Christian Pistorius


Christian Brandanus Hermann Pistorius was a German writer and translator.

Life

Pistorius was born in Poseritz. The eldest son of the Poseritzer provost Hermann Andreas Pistorius and his wife Sophie Juliane, daughter of provost Christian Anton Brunnemann in Bergen auf Rügen, he was taught by his father and tutors. Without having attended a higher public educational institution, he proved his extensive knowledge in a number of scientific papers. He wrote articles for various journals and produced translations from Latin and English.
Because of his unstable health he lived in his father's household until the latter's death in 1798. Then he moved to his brother Philipp Pistorius, who was pastor in Garz on Rügen, where he was last cared for by his sister-in-law Charlotte Pistorius.

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