Franz Woken

Franz Woken, also: Franz Wokenius, Franciscus Wokenius (* 1685 in Rarfin ; † February 18, 1734 in Wittenberg ) was a German educator, historian, linguist and Lutheran theologian.

Life

Woken came from an old Pomeranian family of preachers. His great-grandfather Bartholomäus had studied with Martin Luther at the University of Wittenberg and had become a pastor. His grandfather Daniel was also a pastor like his father Franz. One year before the birth of Franz, the father received the pastor's position in Rarfin. He had the daughter of his predecessor Georg Pistori, Maria Hedwig, geb. Pistori, married.

His date of birth cannot be determined; Tradition has it that he was born with a twin brother who died soon after birth. During the first years of his life he was in the care of his father, who also imparted knowledge of languages to him, among other things. He then attended school in Kolberg and acquired extensive philosophical knowledge.

Woken then moved to the University of Rostock , but was immediately called back to his father. After staying in his homeland in Pomerania, he enrolled at the University of Halle . After a while he moved to the University of Leipzig , where Gottfried Olearius and Johann Georg Abicht were his teachers; they gave him insights into theology and oriental languages.

Then he taught as a tutor . With the dissertation De disserentia he received the philosophical master's degree on February 8, 1714 . Originally he wanted to do his habilitation at the university ; However, he went back to his homeland, where he became a teacher at the grammar school in Neustettin . On July 30, 1714 he was appointed deputy principal ; In this position he tried to remedy the grievances at the high school. He met resistance, so that he soon looked around for a new job.

On April 15, 1725 , he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig and took up the position of associate professor of philosophy on April 26 with the dissertation De arbore philosophiae . In Leipzig he gave various lectures, graduated with a baccalaureate in theology and wrote several books. Thereupon the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences noticed him and accepted him as a member.

In 1727, after the death of Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen , he was appointed full professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages at the University of Wittenberg . In 1728 he acquired the academic degree of a licentiate in theology, with the dissertation De Incornatione filii . On July 10, 1729, he gave the eulogy for Gottlieb Wernsdorf the Elder at the public funeral .

After he had held the post of rector of the University of Wittenberg since Easter 1732, he received his doctorate in theology on September 2, 1732 .

At the beginning of 1734 he fell ill with a fever and died of it six weeks later.

In Wittenberg he married Magdalene Elisabeth, the daughter of Wichmannshausen and widow of Johann Wilhelm Jahn . With her he had four sons: Franz, Franz Christoph, Franz Christlieb and Augustin Gottfried, three of whom died early.

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Woken was extensively well read and especially well versed in the field of oriental languages. As a zealot for Lutheran high orthodoxy , he wrote a few things himself. His books deal with biblical criticism, hermeneutics , oriental literature, ecclesiastical antiquities, dogmatics , philosophical and Christian ethics , logic, aesthetics , church history , literary history and the history of Pomerania .

With his "Bibliotheca Theologico - Philologico - Philosophico Historica" he published the first literary sheet from Wittenberg that is similar to the reviewing journals. In the six-part volume, in addition to the advertisement of the academic writings published in Wittenberg, reviews were also included and notes communicated.

Fonts (selection)

