Jung

Jung, JOHANN HEINRICH, generally called JUNG STILLING, an original German writer, was born at Im-Grund, in Nassau, 12th September 1740. At first he pursued his father's callings—tailor and village schoolmaster; then (1768) he became a student of medicine at Strasburg, where he was intimate with Goethe, who admired his simple, pure, affectionate nature (see Wahrheit und Dichtung, ii.). Next he settled (1772) as a medical practitioner at Elberfeld, and won fame as an operator for cataract. Subsequently he held the professorship of Political Economy at Marburg (1787–1804) and Heidelberg. He died at Carlsruhe, 2d April 1817. He was brought up in a pietistic circle, and the effects of his early training clung to him all his life. Although he wrote some semi-mystical, semi-pietistic romances, and later in life works on political economy, he only deserves to be remembered for his charming autobiography, H. Stilling's Jugend, Jünglingsjahre, Wander-schaft, Häusliches Leben, und Lehrjahre (5 vols. Berlin, 1777–1804; Eng. trans. 1835). His works were published in 12 vols. (Stutt. 1843–44).