Georg Peter Zenckel
Georg Peter Zenckel ; also Georg Peter Zenkel (* 20th March 1717 in Schwarzenbach an der Saale , † 14. December 1760 in Erlangen ) was a German Protestant theologian and university teachers .
Life
Georg Peter Zenckel was the son of a butcher.
He attended the gymnasium in Hof from 1732 ; his teachers there included Johann Adam Tröger (1698–1763), Johann Simon Buchka (1705–1752) and Paul Daniel Longolius . With his speech de mathesi melius in Gymnasiis nostris ac olim tractata , he left high school and began to study philosophy , mathematics , physics , oriental languages and theology at the University of Jena in 1736 ; there he heard philosophical lectures with Johann Peter Reusch , Johann Justin Schierschmid , Georg Christoph Stellwag (1711-1740), Christian Johann Anton Corvinus, Jakob Carpov and Heinrich Köhler , with Georg Erhard Hamberger and Johann Bernhard Wiedeburg he heard physics and mathematics and in the He was taught oriental languages by Johann Gottfried Tympe , Hofmann and Johann Reinhard Rus, as well as in theology by Johann Georg Walch , Johann Friedrich Wucherer (1682–1737) and Jesaias Friedrich Weissenborn .
In 1740, after defending his work de naturali methodo permutandi Hebraeorum vocales, he received his master's degree and was admitted to the philosophical faculty; there he held philological , philosophical and mathematical lectures. In 1746 he received the post of adjunct .
In 1754 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the University of Erlangen and began this position with his opening speech de methodo docendi apud veteres Hebraeos . However, because his salary was lower than he had expected, he resigned his professorship in 1755 and since then has lived as a private scholar, albeit in poor circumstances.
In the period from 1752 to 1756 he wrote, among other things, two volumes of his work Contributions to the Defense of the Mosaic Religion .
Fonts (selection)
- De naturali methodo permutandi Hebraeorum vocales . Jena 1740.
- Georg Peter Zenckel; Friedrich E. Otto: Theoria e principiis suis eruta ad stabiliendam methodum naturalem et compendiariam explicandi syllogismorum doctrinam. Diss. I. continens artificium convertendi indeque substitendi propositiones . Jena 1741.
- Georg Peter Zenckel; Johann Georg Helm: Dissertatio Exponens Generatim Natvram Scriptvrae Characteristico-Hevristicae Atqve Indicans Eivs Existentiam . Jena 1744.
- Meditatio ad locum illustrem vet. Test. Psalm. 40th BC 7 and 8th institutum de satisfactore, sensum naturamve humanam unione personali induente . Jena 1744.
- Diss. Hermeneutica contrariorum tradens fundamenta et canones ad solvendas difficultates ac contradictiones apparentes codicis sacri, primo contradictiones genealogicas apparentes . Jena 1746.
- Commentarius grammaticus Ebraeae linguae, or detailed explanation of the Hebrew language, especially for the correct and easy understanding of the Danzian grammar . Jena 1749.
- Georg Peter Zenckel; Johann D. Mittelhäuser: Enantiologia sacra, seu hermeneutica contrariorum tradens fundamenta et canones . Jena 1750.
- Elementa Hermeneuticae sacrae, methodo naturali concinnataI . Jena 1752.
- Georg Peter Zenckel; Heinrich Johann Georg Krebs: Diss. Philol. Qua sepulturam Christi ad locum Es. LIII, 9 . Jena 1754.
- Progr. Adit. de aequilibrio terrae e Scriptura sacra eruta . Erlangen 1754.
- Commentarius evangelico-homileticus, or exegetical-homiletic dissection of all Sunday and feast day Gospels, in which, according to a fixed calendar, each text is neatly and edifyingly dealt with under a main theme, the necessary porismata added, several themes arranged, and finally the so-called four verses completely derived from it become; brought to light primarily for the service of the student youth and prospective preachers . 1756.
- Contributions to the defense of the Mosaic religion, and resolution of the difficult and disputed points in special pieces . Jena 1756.
Literature (selection)
- Paul Tschackert: Zenkel, Georg Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 56 f.
- Georg Peter Zenckel . In: Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . 1st volume, 2nd part M-Z. Augsburg and Leipzig 1824. P. 364 f.
- Georg Peter Zenckel . In: Heinrich Döring: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , 4th volume. Neustadt an der Orla 1835. P. 781 f.
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| SURNAME | Zenckel, Georg Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zenckelius, Georgius Petrus; Zenkel, Georgius Petrus; Zenckelius, Georg. Petr .; Zenkel, Georg Peter; Zenckel, Georgius Petrus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1717 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarzenbach on the Saale |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1760 |
| Place of death | gain |