Peter Daniel Friedrich Gäpelihn

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Peter Daniel Friedrich Gäpelihn (also Zaepelin, Zepelin, Zeppelin or von Zeplin; * 1772 in Rostock , † probably 1832 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German historian , librarian and statistician .

Life

Peter Daniel Friedrich Zäpelihn was born the son of the merchant Zeppelin in Rostock and enrolled at the local university in September 1788 studying one. From Trinity 1793 to Trinity 1796 he received financial support from the Sassian Scholarship, the founder of which was the Rostock theology professor Peter Sasse (1709–1776). In June 1804 he received his master's degree from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Rostock . Before that, and probably since the 1790s, he worked as a tutor in Courland and Livonia .

When the University of Kazan was founded on November 5th, July / November 17,  1804 greg. Gäpelihn was appointed professor of general history , geography and statistics . In the summer half-year from February 24 to July 11, he read the history of states according to Spittler's handbook. Zaezpelihn held the chair until his dismissal in 1819.

From about 1822 onwards, he worked as a librarian at the central naval library in Saint Petersburg . There he was assistant to the library director Adam Johann von Krusenstern . At the same time, Gäpelihn was director of the Naval Cadet Corps of the Naval Library and responsible for sending the scientific papers and textbooks regularly published by the Corps. Together with Krusenstern, he made great contributions to the expansion of the library in the 1820s.

From 1823, zezpelihn was a member of the Society for Russian History and Antiquities in Moscow and was appointed Imperial Russian Councilor.

Fonts

  • with Johann Christian Wilhelm Dahl: Notitia codicis manuscripti CC Sallustii Bellum Catilinarium et Iugurthinum itemque Eutropii fragmentum continentis qui in bibliotheca Rostochiensi academica asservatur. Una cum specimine praecipuarum lectionis varietatum. JD Kleyb, Leipzig 1791 ( online ).
  • The Variner and Warnawer: A contribution to the ancient history of Germany. Bärensprung, Schwerin 1797 ( online ).

literature

  • Ol'ga M. Fedorova: Central Navy Library, Saint Petersburg. In: Bernhard Fabian (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany, Austria and Europe. Olms, Hildesheim 2003 ( online ).
  • Heinrich Storch (Ed.): Russia under Alexander the Great. A historical magazine. 9th volume, Saint Petersburg / Leipzig 1808, pp. 20-21.
  • Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Estonia and Courland. 4 volumes, Mitau 1827–1832 (supplements and continuations edited by Theodor Beise, 2 volumes, Mitau 1859–1861).
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland: or lexicon of the now living German writers. 23 volumes, 5th edition, Lemgo 1796–1834.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry of the matriculation of Peter Daniel Friedrichzaezpelihn in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Entry by Peter Sasse in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
  3. ^ Entry of the master's degree from Peter Daniel Friedrichzapelihn in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Zahnihn, Peter Daniel Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeplin, Peter Daniel Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, librarian and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1832
Place of death St. Petersburg