Daniel Joachim Köppen

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Daniel Joachim Köppen , also Koeppen (born December 15, 1736 in Lübeck , † June 8, 1807 in Zettemin ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, author and school reformer.

Life

Daniel Joachim Köppen was the older of two sons of the businessman Christoph Ernst Köppen († 1757) and his wife Christine Lucie, b. Siems († 1767). The pastor Johann Gerhard Köppen was his younger brother. Despite the early death of the father, the mother managed to give both sons an academic education against all obstacles. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and from 1756 studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena . In 1758 he graduated with a disputation on Baruch Spinoza , chaired by Balthasar Münter , who was also from Lübeck . In Jena he was a member of the German Society . Johann Heinrich Carstens dedicated a treatise to him on his departure from the university in 1760 .

Village church in Zettemin

He was initially a private tutor in Eldena (near Dömitz ). In 1765 he was appointed pastor of the Zettemin village church by the church patron Axel Albrecht von Maltzahn on Zettemin , an enclave of Prussian-Western Pomerania in Mecklenburg . Köppen was also responsible for Gielow in Mecklenburg . He stayed in this pastor until the end of his life; an appointment as general superintendent in Stettin to succeed Friedrich Christian Göring in 1791 he refused. Köppen was one of the few who journalistically defended the generally criticized Woellner religious edict .

In Zettemin he put the church finances in order, which enabled Matthias Friese to build an organ in the church of Zettemin in 1779/80 , and he was very committed to reforming the village school system. He developed a journalistic effectiveness which was quite unusual for a West Pomeranian village pastor, but was considered in his two communities as "a scholar, a man who was averse to practical conditions and preferred to let things go as best they could without intervening".

Since 1767 he was married to Eva Charlotte Sophie, b. Stock from Neubrandenburg . After her early childless death in 1774, he did not remarry.

Works

  • Theologiae Naturalis Polemicae Specimen exhibens historiam dogmata et refutationem systematis illius quod a Benedicto de Spinoza nomen habet. Jena 1758
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library
  • Specimen de rationali religionis electione. 1759 (congratulations on the assumption of office by Balthasar Münter)
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library
  • The main purpose of the ministry. Leipzig: Hilscher 1778
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library
  • Lessons for schoolmasters of lower schools. 1782
    • Daniel Joachim Köppens, pastor of Zettemin [et] c. [Etc. in the royal Preuss. Vor-Pommern Lessons for School Teachers in Low Schools: A treatise that was abandoned in Hamburg and won first prize. Second improved edition. Rostock and Leipzig: Koppe 1788
  • The Bible, a work of divine wisdom. 2 volumes, Rostock and Leipzig: Koppe, 1787/88
    • About some reviews of the book: The Bible, a work of divine wisdom: as an appendix to the intended book. Rostock: Koppe 1790
    • (Dutch translation) De Bybel een work by Godlyke Wysheid. Door DJ KöPPEN, Predikant te Zettemin in Pommeren, met eenige bekorting uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald door J. vAN DER Roest, Predikant te Haarlem. Utrecht and Gouda: de Waal & van Lopik 1794
    • Second, improved and much increased edition, Rostock and Leipzig: Stiller 1797/98
    • 3rd edition, ed. by Johann Gottfried Scheibel , Leizig: Fleischer 1837 ( digitized version )
  • The right of the princes to oblige religious teachers to use a fixed symbol. 1789
  • Christian Freedom and Equality. Leipzig: Hilscher 1795
  • Who is a christian Or about the concept of a Christian: In addition to remarks about the letter of the Jewish housefathers to the Ober-Consist.-Rath Teller and his answer. Leipzig: Hilscher 1800
Digitized , SLUB

literature

  • Specimen De Vsv Caerimoniarvm In Ecclesia / Qvo Viro ... Dan. Ioachimo Köppen Lubecensi SS Th. Stvd. ... Abitvm Ex Hac Academia Gratvlatvr Collegivm Istvd Qvod Svb Praesidio Viri ... M. Balthasaris Mv̈nteri Ord. Philos. Adivncti ... Ad Romanas Litteras Et Artem Dispvt. Incvmbit Interprete Ioanne Henrico Carstens Lubecensi SS Th. Et Philos. Cvltore. Jena 1760 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10955736-6
  • Daniel Joachim Köppen , in: Samuel Baur: Characteristics of the educational writers in Germany. Leipzig 1790, p. 219
  • Köppen (Daniel Joachim) , in: Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexicon, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Volume 4, Bremen: Heyse 1813, p. CIV f.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5234 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ News from the life of the author of this work, Daniel Joachim Köppen. In: Daniel Joachim Köppen: The Bible: a work of divine wisdom. 3rd edition, ed. by Johann Gottfried Scheibel , Volume 1, Leizig: Fleischer 1837, S. V
  2. ^ Klaus Epstein : The Genesis of German Conservatism. Princeton 1966, p. 166
  3. ↑ L. Fromm: The parish in Gielow, taking into account the history of the place. In: Archive for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg. 17 (1867), pp. 498-511, here p. 505
personal data
SURNAME Köppen, Daniel Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koeppen, Daniel Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, author and school reformer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1807
Place of death Zettemin