Georg Friedrich Schröer

Georg-Friedrich-Schröer

Georg Friedrich Schröer, also: Schroeer (born March 19, 1663 in Jauer , Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer , † March 23, 1739 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Georg Friedrich Schröer was born as the son of the Protestant pastor Henning Schröer and his wife Anna (née Gerber). He received a solid education from his father. In his parents' house he gained his first insights and experiences that developed and shaped character and way of life. After attending school in Liegnitz , where he was also able to expand his knowledge, he matriculated on May 19, 1685 at the University of Wittenberg .

There he acquired such knowledge from Christian Röhrensee and Christian Donati , Christian Vater , Georg Kaspar Kirchmaier and others, initially at the philosophical faculty, that on April 28, 1687 he was able to acquire the academic degree of a master's degree in the philosophical faculty. On April 5, 1693 he was accepted as an adjunct in the philosophy faculty of the university and on November 17, 1694 appointed as a full professor of logic and metaphysics.

In him the desire to devote himself to the theological sciences grew. After he obtained the academic degree of a licentiate on March 4, 1710 , he received his doctorate in the same year on March 11 to the doctorate of theology. Thereupon he received an extraordinary professorship at the theological faculty and, after the death of Johann Heinrich Feustking in 1712, became a full professor of theology and thus administered the ephoria of the electoral scholarship holders.

Schröer occasionally led the deanery of the theological faculty. In the summer semester of 1704 and in the winter semesters of 1716, 1722, 1726 and 1738 he held the post of rector of the University of Wittenberg. In his last term of office he died as rector of the institution. On April 12th he was buried in the castle church at the grave of Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch and his funeral speech was given by Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann .

Contemporary witnesses describe him as a friendly and talkative person who was on hand with help and advice. He appeared at the side of Gottlieb Wernsdorf the Elder as a representative of Lutheran high orthodoxy and defender of Lutheran teaching. With his writings he was involved in the theological controversy and gained reputation in the process. Hence his writings deal with philosophical and theological disputations. His extensive book collection, which filled out 16 sheets in the directory, was auctioned in March 1740.

family

Schröer's first marriage was to Rahel Elisabeth Behrisch, the daughter of the town councilor Hieronymus Gottfried Behrisch from Dresden. From this marriage come the sons Georg Friedrich Schröer, who was matriculated by his father at the University of Wittenberg on October 13, 1704 and became a doctor of law and lawyer in Dresden, and Hieronymus Gottfried Schrörer, who also arrived on the same day as his brother was enrolled at the University of Wittenberg and after receiving the philosophical master’s title on April 29, 1724 pastor in Rackith . After the early death of his wife, he married Christiane Sophie, a daughter of Caspar Löscher , in 1704 . From this marriage come the legal scholars Caspar Friedrich Schröer and Georg Christian Schröer, the daughter Salome Christina was married to Johann Laurentius Hennen who was a preacher in Neustadt near Dresden, and the daughters Friderica Sophia and Johanna Dorothea. He is said to have had a total of five sons and five daughters, some of whom are said to have died early.

Works

Dissertations

De mente hominum divina 1707
De anima divina 1708
De interprete Scripturae S. Contra Masen 1711
De reprobo, Christi morte redamto 1711
De fide Fanaticorium justisicante 1712
De Gratia Dei universali Diss. II. 1713
De viribus primo peccato amissis, 1714
De Sapientia hypostatica, a Prov. VIII. 22, 1715
De λόγφ, idea Dei 1715
De jure Episcoporum Galliaea Papa ad concilium provocanili 1717
De Gratia Dei a Quesnellio approbata 1717
De bonoecclesiae oeconomo, ad I Cor. I, 4th 1717
De interpretatione Scripturae S. Secundum analogiam fidei, ad Rom. XII, 6. 1718
De gatia Christi a Quesnellio asserta 1719
De gatia Adami a Quesnellio asserta 1719
De jure decidendi controversias theologicas 1719
Jansenii & Quesnellii de gratia doctrina 1720
De sententiis Quesnellii circa peccatum originis 1721
De Subjecto illuminationis gratiosae secundum Scripturae S. Stylum 1722
De capite ecclesiae contra P. Hannebergium 1724
De verbo Papae divino, 1725
De ecclesia errore immuni 1726
De incarnatione filii Dei 1728
De Principe Persarum, Gabrieli resistant, ad Dan. X, 13 1729
De Spiritu Quackeros regencrante contra mwelodium 1730
Vindiciae Reformationis Lutheri G. Arnoldo & C. Melodio o opositae 1730
De restitutione omnium a Juda Apostolo negata 1731
Doctrinae Christiano-Evangelicae Speculum, ordinem Salutis ex purissimis Israelis soncibus deductum 1733
De Christo lapide in ruinam & resurrectionem multorum posito, ad Luc. II, 34. 1734
De verbis orthodoxis, quorum seusus est heterodoxus, 1735
De Theologia occulta 1736
De Effectu & fine, 1716
De aeternitate 1701
De Spiritu 1703
De immutabilitate Dei, 1701
De natura divini decreti, 1693
De omnipotentia 1699
De permissione Dei 1702
De natura Dei 1699
De privatione gratiae divinae 1705

Programs

De adoratione angelorum 1720
De Spiritus S. Processione a filio 1721
De lege Judaeorum plus quam naturali, 1723
De Sacramentis, contra P. Chauvin, 1725
De evangelio contra cundem 1725
De Christo, contra cundem 1725
De utilitate Hebraicae literaturae contra osores sacrorum sontium, praesertim Pontisiciorum, qui vulgatam pro authentica habent 1729
De descensu Christi ad inferos 1733
De divinitate Christi, contra Fendinum comprobata 1737
De annunciata ab angelis nativitate Christi

German writings

The risen glory of the Lord . Leipzig 1710
Apologia of a responsi given to the private = communium . Danzig 1736

literature

Michael Ranfft : Life and writings of all Chur-Saxon scholars . 2nd volume, Leipzig 1742
Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, 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 .
Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Younger series part 2 . Hall 1952 and Part 3 1966
Paul Tschackert : Schröer, Georg Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 551.
Schröer, George Friedrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 35, Leipzig 1743, columns 1228-1233.

personal data
SURNAME	Schröer, Georg Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schroeer, Georg Friedrich; Schroeer, George Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jauer , Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1739
Place of death	Wittenberg