Paul Jakob Bruns

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Paul Jakob Bruns
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Paul Jakob Bruns (born July 18, 1743 in Preetz , † November 17, 1814 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German Lutheran theologian, orientalist , literary historian , librarian and professor at the Universities of Helmstedt and Halle .

Life

Paul Jakob Bruns was born in Preetz near Plön in what is now Schleswig-Holstein . He was a grandson of the musician Nicolaus Bruhns (1665–1697), a composer of the North German organ school, organ and violin virtuoso. Paul Jakob received his school education in Lübeck . In 1761 Bruns enrolled in the register of the University of Jena to study theology , where from 1764 he held his own lectures on biblical exegesis .

In 1767 he met the English theologian Benjamin Kennicott (1718–1783) in Paris , who won him over to work on a comprehensive comparison of all the Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament that could be found. Bruns then toured Germany, the Netherlands, France and Italy for three years and, after the end of these trips, was busy for another seven years to sift through and organize the collected material for Kennicott's great critical edition.

After his return to Germany, Bruns accepted a call from the University of Helmstedt, Academia Julia , as professor of literary history in 1781 . In 1787 he took over the post of librarian at the university library from Franz Dominikus Häberlin (1720–1787) . As the last university librarian, he held this position until the Academia Julia was dissolved in 1810. In 1796 he was appointed court advisor and professor of oriental languages.

With the fall of the Old Kingdom in 1803/06, the University of Helmstedt came under the administration of the Napoleonic- controlled Kingdom of Westphalia under King Jérôme Bonaparte and was closed at the end of the winter semester 1809/10. Paul Jakob Bruns was transferred to the University of Halle, where he died in 1814 at the age of seventy-two.

In addition to the field of Old Testament text criticism, Bruns published numerous works on geography , law and general literary history . Paul Jakob Bruns is one of the last universal scholars .

progeny

Paul Jakob Bruns was the father of the legal scholar Johann Georg Theodor Bruns (1786–1835), grandfather of the surgeon Paul Victor von Bruns (1812–1883) and the legal scholar Karl Georg Bruns (1816–1880).

Works (selection)

  • Co-author in Benjamin Kennicott: Notae Criticae in Psalmos XLII. XLIII. XLVIII. LXXXIX . Weygand Publishing House, Leipzig 1772
  • Co-author in Benjamin Kennicott: Dissertatio Generalis in Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum . Brunswick 1783
  • Geographical manual with regard to industry and action . Verlag Crusius, Leipzig 1788 Bavarian State Library digital
  • New geographical manual in terms of industry and action . Publishing house Chr.Weigel and AG Schneider, Nuremberg 1793
  • The oldest printed description of Palestine so far unknown. In: Johann Friedrich Schleusner and Carl Friedrich Stäudlin: Göttingen Library of the Latest Theological Literature III, 2nd piece. Göttingen 1797, pp. 159-204
  • Romantic and other poems in Old Plattdeutscher language . Friedrich Nicolai Publishing House, Berlin and Stettin 1798
  • Contributions to the German rights of the Middle Ages from the manuscripts and old prints of the academic library in Helmstädt . Verlag CG Fleckeisen, Helmstedt 1799
  • Contributions to the critical processing of unknown old manuscripts, prints and documents , Vol. 1, Braunschweig 1802
  • Merits of the professors zu Helmstädt for scholarship . Verlag Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle 1810 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digital

literature

  • Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried:  Bruns, Paul Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 450-452.
  • Detlev L. Lübker, Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828 , 1. Dept. A – M, Verlag K. Aue, Altona, 1829, pp. 80ff., No. 157, ( online )
  • AG Hoffmann: Hardt, Anton Julius from the . In: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts: in alphabetical order , Section 2, H − N; Part 2, Volume 2, Gleditsch Verlag, Leipzig 1828, p. 263 f. ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Saltzwedel: Victor von Bruns (1812-1883) - life and work . Verlag C. J. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1977, p. 6 f.
  2. ↑ Johann Karl Bullman: Memorable time periods at the University of Halle from its foundation . Verlag Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle 1833, pp. 111–113.
  3. ^ Gerhard Saltzwedel: Victor von Bruns (1812–1883) - Life and Work , C. J. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1977, p. 7.
  4. ^ Uwe Alschner: University visit in Helmstedt 1576-1810. Model of a matriculation analysis using the example of a north German university . (Supplements to the Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch, 15) Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein, Wolfenbüttel 1998, ISBN 3-928009-14-1 .
  5. ^ Gerhard Saltzwedel: Victor von Bruns (1812-1883) - life and work . Verlag C. J. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1977, p. 5 f.
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Paul Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German polyhistor, theologian, geographer, professor of oriental languages ​​and literary history in Helmstedt and Halle
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Preetz
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1814
Place of death Hall