Christian Ludwig Seebass

Christian Ludwig Seebaß (born May 23, 1754 in Großhennersdorf , † October 16, 1806 in Leipzig ) was a German Romanist, philosopher and writer.

Title page of the mathematical lecture De Duplici Mathematicarum Quantitatum Relatione (1797)

Life

He completed his studies at the University of Leipzig in 1792 with a master's degree. The dissertation De matheseos disciplina et usu followed in 1793 . From then on, Seebass worked as a mathematics teacher and from 1797 as an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig and was a member of the small prince's college in Leipzig.

With Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtner (born September 15, 1759; † November 29, 1843) he published the magazine of all new inventions, discoveries and improvements from 1801 to 1805 . He also worked as a translator of several technological writings from French.

As a Freemason , Seebass was a member of the Engbund , which dealt with the scientific research of Masonic history and turned against its mythologization. As a member of the 1799 founded and 1801 again closed Leipzig Masonic Lodge to verdant oak he had large proportion of their continued existence as Loge Apollo to the three acacias . He was able to secure their existence with the support of Friedrich Ludwig Schröder through the agreement between the reopened lodge and the two older Leipzig lodges Minerva zu den three Palmen and Balduin zur Linde . In 1803 he was elected Master of the Chair of the Apollo Lodge . Under his leadership, the lodge joined the provincial lodge in Hamburg on April 13, 1805.

literature

• Otto Werner Förster; Peter König: The Masonic Lodge Apollo i. O. Leipzig. Taurus-Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810303-8-9 , p. 7

Individual evidence

1. ^ The learned Teutschland: or, Lexicon of the now living Teutschen writers, vol. 15, p. 440 f.
2. ↑ General Handbook of Freemasonry, Leipzig 1867, Vol. 3, p. 277.