Adam Rechenberg

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Adam Rechenberg

Adam Rechenberg (born September 7, 1642 in Leubsdorf (Saxony) , † October 22, 1721 in Leipzig ) was a Lutheran theologian .

Life

The son of the heir Clemens Rechenberg and his wife Christina Beyer were initially trained by private teachers and came to the school in Freiberg when he was nine years old and moved to the University of Leipzig in 1661 to study philosophical and theological sciences. For this, Jakob Weller got him an electoral scholarship. His teachers in Leipzig were Christian Friedrich Franckenstein , Friedrich Rappolt , Jakob Thomasius , Johann Sigismund Schwenck (* Neubrunn / Franconia † December 7, 1670 Lüneburg), Johann Adam Scherzer , Johann Benedict Carpzov II and Valentin Friderici , Hieronymus Kromayer and Martin Geier .

In 1664 he became a Baccalaurus , in 1665 a master's degree in philosophical sciences and in 1666 did his habilitation at the philosophical faculty. His lectures were so well received that in 1677 he became a member of the great college of princes and in the same year an associate professor of Latin and Greek language and history. His theological studies led to the fact that he obtained a licentiate in theology in 1678, in 1699 he became professor of theology, associated with canons in Meissen, Decemvir of the university, Ephorus of the electoral scholarship holders.

In 1699 he received his doctorate under Gottfried Olearius with the dissertation de Justitia Die ultrice pro Loco in Fac. Theologica for Doctor of Theology. In 1705 he became a senior of the Meissen nation at the university, in 1713 a senior in the theological faculty and in 1716 a senior in the Meissen monastery. He also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1681 and 1689 . In addition, he took over the preposition three times in the great college of princes, was head of the Pauline college, director of economics, procancellor and several times dean of the philosophical and theological faculties.

Rechenberg devoted himself, among other things, to church history. In the terministic dispute , he defended the view of Johann Georg Böse , who emphasized against the practice of absolution on the deathbed that there was a time limit for the possibility of repentance before God.

family

Rechenberg was married four times. On November 13, 1677 he had Christina Elisabeth Griebner (* September 24, 1643 in Leipzig; † September 21, 1679 ibid), a daughter of the Leipzig councilor Zacharias Griebner († October 7, 1659 in Leipzig) and his wife Sophia († 29 September 1676 in Leipzig), the daughter of the electoral appellate council, seniors at the law faculty of the University of Leipzig and co-mayor of Leipzig Johann Mayer, married. The marriage remained childless. His second marriage was in 1681 with Susanna Dorothea, a daughter of the Leipzig businessman Christoph Geier. His third marriage was in 1683 with Maria Elisabet († February 6, 1684 in Leipzig), a daughter of Jakob Thomasius and sister of Christian Thomasius . He concluded his fourth marriage in 1686 with Susanna Catharina († August 1726), a daughter of Philipp Jacob Spener , with whom he had an intensive correspondence until his death. The first three marriages were childless. The two sons Jakob Dietrich Rechenberg († young) and Karl Otto Rechenberg come from the last marriage .

Works

Rechenberg wrote more than 80 titles, mostly smaller treatises. His most important works were:

  • Summarium historiae ecclesiasticae in usum stud. juventutis , 1698 ( GoogleBooks ); Repeatedly reissued until 1789, a plan of church history that tried for the first time to divide it into periods
  • Liber memorialis praelectionum historicarum. 1691 ( GoogleBooks )
  • Luck! De Hermundurorum metallurgia argentaria. From the Ertzgebürgisches Silber-Bergkwerck dissertatio. Lipsiae 1680 ( slub-dresden.de )
  • Hierolexicon reale he biblico-theologicum historico-ecclesiasticum , 1714, first attempt at a biblical and theological lexicon
  • Dissertationes hist. Politicae , 1698, 1715, a collection of individual papers
  • Lineamenta philosophiae civilis de imperii regimento. 1701 ( GoogleBooks )
  • Exercitationes in NT, historiam eccl. et literariam . 1707
  • Concordia Pia Et Unanimi consensu Repetita Confessio Fidei et Doctrinae Electorum, Principum et Ordinum Imperii, Atque Eorundem Theologorum qui Augustanam Confessionem amplectuntur: Cui e Sacra Scriptura ... accessit declaratio .... Cum appendice tripartita. 1719 ( GoogleBooks )

As editor, Rechenberg published writings of the church fathers , a New Testament and the symbolic books.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1980, vol. 10, p. 468, R 9757
  2. ↑ 436 letters from Rechenberg to Spener and 706 letters from Spener to Rechenberg in the Leipzig University Library, cf. PDF
personal data
SURNAME Rechenberg, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Leubsdorf (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1721
Place of death Leipzig