Adam Benedict Spitzner

Adam Benedict Spitzner (born January 22, 1717 in Langenreinsdorf ; † October 4, 1793 ibid .; Latinized: Adamus Benedictus Spitznerus ) was a German Hebrew and Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life and achievement

Adam Benedict Spitzner's parents were Magister Johann Christian Spitzner (born September 10, 1683 in Blankenhain , † May 27, 1736 in Langenreinsdorf), since 1712 Evangelical Lutheran pastor of Langenreinsdorf in the ephorie Werdau , and his wife Christine Elisabeth born. Metzler (* 1691; † May 28, 1718 in Langenreinsdorf), who came from the rectory in Hohenleina near Leipzig , but died soon after the birth of her only son. The two older daughters Dorothea Elisabeth and Johanne Christiane Spitzner died early in 1716 in Langenreinsdorf. The father, who knew how to "keep the love of his community permanently", married again on July 18, 1719 in Mosel , namely Maria Magdalena Grosse from the parsonage there.

Adam Benedict, who from the second marriage of his father had ten younger half-siblings - three half-brothers and seven half-sisters - who were born in Langenreinsdorf between 1720 and 1736, first attended the St. Augustin School in Grimma from October 20, 1729 to October 1735 , where Johann August von Ponickau was one of his classmates, and enrolled on January 29, 1737 as a theology student at the University of Leipzig . On December 23, 1742 he was there Baccalaureus Artium and on February 21, 1743 Magister . After completing his academic studies, Adam Benedict Spitzner worked for a few years as court master at the Privy Councilor of Poigk in Dresden . There he belonged to the Consortium Theologicum Dresdense founded by Valentin Ernst Löscher , a seminary shaped by Lutheran late orthodoxy , and in 1745 to the Collegium Woogianum .

On December 3, 1747, however, Adam Benedict is back in Langenreinsdorf due to an appointment by the senior consistory, because the incumbent pastor Johann Christian Titius died on November 23. On March 30, 1748, Spitzner was ordained as the new pastor of his home village , gave the trial sermon on the third Passion Sunday and the inaugural sermon on Ascension Day . He soon enjoyed "the same popularity as his father" in his community. On November 26, 1754, he married Christine Sophie Fritsche in Blankenhain , the only daughter of the long-time pastor Gottfried Benjamin Fritsche there; the marriage remained childless. In 1789 Johann Andreas Brösel, previously pastor in Auerbach , substitute for Adam Benedict Spitzner, was transferred to Forstwolfersdorf in 1794 .

As a member of the Consortium Theologicum Dresdense was Adam Benedict Spitzner co-authored a 1743 published but unfinished Thesaurus bibliographicus ex Indicibus Librorum prohibitorum et expurgatorum Romanis, Hispanicis, Belgicis, Bohemicis etc. Between 1769 and 1791, he published five scientific papers in particular on issues of Hebrew Grammar , some of which received very critical reviews. His late work Vindiciae originis et auctoritatis divinae punctoram vocalium et accentuum in libris sacris veteris Testamenti, published in 1791 ; (...) has been described in contemporary literature as "the last salvation of honor of the old age of our Hebrew vocal points". Adam Benedict Spitzner died in 1793 as the last living member of Löscher's Consortium Theologicum Dresdense .

Works

• Idea analyticae sacrae textus Hebraici Vet. Testam. ex accentibus propediem typis diuulgandae. Hertel, Leipzig 1769
• Disquisitio critica super locis illustribus codicis S. Hebraei, ad illustrationem ideae anal. S. nuper edition. Hertel, Frankfurt / Leipzig 1770
• Commentatio philologica de parenthesi libris sacris veteris et novi testamenti accommodata. Büschel, Leipzig 1773 ( books.google.de , accessed on February 23, 2011)
• Institutiones ad analyticam sacram textus Hebraici VT ex accentibus. Quorum consecutio et usus novis et idoneis rationibus demonstratur. Orphanage, Halle 1786 ( books.google.de , accessed on September 4, 2011)
• Vindiciae originis et auctoritatis divinae punctoram vocalium et accentuum in libris sacris veteris Testamenti; ubi imprimis ea diluuntur, quae post Eliam Levitam Ludovicus Cappellus in Arcano punctationis eiusque vindiciis opposuit. Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, Leipzig 1791 ( books.google.de , accessed on November 12, 2011)

