Daniel Gottfried Werner

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Daniel Gottfried Werner (born February 2, 1695 in Eisenberg , † after 1752) was a German schoolboy and Protestant theologian .

Life

After attending a grammar school in Eisenberg, Werner studied theology and philosophy at the University of Jena . He received his doctorate on December 10, 1718 and then accepted as an adjunct in the philosophy faculty of the university. In 1725 he had become director of the academic association Societas Exquirentium (Society of Searchers or Voters), which existed until 1728 and had set itself the task of sorting the wheat from the chaff in scientific literature. In 1728 he took over the vacant post of rector at the Collegium Groeningianum in Stargard in Western Pomerania . There he was a professor of theology and the Hebrew language. Werner wrote a number of writings in Latin, mostly of philosophical and theological content. From 1744 he worked in Stargard as a pastor at the St. Johannis Church.

Works (selection)

  • Hundred years of honorary memory of Mr. Peter Gröning. 1733.
  • De antiquissimis Pomeraniae colonis. 1739.
  • Appendices to Jodocus Andreas Hiltebrandt : Directory of the shepherds of God etc. of the city of Neu-Stargard an der Ihna, in the two upper estates, from anno 1524-1724 . Old Szczecin 1724.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann David Gschwend: Eisenberg City and Country Chronicle . Eisenberg 1758, p. 630 .
  2. ^ Johann Andreas Fabricius (Ed.): Outline of the general history of erudition . Volume 3, Leipzig 1754, p. 782 .
  3. ^ Felicitas Marwinski: Johann Andreas Fabricius and the Jena societies of the 18th century . Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 1889, pp. 16 and 89.
  4. ^ Ernst Ludwig Rathlef, Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten, Johann Christoph Strodtmann (ed.): History of scholars now living . Volume 9, cell 1745, p. 222 .
  5. Werner, Daniel Gottfried. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 55, Leipzig 1748, column 450 f.
    Werner, Joseph Christoph. In: Zedler. Volume 55, 1748, column 751.
  6. Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Short historical-geographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1793, p. 494.