Johann Jakob Ebert was born in Breslaw on 20 November 1737 and died there on 18 March 1805. After having been a student of the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslaw, in 1756 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig. In 1760 he became Magister in Leipzig with the privilege of offering courses in mathematics and philosophy and exercitations in style and disputing. His education was accomplished by the conversation with eminent scholars such as Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and Johann August Ernesti and by a journey through Germany and France he took in 1764. In 1768 he was in St. Petersburg as the preceptor to the children of the Russian minister Grigorii Teplov. In 1770 he accepted a call to a professorship of mathematics at the University of Wittenberg, where he distinguished himself through the excellence of his mathematical and philosophical courses, as the head of the pedagogical seminary, and as the rector of the university in 1802.
Pozzo, R. (2010). Ebert, Johann Jakob. In H.F. KLEMME M. KUEHN H. ADLER M. ALBRECHT H. BONING D. BREAZALE J.C. LAURSEN M. PAUEN R. POZZO H. SCHMITT E. WATKINS (a cura di), The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers (pp. 268-269). London : Continuum.
Ebert, Johann Jakob
R. POZZO
2010-01-01
Abstract
Johann Jakob Ebert was born in Breslaw on 20 November 1737 and died there on 18 March 1805. After having been a student of the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslaw, in 1756 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig. In 1760 he became Magister in Leipzig with the privilege of offering courses in mathematics and philosophy and exercitations in style and disputing. His education was accomplished by the conversation with eminent scholars such as Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and Johann August Ernesti and by a journey through Germany and France he took in 1764. In 1768 he was in St. Petersburg as the preceptor to the children of the Russian minister Grigorii Teplov. In 1770 he accepted a call to a professorship of mathematics at the University of Wittenberg, where he distinguished himself through the excellence of his mathematical and philosophical courses, as the head of the pedagogical seminary, and as the rector of the university in 1802.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
