Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweigger

Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweigger (born August 22, 1743 in Dennenlohe , † June 26, 1802 in Erlangen ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the administrator Johann Lorenz Schweigger († 1760) and his wife Sophia Dorothea (née Hofmann) moved to the grammar school in Ansbach in 1756 , where he enjoyed the education of Johann Zacharias Leonhard Junkheim and his relative Karl Wilhelm Schnitzlein (1719–1785). After finding some patrons, he moved to the University of Leipzig in 1764 , where he gave lectures by Johann August Ernesti , Christian August Crusius , Gottfried Heinsius , Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , Johann Matthias Schröckh , Christian August Clodius , Romanus Teller , Johann Heinrich Winckler and others visited.

In 1767 he left Leipzig to take a private tutor position in Regensburg and later in Lehrberg . During this time he continued his education. In 1770 he became a subdeacon at the city church in Erlangen and rector of the grammar school there. In 1771 he also received the inspection of the alumni. In the same year he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Erlangen . After he was promoted to archdeacon and senior of the chapter in 1776, he resigned the rectorate of the grammar school. In 1786 he became an associate professor of theology at the Erlangen University, which he remained until the end of his life.

In 1775 he married Catharina Barbara, the only daughter of the bailiff in Altenschönbach Peter Heinrich Roth. The marriage resulted in eleven children, five of whom survived the father. His sons Johann Salomon Christoph Schweigger and August Friedrich Schweigger also gained importance.

Works

• Progr. De necessaria linguarum antiquarem cognitone. Erlangen 1770
• Progr. Num versiones scriptorum graecorum et latinorum typis expressae eam afferant utilitatem, quam ab iis sperare solent. Erlangen 1772
• Investigation of some complaints about public schools. Erlangen 177
• Progr. Num religionis puerili aetati tradendae initium a religione naturali sit faciendum, nec ne? Erlangen 1775
• Speech at the laying of the foundation stone of the Gottesackerkirche in Christian-Erlangen. Erlangen 1783
• Da privato Sacrae Coenae usu commentatio. Erlangen 1785
• Progr. Quo inquiritur, num is, qui eucharistia privatim utitur Sacram Coenaru celebrare proprie dici possit. Erlangen 1786
• Sermon on poetry on 1 Corinth. 2, 2, held in 1787 in front of the coffin of the benevolent Mr. Geh. Church councilors and superintendent DJC Pfeiffer. Erlangen 1783
• History of the moral treatment of a sick person. Erlangen 1790

literature

• Johann Bernhard Lippert: Because of the memory. Mr. Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweiggers. Verlag Hilpertsche Schriften, Erlangen, 1803 ( online )
• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 137, ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. 1798, Vol. 7, p. 417, ( online ); 1803, Vol. 10, p. 649, ( online );