Daniel Ernst Jablonski
Daniel Ernst Jablonski (born November 20, 1660 in Nassenhuben near Danzig ; † May 25, 1741 in Berlin ) was a Bohemian-Polish-German theologian, court preacher in Berlin, senior ( bishop ) of the Polish branch of the Brothers' Unity and co-founder of the later Prussian Academy of Sciences , which goes back to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .
origin
His father was Peter Figulus-Jablonský (1617-1670). He was a Protestant and had to leave Bohemia in 1627 after an edict by Ferdinand II. He came to Lissa and in 1654 became the preacher of Countess Dorothea Sibylla von Dönhoff . His mother was Elisabeth Comenius (after 1628-after 1670) a daughter of Johann Amos Comenius . His brother Johann Theodor Jablonski (1654–1731) was permanent secretary of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and editor of the General Lexicon of Arts and Sciences until 1725 .
life and work
Jablonski attended high school in Polish Lissa and studied theology in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1677 to 1678 . In 1679 he was a temporary teacher at a school of Prince Radziwiłł in Birsen, Lithuania . Between 1680 and 1683 he studied at Oxford and subsequently became a field chaplain . In 1686 he became rector of the grammar school in Polish Lissa. In 1688 he married Barbara Fergushill in Polish-Lissa, with whom he was to have 16 children. In 1691 he moved to Königsberg as court preacher . In 1693 he was called to Berlin to succeed the court preacher Georg Conrad Bergius . In Berlin, he mainly devoted himself to founding and nurturing the Brandenburg Society of Sciences, caring for the Reformed in Southeast and Eastern Europe and attempting to unite the two Protestant creeds . On June 11, 1713, Jablonski was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1718 he was appointed to the Lutheran consistory . In 1728 he became a councilor in the Reformed Church Directorate . Jablonski was considered an exemplary preacher and was in correspondence with numerous personalities. Among them Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , August Hermann Francke , John Sharp (1643–1714, Archbishop of York from 1691 to 1714) and Ezechiel Spanheim .
Together with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , he founded the Brandenburg Society of Sciences in 1700 and was temporarily vice-president and from 1733 to 1741 president of the society.
family
He married in 1688 in Lissa Barbara Fergushill (1671-1723), daughter of Alexander Fergushill († 1699), a merchant who emigrated from Scotland because of his faith. The couple had 13 children including:
- Paul Ernst (1693–1757), professor of theology and philology and Reformed preacher in Frankfurt an der Oder ∞ Sophie Charlotte Bergius
- Daniel Gottlob (* 1696), royal valet
- Friedrich Wilhelm (1706–1760), court preacher at the Trinity Church in Berlin
- Marie ∞ Wilhelm von Irwing, Supreme Court, Senior Consistorial and School Councilor in Berlin (parents of Karl Franz von Irwing )
- Charlotte ∞ Christian Scholtz (1697–1777), pastor in Züllichau , then court preacher in Berlin, linguist
literature
- Joachim Bahlcke , Bogusław Dybaś and Hartmut Rudolph (eds.): Building bridges. Daniel Ernst Jablonski in the Europe of the Early Enlightenment . Janos Stekovics, Dößel 2010, ISBN 978-3899232592 . - Polish edition udT: Budowanie mostów. Daniel Ernest Jabłoński w Europie wczesnego oświecenia . Leszno 2010, ISBN 978-83-928439-5-5 . - Czech edition udT: Daniel Arnošt Jablonský. Život a dílo vnuka JA Komenského . Praha 2011, ISBN 978-80-86935-16-4 .
- Joachim Bahlcke , Werner Korthaase (Ed.): Daniel Ernst Jablonski. Religion, science and politics around 1700 . (Jabloniana. Sources and research on European cultural history in the early modern period 1). XIII, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3447057936 .
- Joachim Bahlcke and Karl W. Schwarz (eds.): Between Dorpat, Pressburg and Vienna. Ján Kvačala and the beginnings of Jablonski research in East Central Europe around 1900 . (Jabloniana. Sources and research on European cultural history in the early modern period 9). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3447110440 .
- Joachim Heubach: JABLONSKI, Daniel Ernst. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1395-1396.
- Hans Hohlwein: Jablonski, Daniel Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 212 ( digitized version ).
- Rudolf Schwarze : Jablonski, Daniel Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 523-526.
Web links
- Literature by and about Daniel Ernst Jablonski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Daniel Ernst Jablonski in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Daniel Ernst Jablonski in VD 17 .
- Homepage of the Jablonski research center at the University of Stuttgart
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonhard Stroux: The foundation of the Brandenburg Society of Sciences by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Daniel Ernst Jablonski. In: Joachim Bahlcke (Ed.), Werner Korthaase (Ed.): Daniel Ernst Jablonski: Religion, Science and Politics around 1700. Harrassowitz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05793-6 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jablonski, Daniel Ernst |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German preacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1660 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wet lifts near Gdansk |
DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1741 |
Place of death | Berlin |