Friedrich Maximilian Mauritii

Friedrich Maximilian Mauritii , also Friedrich Maximilian Mauritius (born August 17, 1724 in Lörrach , † March 5, 1799 in Bützow ) was a German theologian and university professor.

Life

Friedrich Maximilian Mauritii came from Lörrach near Basel in southern Baden . He studied theology in Halle under Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten . His doctorate in theology took place in 1753 under Johann Georg Knapp . After a short time as private tutor, he was first vice-rector and then rector from 1754 at the grammar school in Minden in Westphalia and also worked there as a pastor. In 1768 he was appointed professor of theology (2nd professorship) and consistorial councilor at Friedrichs University in Bützow by Duke Friedrich of Mecklenburg . In addition, he should act as director of the university affiliated education . He gave up this office in 1772. Mauritii was rector of the university five times during his work in Bützow. After the reunification of the universities in Bützow and Rostock , he retired. In addition to his professorship, Mauritii devoted himself intensively to chronology . There were several writings by him on this that deal with the calculation of the time of the Egyptians and the information in the Bible. The writings were published, for example, in the scholarly contributions to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin news .

See also : List of Rectors of the University of Bützow

Fonts (selection)

• Rules for the daily contemplation and practice of a Christian. Minden, 1764
• Try to correct the ancient Egyptian calendar and unite it with the biblical one. 1771-1774
• Try to pinpoint how best to pinpoint the time when the apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Romans. 1775
• From the time of the construction of the Jerusalem temple reported by Joh. 2, 20. and to what extent the time of the beginning of the teaching office of Christ and the year of his birth can be determined more precisely from this display. 1778
• Outline the basic principles of good catechetical teaching. 1786

literature

• Uvo Hölscher : Documented history of the Friedrichs University Bützow. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 50 (1885), pp. 1–110, here p. 52. ( full text LBMV )
• Stephan Sehlke: Das Geistige Boizenburg: Education and the educated in and from the Boizenburg area from the 13th century to 1945. BoD, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-0423-2 , p. 18, footnote 46. ( Digitized by Google Books )
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6422 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Maximilian Mauritii in the common union catalog
• Literature about Friedrich Maximilian Mauritii in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Friedrich Maximilian Mauritii in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Friedrich Maximilian Mauritii in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation Halle, 1753. ( digitized version of the ULB Halle )