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JOHANN HEINRICH JUNG (1740-1817)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHANN HEINRICH

JUNG (1740-1817)  , best known by his assumed name of HEINRICH STILLING, German author, was born in the
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village of Grund near Hilchenbach in Westphalia on the 12th of September 1740 . His
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father, Wilhelm Jung, school-master and tailor, was the son of Eberhard Jung,
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charcoal-burner, and his
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mother was Dortchen Moritz, daughter of a poor clergyman . Jung became, by his father's
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desire, schoolmaster and tailor, but found both pursuits equally wearisome . After various teaching appointments he went in 1768 with "
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half a French
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dollar " to study
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medicine at the university of Strassburg . There he met Goethe, who introduced him to Herder . The acquaintance with Goethe ripened into friendship; and it was by his influence that Jung's first and best
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work, Heinrich Stillings Jugend was written . In 1772 he settled at
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Elberfeld as physician and oculist, and soon became celebrated for operations in cases of cataract . Surgery, however, was not much more to his taste than tailoring or teaching; and in 1778 he was glad to accept the appointment of lecturer on " agriculture, technology, commerce and the veterinary
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art" in the newly established Kameralschule at Kaiserslautern, a
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post which he continued to hold when the school was absorbed in the university of
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Heidelberg . In 1787 he was appointed professor of economical,
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financial and statistical science in the university of Marburg . In 1803 he resigned his professorship and returned to Heidelberg, where he remained until 18o6; when he received a pension from the
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grand-duke Charles Frederick of Baden, and removed to Karlsruhe, where he remained until his
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death on the 2nd of
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April 1817 . He was married three times, and
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left a numerous
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family . Of his
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works his autobiography Heinrich Stillings Leben, from which he came to be known as Stilling, is the only one now of any
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interest, and is the chief authority for his
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life .

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early novels reflect the piety of his early surroundings . A
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complete edition of his numerous works, in 14 vols . 8vo, was published at
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Stuttgart in 1835-1838 . There are
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English
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translations by Sam . Jackson of the Leben (1835) and of the Theorie der Geisterkunde (
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London, 1834, and New York, 1851); and of Theobald, or the Fanatic, a religious
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romance, by the Rev . Sam . Schaeffer (1846) . See
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biographies by F . W . Bodemann (1868), J. v . Ewald (1817), Peterson (1890) .

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