Friedrich Majer (1772 -1818)

Friedrich Majer (also Maier) (* 28 April 1772 in Koskau near Schleiz , 15 May 1818 in Gera ) was a German historian and ethnographer .

Majer was born as the son of a preacher, later a pastor in Tanna . From 1781 he studied in Jena and afterwards lived in Weimar. He became a princely prince of the later Prince of Reuss-Schleiz Heinrich LXII, 1804-1805. And led him to the universities of Würzburg and Bamberg. Because of the events of the war , the Grand Tour of the Prince, in which Majer was intended as companion, could not take place. Therefore, he lived in Jena and taught as a lecturer in Weimar. Starting from 1804 he was princely Reussisch-Schleizischer Rat, last legation council .

Majer's research focus was on folklore, especially on religion. He was a pupil of Johann Gottfried Herder and introduced Arthur Schopenhauer 1813 into the ancient Hindu thinking.

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History of the Ordales, in particular the judicial battles in Germany. A fragment from the history and the antiquities of the German court constitution. Academic bookstore, Jena, 1795 (Unchanged revision of the Central German Book of Antiquities, Leipzig, 1970).
Letters on the ideal of history. Bohn, Lübeck 1796, Digitisat .
On the cultural history of the peoples. Historical investigations. 2 volumes. Hartknoch, Leipzig, 1798.
General History of the Law of Fist in Germany. Volume 1, section 1-2 (more not published [1] ). Frölich, Berlin, 1799.
Bertrand Du Guesclin. Romantic biography. 2 volumes. Wilmanns, Bremen, 1801-1802.
General Mythological Lexicon. Section 1, Volume 1-2 (more not published [2] ). Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar 1803-1804.
Chronicle of the Princely House of the Reussen von Plauen. At the expense of the author, Weimar, 1811.
Mythological pocketbook, or depiction and description of the myths, religious ideas and customs of all peoples. Designed according to the best sources for each class of readers. 2 years. Publisher of the Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar 1811, 1813, ZDB-ID 720140-0 .
Anonymous : Proposals for the quality of the restoration of Germany. Germania (ie: publisher of the Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar) 1814, Digitisat at Google Books .
Brahma, or the religion of the Indians as Brahmanism. CH Reclam, Leipzig 1818, Digitisat .
Mythological poems and songs of the Scandinavians. Translated from the Icelandic of the younger and older Edda and accompanied with some notes. Cnobloch, Leipzig 1818.