Georg Sigismund Green the Elder

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Georg Sigismund Green the Elder (born September 24, 1673 in Wittenberg , † August 9, 1734 in Chemnitz ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Georg Sigismund Green the Elder was the eldest son of Georg Green and his wife Ursula Dorothea, the daughter of the Leipzig professor of theology Elias Sigismund Reinhard . From early childhood he was trained by private tutors, so by the age of 16 he acquired such outstanding skills that he could read the Greek writers in their old scholiasts and translated the Old Testament into Latin verses. After he had already been enrolled free of charge at the University of Wittenberg on June 23, 1690 , he began studying there on October 18, 1692. He seems to have strived entirely after his father and grandfather and decided to take a theological path.

To do this, however, he first had to complete a degree in Artes Liberales . He attended lectures with Georg Kaspar Kirchmaier in rhetoric , with Christian Donati in dialectical logic, with Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch in history, Greek language and literature, with Theodor Dassov in philosophy and with Christian Röhrensee in ethics . Already on October 16, 1693, the widely educated Green obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. He then worked as a private lecturer and prepared other students for their exams. Nevertheless, he pursued his goal of becoming a theologian of Lutheran Orthodoxy. His theological teachers were Johann Deutschmann , Caspar Löscher , Johann Georg Neumann and Philipp Ludwig Hanneken , who were important representatives of high and late orthodoxy.

During this time his dissertations De Scholaste Aristophanis , De praepositionibus exhibitivis and De praepositionibus exhibitivis were written. Green must have earned such a reputation through his work that he was accepted on August 30, 1697 as an adjunct in the philosophy faculty. However, he did not see his future in academic classes at the philosophy faculty of the university in his hometown. Therefore, in the following year he took a position as archdeacon in the then capital of Lower Lusatia, Luckau . In order to create a further ascent, he completed the licentiate of theology in Wittenberg on February 14, 1700 . In 1701 he became a preacher in Dobrilugk , in 1706 pastor and superintendent in Chemnitz and for this purpose received his doctorate in theology on April 28, 1707 in Wittenberg .

Green took part in the editing of Johann Hunger's Biblical Real Lexicon and edited the Chemnitz hymn book . His son Georg Sigismund Green the Younger also gained importance as an author.

Selection of works

  • De Scholaste Aristophanis, Diss. II. Wittenberg 1695
  • De praepositionibus exhibitivis Diss. II. Wittenberg 1696
  • Diss. Ad Epigramma Martialis de juramento per Anchialum. Wittenberg 1697
  • De termino salutis humanae peremtorio contra boesium

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Volume 8, p. 292
  2. ↑ a b c d e Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Younger series part 2. Halle (Saale) 1952, p. 141
  3. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , pp. 455-470.
  4. ^ Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
personal data
SURNAME Green, Georg Sigismund the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Georg Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1734
Place of death Chemnitz