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Christoph wool

Christoph wool (born January 24, 1700 in Leipzig ; † July 6, 1761 ibid) was a German Protestant - Lutheran theologian and clergyman .

Life

Christoph Wolle, the son of a tailor in Leipzig, graduated from the Thomas School in Leipzig in 1715 , where he had already worked on an Arabic lexicon for the Koran. He studied theology , philosophy and ancient languages at the University of Leipzig . He finished his studies with a master's degree in philosophy and qualified as a lecturer in 1721. Wool became the private tutor of the Schacher family in Leipzig and worked in church services from 1725. In 1734 he became a Sunday preacher at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig . From 1739 he worked at the Thomaskirche , from 1743 as archdeacon . He obtained a licentiate in theology and was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD. In 1748 he became an associate professor for theology in Leipzig. He was married to Friederike Elisabeth Börner, daughter of the theologian Christian Friedrich Börner , in his second marriage . Johann Sebastian Bach's eldest daughter, Elisabeth Juliane Friederike, was married to Johann Christoph Altnikol on January 20, 1749 by Wolle . On July 22nd, 1750, Wolle gave the Thomaskantor, whose confessor he had been for nine years since 1741, every six months in Advent and in summer, and who died on July 28th, absolution for the last time .

Works (selection)

  • De facultatibus intellectualibus in bonos habitus mutandis , 1721
  • De harmonia praestabilita, or curious and thorough reasoning about the predetermined harmony of some new philosophers , 1727
  • De ignoto ... deo - The rest of souls, the highest good in this life or brief interpretation of the preacher Solomon, translated again from the basic language , 1729
  • Marci Antonini Imperatoris et philosophi Libri XII eorum quae de se ipso ad se ipsum scripsit , 1729
  • Ecclesia Pharisaica et christiana ..... sive de excellentia moralis Christi doctrinae , 1731
  • Diss.Historia invocationis Dei patris in nomine filii sui , 1731
  • Diss. De usu et abusu euphemismi sacri , 1732
  • Collectio quattuor de verbis Graecorum mediis dissertationum , 1733
  • Hermeneutica Novi Testamenti acroamatico-dogmatica, certissimis defaecatae philosophiae principiis corroborata eximiisque omnium theologiae christianae partium usibus inserviens , 1736
  • Diss.Apologia pro vera divinitate Jesu Christi ex loco controverso Joh. 17, 3. 4 , 1741
  • Moral doctrine of the Augsburg Confession , 1745
  • Reflections on the Christian Doctrine of Virtue , 1746
  • Diss. De Pontifice Christianorum maximo sedente, ad Hebr. 8, 1, 2 , 1746
  • Oratio in contemtores religionis christianae , 1746
  • Commentatio theologica de ecclesia virgine ad 2 Cor. XI, 1.2 , 1748
  • Seven Sacred Discourses on Important Truths of the Gospel , 1748

literature

  • Paul Tschackert :  Wool, Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 548 f.
  • Aloys Henning: On the eye operations on the cantor and on the archdeacon of St. Thomas in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach and Christoph Wolle. In: Würzburger medical history reports 17, 1998, pp. 227–250; here: pp. 227 and 242–244 ( Hillmer's eye operations on Archdeacon Christoph Wolle ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Verlag JKG Wagner, Neustadt 1835, p. 752 ff.
  2. ↑ Werner Neumann, Hans-Joachim Schulze (ed.): Foreign-written and printed documents on the life story of Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750, Bach documents. Edited by the Leipzig Bach Archive. Supplement to Johann Sebastian Bach, new edition of all works, II, Kassel, Basel etc. 1969, p. 454.
  3. ^ Aloys Henning: On the eye operations on the cantor and on the archdeacon of St. Thomas in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach and Christoph Wolle. In: Würzburger medical history reports 17, 1998, pp. 227–250; here: p. 227.
  4. ↑ Chronology of the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach the New Bach Society
personal data
SURNAME Wool, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1761
Place of death Leipzig