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Johann Matthias Gesner (
9 April 1691 -
3 August 1761), was a
German classical scholar and
schoolmaster.
He was born at
Roth an der Rednitz near
Ansbach. He studied at the
University of Jena, and in
1714 published a work on the
Philopatiis ascribed to
Lucian. In
1715 he became
librarian and vice-principal at
Weimar, where he became good friends with
Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach later dedicated his
Canon a 2 perpetuus BWV 1075 to Gesner), in
1729 rector of the gymnasium at Ansbach, and in
1730 rector of the
Thomas school at
Leipzig. On the foundation of the
University of Göttingen he became professor of
rhetoric (
1734) and subsequently librarian. He died at
Göttingen.
His special merit lies in the attention he devoted to the explanation and illustration of the subject matter of the classical authors.
Works
- editions of the Scriptores rei rusticae, of Quintilian, Claudian, Pliny the Younger, Horace and the Orphic poems (published after his death)
- Primæ lineæ isagoges in eruditionem universalem (1756)
- an edition of Basilius Faber's Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae (1726), afterwards continued under the title Novus linguae et eruditionis Romanae thesaurus (1749)
- Opuscula minora varii argumenti (1743—1745)
- Thesaurus epistolicus Gesnerianus (ed. Klotz, 1768—1770)
- Index etymologicus latinitatis (1749)
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