David Julius Pott

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David Julius Pott (born October 10, 1760 in Nettelrede ; † October 18, 1838 in Göttingen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, biblical scholar and university professor.

Life

Pott studied theology at the University of Göttingen , where he was repetent in 1783 and private lecturer in 1786 . In 1787 he was appointed associate professor of theology at the University of Helmstedt and in 1788 full professor. In 1798 he received the title of Abbot of Mariental and thus became a member of the Braunschweiger Landtag. After the Helmstedt University of Applied Sciences closed in 1809, he was transferred to Göttingen in 1810 as a professor and consistorial councilor. In 1811 and 1819 he was Vice Rector of the University. He was married to Auguste Johanna, b. von Crell († July 11, 1816). In 1826 the city of Göttingen awarded him and his daughters honorary citizenship .

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Pott wrote a number of exegetical treatises on the Old and New Testament. While most of his work soon became out of date, his collaboration on the completion of Johann Benjamin Koppe's revision of the Greek original text of the New Testament N. T. graece perpetua annotatione illustratum after his death in 1791 together with Thomas Christian Tychsen , Christoph Ammon and Johann Heinrich Heinrichs for their praised philological thoroughness. Pott edited the Greek texts of the letters of Peter, the letter of James, and the first 10 chapters of the first letter to the Corinthians.

From 1800 to 1807, initially with Georg Alexander Ruperti , then from volume 3 alone, he published a well-known exegetical journal under the title Sylloge commentationum .

Awards

  • 1787: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy on the anniversary of the University of Göttingen (September 17, 1787)
  • 1821: Guelph Order
  • 1826: Honorary citizen of Göttingen

Fonts

  • Dissertatio de natura atque indole orationis montanae. 1788
  • De consilio Mosis in transscribendo documento illo quod Gen. 2 et 3 ante oculos habuisse videtur. 1789
  • Life, opinions and fates of D. Carl Friedrich Bahrdts drawn from documents. 1790
Digitized
  • Moses and David are not geologists. 1799
  • Novum Testamentvm Graece; Vol. 9, Fasc. 2; Exhibens Utramqve Epistolam Petri. 1810
  • Prayer at Heyne 's grave.
Digitized copy of the copy in the Göttingen University Library
  • Epistola Iacobi. 1816
  • De belli natura morali recte aestimanda. 3 volumes Göttingen: Dieterich 1816/17
  • Description of the festivities by which the Reformation jubilee was celebrated on November 1st and 2nd, 1817 by the Georg-August University in Göttingen: With accompanying notes.

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1818

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  • Nonnulla de arte concionem sacram recte percipiendi. Göttingen: Dieterich 1823
  • The consecration of the University Church of Göttingen on December 29th. 1822: with historical notes about the former and current university church there. Göttingen: Dieterich 1823
Digitized copy of the copy in the Göttingen University Library
  • 1. Epistola Pauli ad Corinthos: Cap.1-10. 1826
  • Commentatio I. II. In locum Paullinum 1 Cor. XI, 10. Göttingen 1831/1833
  • Commentatio I. de sacra coena ad locum 1 Cor. XI, 23-25. Göttingen: Dieterich 1835

Estate catalog

  • List of books left by ... Pott. Göttingen: Menzel 1839

literature

See also

personal data
SURNAME Pott, David Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Sweet speech
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1838
Place of death Goettingen