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

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

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