Siegmund Jakob Apinus

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Siegmund Jakob Apinus (also Sigismund Jakob Apinus ; real family name Biene ; * June 7, 1693 in Hersbruck ; † March 24, 1732 in Braunschweig ) was a German teacher and philologist .

Life

Siegmund Jakob Apinus was one of four children of the German doctor Johann Ludwig Apinus . Like his father earlier, he studied at the University of Altdorf , where he was awarded the title of Magister in Philosophy and Theology in 1713 . He then spent a year in Jena , where he continued his studies. After visiting other German cities, he returned to Altdorf in 1715 , where he became the alumneum's inspector in 1720. Two years later he was promoted to professor of logic and metaphysics at the Egidien grammar school in Nuremberg .

In September 1722 Apinus married Susanna Maria, daughter of the doctor and geologist Johann Jakob Baier . One of the three sons that emerged from this marriage was Christof Jakob Apinus, who later became a physician. Furthermore, there were two daughters from the marriage.

On May 23, 1726 Apinus with the academic surname Solinus II was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 386 ) in the learned society Leopoldina . In 1729 he received the post of Rector of the Egidi School in Braunschweig. In this city he died three years later on March 24, 1732 at the age of only 38 years.

Apinus left behind an extensive scientific oeuvre. He wrote works that belong to the subject area of ​​philosophy and education . also books on biblical archeology , natural history and literary history . He also edited letters from the Swiss theologian Johann Jakob Grynaeus .

Publications (selection)

  • Dissertatio academica de regula Lesbia , Altdorf 1715
  • Historia naturalis de veritate scripture sacrae testimonium perhibens , Altdorf 1717
  • Oberservationes de loricis linteis veterum, et novo loricarum invento , Altdorf 1719
  • Unpredictable thoughts on how to use both old and new Dissertationes academicas and keep a good indicem about it , Nuremberg 1719
  • Meditatio de incremento physices per medicos facto , 1720
  • Anonymously Necessary Instruction to Learn and Teach the Greek Language in an Easy Way , 1720; increased edition 1726
  • Vitae et effigies procancellariorum Academiae Altorfinae , Nuremberg 1721
  • Dissertatio epistolica de quibusdam nondum editis epistolis J. Camerarii , Nuremberg and Altdorf 1724
  • Grammatical Lexicon , Nuremberg 1727
  • Vitae professorum philosophiae Academiae Altorfinae , Nuremberg 1728
  • Glossarium novum ad aevi hujus statum adornatum , Nuremberg 1728
  • Instructions on how to collect the portraits of famous and learned men , Nuremberg 1728
  • Oratio de aedificiorum sacrorum, quae vulgus Coenobia vocat, in scholas publicas permutatione , Braunschweig 1730

Apinus was also the editor of the following works, among others:

  • JJ Grynaei epistolae LXVI ad CA Julium, cum vita Grynaei et scholiis , Nuremberg 1718
  • J. Facciolati orationes X de optimis studiis, cum praefatione , Leipzig 1725
  • CG Schwarzii carmina, collecta et edita , Frankfurt and Leipzig 1728

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Sigmund Jacob Apinus at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Apinus, Siegmund Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apinus, Sigismund Jakob; Solinus II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH Hersbruck
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1732
Place of death Braunschweig