Daniel Severin Scultetus

Daniel Severin Scultetus (actually Schultze, also called Schultetus, * 1645 in Hamburg ; † December 29, 1712 ) was a theologian from Hamburg.

His father was Joachim Schultze (born in Treptow in Pomerania , since 1644 preacher at St. Jacobi in Hamburg, † August 27, 1682). Apart from Daniel Severin, he had two other sons: the lawyer Barthold Hieronymus Schultze (mayor of Tondern , as such † 1708) and the physician Georg Diedrich Schultze († 1722 in Hamburg).

Daniel Severin Schultze attended the Johanneum and grammar school in Hamburg and then studied theology in Wittenberg, Leipzig, Jena, Giessen and Strasbourg. On February 11, 1668, he received his master's degree in philosophy in Jena. After taking the candidate exam in Hamburg, he went on to study privately. He has not received an office and probably also did not seek it. His numerous writings, mostly polemical in nature, testify to an unusual erudition and prudence. He endeavored to do justice to both parties within the Lutheran Church, the Orthodox and the Pietists, and at least succeeded in getting Philipp Jacob Spener and Johann Friedrich Mayer to appreciate him for his merits, as he did with them Contemporaries enjoyed a great reputation. In the disputes about Johann Heinrich Horb , he intervened with two anonymous pamphlets, which stood out among the innumerable polemics on this matter by their clarity and moderation.

literature

• Ernst Gurlt:  Scultetus, Daniel Severin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 498.
• Joh. Molleri Cimbria literata. I, 605-608. -
• Lexicon of Hamburg writers VII, 93–96.
• Geffcken, Johann Winckler p. 109. - Jöcher IV, Sp. 451.