Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel

Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel ( born June 28, 1736, in Colmar, † May 1, 1809 ) was a German writer, scientist and military educator from the Alsace.

Life

Pfeffel studied in Halle, et al by Christian Wolff. In 1763 he was Councilor in Darmstadt. 1773 opened Pfeffel in Colmar the Ecole militaire ( since 1782 Académie militaire ) for Protestant boys who mostly belonged to the nobility. His students included, among other things Philipp Emanuel of Fellberg and Carl Isenburg to. In 1783 he became an honorary member of the Grand Council of Biel. In 1803 he was president of the Consistory of Colmar. In 1808 he became an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

The since 1758 by a cataract nearly blind Pfeffel looked after 1790 compelled to feed through the publication of poems and prose writings in almanacs and other journals his family after he had almost lost his entire fortune in the French Revolution. He wrote, inspired by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, especially fables with social criticism and political teaching content and narrative poems ( Tobacco pipe).

Pfeffel was a member of the Helvetic Society and Colmarer Reading Society. His affiliation with Freemasonry was claimed, but is unproven; his son Gottlieb Conrad August Pfeffel (* Colmar 1759), who studied law in Göttingen, was recorded there in 1781 in the Lodge At the Golden Circle.

Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel name carries in Colmar a school, the Collège Pfeffel.

Works (selection)

Posthumously published 20 volumes of poetic and prosaic attempts to present digitized on the server of the University Library Freiburg.

• Biography of a poodle and other satires. Langewiesche -Brandt, Ebenshausen 1987, ISBN 3-7846-0134-0.
• Political fables stories and verses. Greno -Verlag, Nördlingen, 1987, ISBN 3-89190-837-7.