Theophilus Siegfried Bayer
Illustration — Illustration for the article on Historia Osrhoena et Edessena ex numis illustrata by Theophilus Siegfried Bayer published in the 1736 volume of Acta Eruditorum Theophilus (Gottlieb) Siegfried Bayer (1694–1738) was a German classical scholar with specialization in Sinology. He was a Sinologist and professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at St Petersburg Academy of Sciences between 1726 and 1737.
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer
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- Full name
- Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer.
- Born
- 1694. · Königsberg.
- Died
- 1738. · Saint Petersburg.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- linguist, librarian, historian, writer, university teacher, sinologist and orientalist.
- Education
- University of Königsberg.
- Languages
- Latin.
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Illustration — Illustration for the article on Historia Osrhoena et Edessena ex numis illustrata by Theophilus Siegfried Bayer published in the 1736 volume of Acta Eruditorum Theophilus (Gottlieb) Siegfried Bayer (1694–1738) was a German classical scholar with specialization in Sinology. He was a Sinologist and professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at St Petersburg Academy of Sciences between 1726 and 1737.
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Bayer was a native of Königsberg, then in the Duchy of Prussia. His father Johann Friedrich was from the German Protestant minority in Hungary, but had moved to the Duchy of Prussia, where he worked as a painter. The youthful T. S. Bayer was an excellent student at the University of Königsberg, studying Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He was a Rector of the Königsberg Cathedral from 1721 to 1726, and also worked as a librarian at the Königsberg Public Library.
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• Historia regni Graecorum bactriani [A History of the Kingdom of the Bactrian Greeks]. • Manuscript in Latin and Chinese. • De Eclipsi Sinica published in 1718. • Museum Sinicum, a two-volume compendium of materials on the Chinese language published in 1730 (Google Books: volume 1, volume 2). • Works on the history of Russia, including De Varagis (1729) and Origines russicae (1736).
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Theophilus Siegfried Bayer is recorded as linguist, librarian, historian, writer and university teacher. Recorded at birth as Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer.
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1694
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer born at Königsberg.
1738
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer died at Saint Petersburg.
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He had a library of more than 200 manuscripts, Chinese and other Oriental books, including: • Telugu and Tamil Palm-leaf manuscripts • Oriental history and philology-related notes • Correspondence with Jesuits in Peking. After his death in Saint Petersburg his widow handed over his books and papers to the academy authorities, receiving the rest of her husband's pay due that year. The library was later sold to a Lutheran pastor in London, Heinrich Walter Gerdes. William Hunter later purchased the collection from Gerdes' widow. It finally reached the University of Glasgow in 1807 with a brief stay in London with Dr Matthew Baillie, Hunter's nephew.
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- 1.Isabelle Jouteur. Michel Mervaud. Les origines de la Russie de Gottlieb Bayer. Slavica Occitania. IX. 12. Toulouse. 2004. 1245-2491.
- 2.Isabelle Jouteur. Michel Mervaud. Les origines de la Russie de Gottlieb Bayer. Slavica Occitania. IX. Toulouse. 2004.
- 3.De Hyperboreis de Gottlieb Bayer. Chemins de tr@verse. 2021. 978-2-313-00632-0.
- 4.G.S. Bayer, la localisation de la Scythie au temps d'Hérodote. Chemins de tr@verse. 2025. 978-2-313-06812-0.
- 5.G.S. Bayer. Elementa Brahmanica, Tangutana, Mungalica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. IV. 1735.
- 6.Isabelle Jouteur. Michel Mervaud,. Les origines de la Russie de Gottlieb Bayer. Slavica Occitania. IX. 14. Toulouse. 2004.
- 7.Par exemple le « Périple » de Pseudo-Scylax par David Hœschel, (Augsburg, 1600), le même « Périple de Pseudo-Scylax» par Isaac Voss (Amsterdam, 1639), les éditions successives des « Petits géographes grecs » (Geographicae veteris scriptores Graeci minores) par Henry Dodwell (Oxford 1698) et John Hudson (Oxford 1712)
- 8.Les Annales de Saint-Bertin (741-882) font état d'une expédition de Varègues faisant route depuis la mer Baltique jusqu'à Constantinople, en passant par le territoire de Louis le Pieux. Bayer cite ce témoignage dans les Commentaires De Varagis et Origines Russicae
- 9.Par exemple, Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis Asiana et Europiana (1517) de Maciejz Miechow, recteur de l'Université de Cracovie, Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii (1548) de Sigmund von Herberstein, diplomate auprès de Charles Quint, Histoire du Grand Duché de Moscovie (1615) de Perl Erlesund, diplomate suédois, Noord en Ost Tartarye ( Amsterdam 1692) de Nicolaes Witsen.
- 10.G.S. Bayer. De Hyperboreis. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. XI. 1750.
- 11.G.S. Bayer. De Scythiae situ, qualis fuit sub aetatem Herodoti. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. 1726.
- 12.La théorie des Normanistes, qui considéraient les Normands ou Varègues comme les fondateurs du premier état russe, fut réfutée aux XIXe et XXe siècles par les Antinormanistes, en particulier les chercheurs soviétiques qui affirmaient l' autochtonie de la Rus' de Kiev.
- 13.G.S. Bayer. Origines Russicae. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. VIII. 1741.
- 14.Collègue et successeur de Bayer dans la section Histoire de l'Académie. Auteur d'une Sammlung Russicher Geschichte en plusieurs livres (1732-1764). G.F. Müller participa aux premières explorations scientifiques en Sibérie
- 15.Von Schlözer (1735-1809) publia une Geschichte von Russland (Göttingen 1769) puis connut la gloire en traduisant en allemand le texte original, établi et annoté, de la « Chronique de Nestor », chronique écrite au XIIe siècle par deux moines de Kiev. Cette édition critique fut publiée en 1802
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- de|Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried.
- Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer (1694–1738). Schön. 1915.
- L'avènement des sciences humaines au siècle des Lumières. Payot. 1973.
- T.S. Bayer (1694–1738). Curzon Press. 54. 1986. 0-7007-0189-3.
- Les Scythes, la civilisation des steppes (VII-III avant J.C.). Errance. 2001.
- Isabelle Jouteur. Michel Mervaud. Les origines de la Russie de Gottlieb Bayer. Slavica Occitania. IX. Toulouse. 2004.
- Histoire de la Russie et de son empire. Perrin. 2015.
- De Hyperboreis de Gottlieb Bayer. Chemins de tr@verse. 2021. 978-2-313-00632-0.
- G.S. Bayer, la localisation de la Scythie au temps d'Hérodote. Chemins de tr@verse. 2025. 978-2-313-06812-0.
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