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GESNER, JOHANN MATTHIAS (1691—1761)

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GESNER, JOHANN See also:MATTHIAS (1691—1761) , See also:German classical See also:scholar and schoolmaster, was See also:born at See also:Roth near See also:Ansbach on the 9th of See also:April 1691. He studied at the university of See also:Jena, and in 1714 published a See also:work on the See also:Philopatris ascribed to See also:Lucian. In 1715 he became librarian and conrector (See also:vice-See also:principal) at See also:Weimar, in 1729 See also:rector of the gymnasium at Ansbach, and in 1730 rector of the See also:Thomas school at See also:Leipzig. On the See also:foundation of the university of See also:Gottingen he became See also:professor of See also:rhetoric (1734) and subsequently librarian. He died at Gottingen on the 3rd of See also:August 1761. His See also:special merit lies in the See also:attention he devoted to the explanation and See also:illustration of the subject See also:matter of the classical authors. His principal See also:works are; See also:editions of the Scriptores rei rusticae, of See also:Quintilian, Claudian, See also:Pliny the Younger, See also:Horace and the Orphic poems (published after his See also:death) ; See also:Primate. lineae isagoges in eruditionem universalem (1756) ; an edition of B. See also:Faber's See also:Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae (1726), afterwards continued under the See also:title Novus linguae et eruditionis Romanae thesaurus (1749) ; Opuscula minora varii arumenti (1743–1745) ; Thesaurus epistolicus Gesnerianus (ed. See also:Klotz, 1768-1770); See also:Index etymologicus latinitatis (1749). See J. A. See also:Ernesti, Opuscula oratoria (1762), p.

305; H. Sauppe, Gottinger Professoren ((1872) ; C. H. Pohnert, /`. M, Gesner and sein Vcrhaltnis zum Philanthropinismus and Neuhumanismus (1898), a contribution to the See also:

history of pedagogy in the 18th See also:century; articles by F. A. Eckstein in Allgemeine deutsche Biographic ix.; and See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. iii. (1908), 5-9.

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