Renatus Gotthelf Löbel

Renatus Gotthelf Löbel (born April 1, 1767 in Thallwitz near Eilenburg , † February 14 or 4, 1799 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer , lexicographer and private scholar.

life and work

Löbel was born as the son of Chamber Commissioner Christian Gottlob Löbel, an official in the Saxon financial administration, in Thallwitz, not far from Leipzig . He was initially taught by a private teacher and started school at the Thomas School in Leipzig at the age of eleven . His studies at Leipzig University , which he began in 1783, completed in 1786 with a master's degree and then moved to the Georg-August University of Göttingen for an eighteen-month course . On his return to Leipzig habilitation he did on 19 March 1788 and three years later on 10 November 1791, the law school to the doctor doctorate .

In 1793 he published a guide to the formation of oral presentation for ecclesiastical and secular speakers and in the same year published a translation of the Lectures on the art of reading by Thomas Sheridan (1719–1788) with his own additions . A year later he translated Charlotte Smith's The Wanderings of Warwick from English into German.

Löbel achieved greater fame as a co-author of the Conversationslexikon with excellent consideration for the present times , which was bought by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus in 1808 and is a forerunner of today's Brockhaus Encyclopedia . The first three volumes of the work known as Löbelsches Conversationslexikon appeared in the years from 1796 to Löbel's early death in 1799. After that, the lexicon was expanded several times, but not completed until it was taken over by Brockhaus. Löbel's contemporary, the Leipzig literary historian Johann Georg Eck, relativized Löbel's service to the lexicon with the words: “Of the conversation lexicon that is attached to him here and there, he was only the editor and editor of those articles from very different subjects to which he was concerned found no help. "

Shortly before his death, Löbel planned to publish a small library of Saxon law , of which only five sheets were printed.

Works (selection)

• (as translator) Charlotte Smith: Warwick's Reisen , from the English by Renatus Gotthelf Löbel, Leipzig 1794
• (as editor) About the declamation or the oral presentation in prose and in verse , based on the English of Thomas Sheridan. With some additions, ed. by Renatus Gotthelf Löbel, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1793 - engl. Original title: Lectures on the art of reading
• Guidance on the formation of oral presentation for spiritual and secular speakers . Leipzig 1793
• Ivs Hominvm Ante Vsvm Rationis: Dispvtatio Ex Ivre Natvrae . Leipzig 1788 - Legal dissertation Löbel's digitized version
• Aristotelis notionem tragoediae commentatio 1 . Leipzig 1786 - Congratulatory letter for Christian Daniel Beck

literature

swell

• Josias Ludwig Ernst Puettmann: Miscellaneorum Ad Ius Pertinentium Specimen… Leipzig 1791 - Invitation to the PhD Löbels doctorate, Leipzig, November 10, 1791
• Johann Wilhelm Linck: De Raia Torpedine… Leipzig 1788 - Congratulations on the appointment of Löbel's master's degree in 1788
• Karl David Ilgen: Poeseos Leonidae Tarentini specimen: Viro Clarissimo Renato Gotthelfio Loebelio summo in philosophia honores amicorum quorundam nomine gratulaturus… Leipzig 1785 - Congratulations on Löbel's doctorate, 1785

Representations

• Article "Löbel (Renatus Gotthelf)". In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon , continuation and additions by Johann Christoph Adelung , Volume 3, Leipzig 1810
• Article "Löbel (Renatus Gotthelf)". In: Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Volume 8: Laugh - Mazzioli. Leipzig 1808
• Johann Georg Eck: Leipzig learned diary for the year 1799 . P. 22–24 - A reprint of Ecks magazine, published between 1780 and 1807, was published in 1998 in a microfiche edition by Olms in Hildesheim.

Remarks

1. ^ Eck: Leipzig learned diary for the year 1799