Samuel Faber
Samuel Faber (born March 3, 1657 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ; † April 10, 1716 ) was rector of the Aegidianum in Nuremberg and also worked as a writer.
Life
Samuel Faber was the son of the poet and high school teacher Johann Ludwig Faber . After studying theology and philosophy, he became vice rector in 1690 and rector in 1706 of the Egidiengymnasium in Nuremberg. His name appears again in the biographies of Johann Friedrich Riederer and Johann Leonhard Rost . He apparently exerted a great influence on his students through his interest in a curriculum that gives more importance to the current belles lettres and the German language. The dedication that Rost gives to the former teacher in his letter tray from 1713 is remarkable. It corresponds with disparaging remarks in the same book about the quality of education in most German schools in the Reich:
- To tell the German truth, today almost all schools are not in good shape; For the children are mostly taught things that are of no use to them, and torture them so horribly with Latin and Greek that they lose their desire for all other sciences, yes, it is quite ridiculous that one should take the German-born youth in others foreign languages taught; but wants to make ignoramuses in their own mother tongue. ( Rost , newly opened teutsche Briefe Cabinet (Nuremberg: J. Chr. Lochner, [1713]), vol. 2, p. 4)
As far as can be seen, Faber was positive about such criticism of the educational system. Under the name Ferrando II. (Referring to his father, "verbena") Faber was also the 78th member of the Pegnese Flower Order .
Under the pseudonym SF he published a multi-part "Detailed biography of Carl XII., King in Sweden ......", which was published by Christoph Riegel in Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Leipzig during the lifetime of this controversial king and practically as the first biography ever applies to him. It was not until a good thirty years later that the "court reporter" Nordberg published a biography comprising three volumes, in particular peppered with coin images. A short time later it was translated into German by Heubel.
In 1715 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .
literature
- Georg Andreas Will: Nuremberg scholarly lexicon . Nürnberg / Altdorf: L. Schüpfel, 1755-1808, Vol. I (p. 369).
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Samuel Faber. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 19, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faber, Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferrando II. (Pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1657 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altdorf near Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1716 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |