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BUSCHING, ANTON FRIEDRICH (1724-1793)
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See also:BUSCHING, ANTON See also:FRIEDRICH (1724-1793) , See also:German theologian and geographer, was See also:born at Stadthagen in Schaumburg-See also:Lippe, on the 27th of See also:September 1724. In 1748 he was appointed See also:tutor in the See also:family of the See also:count de Lynars, who was then going as See also:ambassador to St See also:Petersburg. On this See also:journey he resolved to devote his See also:life to the improvement of See also:geographical See also:science. Leaving the count's family, he went to reside at See also:Copenhagen, and devoted himself entirely to this new pursuit. In 1752 he published his Description of the Counties of See also:Schleswig and See also:Holstein. In 1754 he removed to See also:Gottingen, where in 1757 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:philosophy; but in 1761 he accepted an invitation to the German See also:congregation at St See also:Peters-See also:burg. There he organized a school which, under him, soon became one of the most flourishing in the See also:north of See also:Europe, but a disagreement with See also:Marshal See also:Munich led him, in spite of the empress's offers of high See also:advancement, to return to central Europe in 1765. He first went to live at See also:Altona; but next See also:year he was called to superintend the famous " Greyfriars Gymnasium " (Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster), which had been formed at See also:Berlin by See also:Frederick the See also:Great. He died of See also:dropsy on the 28th of May 1793, having by See also:writing and example given a new impulse to See also:education throughout See also:Prussia. While at Gottingen he married the poetess, Christiana Dilthey. Busching's See also:works (on See also:geography, See also:history, education and See also:religion) amount to more than a See also:hundred. The first class comprehends those upon which his fame chiefly rests; for although he did not possess the See also:genius of D'See also:Anville, he may be regarded as the creator of See also:modern Statistical Geography. His magnum See also:opus is the Erdebeschreibung, in seven parts, of which the first four, comprehending Europe, were published in 1754-1761, and have been translated into several See also:languages (e.g. into See also:English with a See also:preface by Murdoch, in six volumes, See also:London, 1762). In 1763 the fifth See also:part was published, being the first See also:volume upon See also:Asia, containing See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey and See also:Arabia. It displays an immense extent of See also:research, and is generally considered as his masterpiece. Busching was also the editor of a valuable collection entitled Magazin See also:fur d. neue Historie and Geographie (23 vols. 4to, 1767—1793); also of Wochentl. Nachrichten von neuen Landkarten (Berlin, 1773—1787). His works on education enjoyed great repute. In See also:biography he wrote a number of articles for the above-mentioned Magazin, and a valuable collection of Beitrage zur Lebensgeschichte merkwurdiger Personen (6 vols., 1783—1789), including an elaborate life of Frederick the Great. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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