Friedrich Wilhelm Dresden

Friedrich Wilhelm Dresde (born March 4, 1740 in Naumburg , † March 10, 1805 in Wittenberg ) was a German linguist and Lutheran theologian .

Life

Born the son of a chief chamberlain, Dresden attended the city school in Naumburg and then moved into the electoral state school in Pforta . After an eight-week stay in Halle (Saale) , he devoted himself to studying theology at the University of Leipzig in 1761 , where he joined Christian August Crusius , among others . After completing his academic studies, he gave classes in the oriental languages ​​there. Several treatises that he had printed testify to his knowledge of Hebrew antiquity.

After he had acquired the academic degree of a baccalaureate in theology and had become an early preacher at the Leipzig University Church, he was appointed full professor of oriental languages ​​at the University of Wittenberg in 1772 . In 1775 he took up an extraordinary professorship at the theological faculty of the academy, to which he completely transferred in 1778 and whose senior he later became. He died shortly after returning from the state parliament as a university deputy.

Dresde, who drew from a very extensive knowledge of the oriental languages ​​and literature, combined these with his theological convictions and held fast to the Orthodox Lutheran Church. He tried his best to support the poor and needy. Nevertheless, after his death the real rationalism prevailed in the teaching method at the university. He also participated in the organizational tasks of Leucorea and was the rector of the academy in the winter semesters of 1782, 1784, 1788, 1794 and 1800 .

Works

• De anno Judacio
• De voto Jephthae
• Triga Commentatorium academicarum Criticam hodierni textus Ebraei concernentium , Leipzig 1773
• Programmata quo commendantur Raphelis Chajim Basiae Judei recontiois exercitetiones critcae in diversitatem lectionis codicis ... , 1774
• Programmata de usu Pentateuchi Samaritani , 1783
• Elementa sermonis Ebraici , Leipzig 1779, 1790

literature

• Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried:  Dresden, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 396.
• Johann Christoph Erdmann : Biographies and literary news from the Wittenberg theologians since the foundation of the university in 1502 up to the third centenary secular feyer in 1802.
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer publisher Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Nikolaus Müller : The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg, Magdeburg Evangelische Buchhandlung Ernst Holtermann , 1912