David Samuel Daniel Wyttenbach

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David Samuel Daniel Wyttenbach also: Daniel Wyttenbach the Elder (born June 26, 1706 in Worb near Bern, † June 29, 1779 in Marburg ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian.

Life

Daniel Wyttenbach the Elder was the son of Pastor Daniel Wyttenbach and his wife Susanne Blauner. He lived in his parents' house until he was seven. Then he was taken to his grandfather, where he received lessons from informators in Bern. At the age of twelve he became a student at the University of Bern . Health problems forced him to move to the country to live with his father. Here he cured himself for two years and continued his theological studies in 1720. In 1728 he moved to the University of Lausanne , where he studied French for half a year and familiarized himself with the thoughts of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and John Locke . In 1732 he became a candidate for the ministry and went to his father in Worb as an assistant preacher.

In 1735 he began an educational trip that took him to the University of Marburg . Here, among other things, he became more familiar with the ethics of Christian Wolff . After a year and a half, he continued his educational journey. After brief visits to the University of Halle , the University of Leipzig and the University of Jena , he finally moved to the Netherlands. Here he attended the University of Utrecht and The Hague . He then moved to Paris and returned to his father in 1737. In 1740 he became a deacon at the Heiliggeistkirche in Bern , and in August 1746 he became professor of theology at the University of Bern. He entered the professorship with the inaugural address Praelectio de iis, quae observanda sunt circa theologiam et dogmaticam, et elenchticam docendam .

After teaching theological dogmatics and ethics for ten years, he was appointed professor of theology at the University of Marburg on January 21, 1756. He took up his new office on November 8, 1756 with the introductory speech De principiis statuum evengelicorum circa res ecclesiasticas and was awarded a doctorate in theology after a speech. Shortly afterwards he became consistorial councilor and inspector of the reformed churches and schools in the Principality of Upper Hesse. He resigned these duties on July 22, 1771, as he became blind. The rest of his life he devoted himself to academic work. He mainly held lectures on dogmatics, polemics, canon law and biblical hermeneutics. Wyttenbach was a dogmatic follower of Wolff and thus an early proponent of Enlightenment theology.

family

In 1743 he married the Juncker daughter Rosina Lombach († 1772), from which marriage had eleven children. From the children we know:

  • Susanne (* 1743), married to the professor of the drawing arts in Hanau Jean Louis Gallien (* around 1730 in Paris; † July 4, 1809 in Hanau)
  • Johanette (* 1745), married to the pastor in Stettlen near Bern, Immanuel Salchli
  • Daniel Albert (* August 7, 1746; † January 17, 1820), married to Johanna Gallien (* 1773 in Hanau; † April 26, 1830), became a professor at the University of Leiden
  • Gabriel Nicolaus (* 1754) became an officer in the Swiss Legion in the Netherlands
  • Amalie Susanne Magarethe (* 1763)

Works

  • Praecipua doctrinae christianae capita ex primis principiis deducta. Bern 1732
  • Tentamen Theologiae dogmaticae methodo scientifica pertractatae. Bern 1741–1747 3rd vol.
  • Brief outline of the whole Christian religion. Bern 1744, 1756
  • Praelectio de iis, quae observanda sunt circa theologiam et dogmaticam, et elenchticam docendam. Bern 1747
  • Compendium Theologiae dogmaticae et moralis. Frankfurt am Main 1754
  • Theologiae elenchticae initia. Frankfurt am Main 1759
  • Elementa hermeneuticae sacrae. Marburg 1760
  • Sciagraphia Theologiae didacticae. Marburg 1768
  • The advantages of the Reformation for the Roman Catholics, as proof that they therefore do not consider the Reformation to be evil and should therefore not harbor or express any religious hatred against the Protestants. Dabay the duties of the Protestants towards the Catholics and those towards one another, also towards the teaching standards, as well as towards the sects are pressed. Frankfurt 1769, Marburg 1779

literature

personal data
SURNAME Wyttenbach, David Samuel Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wyttenbach, Daniel the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Worb
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1779
Place of death Marburg