Georg Christian Joannis

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Georg Christian Joannis (born December 9, 1658 in Marktbreit ; † February 22, 1735 in Zweibrücken ) was a German Protestant theologian and historian.

Life

Born in Marktbreit in Mainfranken as the son of the Evangelical Lutheran deacon Martin Joannis and his wife Martha Hochstalter, he received extensive training in the basics of philosophical sciences at the grammar school in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and thus acquired the skills to attend university. In 1676 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg and moved to the University of Altdorf in 1678 after the death of his father . It is possible that he obtained a master's degree in Altdorf .

In 1681 he became vicar in Weikersheim and married Maria Magdalena (1669-1691) there in 1687, the daughter of the Hohenlohe lawyer in Ingelfingen Georg Pfannenschmidt and his wife Rosina Block. From this marriage a son and a daughter were born. Joannis gave up his position in 1691 or 1692 under unusual circumstances and went to Frankfurt am Main . In 1694 he found a new position as a garrison preacher in Cölln an der Spree, in 1695 he became a preacher in Vienna with the Swedish ambassador, Count Gabriel Turesson Oxenstierna . When he was appointed governor of Pfalz-Zweibrücken in 1699 , Joannis returned to Cölln. In 1700 he was married there to Adelheid Lucia, the daughter of the lawyer Gerhard Balthasar Stamm. The daughter Margarethe Gabriele from this marriage married the historian Johann Philipp Crollius . For reasons of conscience, Joannis no longer accepted a preaching position and in 1702 followed Oxenstierna's call as professor of history and rhetoric at the newly founded academy in Zweibrücken , which never really got going. There he also took on the duties of a school visitator, became acquainted with the Swedish chancellor and genealogist Christoph Nicolaus von Greyffencranz , and arranged the Zweibrücken archive on his behalf.

Theologically, Joannis has distanced himself greatly from Lutheran orthodoxy and has advanced to become a representative of Pietism . Later he turned entirely to the science of history, which Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch had already inspired in him. Through contact with Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach in Frankfurt, he had free access to his important library and there he found the literature he needed for his historical work.

In 1718 he quit his job after differences and was now active as an editor of historical works, but from 1725 received a pension from Duke Gustav Samuel Leopold of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . Joannis has made a name for himself above all in Mainz as well as in Palatinate historiography.

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On the history of the Palatinate , he re-edited the “Historia Palatina” by Daniel Pareus (1633) in 1717 , which he critically annotated and continued into his own time. He added the first comprehensive Palatine bibliography to the new edition . In the “Miscella Historiae Palatinae” in 1725 he commented on the “Historia Palatina” of Carl Ludwig Tolner (1700, 1711), brought out works by Balthasar Venator and continued the history of the Palatine lines from 1717 to 1725. From 1719 to 1735 he published the "Calendar Works" on the history of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . On the history of Kurmainzer he published three extensive volumes in 1722 and 1727, "Rerum Moguntiacarum" and "Scriptores Historiae Moguntinensi inservientes", in which he re-edited the history of Nicolaus Serarius (1604), annotated it critically and continued it into his own time.

Selected works:

  • De singulari memoratuque plane digna inclitae Ritterorum… familiae felicitate epistola, 1705, 1734
  • Examen Concilii Tridentini… Auctore Martino Chemnitio…, 2 volumes 1707
  • Thomae Kempisii de Cristo imitando, contemnendisque mundi vanitatibus libri tres, Interprete Sebastiano Castellione, 1707
  • De eruditis, qui apud Bipontinos cum maxime per quinquaginta vel plures etiam annos officiis praefuere publicis, Schediasma, 1714
  • F. Conradi Philosophi, OSB, Chron. Schirense… Ioannis Aventini Chron. Schirense, nova hac editione ad praesens usque tempus perductum, 1716
  • Danielis Parei Historia Bavarico-Palatina, 1717
  • Volvmen ... Rervm Mogvntiacarvm / Accvrante Georgio Christiano Ioannis . - Francofvrti ad Moenvm: von Sande, 1722.
  • Tabularum litterarumque veterum usque hoc nondum editarum Spicilegium, idque primum ..., 1724
  • Miscella Historiae Palatinae: cum maxime vero Bipontinae inservientia, 1725
  • Veterum scriptorum, qui Caesarum et Imperatorum Germanicorum res per aliquot saecula gestas litteris mandarunt, tomus unus, a Iusto Reubero olim editus…, 1726
  • Scriptorum Historiae Moguntinensi cum maxime inservientium Tomus Novus (also counts as Volume 3 of the Rerum Moguntiacarum), Frankfurt am Main 1727
  • JF Reigers… Erased Chur-Pfaltz-Simmerian tribal line… (1693), 1732, 1735
  • The history of the Duchy of Zweybrücken, along with continuation by JP Crollius 1825, 1829 under the title Prehistory of the Duchy of Zweybrücken, faithfully reproduced after Georg Christian Joannis and Georg Christian Crollius

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SURNAME Joannis, Georg Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg Christian Johannis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Market wide
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1735
Place of death Zweibrücken