Christian Friedrich Schmidt

Christian Friedrich Schmidt , also: Christoph Friedrich Schmid , (born November 20, 1741 in Röglitz , † May 19, 1778 in Wittenberg ) was a German philosopher and Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the pastor Christoph Schmidt, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1755 , where he studied theology and in 1762 earned the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. During his time in Leipzig he was under the influence of his uncle Christian August Crusius , who had been an opponent of Christian Wolff , and was significantly influenced by him in the spirit of Lutheran orthodoxy . After Schmidt was accepted as an adjunct to the philosophical faculty in 1763 , he was made an extraordinary professorship in philosophy in 1767 .

In 1768 he acquired the baccalaureate of the theological faculty and on March 30, 1772 became fourth professor of the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg , with which he became an alumnus of the electoral scholarship holders. On May 5th of the same year he received his doctorate in theology. Schmidt was the first to introduce philosophy at the Wittenberg theological faculty, although he had difficulty finding audiences. In addition, he interpreted the biblical exegesis of the New Testament in his lectures and was polemical on the chair.

Under the impression of events such as the Thorner blood court or the expulsion of the Salzburg exiles by Leopold Anton von Firmian , it was directed against the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church . He also opposed all deviants from Lutheran controversial theology. Above all, he turned against the advocates of the increasingly established Enlightenment . Thus he still clung to the old doctrinal rules of the Lutheran orthodoxy that was coming to an end, but was no longer such a rigid representative. Schmidt, who also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg University in his professorship, was also the rector of the university in the winter semester of 1774 .

Selection of works

1. Epist. Specimen auimadversionum in Theopbresti characteres morum. Leipzig 1761
2. Diss. Versio Alexandrina optimum interpretationis librorum sacrorum praesidium. Specimen I in Epist. ad Hebraeos. Leipzig 1763, Specimen II. Leipzig 1764
3. Progr. Origines IV Evangeliorum. Leipzig 1763
4. Epist. de Herodianis. Leipzig 1763
5. Discours sur la vraie grandeur des Princea. Leipzig 1764
6. Discours sur le devoir des sujet, de faire des prières pour la prosperite de leur souverain. Leipzig 1764
7. Specimina II in Epistolam Jacobi. Leipzig 1764
8. Diss. Super origine epistolae ad Hebraeos. Leipzig 1765
9. Observationes criticae, historicae, theologicae super epistola ad Hebraeos. Leipzig 1766
10. La philosophie de Phistoire de seu l'Abbé Bazin critiquee. Leipzig 1766
11. Diss. Adversus superstitionem. Leipzig 1766
12. Progr. De consensione universa, naturae voce. Leipzig 1767
13. Diss de finibus renim maxime animorum. Leipzig 1768
14. Observatione criticae, historicae, theologicae super epistola S. Judae. Leipzig 1768
15. Philological and Critical Library. 1st vol., Leipzig 1769-1770, 2 vol., Leipzig 1771
16. The doctrine of reason, for use in fine lectures. Leipzig 1769
17. Metaphysics etc Leipzig 1770
18. Oratio de illiberali et parum frugífero studio criticorum, qui in diiudicandis libris divinis historica, antiquaria, critica et philologica qualiacunque ostentant, in fraudem testimonii Sancti Spiritus. Leipzig 1770
19. Whether the Revelation of John is a real divine book; a critical investigation; with explanations and treatises on the origin and historical certainty of the canonical collection; of the old and new testaments. Leipzig 1771
20. Diss. Theol, inaug. qua divina origo libromin canonicorum Vet. Test ex antiquis scriptis Judaeorum et Christianorum probatur et vindicatur. Wittenberg 1772
21. Progr. De antiqua forma, collectione et conservatione codicis sacri Hebraici. Wittenberg 1772
22. Duae.orationes theologicae I. de vitiis vulgaribus Germanorum in interpretandis libris divinis, II. De theologica sentiendi et dicendi libertate. Wittenberg 1772
23. New philological and critical library. 1-5. Piece Wittenberg 1773-1774
24. Progr. Vindiciae nalivitatis Christi e matre virgine ad nEs. VII, 14. 15. Wittenberg 1773
25. Progr. Origines dogmatum de rebus ultimis. Sectio I. Wittenberg 1774
26. Progr. Judacorum, qui Christi tempore vixerunt, de eodem variae opiniones. Wittenberg 1775
27. Progr. Brevis expositio Pfalmi secundi. Wittenberg 1775
28. Progr. Enarratio doctrinae librorum sacrorum de lapsu daemonum. Wittenberg 1775
29. Historia antiqua et vindicatio Canonis sacri Veteris Novique Testamenti, libris II comprehensa. Leipzig 1775
30. Annotations in Epistolam Paulli ad Romanos philologicae, theologicae et criticae. Leipzig 1777

literature

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917, 555-556
• Wittenberger Wochenblatt to take up natural history and the economic trade. (WW), vol. 1779, p. 87
• Johann Christoph Erdmann : Biographies and literary news from the wittenberg theologians since the foundation of the university in 1502 up to the third centenary Säcularfeyer in 1802: from the registers and other credible documents; a contribution to the kursächs. Reformation and Church History / from. - Wittenberg  : Zimmermann Verlag, Wittenberg, 1804, pp. 142–144 No. 93
• Matriculation University of Leipzig and Wittenberg

Web links

• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Vol. 3 p. 804 ( online )
• Franz Volkmar Reinhard : Confessions, his sermons and his education as a preacher. P. 41 ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Vol. 12 p. 247 ( online )