Christian Ernst Simonetti

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Christian Ernst Simonetti, engraving by Johann Christoph Sysang (1747) after Friedrich Reibenstein
Title page of Simonetti's text Character of a Righteous Theologian , published in 1747 .

Christian Ernst Simonetti (born October 30, 1700 in Berlin , † January 20, 1782 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a Lutheran theologian.

Live and act

Simonetti's living conditions are only roughly known. He was born in Berlin in 1700 as the son of the builder and plasterer Giovanni Simonetti from Graubünden and his wife Euphrosine Hoffkuntz. First he worked as a deacon at St. Nikolai in Quedlinburg , where he took over his position as court preacher after Georg Heinrich Ribow (1703–1774) left for Göttingen in 1736. On January 25, 1735, in Halberstadt, he married Johanna Sophia Catharina Rätzel, the daughter of the councilor, who was born there.

In 1738 he went to Göttingen and received a professorship in philosophy at the Göttingen University , which had been founded three years earlier . In 1740 he was introduced to the office of pastor of the Göttingen St. Jacobi Church and in 1746 he was appointed associate professor of theology. After a further eight years in Göttingen, he was dismissed at his own request in 1754, then initially resided in Berlin without an office and finally received an appointment as pastor and associate professor in Frankfurt (Oder) , where he worked until the end of his life.

In the sixteen years of his activity in Göttingen, Simonetti wrote a number of writings, mostly theological in content.

Works

  • Reasonable instruction for spiritual eloquence: for the use of his listeners and the benefit of those who want to speak thoroughly and awakeningly about the truths revealed . Goettingen 1742.
  • Christian Ernst Simonetti, full teacher of the high school and church in Göttingen, letter to the venerable box of the Freymäurer in Berlin . Berlin 1744.
  • The honest man . Goettingen 1745.
  • The Character Of A Historian: Drafted In The Life And Writings Of Abbot Claudius Fleury . Göttingen, 1746, ( online )
  • Collected thoughts of faith and godliness about the last speeches of the mediatorial love of Jesus on the cross . Berlin 1749.
  • The character of a righteous theologian: in a detailed illustration according to its properties in general . Leipzig 1747. ( online and download )
  • About the teachings of immortality, etc. the sleep of the soul . 2 parts. Berlin, Göttingen 1747 (published in a second, improved edition in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1751)
  • Thorough efforts of the reasonable man in the realm of truth . Frankfurt 1752. (writing against Freemasonry )
  • The legitimate man. Frankfurt (Oder), 1752, ( online )

literature

  • Albrecht Saathoff: From Göttingen's church history. Festschrift for the 400th anniversary of the Reformation on October 21, 1929 . Göttingen 1929, p. 198.
  • German gender book . Vol. 104, 1939, p. 649 f.
  • Johann Stephan Pütter: Attempt of an academic scholarly history from the Georg-August University in Göttingen. Volume II. Göttingen 1788 (Reprint Hildesheim 2006), p. 51 f.
  • Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2008, vol. 8, p. 266 f.
  • Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 232, ( online )
  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1813, p. 180, ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Simonetti, Christian Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1782
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)