Anton Friedrich Steding

Anton Friedrich Steding (born January 13, 1653 in Hanover ; † March 15, 1717 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of superintendent Anton Steding (1621–1698) and his wife Elisabeth († June 28, 1687), daughter of the professor of theology at the University of Rinteln Josua Stegmann , came from a middle-class family of theologians. After initial training with his father and through private teachers, he came to the St. Michaelis School in Lüneburg in 1669 and then attended the Michaelis High School there.

In 1673 he moved to the University of Jena , where he found accommodation with the theologian Philipp Müller (1640–1713) and for two years the philosophical lectures with Georg Götze (1633–1699), Valentin Veltheim (1645–1700), Kaspar Posner (1626 –1700), Kaspar Sagittarius (1643–1694) and Erhard Weigel (1625–1699). In 1675 he began studying theology, with lectures by Johannes Musaeus , Friedemann Bechmann (1628–1703), Müller and Johann Wilhelm Baier . In Jena he had obtained the academic degree of a master’s degree and then went on a trip to the Saxon universities in Leipzig and Wittenberg .

After a year in his home country, in 1678 he continued his theological studies at the University of Helmstedt with Gerhard Titius (1620–1681), Heinrich Rixner and Christoph Schrader (1601–1680). In order to gain further educational impressions, he traveled through Westphalia, Holland, England and France. Back in his home country, he became a pastor at Neustädter St. Johanniskirche in Hanover on February 8, 1683 . On January 15, 1704 he was awarded the University Rinteln the doctorate of theology.

family

Steding was married twice. He concluded his first marriage on April 16, 1695 with Maria Dorothea, the daughter of the Brunswick-Lüneburg church council and superintendent in Claustal Theodor Jordan. However, she died after a year and a half giving birth to her son Anton Steding (* September 2, 1696; † after 14 weeks). He concluded his second marriage on June 14, 1699 in Bückeburg with Magaretha Elisabeth, the daughter of the lawyer and Count Johann Heinrich Ebeling, consistorial councilor of Schaumburg-Lippe. The marriage remained childless.

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Volume 9 = delivery 159-174. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein 1976, p. 123, R 8201.
• Steding, Anton Friedrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 39, Leipzig 1744, column 1425.

Web link

• Publications by and about Anton Friedrich Steding in VD 17 .