Andreas Adam Hochstetter

Andreas Adam Hochstetter (born July 13, 1668 in Tübingen , † April 26, 1717 in Tübingen) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the former Tübingen professor Johann Andreas Hochstetter and his wife Anna Katharina geb. Linde, he attended the monastery school in Maulbronn , enrolled at the University of Tübingen, where he pursued his studies at the Evangelical Monastery and in 1683 obtained the academic degree of a master's degree . In 1688, with the support of the administrator Duke Friedrich Karl, he went on an educational trip that took him to various universities.

He was at the University of Strasbourg , Basel , Jena , Leipzig , Wittenberg , Frankfurt (Oder) , Helmstedt and in Hamburg as well as in Dresden, where he lived for half a year in the house of Philipp Jacob Spener . But he not only attended the universities in Germany, but also traveled to Holland and England , where he met the most important theologians of his time. Returning to Tübingen in 1690 he became a deacon, gave private lectures and in 1697 became professor of poetry and rhetoric.

After taking over the professorship of ethics, he was appointed associate professor of theology in 1705, making him superintendent of the evangelical foundation. In 1707 he was promoted to a full professorship and in 1711 went to Stuttgart as senior court preacher and consistorial councilor. After 4 years he returned to his old teaching post in Tübingen, where he died as the rector of the academy. As a theologian, he tried to find a balance between Lutheran orthodoxy and Pietism . He was involved in the translation of Reinhard Hedinger's New Testament and translated English scripts into Latin.

Selection of works

• Oratio de Vtilitate, Quam Theologiae Studiosus capere potest ex Itinere Italico, Altdorff 1678
• Collegium Pufendorfianum, Tübingen 1710, 1719
• De jure poenarum, Tübingen 1710
• Collegiom pafendorfianum; librum de guse poenarum, commentatories in Joh. Ludov Vivis introductionem ad sapientiam;
• Disputationes destatu hominis naturalis;
• De Abrahamo matrimonium diffimulante;
• De ingressu summi Pontificis in sanctissimum Sanctnarium;
• De religione naturali;
• De guramentis;
• Theses Theologicas

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hochstetter, Andreas Adam. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 915-916.
• Reinhard Breymayer : Andreas Adam Hochstetter (1668–1717). Pietist theologian and rhetorician. In: Joachim Knape (Ed.): 500 years of Tübingen rhetoric. 30 years of rhetorical seminar. Catalog for the exhibition in the Bonatz building of the Tübingen University Library from May 12 to July 31, 1997. Tübingen: (Seminar for General Rhetoric [of the University of Tübingen]) 1997, pp. 80–86; on this ibid., p. 104 f. "Description of exhibits" No. 65 f.
• Publication , Gruber : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste VOLUME Sect 2 Th 9, S. 158
• P. Hochstetter: Dr. Andreas Adam Hochstetter. In: Württembergischer Bildersaal, a collection of Württemberg celebrities from old and new times. First volume, Stuttgart 1859, p. 219 ff.
• Julius August Wagenmann:  Hochstetter, Andreas Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 526 f.
• Hochstetter, Andr. Adam., Enckel of Conrad Hochstetters. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 13, Leipzig 1735, column 317 f.