Georg Theodor Strobel

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Georg Theodor Strobel (born September 12, 1736 in Hersbruck , † December 14, 1794 in Wöhrd ) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian.

Life

The son of a baker had developed good mental faculties at a young age. Up to the age of 15 he attended the Latin school of his hometown and from 1761 the St. Sebald School in Nuremberg, where he made significant progress in languages ​​and sciences, as well as developing a preference for the classical literature of the Greeks and Romans. In 1766 he moved to the University of Altdorf , where Johann Andreas Michael Nagel , Johann Balthasar Bernhold (1687–1769), Georg Andreas Will , Johann Augustin Dietelmair (1717–1787) and Johann Bartholomäus Niederer (1720–1771) did his philosophical, historical and theological studies directed.

Because of the unrest at that time of the Seven Years' War , he left Altdorf after a five-year stay and, after passing the exam, entered the seminary for candidates for the ministry in Nuremberg in 1762. There he practiced preaching and took over some court master positions in noble families until he was appointed pastor in Rasch in 1769. At the same time he received a vicariate in Altdorf and was able to continue his scientific studies with Niederer, Johann Christoph Döderlein (1746–1792) and other scholars. In 1774 Strobel became pastor in Wöhrd .

The stay there, due to the proximity of Nuremberg and the acquaintance with Georg Wolfgang Panzer , Georg Ernst Waldau , Link and others, was so attractive for him that he turned down both the offer of city pastor in Hersbruck and the position of an antist and preacher in Nuremberg. His learned correspondence made a pleasant change in his life. Strobel died of lazy fever that caught him while he was giving communion to a sick person.

In 1769 he married Regina Carolina Geng, the daughter of a preacher in Engelthal.

Act

The history of the Church and Scholars of the sixteenth century was one of his favorite studies during his college days. She owes him many a valuable treatise, which he wrote down especially in the six volumes of his Miscellanees published in 1776 and in his contributions to literature published in 1784 . In addition, we would like to emphasize his work, The Message of the Life and Writings of Veit Dietrich , published in 1772, and the collection of selected letters from D. Martin Luther, printed in 1780, for a better understanding of his righteous heart .

He preferred the story of Philipp Melanchthon . Strobel obtained an edition in 1777 of the biography of this scholar, which Joachim Camerarius the Elder had written. Intimately familiar with the spirit that emerges from Melanchthon's writings, its way of thinking had an unmistakable influence on Strobel's character. He tirelessly collected individual writings of Melanchthon, as well as the works of other scholars who had contact with him. By the end of his life, Strobel had indexed 1085 letters by Melanchthon and 844 letters from other scholars.

Out of his respect for Melanchthon's life's work, he got caught up twice in a literary dispute. In 1773 he appeared on the basis of documentary material as the honorary savior of Melanchthon against the denigration of Professor Karl Renatus Hausen , who denounced the Wittenberg Circle and especially Melanchthon himself of betraying Elector Johann Friedrich and Moritz von Sachsen . Ten years later he defended Melanchthon in his apology against the attacks that the controversial Hamburg pastor Johann Melchior Goeze had made against Melanchthon for alleged "fearfulness, weakness of character and apostasy from evangelical truth". The message of all of Melanchthon's letters , published in 1789, also had the purpose of honoring the reformer who had been reviled by Goeze.

To this day, Strobel's approach to Melanchthon's life's work has remained, whereas the views of the representatives of Lutheran orthodoxy within Melanchthon research have receded into the background. Strobel, who founded Melanchthon research in the Enlightenment-historical sense of a representation of the Reformation, was received in specialist literature for centuries. His collection of letters found its way into the new edition of Melanchthon's Correspondence , which began in 1977 and to this day comprises twelve volumes of text and twelve commentary volumes.

