Ernst Christian Philippi

Ernst Christian Philippi, engraving by Johann Friedrich Rosbach

Ernst Christian Philippi (born December 23, 1668 in Sulingen ; † February 26, 1736 in Merseburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and court preacher at the Saxon-Merseburg court.

Life

Ernst Christian Philippi was the son of the superintendent of the same name in Sulingen and his wife Sophia Christina, a daughter of the theologian Michael Walther (1593–1662). The father died when the son was four years old.

Philippi attended high school in Bremen, then in Naumburg . In 1689 Philippi began his historical and philosophical studies in Leipzig with Valentin Alberti , Johannes Cyprian , Adam Rechenberg and Valentin Friderici . His main subject was theology, which he studied with Johannes Olearius , Johann Benedict Carpzov II . a. studied.

In 1694 Philippi became a preacher at the Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Liegnitz in Silesia. However, due to the emperor's counter-Reformation policy , he lost his pastor in Liegnitz in 1700. He was called to Dresden as a deacon at the Kreuzkirche and a few months later as a preacher at the Sophienkirche . In 1709 he came to Halle as a preacher at the St. Ulrich's Church , until in 1714 Duke Moritz Wilhelm brought him to Merseburg as court preacher and assessor of the collegiate council .

Ernst Christian Philippi suffered a stroke in the pulpit and died a few days later at the age of 68.

The son Ernst Gottlob Philippi (born April 24, 1709 in Dresden) became a theologian, the son Johann Ernst a lawyer.

Works

• Refutation of the error of many Lutherans about their delusional, hypocritical, sham and oral beliefs . Hall 1710 ( digitized version )
• Christian hymn book . Merseburg 1716
• Testimony to the truth of the most noble and meanest shortcomings in confession in the evangelical church . Hall 1720
• Divine and evangelical truth about keeping the commandments of God and Christ . Merseburg 1724
• First and second encouragement, or teaching of the scriptures . Leipzig 1732.

literature

• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . tape 3 . Neustadt adOrla 1833 ( full text in the Google book search).