Disputations

De usu Fl. Josephi in V. & N. Test.
De Christo, contra Thom. Bennezum.
De additionibus Librorum Canonicorum canonicis
De locis & temporibus precum in ecclesia patriarchali , Rostock 1720
Utrum vocabula Deus & Gott adeo impura sint, ut de vero Deo adhiberi nequeant? , Leipzig 1724
De ritibus precantium in ecclesia patriarchali , Leipzig 1726
De linguis Apostolorum igneis, ad Act. II. 3 , Leipzig 1726
Observatiunculae miscellaneae Philologicae ad quaedam V. & NT dicta , Leipzig 1726
De conversionibus Pomeranorum ad religionem Christianam ante sic dictum apostolum Pomeranorum, Ottonem Bambergensem , Leipzig 1726
Diss. Qua Pf. CX.3. עמך totius versus secundum accentus in tria mambra dividendi subjectum esse evincitur , Leipzig 1727
De Salitura oblationum Deo in VT factarum , Leipzig 1727
De excelsis Hebraeorum , Wittenberg 1727
De magistris collectionum, ad Koh. XII. II , Wittenberg 1727
De mercede divinatoria, ad Num. XXII. 7 , Wittenberg 1727
Annotationes Philologicae in Cantici Canticorum priora capita Wittenberg 1728
Annotationes Philologicae in Cantici Cantorum posteriora capita , Wittenberg 1728
To Nicaule, Regina Arabiae, sit objectum Cantici Canticorum , Wittenberg 1728
De nuperrime excogitato Uchalis, Iddonis, Bathsebae, Synedrii & Salomodis colloquio, ad Koh. XII. II , Wittenberg 1728
In Prov. XXII. 20 , Wittenberg 1728
De utilitate novae editionis Pentateuchi Hebrae - Samaritani , Wittenberg 1728
Haman notis philologicis illustratus , Wittenberg 1729
Mardochaeus notis philologicis illustratus , Wittenberg 1729
De voce אמךח Pf. XVI. 2-4 , Wittenberg 1729
De Samaritanismo Justini Martyris , Wittenberg 1729
De soeminis corpore & sacie pulchris inter priscos Hebraeos , Wittenberg 1729
In I. Paral. XXVIII. 21 , Wittenberg 1729
Diss. Philol. Qua antiquissimam Patriarcharum historiam ellipsibus carere ostendit , Wittenberg 1729
Ellipses ex historia Israelis & Israelitarum ante legem solenniter promulgatam ejiciendae , Wittenberg 1729
Sermonem ellipticum in historia I. Sraetts ab aliis populis separati non adesse evincit , Wittenberg 1730
Libros Josuae, Judicum & Samuelis nulla ellipseos macula laborare , Wittenberg 1730
De turri fortisima, ad Prov. XVIII. 10 , Wittenberg 1730
De Professorum LL. OO. Academiae Wittebsis in Philologiam Sacram meritis , Wittenberg 1730
De catalogo civium Zionis, ad PC LXXXVII. 6 , Wittenberg 1731
De Ellipisi in Libris Regum, Paralip. & Jobi certo non occurrente , Wittenberg 1731
Dr pietate critica in interpretatione Codicis Ebraei observanda , Wittenberg 1731
De locis ex libris VT Historicis, quae Joh.Clericus corrupta credit , Wittenberg 1731
Samaritana Eusebiana quatentus ad vindicandum textum Hebraeum praecipue saciunt , Wittenberg 1731
De Templo cadaveribus Regum non in quinando , Wittenberg 1732
De integritate textus Jobi contra Clericum vindicata , Wittenberg 1732
De Psalmorum integritate contra Clericum vindicata , Wittenberg 1732

