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Johann Gottlob Hertel
Best known today as one of J. S. Bach’s pupils at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, he is a shadowy but intriguing figure from the world around Bach. The surviving record is slim, yet it places him squarely inside one of the most famous musical and scholarly circles of 18th-century Germany.
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Dissertationem de hominibvs post mortem sangvisvgis, vvlgo sic dictis Vampyren
by Johann Christoph Pohl, Johann Gottlob Hertel
About the author
Johann Gottlob Hertel was an 18th-century German scholar known from records connected with Leipzig. A short biography on the Bach Cantatas website identifies him as a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach, noting that he enrolled at the Thomasschule in Leipzig on May 18, 1720, studied there until 1730, and also attended the University of Leipzig from 1725, earning his Baccalaureus and Magister degrees in 1734.
That same source gives only a partial outline of his life, including an estimated birth around 1705 in Leipzig and no firmly determined death date. Because the surviving information is so limited, much of his personal story remains unclear.
He is also associated with the Latin dissertation Dissertationem de hominibus post mortem sanguisugis, vulgo sic dictis Vampyren, linked to his name in library and ebook records. No reliable portrait was found from the sources reviewed, so a profile image is not included.