Christian Benedikt Michaelis
Christian Benedikt Michaelis , also Christian Benedict Michel (born January 26, 1680 in Ellrich , † February 22, 1764 in Halle (Saale) ), was a German orientalist and Protestant theologian.
Life
Christian Benedikt Michaelis was the son of the white baker Johannes Michel (1648–1710) and his wife Anna Catharina, daughter of Johann Valentin Michaelis and his wife Sophia (née Schmidt). Michaelis received his first lessons in his hometown. In 1694 his uncle, the theologian Johann Heinrich Michaelis , took him to Halle. He was instructed in the oriental languages by this and private tutors, so that he could soon read the Bible in the original text. He then studied the Talmud and the history of the Jewish faith. In order to expand his knowledge of Latin, he took up the pedagogy in Glaucha , where Kaspar Stieler (1632–1707) was his teacher.
In 1697 he moved to the grammar school in Gotha and was prepared there by the then rector Gottfried Vockerodt (1665–1727) for university studies. So he moved to the University of Halle at Easter 1699 to complete a theological course. After attending theological and philosophical lectures with Joachim Justus Breithaupt , August Hermann Francke , Johann Franz Buddeus , Paul Anton , Christoph Cellarius and others, he was accepted into the theological seminary after six months in Halle. In 1701 he went to Frankfurt am Main and participated in the publication of the Ethiopian writings of Hiob Ludolf .
Returning to Halle, he joined the Collegium Orientale founded by Francke in 1702, studied Arabic with Solomon Negri (around 1665–1729) and in 1706 earned the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy with his dissertation De historia linguae Arabicae . In 1708 he was accepted as an adjunct to the philosophy faculty of the University of Halle, in 1713 he became an associate professor of philosophy, in 1714 a full professor of philosophy and in 1715 was given supervision of the Halle university library . In 1730 the Society of Sciences accepted him into its ranks, in 1731 he became professor of theology in Halle and in 1738 also became professor of oriental languages. In 1739 he received his doctorate in theology.
Michaelis excelled above all in the field of oriental philology, but also worked on exegesis and textual criticism of the Old Testament. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the Halle Alma Mater. In 1724/25, in the winter semester of 1736 and 1752/53 he was Vice-Rector of the university . After celebrating his fiftieth jubilee in office as an extremely popular professor, he died and was buried in Halle's Stadtgottesacker . His grave is in crypt arch 92, grave inscriptions are no longer preserved.
family
Michaelis married Dorothea Hedwig (1692–1736), daughter of the electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg court counselor and chancellor in Celle, in 1715, most recently vicar of the cathedral monastery in Badowiek Anton Georg Heldberg (1647–1714) and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth Crauel (1666–1720). His sons Johann David Michaelis and the lawyer August Benedikt Michaelis survived their father.
Works
As an author
- Monographs
- Dissertatio philologica qua nova hypothesis etymologica Hebraea de vocumseminibus ac litterarum significatione hieroglyphica modeste expenditur. Hall 1709
- Uberiores adnotationes philologico-exegeticae in hagiographos Vet [eris] Testamenti libros. Hall 1720
- Commentatio apologetica, qua falso adserta origo linguae Hebraeae ex Graeca convellitur. Hall 1727
- Epistola de herba Borith ex Jer. 2.22 et Malach. 3.2. Hall 1728
- Catalogus Bibliothecae Gundlingianae. Hall 1731
- Prolegomena in Jeremiam prophetam. Hall 1733
- Oratio solemnis de Daniele, laudabili exemplo typoque triennii academici . Hall 1736
- Syriasmus, id est, Grammatica lingua Syriacae, cum fundamentis necessariis, tum paradigmatibus plenioribus, tum denique üben syntaxi, et idiomatobus lingua, instructa. Hall 1741
- Concern about Christian Wilhelm Christliebs Kurtzen Excerpt from the Selichoth or Jewish penance prayers, concerning the gross blasphemy against Christ and Christianity indicated by this author, which should be found in such prayers. Hall 1745
- Tractatio critica de variis lectionibus Novi Testamenti caute colligendis et diiudicandis. Hall 1749
- Editing
- Biblia sacra tam Veteris quam Novi Testamenti, cum Apocryphis, secundum fontes Hebraicos et Graecos ad optimos codices collata. Züllichau 1740–1741
- Johann Albert Bengelius: Tractatio de sinceritate novi testamenti Graeci tuenda. Hall 1750
- Lambert Bos: Ellipses Graecae, sive de vocibus, quae in sermone Graeco supprimuntur. Hall 1765
- Contributions to school programs
- In confessionem Jobi de Christo a se olim in carne videndo. Hall 1719
- Spes viva laetae resurrectionis ex dominica resurrectione emergens. Hall 1730
- Aenigma propheticum Jerem. 31, 22. Femina circumdatur virum, in nativitate Christum solutum. Hall 1730
