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1728 - 1798
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According to
Rauter (1970), p.107 this Society was
founded on 1728, July 31, and
its 1730 statutes were entitled:
Getsetze der Teutschen Gesellschaft in Jena, nebst einem Vorberichte
und Anhange von ihren jetzigen Umständen.
It seems likely that the Society had the name
Teutsche Gesellschaft in Jena right from its start in 1728.
Rauter (1970), p.109 quotes from the Statutes
indicating that the focus of the Society was on the study and cultivation
of the German language and literature.
According to
Rauter (1970), p.126 the Society published in
1754 not only the
Schriften der Teutschen Gesellschaft zu Jena aus den schönen
Wissenschaften, but also the
Schriften der Teutschen Gesellschaft zu Jena aus den höheren
Wissenschaften, which latter contained a number of contributions
on subjects that fell outside the original scope of the Society.
Rauter (1970), p.127 indicates, for example,
that the latter mentioned volume included material from the areas of
theology, medicine, astronomy, history and law.
The Society had begun meeting in two separate classes and producing their
own separate collections of writings, a change probably in imitation of
the French and Prussian scientific academies.
Rauter (1970), pp.129-134 discusses this shift
in the direction of a scientific academy.
Rauter (1970), p.128 indicates that, after these
1754 publications, the Society stopped publishing collections of writings
by its members.
The only other official publication of the Society was a lecture by one of
their members in 1777:
Über das Stadium des deutschen Stils, aus neuer Vorlesung in
der Herzogl. deutschen Gesellschaft zu Jena : Nebst e. Anzeige der
akademischen Vorlesungen ... / Friedrich August Wiedeburg
[GBV German Union cat.].
Rauter notes that the Society name now included the adjective
herzoglich.
Rauter (1970), p.128 indicates that by 1798 the
Society had ceased to exist.
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