Ernst Jakob Danovius

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Ernst Jakob Danovius

Ernst Jakob Danovius also: Danov (* March 12, 1741 in Redlau ; † March 18, 1782 in Jena ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Ernst Jakob was born as the eldest son of the pastor in Redlau and later pastor in Thorn Ludwig Danovius (* September 1711 Eckersberg / Prussia; † February 16, 1771 in Thorn) and his wife Anna Eleonora Gerschner (* Königsberg). He received his first education from his father and at the age of fifteen he entered the Academic Gymnasium in Gdansk . Here he enjoyed the training of teachers such as Ernst August Bertling , Gottlieb Wernsdorf , Benjamin Groddeck (* September 27, 1720 in Danzig, † June 5, 1776 in Danzig), Christian Sendel (* December 12, 1719 in Elblag; † May 25 1789 in Danzig) and Heinrich Kühn (born November 19, 1690 in Königsberg / Pr. † August 6, 1769 in Danzig).

In 1760 he began to study theology at the University of Helmstedt . To this end, he attended lectures at the philosophical faculty with Franz Dominikus Häberlin , Johann Jacob Hentsch (born January 24, 1723 in Bautzen, † July 15, 1764 in Helmstädt) and Johann Wolfgang Kipping . His theological knowledge shaped Johann Ernst Schubert , Anton Julius von der Hardt (born November 13, 1707 in Braunschweig, † June 27, 1785 in Helmstedt), Wilhelm Abraham Teller and Johann Benedikt Carpzov . In 1763 he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen , where Johann David Michaelis , Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch , Johann David Heilmann , Gottfried Less , Samuel Christian Hollmann and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner became his teachers. In 1765 he followed Johann Ernst Schubert to Greifswald , where he made a living as a tutor of his children and through private lectures. After he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in Greifswald, he became rector of the Johannisschule in Danzig in 1766 .

Through Bertling's recommendation, he received an honorary professorship in theology at the University of Jena in September 1768 . After he had defended his inaugural treatise de Episcopis aetate Apostolorum on June 8, 1774 , he received his doctorate in theology and on June 27 of the same year was given a full professorship in theology in Jena. As such, he gave lectures on exegesis, dogmatics, symbolism and morality. In 1774 he became a church councilor of Saxe-Gotha and inspector of the Gotha and Altenburg students. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university. He was dean of the theological faculty and in the winter semesters 1774 and 1778 rector of the alma mater . In a fit of choleric melancholy, he threw himself into the hall and drowned.

Danovius is one of the Lutheran theologians who, through his supranaturalist conception of a natural religion, took a free, enlightened standpoint. He got into a literary argument about the doctrine of justification with the Erlangen theologian Georg Friedrich Seiler (* October 24, 1733 in Creußen; † May 13, 1807 in Erlangen). He also campaigned for religious association with the Reformed Church. Though his students praised the liveliness, clarity, and thoughtfulness of his lectures, his style of writing seems clumsy and artificial.

Danovius was married to Henrietta Wilhelmina Sophia Eberhardina Eber (* 1755 in Jena), the daughter of the princely Thurn und Taxischer Hofrats, councilor of Saxony-Coburg and imperial postmaster in Jena Christoph Ludwig Eber (* 1713 - 13 January 1785 in Jena) who was married to Paulina Regina Sophia, the daughter of a mayor of Deizisau near Weimar. The marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

  • De Christi Gloria Ex Divi Paulli Sententia Psalmis LXVIII. Et CII. Celebrata Praefatvs: Solemnem Orationem Pvblici Mvneris Cavssa In Academia Ienensi Sibi Clementissime Demandati. Jena 1759 ( online )
  • Diss. De vera verborum sermonis Hebraici tertia He terminatorum natura. Danzig 1760
  • Diss. De choreis sacris Ebraeorum. Danzig 1766 (Resp. Martin Luther Wolff (1744–1801), online )
  • Diss. De vera natura et indole verborum. . .. Danzig 1768
  • Progr. De gloria Christi ex D. Pauli sententia, Psalm 68 et 102. celebrata. Jena 1769
  • Letter to Mr. D. Semler regarding his new disputes. Jena 1770 ( online )
  • About the religious association; a lecture. Jena 1771
  • Non-profit proof of the truth of the Christian religion and the divinity of the Bible, an attempt in 7 sections. Jena 1771
  • Institutiones Theologiae dogmaticae. Lib. I, Jena 1772; Lib. II. Jena 1776
  • Diss. De Episcopis tempore Apostolorum. Jena 1775
  • Progr. Fidei asserta vis iustificandi. Jena 1774
  • Diss. Continens explanationem locorum Scripturae S. divinitatem Jesu Christi probantium. Jena 1774
  • Diss. Habitus doctrinae de satisfactione Christi ad disciplinam morum. Jena 1775
  • Progr. Jesus Christ filius Dei. Jena 1776; Pars II, Jena 1777
  • Progr. Judicii super integritate Scripturae S. regundi iustos fines describeris. Jena 1777 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Johann Jakob Griesbach , online )
  • Three treatises on the justification of man before God; translated from the Latin (by Mölrath); together with an answer to two against the author's way of thinking about this doctrine, Erlang came out. Program, (v. D. Seiler). Jena 1777
  • Brief explanation of the new text published by Mr. KR Seiler against him, for the sake of justification. Jena 1778
  • Progr. Ill de eo, quod in religione vim rationis superat. Jena 1778–1781
  • Censura super libro Torgensi Holsato - Slesvicensis, variis observationibus illustrata. Jena 1780
Gave out
  • Joh. Dav. Heilmanni Opuscula, maximam partem theologici avgumenti. Pars I. Jena, 1774 ( online ); Pars II. Jena 1777 ( online )
  • Two essays on the Lutheran doctrine of Heil. Last supper. In: Erbstein's small writings on the holy. Last supper. Berlin 1780
  • AJ Roustan's, preacher at the Swiss Church in London, letters in defense of the Christian religion; new translation, with some comments. Hall 1783

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Father Jacob Danovius Pastor Eckersberg, studies October 10, 1729 University of Königsberg, 1732 Vice-Principal of the Provincial School in Lyck, 1736 Educator Educator in Königsberg, 1740 Pastor Redlau and Klein Katz (Nedlau), 1758 Pastor Dreifaltigkeitskirche Thorn (see Georg Gottlieb Dittmann: Contributions to the history of the City of Thorn collected from good and reliable sources. 1789, p. 56, online )
  2. ↑ New Doctores of God's Faith. In: Acta Historico-Ecclesiastica nostri temporis. Or collected news and documents on the church history of our time. Carl Ludolf Hoffmann, Weimar, 1775, 6th vol. P. 845 ( online )
  3. ^ Message from a between the Theological Faculty to Erlangen and the Lord Church Council and ordentl. Professor of theology to Jena D. Ernst Jacob Danovius theological disputes over the doctrine of justification. In: Acta Historico-Ecclesiastica nostri temporis. Or collected news and documents on the church history of our time. Carl Ludolf Hoffmann, Weimar, 1778, vol. 33, p. 713, ( online )
  4. ^ Immanuel Carl Diez: Correspondence and Kantian writings. Establishing knowledge in the crisis of faith in Tübingen-Jena (1790-1792). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 1996, ISBN 3608916598 , p. 680, no. 39
  5. ↑ Her brother was Imperial Postmaster and Princely Thurn and Taxischer Hofrat in Jena Dr. jur. Paul Ludwig Ferdinand Eber (born January 12, 1752 in Jena, † June 21, 1796 in Karlsbad)
personal data
SURNAME Danovius, Ernst Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Redlau
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1782
Place of death Jena