Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein
Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein ( born August 25, 1753 Helmstedt, † February 17, 1816 ) was a German zoologist and librarian.
Lichtenstein was the son of Privy Councillor and Mayor of Helmstedt Johann Diedrich Lichtenstein and father of the late zoologist Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein.
His first lessons got Lichtenstein by the town clerk Helmstedter Lange, who excellently prepared him to the urban high school. There Lichtenstein was, inter alia, Students of the Director M. Mirus (Latin ) and Prof. Beauregard (French). Easter 1771 Lichtenstein student of Georg -August- University of Göttingen and also visited Lectures of professors Gottfried Less, Johann David Michaelis, Johann Peter Miller (1725-1789) and Franz Walch.
By the end of September 1772 changed Lichtenstein at the University of Leipzig, where the professors Christian August Crusius, Johann August Ernesti among others his teachers were. Beginning of 1773 brought the Lichtenstein family home because his father had died. Lichtenstein remained in his hometown and got by the City Council with effect from October 30, 1773 a teaching license of Oriental Languages granted. The theologian Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke supported Lichtenstein thereby significantly.
As a light stone in autumn 1774 a professorship at the University of Jena as ao Was Professor of Philosophy, he refused and became rector of the Helmstedter for city school. With effect from August 26, 1777 the College Scholar Hamburg Lichtenstein to the vice-principal Johanneums in Hamburg and on December 7, 1777 appointed he held there his inaugural lecture " De libertate liberalitatis ". Since 1782 he was rector of the Johanneums.
From 1794 to 1796 he was Assistant Library and from 1796 to 1798 director of the public library in Hamburg. In 1798 he was appointed professor at the University of Helmstedt.
At the age of 62 years, Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein died on 17 February 1816 a " high fever " (probably typhoid ) in his home town.
Works
- Catalogus Rerum naturalium Rarissimarum (1793), (online, BHL )
- Catalogus Musei zoologici ditissimi Hamburgi (1796 ), (online, BHL )