August Johann Buxtorf

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August Johann Buxtorf (* 1696 ; † 1765 ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian, historian and author .

Life

August Johann Buxtorf was the son of the Basel orientalist Johannes Buxtorf . He studied Protestant theology and worked as a professor of theology at the University of Basel and as a Reformed pastor in three parishes near and in Basel: from 1731 to 1737 in Pratteln , from 1737 to 1746 at St. Elisabeth in Basel, and from 1746 up to his death in 1765 as senior pastor at St. Theodor in Kleinbasel . He was a member of the Academy of Fine Sciences in Marseille and one of the employees at the Basel Newly Increased Historical and Geographical General Lexicon .

Fonts

  • Christian Danck sermon for the third jubilee year of the most valuable book printing art, held in Basel in 1740. Christ, Basel approx. 1740.
  • The Doctrines & Duties of the Christian Faith in Sacred Speeches. Basel 1747.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ulrich Löffler: Lisbon's Fall - Europe's horror: the interpretation of the Lisbon earthquake . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-015816-7 , p. 505, note 426
  2. ↑ August Johann Buxtorf: Attempt to describe historical and natural peculiarities of the Basel landscape: The journey to the Birs source , p. L. 1756, title page. On-line
personal data
SURNAME Buxtorf, August Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Reformed theologian, historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1696
DATE OF DEATH 1765