Other Latin scripts

Protrepticon ad pietatem criticam
Κηφάς Harduinianus άκέψαλος
Decas observationum Accentuatorio- Juridico- Theologicarum.
Harmonia Juris Naturae cum Scriptura S.
Σκιαςαφία Theologiae Epistolae Judae
Progr. Inaugurale, Decalogum e decem Sephiroth reuens
Triga epistolarum, quarum I. De curentibus non missis, 2. ad Judith VIII. 10. 11. & 3. ad Job VII. 3.
Programma de septinnio servitio servorum Hebraeorum, ad Deut. XV. 12. 13. 14.
Progr. De eruditis, quorum alibi velnulla vel manca fit.
Progr. Seculare in Jubilaeo Evangelico
Vindiciae historicae
Prog. De abore Kabbalistica, Leipzig 1724
Progr. De albis Judaeorum Wittenberg 1727
Epistola de primogenito intra mensem denato Wittenberg 1728
Progr. De praejudiciis quibusdam criticis in Jobi lectione. Wittenberg 1729
Epistola de Pseudo - Raphaele Franckenbergiano Wittenberg 1729
Oratio parentalis in BD Gottlieb Wernsdorffium
Meditationes Privatae Theologico Philologico Philosophio- Criticae Lubenae 1716
Ejusdem operis Tomas II Lipsiae 1718. 4.
Elementa Logicae Practicae
Pietas Critica in Hypallagas Biblicas Wittenberg 1718
Pietas Critica contra Synchefes Biblicas, Wittenberg 1720
Annotationes exegeticae in Prophetiam Haggai, Leipzig 1719
Stromata Apostolica, see Annotationes & Dispositiones in Epistolas Dominicales, Partes duae Leipzig 1722, 1724
Epitome Theologiae ex Epistola Pauli ad Tium, Leipzig 1724
Decas Schediasmatum, Leipzig 1724
Elementa Philosophiae primae Leipzig 1724
Elementa Etcices Leipzig 1724
Elementa Philosophiae Principalis Theoreticae aeque ac Practicae, ex obligationibus intellectus ac voluntatis de ductae, Leipzig 1725
Observationum Critico - Biblicarum Fasciculus, Leipzig 1726
Textus VT originalis Ebraeus from Enallagis liberatus, Leipzig & Wittenberg 1726
Cristianisimus primaevus Wittenberg 1728
Selecta Sacra. Pars I. & II. Wittenberg 1728
Alloquium ad erudicos de utilitate novae, quam parat, editionis Pentateuchi Hebraeo - Samaritani, Wittenberg 1729
Commentatio in Canticum Canticorum exegetico critica succincta Wittenberg 1729
Introductio ad accentuationem Hebra at Wittenberg 1730
Enallagae e Novi test. Graeci textus praecipuis & plurimis locis exterminatae Wittenberg 1730
Meletemata antiquaria, eaque Philologico Critica Wittenberg 1730
Commentatio in Estherae librum Leipzig and Wittenberg 1730
Moses Harmonicus, s. Harmoniae V. & NT quoad Dicta ex illo in hoc citata Pars I Leipzig 1730
Introductio in Theologiam Moralem Symbolicam Wittenberg 1730
Bibliotheca Theologico –Philologico - Philosophico Historica Wittenberg Pars I & II. 1730 P. III & IV. 1731, PV & VI. 1732
Liber de ellipsibus e textu biblico Hebraeo solicite eliminandis, Wittenberg 1732
Harmonia Vetris & Novi Testamenti. Wittenberg 1735

German writings

Instructions for German poetry, Leipzig 1716
Historical memorial = slip of paper
Pomeranian honor = price
Increased historical memorial = slip of political and church histories, Leipzig 1718
The applied time, or of the use of time
The love of God
Progr. On the shortcomings of the Pomeranian history
History of the Bible diligence of the old Christians Frankfurt and Leipzig 1726
Contribution to Pomeranian history, mostly compiled from written documents and yearbooks Leipzig 1732 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Brief explanation of the prophecies of Jesaiä, Wittenberg 1732

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy in Pomerania. Part 2. Léon Saunier's bookstore, Stettin 1912, p. 22, no. 5.
↑ See the entry by Franz Woken in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

Gottfried von Bülow : Wokenius, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 721 f.
Michael Ranfft : Life and writings of all Chur-Saxon scholars . Volume 2. Leipzig 1742.
Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
Wokenius, Frantz. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 58, Leipzig 1748, columns 284-297.

Web links

Publications by and about Franz Woken in VD 17 .

personal data
SURNAME	Woken, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wokenius, Franz; Wokenius, Franciscus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pedagogue, historian, linguist and Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1685
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rarfin
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 1734
Place of death	Wittenberg

[1] Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy in Pomerania. Part 2. Léon Saunier's bookstore, Stettin 1912, p. 22, no. 5.

[2] See the entry by Franz Woken in the Rostock matriculation portal