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Johann Gottlob Hertel
An 18th-century German scholar with ties to Leipzig and the circle around J. S. Bach, he is remembered today mostly through a small surviving paper trail rather than a large public legacy. What can be confirmed suggests a learned academic life shaped by theology, university study, and the intellectual world of early Enlightenment Germany.
1 Audiobook
Dissertationem de hominibvs post mortem sangvisvgis, vvlgo sic dictis Vampyren
by Johann Christoph Pohl, Johann Gottlob Hertel
About the author
Available sources identify Johann Gottlob Hertel as a German scholar active in the first half of the 18th century. A short biographical notice says he was born around 1705 in Leipzig, enrolled at the Thomasschule there in 1720, studied at the school until 1730, and attended the University of Leipzig from 1725, later earning the Baccalaureus and Magister degrees in 1734.
That same source places him in the orbit of Johann Sebastian Bach, describing him as one of Bach's pupils during his years at the Thomasschule. The surviving record appears to be fairly slim, so many details of his later life are uncertain; even the date of his death is not clearly established in the sources I found.
He is also associated with a Latin dissertation published with Johann Christoph Pohl, which points to the learned, academic side of his work. In short, Hertel seems to belong to the wide world of 18th-century German students, teachers, and scholars whose names survive in catalogs, school records, and specialized music-history references rather than in broad popular biographies.