Christoph David Anton Martini

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Christoph David Anton Martini , sometimes wrong: Christian David Anton Martini (born January 22, 1761 in Schwerin ; † September 1, 1815 in Munich ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor .

Life

Martini was the son of the court and cathedral preacher, later consistorial councilor and superintendent in Schwerin Friedrich (Heinrich) Martini (1727–1792) from his second marriage to Katharine Dorothea, née. Schomerus (1734–1762), a teacher's daughter from Wismar. He received his education at the cathedral school in Schwerin and from 1777 at the University of Bützow . From Bützow he moved to the University of Göttingen , where he stayed until 1781. In 1785 he was placed at his father's side at the castle and cathedral church in Schwerin , and in 1787 he was also a teacher at the cathedral school.

Martini received a full professorship in theology at the University of Rostock in 1789 and became an assessor at the consistory. His teaching covered the Old and New Testaments, dogmatics, the history of dogmas, theological encyclopedia and morals. His doctorate as Dr. theol. took place on May 16, 1791 at the Rostock University with a dissertation on Esaias 52, 18 and 53, 12. In 1792, he succeeded Johann Kaspar Velthusen as head of the pedagogical-theological seminar. Martini was dean of the theological faculty five times between 1792 and 1804 and rector of the university in the academic year 1802/1803 . In 1801 he was appointed real consistorial councilor, and in 1804 senior consistorial councilor.

In 1804 Martini followed a call to the newly founded Protestant theological faculty of the University of Würzburg as professor of church history and oriental literature . When this was closed in 1807, he came to the University of Altdorf as professor of theology and finally, when it closed in 1809, as professor of history at the university lyceum in Munich. In Munich he also became a Protestant district church councilor in 1809, a member of the consistory and a full member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences . At times he held the office of dean in the Isar district.

Martini was married to Margarete Marie Friedrike, born in 1786. Schröder, daughter of a government official in Schwerin. Well-known children are Carl Christian Friedrich Martini (1794–1857), lawyer, director of the judiciary, and Adolf Martini (1798–1875), philologist, prince educator, diplomat, councilor of state.

Works (selection)

  • Christian charity. A sermon given on the 13th Sunday after Trinity 1787 in the Schwerin Cathedral , Schwerin 1787.
  • Commentatio philologico-critica in locum Esaiae LII, 13 - L III, 12 , Rostock 1791.
  • Eusebii Caesareensis de divinitate Christi sententia, ejusque tum cum placitis Arianis, tum cum fide Nicaeno-Athanasiana comparatio , Rostock 1795.
  • Attempt at a pragmatic history of the dogma of the divinity of Christ in the first four centuries after the birth of Christ. , Rostock 1800.
  • About the historian Liutprand, especially about his historical credibility , Munich 1811.
  • About the introduction of the Christian religion as the state religion in the Roman Empire by the Emperor Constantine , Munich 1813.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Willgeroth's initialing rules for first name forms: Anton Martini . - Cf. Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Wismar 1925. p. 1075 and the entry in the register for him: “Martini, Chstph. Dav. Anton " . Christening names that are not in use are always abbreviated in Willgeroth's register entry, which emphasizes the form of the first name.
  2. ↑ Entry in the deanery book of the Theological Faculty , last accessed on December 21, 2019 in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  3. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1813, p. 317.
personal data
SURNAME Martini, Christoph David Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martini, Christian David Anton (wrong name form); Martini, Anton (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1815
Place of death Munich