Albrecht Meno Verpoorten

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Albrecht Meno Verpoorten (also: van der Poorten ; * October 12, 1672 in Gotha ; † June 3, 1752 in Danzig ) was a German educator and Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the consistorial councilor and later general superintendent in Coburg Wilhelm Verpoorten (* October 18, 1631; † March 12, 1686) and his wife Lucia Elenora Hanneken, the daughter of Menno Hanneken , comes from a Dutch family that was facing the duke's persecution Alba had fled to Hamburg and Lübeck. He began his first training at the age of eight at the Latin school in Coburg and continued at the pedagogy at the age of twelve and at the Casimirianum Coburg at the age of fourteen . When his father died around that time, he found in the chancellor and later father-in-law Johann Burchard Rösler, who spurred him on to active diligence and, moreover, took care of him in a truly fatherly way in several respects.

Equipped with thorough previous knowledge, Verpoorten moved into the University of Giessen at the age of sixteen in 1688 . Verpoorten took an all the more active part in the argument that developed at the above-mentioned university about the "Collegia Pietatis" between Johann Heinrich May the Elder and Philipp Ludwig Hanneken , since the latter professor was his uncle on the maternal side. In 1692 he left Giessen, stayed briefly in Coburg, then went to Hamburg and from there to Lübeck to see a brother of his mother's. This enabled him to continue his studies in 1695 at the University of Wittenberg .

In Wittenberg he was accepted by his uncle, who had found a new place of work there as professor of theology after the pietistic disputes. At the same time he had attended the lectures of Johann Georg Neumann , Caspar Löscher , Theodor Dassov , Johann Deutschmann and Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch . Verpoorten devoted himself to Greek literature, church history and patristicism with particular devotion. By defending his twofold dissertation "de urbe nino", he obtained the master's degree in philosophy on April 28, 1696 and thus the right to hold academic lectures.

The applause that these lectures received would have determined him to become a lecturer. However, on the advice of his uncle, he went back to his homeland. In 1699 he became pastor in Sonneberg and adjunct of the ephorie. In 1708 he became superintendent in Neustadt an der Haide . The year 1724 took him to Coburg , as director of the Casimirianum academic high school . He was commissioned to teach theology, logic and natural law. To the statutes of the institution to meet, he went again to Wittenberg, where he 5 September 1724, the licentiate acquired theology and on September 8 of that year doctoral doctorate of theology.

The conditions in which Verpoorten lived in Coburg gained a special charm for him through the undiminished favor in which he received himself from Duke Johann Ernst and his successor Franz Josias . He had been consulted by the two princes on various matters, invited several times to dinner by them, and chosen to accompany them on their travels.

But Verpoorten was compelled to ask for his dismissal when in 1731 the prospect of becoming rector and professor at the academic high school in Danzig under favorable conditions arose . The pastorate at the Trinity Church there was also connected to this position. Neither the offer of a salary bonus nor the assurance of the title of church and consistorial councilor held him back in Coburg. Since then, in 1732, he lived under the specified conditions, satisfied and generally valued in Danzig. Since then, he has rejected foreign appeals. He died of a heart attack at an old age.

Act

Verpoorten was a man of extensive learning. None of the individual branches of theological knowledge had remained completely alien to him. The patristic and exegesis of the New Testament, however, were the subjects with which he preferred to occupy himself in old age, whereas in his younger years he had been attracted by the study of Hebrew antiquities. He was well acquainted not only with the older languages, but also with the newer ones, especially French, English and Dutch. That a thorough study of older and newer philosophy had formed him was evident in his writings, as in his oral lecture, which was reinforced by the gift of infectious rhetoric.

In numerous Latin dissertations and programs he disseminated numerous new aspects on the exegesis and criticism of the New Testament, on objects of church history and patristicism. The most important results of his research are contained in the “Fasciculus Dissertationum ad Theologiam maxime exegeticam et philologicam sacram pertinentium” printed in 1739. In this work his acuteness proved its worth in explaining several difficult passages in the Old and New Testaments. To the symbolic books of the unchanged Augsburg Confession he provided a valuable Analecta in 1743 and also astute remarks on individual articles of faith, on the dogma of original sin, justification, the new obedience, etc., which under the title Positiones Theologiae ex Articulis Augustanae Confessionis 1751 Son Wilhelm Paul Verpoorten was issued.

