Johann Philipp Siebenkees

Professor Johann Philipp Siebenkees (1759–1796) was a German philosopher.

Siebenkees studied theology, philosophy, and philology at University of Altdorf. In 1791 he became associate professor of philosophy there, and a full professor of languages in 1795. He also taught archeology. It has been suggested that he was responsible for the invention of the Iron Maiden during this period Vortrag Klaus Graf: "Das Hinrichtungswerkzeug "Eiserne Jungfrau" ist eine Fiktion des 19. Jahrhunderts, denn erst in der ersten Hälfte des 19. jahrhunderts hat man frühneuzeitliche Schandmäntel, die als Straf- und Folterwerkzeuge dienten und gelegentlich als "Jungfrau" bezeichnet wurden, innen mit eisernen Spitzen versehen und somit die Objekte den schaurigen Phantasien in Literatur und Sage angepaßt." ("The execution tool "Iron Maiden" is a fiction of the 19th century, because only since the first half of the 19th Century the early-modern-times' "cloaks of shame", which sometimes were called "maidens", were provided with iron spikes; and thus the objects were adapted to the dreadful fantasies in literature and legend." [http://web.archive.org/web/20040828060227/http://www.mondzauberin.de/einstieg/informativ/essays/essays3/BerlinOnline+Die+unsichtbare+H/vortrag.html Mordgeschichten und Hexenerinnerungen - das boshafte Gedächtnis auf dem Dorf, June 21, 2001] July 11, 2007] .

Johann Philipp Siebenkees was a cousin of the poet Johann Christian Siebenkees.

Siebenkees undertook several voyages to Venice, Rome, and Naples. He died of a stroke in 1796.

References

*cite book
first = Johann Philipp
last = Siebenkees
year = 1799/1800
title = Handbuch der Archaeologie oder Anleitung zur Kenntnis der Kunstwerke des Alterthums und zur Geschichte der Kunst der Alten Völker
location = Nuremberg
*cite book
first = Johann Philipp
last = Siebenkees
year = 1791
title = Versuch einer Geschichte der venetianischen Staatsinquisition
location = Nuremberg
*cite book
first = Walter
last = Rieger
year = 1951
title = Johann Christian Siebenkees, Professor der Rechte zu Altdorf : Sein Leben u. s. Werk
location = Erlangen
*cite web | title=Aktivitäten der "deutschen Privatgesellschaft" | work=Fachbereich Allgemeinwissenschaften | url=http://www.ai.fh-nuernberg.de/Professors/Kuegel/Blumenorden/privgesakt.htm | accessdate=January 25 | accessyear=2006