Historiker Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Breyer (1771-1818): Cholerabrief Landshut 1808

You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter of the historian Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Breyer (1771-1818), Professor of History and Statistics at the University of Landshut.

DatedLandshut, 3. May 1808.

Aimed at the classical philologist Hofrat Heinrich Karl Eichstädt (1771-1848), Head of New Jenaische Allgemeine Literary Newspaper. Concerns reviews by Breyer.

Cholera letter / disinfection letter; with notches for smoke disinfection.

Transcription:"PP I am open to the recommendation of the first three books suggested on the enclosed list. to take over. I own Milbiller's story; Please send the other two to me. I'm afraid I'll receive the ALZ from bookstores too late. The tables from Wegel are still missing. Will I still receive Bredows & Größner's work on world history in the new edition? In a hurry. You go. Dr. Breyer."

With marginal notes (probably from an editor; abbreviation Stz.) in red.

Format: 21.3 x 17 cm (folded 7.3 x 10.2 cm).

Ran as pre-Phila cover; with unclear postmark and handwritten tax note.

With a beautiful seal.

Condition:paper slightly stained; Seal with cracks. bPlease also note the pictures!

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About Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Breyer and the recipient Heinrich Karl Eichstädt (Source: wikipedia):

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Breyer, from 1808 by Breyer (also Carl; * 29. September 1771 in Heutingsheim; † 28. April 1818 in Munich) was a German historian and university professor.

Life: Breyer was the son of the pastor Johann Wilhelm Breyer (1741–1800). He received his first education at the Blaubeuren and Bebenhausen monastery schools. In 1789 he moved into the Tübingen Abbey and studied philosophy and theology at the University of Tübingen. In 1794 he came to Stuttgart. There he became tutor to Count Reischach before moving to the University of Jena in 1797. There he began studying philosophy and history, particularly devoting himself to studying with Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He completed his habilitation at Jena University in 1800. In 1803, after having worked as a private lecturer, he received a position as an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy.

In 1804, Breyer accepted an appointment as a full professor of history and statistics at the University of Landshut. He was also appointed royal councilor. There he attracted the attention of the minister Maximilian von Montgelas, at whose instigation he received full membership in the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1806. He also became a professor at the Lyceum in Munich. In 1808 he was one of the first to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Civil Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown and thus ennobled. King Maximilian gave him the teaching of history and literature from Prince Karl Theodor.

Works (selection)

De justicia Aragonum, Jena 1800.

Outline of Universal History, 2 volumes, Academic Bookstore, Jena 1802–1804.

Historical magazine, Cröcker, Jena 1805.

Textbook of general history for the educational institutions of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Royal School Books Publishing House, Munich 1817–1818.

Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt (* 8th. August 1771 in Oschatz; † 4. March 1848 in Jena) was a German classical philologist.

Life: Eichstädt was born as the son of the Oschatz archdeacon Johann Abraham Eichstädt and his wife Concordia Elisabeth Heinrich.

On the 11th In August of the same year he was baptized as a Protestant, with the superintendent Johann Carl Friedrich von Brause, a presumed relative Rosina Dorothea Heinrich and the merchant and city judge Johann Heinrich acting as godparents. Christened Heinrich Carl Abraham, Eichstädt received his first inspiration in his parents' home, with his father instilling in him an early interest in philological contexts.

His basic knowledge of ancient languages ​​was trained at the Oschatz city school under the direction of principal Johann Gottfried zimmermann . Equipped with a scholarship from the Elector of Saxony, Eichstädt moved in on the 27th. March 1783 the Electoral Saxon State School Pforta. Johann Gottfried Geißler, Friedrich Gottlieb Barth and Christian Gottlieb Hildebrandt (* around 1745 in Oschatz; † 9. July 1799 Schulpforta) his teachers.

