Christian Gottlieb Gilling

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Christian Gottlieb Gilling (born December 10, 1735 in Zittau , † January 14, 1789 in Zeuden ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Gilling attended high school in his hometown and on May 31, 1756 moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he studied philosophy and lectured by Johann Friedrich Hiller in poetry, by Johann Georg Walther in ethics, by Johann Daniel Ritter in history, by Karl Gottlob Sperbach in philosophy, Karl Daniel Freyberg in logic and Johann Daniel Titius and Georg Friedrich Baermann in mathematics.

On October 17, 1758, Gilling obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy, acquired the permission to read aloud for universities on May 17, 1763 as a master's degree, and on December 8, 1764 became an adjunct in the philosophy faculty of the university. Continuing to study theology, he became a baccalaureus in theology in 1766 . In 1767 he went to Zeuden as a pastor, where he worked until the end of his life.

Above all, Gilling kept himself in permanent memory with the drawing of the inventory of the Wittenberg Castle Church before its destruction in 1760 and is known as a theological doubter of the worldview of Nicolaus Copernicus .

Selection of works

  1. Diss. De ortu et progressu systematum mundi praecipuorum. Wittenberg 1763
  2. Diss. De terra mobili an immobili. Wittenberg 1763
  3. Diss. De argumentis, quibus motus terrae vel impugnatur vel defenditur. Wittenberg 1764
  4. Diss. De scriptura sacra in astronomicis iuxta rei veritatem pronunciante. Wittenberg 1766

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1804, Vol. 4,
  • Johann Christian Poggendorff: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences. 1. Vol. Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1863
  • Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3. Halle (Saale), 1966, p. 179

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , pp. 455-468.
  2. ^ Helmar Junghans: Wittenberg as Lutherstadt. Union Verlag, Berlin, 1979, p. 60
  3. ^ Hartmann Grisar: Galileo Studies, historical-theological investigations on the judgments of the Roman congresses in the Galileo process. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, New York- Cincinnati, 1882, p. 288
personal data
SURNAME Gilling, Christian Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1789
Place of death Zeuden