Johann Theodor Jablonski
Johann Theodor Jablonski (15 December 1654 - 28 April 1731, Berlin) was a German educator and lexicographer who also wrote under the name Pierre Rondeau.
Life
Johann Theodor Jablonski was the son of Peter Figulus from Jablunka in Moravian Wallachia, and the older brother of reformer Daniel Ernst Jablonski. He soon traveled to Amsterdam where he was educated by his grandfather John Amos Comenius. After the death of Comenius, he went back to Germany and became a student in the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. In 1672 he studied at the Albertina in Königsberg.
In 1680, he undertook a trip to the Netherlands and to England. In 1687, he became the secretary of Prince Radziwill.
After the death of Prince Radziwill in 1689, he went back to Berlin in 1700 and become a tutor to Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia.
Works
His masterpiece is the General Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, which appeared in 1721.
In the years 1711-1712 he published, under the pseudonym of Pierre Rondeau, a Franco-German and German-French dictionary and a grammar of the French language. He also translated the Scriptures De Moribus Germanorum of Tacitus.
Positions
He was a secretary of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.[1][2][3]