Samuel Christoph Wagener

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Samuel Christoph Wagener (born April 11, 1763 in Sandau (Elbe), † January 12, 1845 in Potsdam ) was a German Lutheran , Enlightenment theologian and writer close to the Berlin Enlightenment.

Life

Wagener studied theology at the University of Halle until 1785 and worked as a tutor until 1790. In 1799 he taught 94 working children at the garrison's labor school. At that time it was customary to use soldiers' children to work. He was field chaplain of the Leibcarabiner Regiment and head of the industrial school of the garrison in Rathenow .

Samuel Christoph Wagener was pastor from 1801 and from 1817 until his retirement in 1825 Superintendent in Altenplathe.

Together with the pastor Johann Heinrich August Duncker , he founded the royal privileged optical industrial institute , the later Rathenower Optische Werke (ROW), in 1801 with the receipt of the royal Prussian privilege to run a business , in which lens systems were assembled and the first microscopes and binoculars were manufactured were.

He was a knight of the Red Eagle Order III. Class .

Works

  • About the Palatinate on the Rhine and its neighborhood. Especially with regard to the present war, natural beauties, culture and antiquities. Corpse 1795.
  • The ghosts. 1799.
  • New ghosts. Short Stories from the Realm of Truth, Volume 2. F. Maurer, 1802.
  • Natural wonders and landmarks. F. Maurer, 1802.
  • Memories of the Churmärkischen town Rathenow. Berlin 1803.
  • Natural wonders and landmarks. A contribution to the suppression of useless and harmful novels. Matzdorff 1804.
  • Universal encyclopedia of the history of nations and nations from the oldest to the present time. A manual for everyone. Several volumes, Matzdorff 1806, together with Carl Friedrich Koeppen.
  • Traces of the deity in apparent coincidence. Beneficial nourishment of doubters and thinkers, Volume 2. F. Maurer, 1810.
  • Historical entertainment lexicon for laughing and learning. Maeckensche Buchhandlung, 1812.
  • The life of the globe and all worlds. Amelang, Berlin 1828.
  • Handbook of the most excellent antiquities from pagan times discovered in Germany. Described u. Sensualized by Fig. Voigt, lithographed in 1390 , 1842. Digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10017615~SZ%3D~double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  • Samuel Christoph Wagener's year and diary of the most important discoveries, inventions and foundations and the most memorable world events since Christ. Heymann, 1842, together with Friedrich August Reimann.


  • Proverbs lexicon with brief explanations: a house book for common life, also for use in elementary schools.
  • Patriotic archive for Germany: dedicated to the deity, the princes and the fatherland by Sam. Chr. Wagener.

literature

  • Emil Busch: Aktiengesellschaft Optische Industrie, Rathenow. Rathenow 1929.
  • Samuel Christoph Wagener. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works of German language. Vol. 12, Gütersloh, Munich 1992, p. 81.

Web links

Wikisource: Samuel Christoph Wagener  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Wagener: The life of the globe and all worlds. The Boston Globe , January 19, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Wagener, Samuel Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, Lutheran theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandau (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1845
Place of death Potsdam