Christian Donati

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Christian Donati

Christian Donati (also: Donat, Donath ; * May 2, 1640 in Wittenberg ; † August 13, 1694 ibid) was a German logician.

Life

Christian was born the son of the cloth maker Joachim Donath and his wife Maria (née Reineck). He received his first literary training under the rector of the Wittenberg city school Johann Haberland and the vice rector Jakob Reichmann . In 1657 he moved to the grammar school in Freiberg, where he was a student of the polyhistor Christian Funcke (1626–1695), who prepared him for an academic career. He then went to the University of Jena , where he acquired the theoretical knowledge of philosophy, especially metaphysics and logic, from Friedemann Bechmann (1628–1703).

He continued his studies in 1660 at the University of Leipzig with Johann Adam Schertzer and Jakob Thomasius , where he dealt with general languages, oriental studies and mathematics. He considered himself fortunate to be able to continue his studies with August Pfeiffer and Michael Walther the Younger at the University of Wittenberg , where on April 26, 1664 he obtained the degree of Master of Philosophy. After he had acquired an excellent reputation as a private tutor to Karl von Friesen in Dresden and as an eloquent and accurate moderator in Leipzig, he was appointed on April 12, 1669 as an adjunct in the philosophical faculty of the Wittenberg University.

At the same time he completed a theological studies with Abraham Calov , Gottfried Meisner , Johann Andreas Quenstedt and Johann Deutschmann . In 1672 he became an associate professor of logic and metaphysics as a substitute for Christian Trentsch (1605–1677) and, after his death, a full professor of the subject. Donati himself was extremely pious and very interested in theology. Therefore, his theological lectures extended to the field of theology. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg University, he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in the winter semesters 1681, 1687 and rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semester 1684 . After his death, his body was buried on August 17th in the Wittenberg town church, where his widow Sabina Dorothea had an epitaph erected for him.

Donati met in Wittenberg on April 7, 1678 with Sabina Dorothea (born May 19, 1654 in Wittenberg; born on June 1, 1702 at the altar of the Wittenberg town church), widow of the lawyer and syndic in Groß-Salze Franz Heinrich Höltich , the daughter of Caspar Leyser (* 1628 in Leipzig; † 17 May 1699 in Wittenberg) and his wife Anna Maria Hettenbach (* 5 June 1629 in Wittenberg; † 7 June 1691 in Wittenberg), daughter of Georg Hettenbach (* Wittenberg ; † June 17, 1634 in Wittenberg) and granddaughter of Ernestus Hettenbach , married. The marriage remained childless.

Selection of works

  • Metaphysica Usualis. Wittenberg 1682
  • Ars Syllogistica. Wittenberg 1683
  • Positionum Metaphysicarum Decas. Wittenberg 1689
  • Institutiones Pneumaticae: Scholarum Usui Accommodatae. Wittenberg 1691

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Haberland (* February 1, 1593 in Braunschweig; † February 18, 1665 in Wittenberg) Studied 1618 in Wittenberg and later in Jena, Mag.phil, 1627 Vice-Rector Wittenberg City School, 1634 Rector in Itzehoe (Holstein), 1645 Rector City School Wittenberg , welcomed Wittenberger Kirchhof on February 26th during his term of office in Wittenberg he had made a special contribution to teaching mathematics and geometry at the Wittenberg city school. Married 10 June 1623 with Maria († 3 October 1667 Wittenberg), widow of the carver and carpenter Nickel Wulke, daughter of the shoemaker and citizen Matthaus Metich. Children: T. Christina (born February 28, 1625 in Wittenberg); S. Emmanuel Haberland (February 24, 1632 in Wittenberg; † 1665 in Zerbst) philosopher and rector in Zerbst 45, 158 registered August 7, 1645 UWB, April 29, 1658 Mag. Phil ibid .; S. Johann Christian Haberland (born September 19, 1628 in Wittenberg) enrolled November 12, 1632 UWB; S. Johann Haberland 32, 306 registered November 12, 1632, became Buchbinder on September 22, 1651, S. Matthäus (* May 14, 1630 in Wittenberg; † August 2, 1631 ibid.) (Q. Spitzer, Kettner, KB Wittenberg)
  2. ↑ Jakob Reichmann was born around 1624 in Rotta, today OT Kemberg, the father was the Rotta pastor Georg Reichmann, the mother was Anna, the daughter of the pastor in Zimmer near Langensalza, Jeremias Spiegel, who later also worked in Mülverstedt, and his wife Anna Brettschneider . He was thus a nephew of Jeremias Spiegel (1589–1637). Enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on August 25, 1643, there on April 28, 1646 Mag. Phil., Private tutor with Paul Röber, teacher at the Wittenberg City School, March 13, 1649 Vice-Rector ibid., June 3, 1646 Adj. Phil ., April 9, 1656 Rector in Torgau, † August 4, 1688 in Torgau (Q. Zedler, Jöcher, Kettner, Pallas, PfbKpS, AAV IV 43, 152)
  3. ^ Matriculation of the University of Leipzig
  4. ↑ No. 19 on page 76 in Wittenberg's burial places and their memorials (1896) by Ernst Zitzlaff (digitized online)
  5. ↑ No. 85 on page 27 in Wittenberg's burial places and their monuments (1896) by Ernst Zitzlaff (digitized online)
  6. ↑ She had married him on September 2, 1672 in Wittenberg
  7. ^ Church books Wittenberg
personal data
SURNAME Donati, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donat, Christianus; Donath, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German logician
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1694
Place of death Wittenberg