- De Christo, filio hominis. Hall 1736
- Naturalia quaedam et artificialia S .. Codicis ex Alcorano illustrans. Hall 1736
- De vaticinio Amosi Prophetae . Hall 1736
- Ritualia quaedam S. Codicis ex Alcorano illustans. Hall 1736
- De paronomasia sacra. Hall 1737
- Quo Soloecismus casuum from Ebraismo S. Codicis Ebraei depellitur. Hall 1739
- Qua Soloecismus generis from Synaxi S. Codicis Ebraei depellitur. Hall 1739
- Continens meditationem in Ps. 87. Halle 1740
- Paradoxum propheticum Joël 4, 18: de fonte ex demo domini profluente, irrigaturo vallem Sittim. Hall 1745
- De Judaeorum adnuntiatione paschali. Hall 1745
- De nota characteristica filiorum die. Hall 1745
- Super Isa. 53.8. de laeta Christi, post passiones et mortem resurgentis; catastrophe. Hall 1749
- Comparatio inter adscensionem Eliae et Christi cum respectu ad sacra pentaeostalia. Hall 1749
- Meditatio exegetica in Bs. 9, 5 de gaudio ex nativitate Messiae, nomine Senatus academici proposita. Hall 1751
- Commentatiuncula de Jesu filio deo per resurrectionem ex mortuis demonstrato. Hall 1754
As a proponent
- Johann Heinrich Michaelis: De historia linguae arabicae. Hall 1706
- Conrad Gerhard Großheim: De nominibus Christi divinam ipsius naturam designantibus . Hall 1707
- Ernst Friedrich Neubauer: De nominibus Christi humanam ipsius naturam designantibus. Hall 1707
- Christian Berlin: De Jeremia et vaticinio ejus. Hall 1707
- Johann Heinich Potkovius: De Muhammedismi laxitate morali. Hall 1707
- Ulrich S. Fiedrici: De nominibus Christi exinanitionem ipsius designibus. Hall 1711
- Heinrich Wolfgang Frantscher: De proverbiie Salomonis . Hall 1712
- Christoph Theodosius Walther: De ellipsibus Ebraeis. Hall 1724
- Sigismund Jacob Baumgarten: Diss. De Ebraea et affinibus Orientis linguis a Graeca derivandis hypothesis Hardtiana examinata. Hall 1726
- Johann Daniel Tapken: De antiquitatibus oeconomiae patriarchalis. Hall 1728 (2 volumes)
- Ernst Friedrich Neubauer: De Salomonis ad laetitiam exhortationibus in libro Coheleth . Hall 1729
- Johann Unebel: De studio partium a sacrarum litterarum interpretatione removendo. Hall 1729
- Johann Georg zur Linden: De nominibus propriis sacris. Hall 1729
- Johann Friedrich Vetter: De poenis capitalibus in Sacra Scriptura commemoratis, ac Hebraeorum inprimis. Hall 1730, 1748
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten: De notionibus superi et inferi indeque adscensus et discensus, in geographiis sacris occurrentibus. Hall 1735
- Samuel Gerlach: De objecto Paulini Seremonis ad textum problematicum Rome. VIII, 19th hall 1738
- Johann Christian Meisner: Genesos de antiquissima Idumaeorum historia. Hall 1734
- Michael Godefredus Stein: De locorum differentia ratione anticae, posticae, dextrae, sinistrae. Hall 1735
- Johann Heinrich Leidenfrost: Nomina, numerus, deviso et ordo librorum Veteris Testamenti situntur. Hall 1743
- Christoph August Bade: De primaeva linguae Hebraeae antiquitate propabiliter disseritur . Hall 1747
- Johann Peter Huzelsieder: De modestia exegetica. Hall 1751
- Carl Gottfried Ihle: Qua nomina quaedam propria personalia Codicis S. Veteris et Novi Testamenti ex virilibus in muliebria et ex muliebribus in viilia vers, suo restituens sexui. Hall 1754
- Gottfried Ephraim Hentschel: Philogica I qua lumina Syriaca pro illustrando Hebraismo sacro exhibentur. Hall 1756
- Joachim Daniel Schleunitz: Ex Ebraea et adfinibus orentalibus linguis decerpta. Hall 1758
literature
- Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried: Michaelis, Christian Benedikt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 676 f.
- Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg in Westphalia […] Emanuel Schneider, Hall 1749/50 , Vol. 2, p. 670, item 362
- Heinrich Döring: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Depicted according to their life and work. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1832, 2nd volume, p. 498 ( full text in the Google book search in the Google book search)
- Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Publisher Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1809, vol. 9, p. 133 ( online with Google book search )
- R. Kittel: Michaelis . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 13, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1903, pp. 53-54.
- Christian Stephan: The silent faculty: Biographical contributions to the history of the theological faculty of the University of Halle. Verlag Janos Stekovics , Dößel, 2005 ISBN 3-89923-103-1 , ISBN 978-3-89923-103-8 , p. 49
Web links
- Entry on Christian Benedikt Michaelis in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michaelis, Christian Benedikt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist and Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1680 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ellrich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1764 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |