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Carl Heinrich Seibt

1735 – 1806

German educationist

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Lived 1735 – 1806 (aged 71). Carl Heinrich Seibt was a German pedagogue, university teacher, aesthetician, philosopher and literary historian.

Karl Heinrich Seibt (21 March 1735 – 2 April 1806) was a pioneering German Catholic theologian and teacher.

Life Karl Heinrich von Seibt was born in Mariental (Oberlausitz), a long-established settlement on the banks of the Neisse river at the northern frontier of Bohemia, which at that time (and by many criteria till 1945) was culturally and linguistically German. At the time of his birth his father was a "Klostersekretär" (monastery administrator) working for the monastery around which the little village clustered, and at which, according to some sources, Karl Heinrich was born.

He received his first formal education the monastery, before moving on for an education in "the humanities" Between 1756 and 1760 Leipzig came under Prussian military occupation in the context of the Seven Years' War. The soldiers presumably brought disruption and plague to the city: students stayed away and Seibt eventually returned to Prague.

In January 1783, Seibt was elected to serve a term as university rector. In the end - unusually - he served a double (two year) term. In 1796 Seibt took over as Dean of the Philosophy Faculty. Seibt exercised a strong influence on the successor generation of academics and philosophers in Bohemia, including Josef Dobrovský. By the end of the nineteenth century the abandonment of Latin as a universal language for the multi-ethnic Habsburg lands was leading not to its replacement with German but to the increased application of a series of regional languages such as (in Bohemia) Czech, and across the border to the north various Sorbian dialects.

Works (selection) Von dem Einfluß der schönen Wissenschaften auf die Ausbildung des Verstandes; eine Rede. Prag 1764 Trauerrede, dem höchstseligen Hintritt Franz I., Römischen Kaisers geweiht. Wien 1765 Von dem Nutzen der Moral in der Beredsamkeit. Prag 1767 Schreiben an den unbekannten Uebersetzer der Abhandlungen von Tugenden und Belohnungen. Prag 1769 Vom Unterschied des Zierlichen im Hof- und Curialstyl. Prag 1769 Academische Vorübungen aus seinen gehaltenen Vorlesungen über die deutsche Schreibart. Prag 1769 Academische Reden und Abhandlungen. Prag 1771 Academische Vorübungen aus den von ihm gehaltenen Vorlesungen über die deutsche Schreibart. Prag 1771 Rede von dem Einfluß der Erziehung auf die Glückseligkeit des Staats. Prag 1771 Von den Hülfsmitteln einer guten deutschen Schreibart, eine Rede ammt einigen dahin gehörigen Ausarbeitungen. Prag 1773 Ueber die Vortheile eines empfindsamen Herzens, eine Rede. Prag 1773 Gabrieli Montalte, ein Trauerspiel in einem Act. Dresden 1776 Katholisches Lehr und Gebetbuch. Prag 1779, Bamberg 1780, Salzburg 1780, Salzburg 1783, München 1816 (Online) Neues katholisches Lehr- und Gebetbuch. 2te rechtmäßige durchaus verbesserte und sehr vermehrte Ausgabe. Prag und Dresden 1783, 3. Ausg. Salzburg 1784, Prag 1788 (1787), Salzburg 1790, Prag 1816, Augsburg 1818 Academische Blumenlese. Prag 1784 (Online) Lehr- und Gebetbuch für die katholische Jugend. Bamberg und Würzburg, 1792, (Online); 1839, Augsburg, 1839, 4. Aufl., (Online); Augsburg, 1846, 5. Aufl., (Online); Klugheitslehre, practisch abgehandelt in academischen Vorlesunge. Prag 1799 2. Bde., 2. Aufl. Prag 1815 2. Bde. (Bd. 2 online), 3. Aufl. Prag 1824 2 Bde. (Bd. 1 online)

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Rector of Charles University
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Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Charles University
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German educationist (1735-1806)

When was Carl Heinrich Seibt born?

Carl Heinrich Seibt was born on 21 March 1735 in Ostritz.

When did Carl Heinrich Seibt die?

Carl Heinrich Seibt died on 2 April 1806 in Prague.

What was Carl Heinrich Seibt's occupation?

Carl Heinrich Seibt was a pedagogue, university teacher, aesthetician, philosopher and literary historian.

What nationality was Carl Heinrich Seibt?

Carl Heinrich Seibt was German.

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· Wikidata: Q1731509

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