He left this educational institution again on January 1st. March 1787, to be on the 4th Enrolled at the University of Leipzig in June 1787. After giving lectures on philosophy with Ernst Platner, mathematics and physics with Carl Friedrich Hindenburg, philology with Christian Daniel Beck, rhetoric and literature with Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz, theology with Samuel Friedrich Nathanael Morus and legal questions with Christian Gottlieb Haubold Eichstädt acquired it on the 25th. February 1789 the degree of master of philosophy.[4] In 1793 he completed his habilitation by defending the habilitation thesis De dramatae Graecorum comico-satyrico, inprimis de Sosithei Lythiersa. At the philosophical faculty in Leipzig he initially became a lecturer and in 1795 became an associate professor of philosophy. Since he was unable to pursue further professional activities in Leipzig, he moved to the University of Jena in 1797 as an honorary professor of philosophy and at the same time became co-editor of the Jenaer Allgemeine literary newspaper.

Here he became director of the Latin Society in 1800. In 1801 he was appointed court councilor of Saxony-Meiningen and when Christian Gottfried Schütz moved to Halle at the end of 1803, he took over the full professorship of rhetoric and poetics. In the latter task he gave lectures on the Greek and Latin classics, discussed Greek and Roman antiquities and taught philological encyclopedias and literary history. From 1804 onwards, the Neue Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung appeared under his direction and in the same year he became senior librarian at the Jena University Library.

In 1808 he received an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Göttingen, in 1809 he became Privy Councilor of Saxony-Weimar, in the same year he received an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Rinteln and in 1811 he became overseer of the Kleberian Freitisch.

In 1812 he was given the supervision of the Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachische as well as the supervision of the Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburger and in 1815 the Sachsen-Meiningen Landeskinder. In 1813 he was also given the supervision of the Jena Convictorium.

In 1817 Eichstädt became director of the philological seminar. In Jena he also took part in organizational tasks of the university administration and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters of 1812, 1820, 1826 and the winter semester of 1814.

Work: Eichstädt was considered one of the most important classical philologists of his time. He is best known for his Latin speeches and occasional writings. On the occasion of the marriage of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Queen Victoria, he wrote a poem, a copy of which is preserved in the Coburg State Library.

Hermann Johann Christian Weissenborn (1813–1886; Jena 1850) completed a collection of his Opuscula oratoria that he had begun and dedicated to the Latin writer Karl August Varnhagen von Ense. This collection brought him all sorts of recognition and shows his entire body of work chronologically.

Eichstädt's writings are partly editions of classics that remained unfinished, such as Diodoros (Halle 1800–1802, 2 volumes), Lucretius (Volume 1, Leipzig 1801), partly critical treatises, partly translations, e.g. B. from William Mitford's History of Greece.

As a member, Eichstädt received honorable appointments from the world of scholarship

the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich,

the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam,

the Imperial Russian University of Moscow (admitted as an honorary member at the same time as Goethe, Wieland and the Ducal Weimar Privy Councilor Wilhelm von Wolzogen),[5]

the Russian Imperial Society of Naturalists in Gorenky,

the Royal Academy of Useful Sciences in Erfurt,

the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Arts,

the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences in Frankfurt an der Oder,

the Royal Prussian German Society in Königsberg (Prussia),

the philological society in Leipzig,

the natural research society in Halle (Saale),

the Wetterau society for all natural history in Hanau,

of the Latin Society in Jena (honorary member and director) and full assessor of the mineralogical society in Jena.

He was also honored by some potentates. He became a knight of the North Star Order in 1841, was a knight of the Saxony-Weimar White Falcon Order, commander of the Ernestine House Order in 1837 and a knight of the Saxon Civil Service Order.[6] In 1839 he received honorary citizenship from Oschatz and an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty and also from the law faculty of the Jena Salana.[7] In the Stötteritz district of Leipzig, the Lower and Upper Eichstädtstrasse were named after him.

Fonts (selection)

The dramate Graecorum comico-satyrio, imprimis de Solithei Lystieras. Leipzig 1793

Adumbratio quaestionis de carminum Theocriteorum ad genera sus revocatorum indole ac virtutibus. Leipzig 1793

Sam. Ms. Nath. Mori Acroases in epistolas Paulinas ad Galatas et Ephisios. Leipzig 1795

Quaestionum philologicarum Specimen. Leipzig 1796

Sam. Ms. Nath. Mori super Hermeneutica Novi Testamenti Acroases academicae, editioni aptatae, praefatione et additamentis instructae. Vol. I et II. Leipzig 1797, 1802

