Johann Jakob Reiske
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Johann Jakob Reiske was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics.
Johann Jakob Reiske
The Old St. Nicholas School was the first non-church secondary school in Leipzig, Germany. The native German name is Alte Nikolaischule, the Latin name was Schola Nikolaitana. Old St. Nicholas School
Johann Jakob Reiske
…never came back seriously to this topic. At length in 1758 the magistrates of Leipzig rescued him from his misery by giving him the rectorate of the St. Nicholas School, and, though he still made no way with the leading men of the university and suffered from the hostility of men like Ruhnken and J.D. Michaelis, he was…
Alte Nikolaischule in Leipzig
The building complex in 1875: From left: Commercial building (ground floor only), St. Nicholas School, Priests' Houses
State of the backyard in 1980
Summer at the Old St. Nicholas School, Leipzig