Georg Besenbeck

Georg Besenbeck (born January 3, 1731 in Erlangen ; † November 7, 1762 there ) was a German Protestant clergyman and educator.

Life

Georg Besenbeck lost his father of the same name, Georg Besenbeck, who served as a soldier for General Feldzeugmeister Hellmuth Otto von Bassewitz , at the age of four.

Despite the bad financial situation, his mother, Barbara (née Koler), was able to have him accepted as a student at the then Knight Academy in Erlangen ; he attended the rector Friedrich Oertel (1706–1748) and the vice rector Samuel Wilhelm Oetter , from 1745 the Gymnasium Fridericianum , which had moved into the premises of the Knight Academy.

In 1748 he matriculated to study theology at the University of Erlangen and attended lectures by Joachim Ehrenfried Pfeiffer and Caspar Jakob Huth . During his studies he earned his living writing and teaching at high school.

In 1751 he became a collaborator at the grammar school in Erlangen and in 1758 its vice rector; at the same time he received the diaconate in the Old Town Church with this position .

Georg Besenbeck was married to Sophia Christiana, daughter of Joachim Christoph Sartorius (1688–1746), professor of morality at the Knight Academy in Erlangen and pastor in Pegnitz . Their son was:

• Caspar Jakob Besenbeck (born April 11, 1760 in Erlangen; † March 22, 1815 in Bayreuth), rector of the Erlangen grammar school, grammar school professor in Bamberg and grammar school professor at the Bayreuth college .

His brother-in-law was Johann Jacob Sartorius , later rector at the grammar school in Erlangen.

Fonts (selection)

• Complete introduction to the monthly journals of the Germans . Erlangen 1747–1753.
• Clearance of the inexplicable conditions and blasphemies, with which Jesuit Franciscus Neumayr , the Ordinary Preacher of the High Cathedral Church of Augsburg, in the disputes about the question: whether holy disputes are rightly customary in God's Church? has sinned against the Evangelical Lutheran Church . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1755.
• Clearance of errors, inconsistencies and blasphemies, whether the Jesuit Fr Fr. Neumayr in the controversial speech, whether the sacred scriptures of the Augsburg Confession speak the word? has put forward . Erlangen, Frankfurt a. Leipzig 1756.
• Outlines of edifying reflections on selected passages from the prophet Jeremias . Erlangen 1756.
• Outlines of edifying reflections on selected writers . Erlangen 1756.
• Contributions to the eregetic divine wisdom which contain complete excerpts from the most recent minor eregetic writings . Erlangen 1757.
• Dr. Joh. Friedr. Mayer's sermons on murder, reissued . Erlangen 1758.
• Progr. De stylo gentium doctoris Pauli ad omnium dominum captum accommodato, occasione oraculi Rome . Erlangen 1759.
• Progr. De fervido Christianorum Deo et justitiae sub libertatis lege serviendi studio . Erlangen 1760.
• Lazarus, or about the inadmissibility of the natural explanations of the miracle stories in the New Testament . Erlangen 1760.
• Progr. Finis Domini ad Jacobi V, comm. Xl. celebratus Domine nostro Jesu Christo vindicatus . Erlangen 1761.
• New contributions to exegetical divine wisdom, which contain complete excerpts from the latest small eregetic writings . Erlangen 1761.

Literature (selection)

• Georg Besenbeck . In: Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Volume 1. Neustadt an der Orla, JKG Wagner, 1831. P. 102 f.
• Georg Besenbeck . In: Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher: Gelehrtes Fürstentum Bayreuth: or biographical, historical, characteristic and literary news from those writers who were born in the Principality of Baireuth and who lived or are still living in or outside of it, in alphabetical order , 1. Tape. Augsburg and Gunzenhausen 1797. pp. 231 f.