Georg Gustav Fülleborn (2 March 1769 – 6 February 1803) was a German
philosopher
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
,
philologist and miscellaneous writer.
Biography
Fülleborn was born at
Glogau,
Silesia. He studied
theology at the
University of Halle, where he was introduced to
classical philology by
Friedrich August Wolf. He received his
Doctor of Philosophy in recognition of the thesis "''De Xenophane, Zenone et Gorgia''". He took diaconal orders in 1791, but almost immediately became a professor of classical languages at the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in
Breslau. He died from a heart attack at the age of 33 in Breslau.
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His philosophical works include annotations to
Christian Garve's translation of the "''
Politics''" of
Aristotle (1799–1800), and a large share of the "''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie''" (published in twelve parts between 1791 and 1799), in which he collaborated with
Friedrich Karl Forberg,
Karl Leonhard Reinhold,
Friedrich August Carus
Friedrich August Carus (26 April 1770, Bautzen – 6 February 1807, Leipzig) was a German philosopher. He was the father of surgeon Ernst August Carus (1797–1854).
From 1788 to 1793 he studied philosophy and theology at the universities o ...
and
Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer
Friedrich Philipp Immanuel Niethammer (6 March 1766 – 1 April 1848), later Ritter von Niethammer, was a German theologian, philosopher and Lutheran educational reformer.
Biography
He received instruction at the Maulbronn monastery, and in 17 ...
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In philology he wrote:
*''Encyclopaedia philologica sive primae lineae Isagoges in antiquorum studia'' (1798; 2nd edition, 1805)
*''Kurze Theorie des lateinischen Stils'' (1793).
*''Leitfaden der Rhetorik'' (1802).
* Persius, ''Satires'' (annotated), editor.
Under the pseudonym "Edelwald Justus" he published several collections of popular tales:Fülleborn, Georg Gustav]
at Neue Deutsche Biographie
*''Bunte Blätter'' (1795).
*''
Kleine Schriften zur Unterhaltung'' (1798).
*''Nebenstunden'' (1799).
After his death were published:
*''Taschenbuch für Brunnengäste'' (1806).
*''Kanzelreden'' (1807).
He was a frequent contributor to the press, where his writings were very popular.
References
* This work in turn cites:
**Johann Gottlieb Schummel, ''Gedächtnisrede'' (1803).
**Johann Gottlieb Schummel, ''Garve und Fülleborn'' (1804).
**
Johann Georg Meusel
Johann Georg Meusel (17 March 1743 – 19 September 1820) was a German bibliographer, lexicographer and historian.
Meusel was born in Eyrichshof. From 1764 he studied history and philology at the University of Göttingen, where his instructo ...
, ''Gelehrtes Teutschland'', vol. ii.
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1769 births
1803 deaths
German philologists
18th-century German philosophers
German classical scholars
People from Głogów
People from the Province of Silesia
University of Halle alumni
18th-century German male writers