Daniel Ernst Jablonski

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Daniel Ernst Jablonski . Engraving by Johann Jacob Haid after Friedrich Wilhelm Weidemann
Daniel Ernst Jablonski . Copper engraving by Johann Georg Wolffgang (1662–1744) after Friedrich Wilhelm Weidemann

Daniel Ernst Jablonski (born November 20, 1660 in Nassenhuben near Danzig ; † May 25, 1741 in Berlin ) was a Bohemian-Polish-German theologian, court preacher in Berlin, senior ( bishop ) of the Polish branch of the Brothers' Unity and co-founder of the later Prussian Academy of Sciences , which goes back to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

origin

His father was Peter Figulus-Jablonský (1617-1670). He was a Protestant and had to leave Bohemia in 1627 after an edict by Ferdinand II. He came to Lissa and in 1654 became the preacher of Countess Dorothea Sibylla von Dönhoff . His mother was Elisabeth Comenius (after 1628-after 1670) a daughter of Johann Amos Comenius . His brother Johann Theodor Jablonski (1654–1731) was permanent secretary of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and editor of the General Lexicon of Arts and Sciences until 1725 .

life and work

Jablonski attended high school in Polish Lissa and studied theology in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1677 to 1678 . In 1679 he was a temporary teacher at a school of Prince Radziwiłł in Birsen, Lithuania . Between 1680 and 1683 he studied at Oxford and subsequently became a field chaplain . In 1686 he became rector of the grammar school in Polish Lissa. In 1688 he married Barbara Fergushill in Polish-Lissa, with whom he was to have 16 children. In 1691 he moved to Königsberg as court preacher . In 1693 he was called to Berlin to succeed the court preacher Georg Conrad Bergius . In Berlin, he mainly devoted himself to founding and nurturing the Brandenburg Society of Sciences, caring for the Reformed in Southeast and Eastern Europe and attempting to unite the two Protestant creeds . On June 11, 1713, Jablonski was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1718 he was appointed to the Lutheran consistory . In 1728 he became a councilor in the Reformed Church Directorate . Jablonski was considered an exemplary preacher and was in correspondence with numerous personalities. Among them Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , August Hermann Francke , John Sharp (1643–1714, Archbishop of York from 1691 to 1714) and Ezechiel Spanheim .

Together with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , he founded the Brandenburg Society of Sciences in 1700 and was temporarily vice-president and from 1733 to 1741 president of the society.

family

He married in 1688 in Lissa Barbara Fergushill (1671-1723), daughter of Alexander Fergushill († 1699), a merchant who emigrated from Scotland because of his faith. The couple had 13 children including:

  • Paul Ernst (1693–1757), professor of theology and philology and Reformed preacher in Frankfurt an der Oder ∞ Sophie Charlotte Bergius
  • Daniel Gottlob (* 1696), royal valet
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (1706–1760), court preacher at the Trinity Church in Berlin
  • Marie ∞ Wilhelm von Irwing, Supreme Court, Senior Consistorial and School Councilor in Berlin (parents of Karl Franz von Irwing )
  • Charlotte ∞ Christian Scholtz (1697–1777), pastor in Züllichau , then court preacher in Berlin, linguist

literature

Web links

Commons : Daniel Ernst Jablonski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonhard Stroux: The foundation of the Brandenburg Society of Sciences by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Daniel Ernst Jablonski. In: Joachim Bahlcke (Ed.), Werner Korthaase (Ed.): Daniel Ernst Jablonski: Religion, Science and Politics around 1700. Harrassowitz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05793-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Jablonski, Daniel Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German preacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Wet lifts near Gdansk
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1741
Place of death Berlin