literature

• Karl Gottlob Dietmann : The entire priesthood assigned to the unchanged Augspurgische Confeßion in the Electorate of Saxony and the incorporated lands . Part 1, Vol. 3, Verlag Siegismund Ehrenfried Richter, Dresden / Leipzig 1755, p. 1459 ( digital.bibliothek.uni-halle.de , accessed on September 4, 2011)
• General German Library 1771, vol. 15, 1st St., p. 613 f. (Review) ( Digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de , accessed on September 4, 2011)
• Johann Friedrich Hirt : Oriental and exegetical library. Third part. Felix Fickelscherr, Jena 1773, pp. 117 ff. ( Books.google.de , accessed on September 4, 2011)
• Friedrich August Weiz : The learned Saxony or directory of those in the Churfürstl. Saxon. and incorporated writers and their writings now living in countries . Carl Friedrich Schneider, Leipzig 1780, p. 238 ( slub-dresden.de , accessed on January 15, 2012)
• Neue Leipziger Gelehre Zeitung 1786, pp. 1489 ff. (Review) ( books.google.de , accessed on September 4, 2011)
• Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , vol. 2, year 1787, col. 184 (review) ( zs.thulb.uni-jena.de , accessed on August 3, 2011)
• General German Library 1788, Vol. 78, 1st St., p. 223 f. (Review) ( ub.uni-bielefeld.de , accessed on September 4, 2011)
• Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , Vol. 4, No. 308 of November 19, 1791, Col. 345 ff. (Review) ( zs.thulb.uni-jena.de , accessed on August 3, 2011)
• Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek 1792, Vol. 106, 2. St., S. 561 ff. (Review) ( ub.uni-bielefeld.de , accessed on September 4, 2011)
• Gottlob Wilhelm Meyer : History of the explanation of the scriptures since the restoration of the sciences. Johann Friedrich Röwer, Vol. 5, Göttingen 1809, p. 341 ( babel.hathitrust.org , accessed on September 10, 2011)
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Fleischer, vol. 13, Leipzig 1813, p. 240 f. ( books.google.de , accessed on September 3, 2011)
• Georg Benedict Winer : Handbook of theological literature mainly of Protestant Germany, along with short biographical notes on the theological writers. Reclam-Verlag , second very improved and expanded edition, Leipzig 1826, pp. 36 and 425
• Christian Gottlob Immanuel Lorenz: Grimmenser Album. List of all pupils of the Royal State School in Grimma from its opening to the third jubilee . Printed by the Buchdruckerei des Verlags-Comptoirs, Grimma 1850, p. 241 ( books.google.de , accessed on January 10, 2011)
• Julius Petzholdt (arrangement): Bibliotheca Biographica. Critical index of national and international literature pertaining to the entire bibliography in a systematic order. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1866, p. 134 ( books.google.de , accessed on June 18, 2011)
• Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried:  Spitzner, Adam Benedict . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 224.
• New Saxon church gallery. The ephoria Werdau, edited by the clergy of the ephoria. Verlag von Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1905, Sp. 326 ( slub-dresden.de , accessed on January 15, 2012)
• Erich Weise (ed.): Family chronicle of the Spitzner family. Printed and published by C. Heinrich, Dresden 1936, pp. 33 and 37
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Vol. 8: Biogramme Schr - To, Leipzig 2008, p. 316, ISBN 978-3-374-02142-0
• Albert Spitzner-Jahn: The Vogtland Spitzner family. 2nd edition, self-published, Kamp-Lintfort 2011, pp. 11, 68 and 150