Andreas Austen

Andreas Austen (born November 25, 1658 in Danzig ; † September 6, 1703 in Elberfeld ) was a German Reformed theologian , Graecist and Orientalist .

Life

Andreas was born the son of the businessman Jakob Austen and his wife Maria Ermler. After initial private lessons, he attended the Jesuit college in Thorn and in 1671 the grammar school in Danzig . In 1675 he moved to the grammar school in Bremen , studied from 1678 at the University of Franeker theology with Nikolaus Arnoldi (also: Arnoldus; * December 17, 1618 Lesna; † October 15, 1680 in Franeker), Hermann Witsius , Johannes a Marck and Johann van der Waeijen (born July 13, 1639 in Amsterdam, † November 4, 1701 in Franeker). Witsius he followed in 1680 to the University of Utrecht .

In 1681 he came to the University of Marburg via Bremen, Hanover and Kassel , where he continued his studies with Reinhard Pauli (born March 5, 1638 in Danzig; † December 11, 1682 in Marburg), Samuel Andreae and Georg Otho . A year later he reached Königsberg in Prussia via Danzig , where he worked as an assistant preacher and in 1685 received a pastor's post in Möllenbeck . On September 22nd, 1686 he became professor for Greek and Oriental languages ​​at the university in Rinteln , as well as second reformed pastor there. In 1690 he became pastor in Elberfeld , where he worked until his death.

In Marburg , Austen married Anna Magdalene Graff on September 17, 1685, daughter of Erich Graff (1607–1683), Professor of Law at the Universities of Giessen and Marburg . Some children from the marriage are known to have the following:

• Johann Erich Ludwig Austen (born August 24, 1686 in Rinteln), on July 16, 1704 at the University of Marburg, 1710 pastor in Elgershausen
• Dorothea Margarethe Austen (born January 14, 1688)
• Friedrich Hermann Austen (born October 4, 1689)
• Christine Magdalene Austen (born September 23, 1691)
• Jakob Arnold Austen (born March 1, 1695) was a surgeon in Rotenburg

Works (selection)

• Disp. de Cometis. Bremen 1677
• De cometarum phenomenis. Bremen 1679 ( online )
• Trias quaestionum. Rinteln 1688 (Resp.Egbert Stippius, online )
  • I. An Adamus ante Evam uxorem habuerit, quae appellata Lilith?
  • II An χαταχλυςμοϛ Noachi fuerit universalis, an particularis?
  • III To Moses fuerit cornutus?
• Samuel peroatus s. diss. deapparitione Samuelis, ex I Sam. XXIIX. (Resp.Johann Mechior Crug) Rinteln 1688
• Diss. Philol. De mortis genere, quo Judas proditor vitae suae colophonem imposuit. Rinteln 1688 (Resp. Johann Daniel Ambosius, online )
• Farrago thesium miscellanearum. Rinteln 1688 (Resp.Johann Daniel Ambosius)
• Diss. Philol. De velamine mulieris, ex I Cor. XI, 10. Rinteln 1690 (Resp.Friedrich Wilhelm Loss)
• Theses philolog. de lingua omnium prima, hebraea. Rinteln 1690 (Resp. Christoph Wilhelm Wetzel)
• Thesium philolog. continuatio I. de linguae hebrae appellationibus. Rinteln 1690 (Resp. Martin Fleischhuth)
• Christ under the 7 golden lights, that is, sermons about Revelation. Joh. I, 13-16, in which the church of the mighty protection and help of Jesus is assured, held at Elberfeld. Frankfurt am Main 1700

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. From the Reformation to the present day. Barmeier, Göttingen, 1781, vol. 1, p. 190 ( online )
• Johann Conrad Paulus: History of the Möllenbeck monastery: from its first foundation to the present day. Anton Heinrich Bösendahl, Rinteln, 1784, p. 244 ( online )
• Johann Conrad Paulus: News from old Hessen-Schaumburg superintendents, churches and the dabey from the time of the Reformation to now and standing preachers. Anton Heinrich Bösendahl, Rinteln, 1786, p. 334 ( online )
• Johann Christoph Adelung : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Johann Friedrich Gleditzsch, Leipzig, 1784, Sp. 1284 ( online )

Web link

• Works by and about Andreas Austen  in the German Digital Library