Christian Friedrich Bauer

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Christian Friedrich Bauer (born October 27, 1696 in Hopfgarten , † September 28, 1752 in Wittenberg ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the manor administrator, tax collector and councilor Friedrich Bauer and his wife, the daughter of the pastor in Rötha Johann Georg Güttner, he first received private lessons in Geithain , where, after attending the school there , he learned Greek, Latin and Hebrew under the rector Streitmann Language learned. He then attended the Fürstenschule Grimma in 1712 , enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1716 and in February 1720 obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. After giving lectures as a preacher at the Paulinerkirche , he became pastor in Friesdorf and dean in Mansfeld in 1724 .

There he dealt with the Old Testament , which brought him a call to the University of Wittenberg in 1752 as professor of theology and Ephorus of the electoral scholarship holders. Bauer accepted the offer and enrolled with his seven sons on May 11, 1741 at the University of Wittenberg. In the same semester on August 29, he received his doctorate in theology. At that time in Wittenberg he dealt with the much-discussed question of Hebrew accents , but without giving it any decisive support, as he held lectures in his bed for 6 years with a dislocated knee. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg Academy and was rector of the University of Wittenberg in the winter semesters of 1744 and 1748 .

family

It would be worth mentioning genealogically that he married the widow Johanna Magarethe, the daughter of the Leipzig citizen and mill inspector Johann Müller, on 1724. The marriage resulted in 11 children, 8 sons and 3 daughters. It is known:

  • Friedrich Ernst Bauer (born July 9, 1725 in Friesdorf; † July 13, 1797 in Schlieben) was pastor in Apollensdorf, Bad Schmiedeberg and provost of Schlieben
  • Johann Ernst Bauer (born January 8, 1727 in Friesdorf) pastor in Hinternah
  • Christiane Ernestine Bauer (born December 7, 1728 in Friesdorf)
  • Elisabeth Ernestine Bauer (born April 22, 1728 in Friesdorf;) married. since May 16, 1752 in Wittenberg with D. Christian Gottfried Francke (born January 29, 1712 in Marinau; † March 31, 1789 in Wittenberg) 1730 Uni WB, October 22, 1737 Dr. jur. Uni WB; City judge in Wittenberg
  • Christian Ernst Bauer (born November 7, 1731 in Freisdorf; † October 29, 1793) Dr. jur. and mayor of Wittenberg
  • August Ernst Bauer (born November 7, 1731 in Friesdorf; † 1741)
  • Gottlob Ernst Bauer (born August 21, 1733 in Friesdorf; † 1754 in Wittenberg) as a student.
  • Gustav Christoph Ernst Bauer (born June 6, 1735 in Friesdorf; † May 26, 1788 in Wittenberg) 1759 Magister, 1763 3rd Diac. in WB, died unmarried
  • Friedericke Ernestine Bauer (born January 21, 1740 in Friesdorf; † 1771) married. with Friedrich Wilhelm Grebel (* 1722 in Sachsenburg in Thuringia; † July 10, 1784 in Wittenberg), academic protonnotarius at the Wittenberg consistory
  • Romanus Ernst Bauer (born November 18, 1741 in Friesdorf; † 1772)
  • August Ernst Bauer, was an imperial officer in Austria after 1804

Selection of works

  • Thorough explanation of the dark places and stones of the offense of the Old and New Testaments, together with a detailed report of the Commentariis and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, 1725–1744
  • The prophecies of Jesus, the true Messiah, contained in the five books of Moses, through the help of the basic text and the accentuation, against the Clericum and the author of the free Wertheim translation

literature

  • Walter Friedensburg :: History of the University of Wittenberg . Halle (Saale) 1917
  • Johann Christoph Erdmann: Biographies and literary news from the Wittenberg theologians since the foundation of the university in 1502 up to the third centenary secular feyer in 1802
  • Nikolaus Müller: The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg . Magdeburg 1912
  • Register of the University of Wittenberg vol. 6
  • Parish book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony . Leipzig 2003, Vol. 1, 225