Editing Hermann Samuel Reimarus (section)

==Biography==

Reimarus was educated by his father and by the scholar [[J. A. Fabricius]], whose son-in-law he subsequently became. He attended school at the [[Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums]]. He studied [[theology]], ancient languages, and philosophy at the [[Friedrich Schiller University of Jena|University of Jena]], became ''[[Privatdozent]]'' at the [[University of Wittenberg]] in 1716, and in 1720–21 visited the [[Netherlands]] and England. In 1723 he became rector of the high school at [[Wismar]], and in 1727 professor of [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and Oriental languages at his native city's high school.<ref name=EB1911/> Although he was offered more lucrative positions by other schools, he held this post until his death.

His duties were light; and he employed his leisure in the study of [[philology]], [[mathematics]], [[philosophy]], [[history]], [[political economy]], [[science]] and [[natural history]], for which he made large collections. His house was the center of the highest culture of Hamburg; and a monument of his influence in that city still remains in the ''[[Haus der patriotischen Gesellschaft]]'', where the learned and artistic societies partly founded by him still meet. He had seven children, only three of whom survived him &ndash; the distinguished physician [[Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus]], and two daughters, one of them being Elise Reimarus, [[Gotthold Lessing|Lessing]]'s friend and correspondent. Reimarus died on 1 March 1768.<ref name=EB1911/>