Christian Friedrich Polz

Christian Friedrich Polz

Christian Friedrich Polz also: Poltz (born January 13, 1714 in Niederrossla , † December 2, 1782 in Jena ) was a German logician and Protestant theologian.

Life

Christian Friedrich was the son of pastor Balthasar Christian Polz (* April 2, 1678 in Roßleben; † February 22, 1731 in Niederrossla) and his first wife Eleonore Sophia Lossius (* July 22, 1691 in Eckolstädt, who married on November 22, 1712 in Mattstedt) ; † March 24, 1716), the daughter of the pastor in Eckolstädt Christian Lossius. From the age of four to fourteen he was trained by his father and private tutors. In 1728 he attended high school in Weimar and matriculated on March 24, 1733 at the University of Jena , where he attended philosophical and theological lectures. From 1740 he worked as a private tutor and gave private lectures on logic and metaphysics in Jena. After he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on May 26, 1744, in 1745 he became the teacher of Prince Ernst August Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach .

He then moved back to Jena, where he became adjunct of the philosophy faculty in August 1752 and associate professor of philosophy on April 10, 1756. On March 24, 1759, he took over the full professorship of logic and metaphysics, in 1770 he was church councilor of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , in 1771 extraordinary and in 1777 full professor of theology at the Salana. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters of 1764 and 1782 . After his death, his extensive library was auctioned, for which an auction catalog was published. Polz was sponsored by the ducal house of Sachsen-Weimar. His works were criticized as scholastic works even in his day and received little approval. Only his natural knowledge of God found some dissemination.

Polz married in Jena on September 25, 1757 in Jena Susanna Maria Schmidt (1720-1803), the widow of Friedrich Andreas Gnugt. His daughter Louise Friederike Christiane Polz (1763-1832) married the secret councilor and Saxon personal physician Johann Christian Stark the Elder in 1783 .

Works

• Diss. Philos. Consuetudinibus . Jena 1738 (present Christian Johann Anton Corvinus, online )
• Diss. Exeg. in qua verba epistolae ad Hebraeos c. XI, 6. exponuntur, et a falsis quorundam naturalistarum, Socinianorum, Arminianorum aliorumque hermēneias liberantur . Jena 1745 (Resp. Christoph Lebrecht Faselius, online )
• Collection of some ecclesiastical speeches, most of which were given on high feast days in the town church in Jena and published on request . Jena 1746
• Diss. Phil. de prima parte ethicae principum, scilicet de virtutibus intellectualis futuri principis . Jena 1746 (Resp.Johann Meilmer, online )
• Answer to the defense of the logical theorem: Divisio logica, semper per membra, contradictione opposita, formanda In addition to the defense of his opponents and a letter to all his readers . Jena 1748
• Diss. Phil. de divisione logica non semper per membra contradictorie opposita formanda . Jena 1748 (Resp. Johann Christoph Ruprecht (1728–1792), online )
• Disp. metaphys. de notione individui magis evoluta, eaque ad Deum, nec non ad hunc mundum adplicata . Jena 1750 (Resp. Christian Heinrich Haase, online )
• Diss. Qua demonstratur, hominem integrum, qui progreditur ad date confirmationis in bono, nobiliorem esse ad perfectiorem creaturam bonis angelis . Jena 1752
• Diss. Metaphys. de praescientia divina apagogice et ostensive ex ratione demonstrata . Jena 1752 (Resp. Christian Wilhelm Oemler (1728–1802), online )
• Diss. Philos. In qua ius devolutionis imperanti ex iure territoriali conveniens ex principiis iuris naturalis deducere conatur . Jena 1754 (Resp. Johann Nikolaus Möckert (1732–1792), [1] )
• Treatise on the lawful use and abuse of similarity of faith, in the interpretation of sacred scriptures . Jena 1755
• Fasciculus commentationuin metaphysicarum, qui continet historiam, dogmata atque controversias diiudicatas de primis principiis, nimirum de absolute primo, eiusque characteribus, principio contradictionis, exclusi medii inter duo contradictoria, rationis sufficientis et identitatis indiscernibilium . Jena 1758
• Progr. De theoria experientiarum . Jena 1759
• Io. Petri Reuschii philosopher. Primum, Deinde Theologiae D. Et PPO Systema Logicum Antiquiorum Atque Recentiorum Item Propria Praecepta Exhibens . Jena 1760 ( online )
• Disputationes philosophicae logicam et metaphysicam spectantes, una cum exegetica, collectae, auctae et emendatae . Jena 1767
• Natural learning of God, in which not only its doctrines are adequately explained and proven, but also the literary and philosophical history of them, a resolution of the doubts that have been raised, together with a brief instruction on how to apply them to the exercise of fear of God, each in a separate section is found . Jena 1777 ( online )
• Some important notes from Litterair's history, philosophy, and theology about the words "essence" and "person" in the teaching of God and Christ . Jena 1779 ( online )

literature

• Erlangische scholarly comments and messages, to the year 1777. Tetzschner, Erlangen, 1777, 32nd vol., St. 39, pp. 353–357 ( online )
• Engelbert Klüpfel: Necrologium sodalium et amicorum litterariorum etc. Herder, Freiburg and Konstanz, 1809, pp. 63–66 ( online )
• Additions to that in 1743 and 1744. Blooming Jena, to the years 1745, 46, 47, 48 and 1749. Georg Michael Maggraf, Jena, 1749, p. 189 ff. ( Online )
• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, 3rd vol., P. 364 ( online )
• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching , Johann Heinrich Martin Ernesti: Historischliterarisches Handbuch of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century. Verlag Schwickert, Leipzig, 1806, vol. 8, p. 190 ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1810, vol. 10, p. 496 ( online )
• Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico. Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen, 1819, Vol. 6, Sp. 558 ( online )

Web link

• Works by and about Christian Friedrich Polz  in the German Digital Library