaureate and master's degree in the faculty of philosophy. He planned an academic career and asked for admission as a professor in the philosophical faculty in the winter of 1733/34, but before he was accepted, he was appointed rector of the gymnasium in Hof in 1735 , where he stayed until his death. During this time he wrote a large number of treatises on the history of the farm and the surrounding area. His successor as rector was Georg Wilhelm Kirsch . He had unrestricted access to the archives in Ansbach (from 1761) and on the Plassenburg (from 1747) in order to advance research into the history of the Brandenburg-Kulmbach region. The result was the work: “Secure Messages from Brandenburg-Culmbach” which was published in 10 parts (Hof 1751–1762). He was also a weather observer and made continuous meteorological records between 1757 and 1778.

He was a member of numerous scientific societies:

  • 1749, Latin Society of Jena
  • 1759, Imperial Franciscan Academy of Liberal Arts in Augsburg
  • 1762, German Society in Altdorf

He was also a foreign member of the Kurbayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften since 1764 .

He bequeathed his extensive library of 4,000 volumes to the grammar school for an annual payment of 120 thalers, which could not be paid for. So the collection finally came to the bookseller Kammerer in Erlangen.

Longolius studied together with Carl Günther Ludovici . He was the main editor of volumes 3 to 18 of Zedler's Large Complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts from 1733 to 1739. Zedler had financial difficulties and so it came to a scandal in 1738 when Longolius sent volumes 17 and 18 to the printer Johann Ernst Schultze sold, who then launched a competing product. His successor as main editor was Carl Günther Ludovici.

Longoliusplatz in Hof is named after him.

family

Longolius married Erdmutha Dorothea Baumgärtner († 1736) in 1735 , the daughter of the secret chamber secretary Christian Baumgärtner . She died in childbed giving birth to her son Friedrich Carl Daniel (1736–1746). After her death in 1737 he married Elisabeth Susanna Herold , a daughter of the archdeacon Georg David Herold from Hof. The couple had a daughter who died young in 1739 and: Johanna Sophie Elisabeth (* 1741), who married Matthäus Erdmann Nürmberger on October 14, 1762 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Secure news from Brandenburg-Culmbach . Court 1751–1762 (10 parts)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Stephan Lechner, Fates and Conditions of the Gymnasium in Hof up to the First Years of the 19th Century , p.22
personal data
SURNAME Longolius, Paul Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Philologist, historian, teacher and rector
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Kesselsdorf near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1779
Place of death court