Georg Bodenschatz

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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz (born May 25, 1717 in Hof (Saale) , † October 4, 1797 in Baiersdorf near Erlangen ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Bodenschatz attended high school in Gera . After his father's death in 1731, his mother moved to Erlangen, where Bodenschatz received irregular lessons. From autumn 1733 he first studied oriental languages at the University of Jena , and later theology under the direction of Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch . A serious illness drove him back to Erlangen in 1736, where after his recovery he devoted himself to studying the Old Testament and Jewish antiquities .

In 1740 he became a pastor in Uttenreuth near Erlangen. Ten years later, the Academic Senate of Erlangen proposed him for the professorship in Oriental languages. Bodenschatz turned down the offer because the salary was too low. On September 7, 1752, the Philosophical Faculty in Erlangen appointed him a doctor. 1763 awarded him Margrave Friedrich III. the parish of Frauenaurach . In 1780, Margrave Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach appointed him superintendent in Baiersdorf .

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Bodenschatz became known for his oriental and Old Testament studies. As a young man he made models of the tabernacle and Noah's ark based on these studies . In 1749 he published his main work "Ecclesiastical Constitution of Today's, especially German Jews, with Copper" in four parts. A second edition appeared in Frankfurt a. M. under the title “Honestly German-speaking Hebrews, or the customs and ceremonies of the Jews” . In it he compiled a complete presentation of Jewish rites and customs from written and oral sources . The work therefore serves as a source for Jewish ceremonial practice in Germany in the first half of the 18th century.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Auction from February 2, 1829 in Nuremberg . in: Directory of books = collection of Rector Hoffmann , who died in Nuremberg , which ... Google Books, online , p. 23, position 342.
personal data
SURNAME Bodenschatz, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodenschatz, Johann Christoph Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1797
Place of death Baiersdorf