Johann Heinrich Jung
Johann Heinrich Jung ( called Jung-Stilling ) ( born September 12, 1740 in Basic in the winning country, † April 2, 1817 in Karlsruhe ) was a German ophthalmologist, economist and writer.
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Life
His father was the village tailor Johann Helmann Jung (1716-1802), who is called in the life story of " William ," his mother Johanna Dorothea nee Fischer ( " Dot ", possibly also called Dorte; * 1717) died on April 19, 1742 when Jung was 18 months old. Young grew up in one of the then customary for large families. These belonged to the lower middle class; beside the father and grandfather of the income the family owned a house and a teilselbstversorgende agriculture.
Jung changed after visiting the village - to -Latin School, which he left at age 14. After his confirmation Jung received the first schoolmaster place. He was now regularly worked as a teacher in his native villages from Thursdays to Saturdays. On the remaining days of the week he worked in his father's tailor shop.
After the remarriage of his father, he left as a 22 -year-old his home. Seven years pass, Jung was the right hand of the manufacturer and foreign trade merchant Peter John Flender ( in the narratives referred to as " Mr. Spanier " ) in Kräwinklerbrücke in the Bergische Land. Jung looked at Flender as a merchant 's assistant and a teacher of the children of the patron and also learned even more languages ( French, German, Greek, Hebrew). After a brief study of medicine in Strasbourg, where he met Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder, he settled as a general practitioner in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal to ) down. There he also began ophthalmologic surgery; until the end of his operated Jung-Stilling to the 3,000 patients.
Due to several technical and economic articles in the literature Jung was appointed as a professor at the Kameral High School in Kaiserslautern. He therefore gave his occupation as a doctor and taught from 1778 in Kaiserslautern as a professor of agriculture, technology, factories and commercial customers as well as cattle Pharmacology. When the Kameral High School in 1784 merged with the University of Heidelberg, he moved again. After a few years in Heidelberg Jung taught from 1787 to 1803 as professor of economic sciences at the University of Marburg and was appointed in 1803 by Karl Friedrich of Baden, later with the rank of Privy Court Councillor in clergy things to consultants without public office. In 1798 he founded, together with the chief forester Friedrich Ludwig von Witzleben the forest institute to Waldau.
From 1806 until his death he lived as a Grand Duchy of Baden Privy Councilor Johann Heinrich Jung called Jung-Stilling, in Karlsruhe by a board of electors. Why did Jung called " Stilling " beilegte, is not exactly known; " Silent " meant in his time in the first place "peaceful". Other statements indicate that he was known for his membership in the quiet in the land, the Pietists, Jung- Stilling.
High notoriety gained by his young friend Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who had published the first volume of his memoirs without knowledge guys: Henrich Stillings youth. A true story, a time usually encrypted autobiography and an important precursor to the development of the novel.
The novels - History of the Lord of Morgenthau (1779 ), History of Florentins Pale Dorn (1781 ) and Life of Theodore von der Linden (1783 ) - show him the "sentimental " as a representative of the educational novel. With the novel Homesickness (1794-1796 published in four volumes ) began Jung- Stilling's religious late work, which is characterized by clearly represented pietistic positions. As one of the most influential of the late pietism Jung-Stilling became a pioneer of the revival movement. In particular, the periodicals The gray man (1795-1816) and their Christian philanthropist biblical narratives (1808-1816) was Jung-Stilling the leading writers of the devotional revival movement and one of the most widely read religious writers ever.
Monuments and Memories
In Hückeswagen is the so-called Jung-Stilling - house in the village Hartkopsbever. Another Jung-Stilling - house there in the student village of Marburg. In Hilchenbach him grateful friends and patrons erected a monument on a relief medallion shows his head in left profile. In the museums in Hilchenbach and in the Upper Castle in Siegen Jung-Stilling parlors were established, which are reminiscent of his life's work.
In Hilchenbach there was also a Jung-Stilling - school and in the neighboring town Kreuztal there is the Jung-Stilling Community Primary School Kreuztal - Kredenbach. Furthermore, there is in the community Dietzhölztal - Ewersbach a Jung-Stilling Elementary School.
In Siegen, there is the Jung-Stilling Hospital. The establishment lies on the roster Berg is a teaching hospital of the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University in Bonn.
Streets, squares and paths
In Kaiserslautern, where he worked long, a street is named after Jung-Stilling. In Hilchenbach there is a Jung-Stilling -Allee, in Netphen a Jung-Stilling Square.
Other roads and trails that have been designated by the name of the scholar, there are in Ahlen, Betz village, Bochum, Burbach, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Freudenberg, Hückeswagen, Karlsruhe, Kreuztal, Neunkirchen, Radevormwald, Siegen, Wilnsdorf and Wuppertal.
Family and kinship
Heinrich Jung-Stilling was married three times:
Memberships
Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling was an active member of the Federation of the Freemasons. His lodge was the Karl August to the three flaming heart in Kaiserslautern. In addition, he was the personal guarantor of his fellow brother Max von Schenkendorfstraße at its intake by 1812. Claimed a growing distancing of Jung-Stilling of Freemasonry to 1787 should be viewed with skepticism.
Works (selection)
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- Trains from the life of Johann Heinrich Jung called Stilling. Edited: Fr Wilh. Bode man, Bielefeld 1868 (ULB Münster)
- Heinrich Jung-Stilling reading book. Compiled and with an afterword by Thomas Weitin Nylands Small Westphalian Library Volume 29, Biel field: Aisthesis 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-845-6.