Works

  • Diss. De elapsu regenitorum e statu gratiae. Casting 169?
  • Diss. I et II de urbe Nino et rebus Assyriis. Wittenberg 1696
  • Sacra superioris aevi analecta, quibus diversorum ad Venceslaum Lincum Epislolae continentur. Accedit Martini Luthtri Sermo ad 1 Joh. 5, 4 etc. Coburg 1708
  • Funeral sermon on JA Syring. Coburg 1724
  • Progr. De Pauli Epistola ad Laodicenses, adversus Jo. Millium. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. Ad Esa. 45, 15. Deus absconditus. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. Ad Luc. 2, 2 et quaedam Justini Martyris et Tertulliani loca: Lucas nati Christi testis locupletissirnus. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. Ad Ignatii Martyris Epistolam ad Philadelpb. cap. VIII; Mihi Archiva Christ. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. Ad Ignatii Martyris Epistolam ad Romanos cap. VII et Joh. 6, 51.53 sqq. de incarnatione Christi. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. Ad Luc. 1, 35 de obumbratione virtutis altissimi. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. De veneratione BV Mariae, ad Epiph. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. Tabernacula Dei in Ephrata, ad Ps. 132. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. Numus census pretium pro anima, ad Exod. 30, 12-16. Coburg 1725
  • Progr. Quo Salfeldiae initia ex prioris sevi monumentis breviter repetit. Coburg 1727
  • Progr. De scriptis Ezechielis, divi valis, ad Cod.BabyL de Sabbato cap. 1, 4 et Josephi Orig. Jud. 10, 6. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. De cultu historiae litterariae et omnium bonarum litterarum. Coburg 1728
  • Sciagraphia Cantici Canticorum. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. De nomine Christianorum, ad locum Suetonii in Claudio Cap. XXV illustrandum. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Initia Bethleemi. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Fata Bethleemi ex 2 Paralip. 11, 6. 12, 4. Me. 5, 1st Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Eadem ad Esdr. 2, 21.Nehem. 7, 26. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Spelunca Bethleemitica, ad Luc. 2. 6. 7. Et Justin Martyr. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Sanguiuem tinctum guttis Bethleemum, ad Luc 2, 21 et Matth. 2, 16. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Bethleemum post tempora Apostolorum. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Bethleemum medii et recentioris avei. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. De ramis palmarum ad Joh. 12, 13. Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Botus Cypri Christ, ad Cantic. 1, 14.Coburg 1728
  • Progr. Resurrectionis Christi fons et fructus, ad Joh. 14, 19. Coburg 1729
  • The 2nd part of G. Ludwig's honor of the Casimiriani academici in Coburg, or its complete history. Coburg 1729
  • Progr. Crux Christi coronata, ad Ezech. 21, 31. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Ad Roman. 8, 11. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Pax Christi, ad Esa. 9, 6. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. De lumine paschali. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Christ gentes per Spiritum Sanctum in sinum colligens ad Deuter. 33, 3rd Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Linguae Apostolis disperditae, ad Actor. 2, 3. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Ad Joël 3, 1. 2. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Ad eundem locum et actor. 2, 17. 18. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Ad 1 Corinth. 14. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Spiritus fidei, ad Ps. 116, 10 et 2 Corinth. 4, 13. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Jubilaeus Hebraeorum. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. De litteris per repurgata sacra reflorescentibus. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Centrum veritatis evangelicae justitia fidei. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. I-IV ad confessionem Hebraeorum veterum de praestantia fidei. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Fides Dei acerrimum amoris divini incitaraentum, ad Ps. 31, 24. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Ad Roman. 8, 9. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Ad Coloss. 3, 15th Coburg 1730
  • Progr. De ruminanda veritate. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. De animalibus Ezekielis. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Laetitia juventutis, ad Eccles. 11, 9. 10. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. De Michaele Archangelo. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. I et II de Gregorio VII, Pontifice Romano. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. De annulo Clericorum, ad Concil. Lateran. XI. Can. XVI. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Catechesis Lutherana. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Instaurata per Hussium sacra puriora. Coburg 1730
  • Progr. Auspicatorium. Danzig 1732
  • Program invit. ad inaugurat. Yo. Fidalkii, de cujus vita et scriptis quaedam afferuntur. Danzig 1732
  • Oratio de facie aetatis nostrae, accuratius linguarum, maxime orientalium ct Graecae, studium et culturarn exigente. Danzig 1732
  • Diss. De miraculis. Danzig 1732
  • Progr. Coburgense valedictorium. Danzig 1732
  • Progr. Invitv ad inaugurat. H. Kuhnii, cujus simul vitam et scripta sistit. Danzig 1733
  • Oratio de honestissima gentium Europaearum in pervehendis artibus mathematicis aemulatione. Danzig 1733
  • Diss. De regundis theologiae naturalis finibus. Danzig 1733
  • Primitiae Gedanenses. Danzig 1736
  • Commentatio de GL Seidenbecheri vita et institute cum hypomnemate de origine opinionis ecclesiasticae. Danzig 1739
  • Fasciculus Dissertationum ad Theologiam maxima exegeticam et philologiam sacram pertinentium, ad illustranda varia veteris et novi instrumenti aliorumque scriptorum loca. Danzig 1799
  • Progr. De significatu. . . . Gdansk 17 ??
  • Progr. De inspectorum apud veteres dignitate. Gdansk 17 ??
  • Diss. De apostolica theologiae definition. Gdansk 17 ??
  • Diss. De nomine theologiae. Gdansk 17 ??
  • Diss. De scriptura. Gdansk 17 ??
  • Diss. De δοξολογια, orationi dominicae subjuncta. Gdansk 17 ??
  • Diss. De justitia fidei, ad Habac. 2, 3. Gdansk 17 ??
  • Diss. De Scripturae sacrae auctoritate. Gdansk 17 ??
  • Diss. Theses de quarto Decalogi praecepto. Gdansk 17 ??
  • Analecta ad libros symbolicos ecclesiarum invariatae Augustanae Confessioni addictorum. Danzig 1743
  • Positiones Theologiae ex Articulis Augustanae Confessionis de Deo, peccato originis, Filio Dei, justificatione, ministerio ecclesiastico, nova obedientia, ecclesia, baptismo, coena Domini et confessione. Praefatus est filius M. Guil. Paul Verpoorten de veritatibus religionis christianae fundamentalibus. Danzig 1751

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personal data
SURNAME Verpoorten, Albrecht Meno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES van der Poorten; Verpoortenn, Albertus Meno (VD18)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1752
Place of death Danzig