Johann Matthias Gesner

**Johann Matthias Gesner**
	German classical scholar and schoolmaster (1691–1761)
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Date of birth	9 April 1691; Roth
Date of death	3 August 1761, 30 August 1761; Göttingen
Country of citizenship	Germany;
Educated at	Friedrich Schiller University Jena;
Occupation	librarian; schoolmaster; classical philologist; university teacher; penman; art historian;
Employer	University of Göttingen;
Member of	Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony; Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences;
Position held	head teacher;
Child	Christine Elisabeth Gessner;
Work location	Weimar; Leipzig; Göttingen;
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English: Johann Matthias Gesner (1691–1761) was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.

Portraits

The Göttingen university library (former Bibliotheca Büloviana), detail of a handcolored engraving by Georg Balthasar Probst, 1750
Emblem of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft Göttingen", founded by Gesner

Frontage of the Auditoriengebäude at Göttingen, Germany
Portraits of Haller, Gesner and Mosheim at the frontage of the Auditoriengebäude at Göttingen, Germany