Acroasis per Societatis Latinae Ienensis instauratione. Jena 1800

Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae historicae libri qui supersunt ac deperditorum fragmenta. Graeca emendavit, notationem argumentorum subiecit, Latinam Laur. Rhodomani interpretationem castigavit, et notas vivorum doctorum ex editione Petri Wesselingii integras cum suis animadversionibus indicibusque locupletissimis adiunxit. Vol. I Hall 1800, Vol. II Hall 1802

T. Lucretii Cari de reum natura libri sex, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem emendati, cum Rich. Bentleii animadversionibus, Gilb. Wakefieldi praefationibus et commentariis integris caeterorumque interpretum praestantissimorum observationibus selectis editit, suas notas et indices copiosissimos adiecit. Vol. I. Leipzig 1801

Quaestionum philologicarum novum Specimen. Jena 1804

History of Greece, a free translation of the English. Works by Wilhelm Mitford. Leipzig 1802–1808, 6. Vols.

Progr. Supplementum Longi Pastoralium, ex Codice Florentino nuper vulgatum, nune diligentius editum. Jena 1811

Progr. Phaedri quae feruntur Fabulae XXXII in Italia nuper repertae, nunc primum in Germania editae, adiunctis Dorvillii et Burmanni emendationibus. Jena 1812

Progr. Hieronymi de Bosch Curae secundae in Horatii epistolam ad Pisones de arte poetica e schedis b. Auctoris nunc primum editae. Jena 1812

Memoriam Viri Perillustris, Christiani Gottl. de Voigt. JUD Vimariae d. 19 May a. 1813 defuncti, cibus commendat Universitas litterarum Ienensis. Jena 1813

Panegyrin honori et memoriae Viri Perillustris, Aug. Frid. Caroli LB de Ziegesar, insttuendam Academiae Ienensis auctoritate indicit. Jena 1814

Progr. Flaviani de Jesu Christo testimonii. . . quo jure nuper rursus defensa sit. Quaestio I-IV. Jena 1813–1814

Vitae parallelae Joannis Jacobi Griesbachii and Caroli Christiani Erhardi Schmidii. Part. I., II., III. Jena 1815–1816

Some suggestions for promoting humanistic studies at universities. Jena 1816

Progr. Drama Christianum, quod . . . . . . inscription, num Gregorio Nazianzeno tribuendum sit. Jena 1816

Progr. M. Cornelii Frontonis operum nuer in lucem protractorum notitia et specimen. Jena 1816

De Symmachi Orationum particulis, from Ang. Maio nuper in lucem protractis. Jena 1816

Progr. Theologiae studium academicum sex semestribus descriptum. Part. I., II., III.,. 1816–1817

Progr. De jurisprudentiae studio, semestribus academicis recte accommodando. Jena 1818

Progr. de medicinae studio, semestribus academicis recte accommodando. Jena 1817

Progr. De. principum Saxonicorum Ernestinae prosapiae in religionem, ecclesiam, litteras meritis. Jena 1817

Progr. Davidis Ruhnkenii in antiquitates Romanas lectiones academicae cum annotatione editoris. IV. Jena 1818–1822

Progr. The Lygdami Carminibus, quae nuper appellata sunt. Commentatio I. Jena 1819

Progr. de supposito versu paenultimo in Horatii Oda prima. Jena 1818

Progr. de suppositis versibus in Horatii Oda III, 11, 17-20. Jena 1819

Inscripto arenaria, Treveris nuper reperta. Jena 1819

Progr. Lucianus num scriptis suis adiuvare religionem Christianam voluerit. Jena 1820

Progr. De servitute luminum et ne luminibus officiatur, ad explicandum Ciceronis locum I Orat. 39. Commentatio I et II. Jena 1820

On the true location of the Battle of Hermann, two new investigations by General Freyh. v. Hammerstein and Privy Councilor of Hohenhausen. With a letter to H. Geh. Judicial and senior appeal. Rath. Freyh. v. Strombeck. Altenburg 1821

Progr. Exercises Antoninianae. Jena, 1821–1822, 4. Vols.

Progr. De instituto scriptionis academiacae, in Academia Jenensi nuper in usum revocato. Jena 1822