Jakob Friedrich Heusinger (11 April 1719 in Useborn in der

Wetterau The Wetterau is a fertile undulating tract, watered by the Wetter, a tributary of the Nidda River, in the western German state of Hesse, between the hilly province Oberhessen and the north-western Taunus mountains. Bettina von Arnim writes of We ...

– 27 September 1778 in

Wolfenbüttel Wolfenbüttel (; nds, Wulfenbüddel) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District. It is best known as the location of the internationally renowned Herzog August Library and for having the largest c ...

) was a German

classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and ot ...

. He studied

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

and

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

, receiving his

magister degree A magister degree (also magistar, female form: magistra; from la, magister, "teacher") is an academic degree used in various systems of higher education. The magister degree arose in medieval universities in Europe and was originally equal to the ...

in 1748. Afterwards, he served as conrector (from 1750) and

rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...

(from 1759) at the gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel. As a classical scholar he edited works by

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

Cornelius Nepos Cornelius Nepos (; c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona. Biography Nepos's Cisalpine birth is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him ''Padi a ...

Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''P ...

, et al.Most widely held works by Jakob Friedrich Heusinger
WorldCat Identities

Selected works

* "''Codicis M.S. qui Aiacem et Electram Sophoclis continet, brevem descriptionem, et in easdem tragoedias observationum specimen''", 1745; respondent Friedrich Liebe. * "''De Quatuor Evangeliorum Codice Graeco quem antiqua manu in membrana scriptum Guelferbytana bibliotheca servat''", 1752 (Referring to the Codex Guelferbytanus containing the four

canonical Gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

). * "''Programma de Nepote Cornelio bene merendi aliquot subsidia Bibliothecae Guelpherbytanae indicans''", 1759.Jakob Friedrich Heusinger
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek * "''Fragmenta Cornelii Nepotis Guelpherbytana a censoria Lipsiensis critici virgula vindicate''", 1760. * "''Fl. Mallii Theodori De metris liber''", 1766 (edition of

Flavius Mallius Theodorus Flavius Mallius Theodorus ( c. 376–409) was a Roman politician and author of an extant treatise on metres, ''De metris'', one of the best of its kind (H. Keil, ''Grammatici Latini'', vi.). He also studied philosophy, astronomy and geometry, and w ...

' treatise on metres). * "''M. Tullii Ciceronis De officiis libri tres''", 1783; with Johann Michael Heusinger, Konrad Heusinger (edition of Cicero's "''

De Officiis ''De Officiis'' (''On Duties'' or ''On Obligations'') is a political and ethical treatise by the Roman orator, philosopher, and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero written in 44 BC. The treatise is divided into three books, in which Cicero expounds h ...

''", book III.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heusinger, Jakob Friedrich 1719 births 1778 deaths People from Wetteraukreis University of Jena alumni German classical philologists