Johann Theodor Jablonski

Johann Theodor Jablonski (* December 15, 1654 probably in Gdansk, † April 28, 1731 in Berlin), Protestant, was a German educator and lexicographer.

Life

His father was from Jablůnka born in the Moravian Wallachia Figulus preacher, who had changed his name after his birth, because he had been persecuted many times as Bishop of the Bohemian Brethren. He had found asylum in Gdansk.

Johann Theodor Jablonski came very early to Amsterdam, where he was brought up by his grandfather, the great pedagogue Johann Amos Comenius. After his death in 1670 he returned back to Germany and became a student of Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. In 1672 he studied at the Albertina in Königsberg and then went to the Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder, where he continued his studies until 1674. Along with his brother Daniel Ernst Jablonski he undertook in 1680 a trip to the Netherlands and England.

In 1687, he became secretary of married with Prince Radziwill Princess Marie Eleonore of Anhalt- Dessau, daughter of Prince Johann Georg II, and followed her to Poland. Very soon afterwards, probably after the death of Prince Radziwill in 1689, he assumed the same position at Duke Henry of Saxony- Weissenfels - Barby. Finally, he went in 1700 to Berlin, where he became a tutor to the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm part of Prussia and on the other hand secretary of the Electoral Prussian Society of Sciences, who had founded his brother together with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the same year.

Works

Jablonski's main work is the General Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, which was released in 1721.

In the years 1711-1712 he published under the pseudonym Pierre Rondeau, a Franco - German and German - French dictionary and a grammar of the French language. In addition, he translated the treatise De moribus Germanorum of Tacitus, writing for the Prussian Prince ethics.