Works

  • Centenary commemoration of the establishment of the Nuremberg Seminarii Candidatorum. Nuremberg 1766
  • H. Besoldi ad Maur. Helingum de S. Coena. Erfurt and Leipzig 1767
  • JG Styrzelii Epistolae quaedam selectae ad C. Hoeflichium, Reip. Norimb. Syndicum, et N. Rittershusium JC. Altorf. ex autographis. Cum notis et vita auctoris et duabus orationibus C. Ritter shusii de legibus. Nuremberg 1768
  • CG et N. Ritterhusiorum, patris et filiorum, et variorum ad eos datae Epistolae; cum notis. Nuremberg 1769
  • Brief history of the Reformation of the city of Nuremberg, or Joh.Muellner's report on the change in religion and the abolition of the papacy, etc. Nuremberg 1770
  • News of the life and writings of Veit Dietrich’s a theologian who was immortally deserved for the Evangelical Lutheran Church; published as a minor contribution to the history of the Reformation, from printed and unprinted sources. Altdorf and Nuremberg 1772 ( online )
  • Historical literary reports of Melanchthon's services to the Holy Scriptures, in which more details are given of all of his exegetical works and of the same various editions. Altdorf and Nuremberg 1773
  • Baron Joh. V. Schwarzenberg's two very strange writings. Altdorf and Nuremberg 1773
  • Melanchthon's honor, saved against the unfounded accusations of Professor Hausen in his Pragmatic History of Protestants. Altdorf and Nuremberg 1773
  • News of Melanchthon's frequent stays and activities in Nuremberg. Altdorf and Nuremberg 1774
  • News of the life of D. Johann Förster. former famous teacher of theology and the Hebrew language in Wittenberg. Altdorf 1774
  • D. Martin Ratzenberger secret story of the electoral and Saxon courts and the religious disputes of his time, with explanatory and refuting comments now for the first time specially published. Altdorf 1774 ( online )
  • Mixed contributions to the history of literature. Nuremberg 1775
  • Bibliotheca Melanchthoniana vel collectio scriptorum Ph. Melanchthonis. Nuremberg 1775, Editio IL Halle 1777, Edilto III auctior. Nuremberg 1782
  • Attempt of a literary history of Philipp Melanthon's Locis theologicis, as the first Protestant textbook. Altdorf and Nuremberg 1776
  • Chursächsische visitation articles from the years 1527 and 1528. Latin and German written by Philipp Melanchthon and published with a historical introduction. Altdorf and Nuremberg 1776
  • Joach. Camerarii de vita Phil. Melanchthonis, narratio. Recensuit, notas, documenta, bibliothecam librorum Melanchthonis aliaaque addidit GT St. Halle 1777 ( Online )
  • Phil. Melanchthonis Oratio de illustri Principe Eberardo, Duce Wirtembergensi, Academiae Tubingensis fundatore. Nuremberg 1777
  • Miscallanees of literary content, mostly from unpublished sources. Nuremberg 1778–1782 6th collections, 3rd vol. ( Online ), 1801 vol. 1–3 ( online )
  • Collection of some exquisite letters from Blessed D. Martin Luther, for a better knowledge of his righteous heart. Nuremberg 1780, 1796
  • Phil. Melanchthonis libellus de scriptoribus ecclesiastics. Accesserunt ejusdem orationes de vitis Ambrosii, Augustini et Hieronymi. Recensuit et praefatus est. Nuremberg 1780
  • Philipp Melanchthon's difference between evangelical and paptist teaching, German and Latin; published as a rare and important publication with a historical introduction . Nuremberg 1782
  • Melanchthon's apology against some of the more recent reproaches made by Pastor Götze in Hamburg. Nuremberg 1783
  • Small collection of sacred chants 1783
  • Melanchthon's concerns about imperial and papal power, along with a historical introduction. Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1784
  • Opuscula quaedam satyrica et ludicra, tempore Reformationis scripta. Whether rarietatem recusa. Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1784
  • Contributions to literature, especially of the 16th century; Dedicated to friends of church, scholarly and book history. Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1784–1787, 2nd vol. (each containing two pieces)
  • Literary news of all Melanchthon's letters, in which at the same time the innocence of Melanchthon's against the idolatrous abuse is defended. Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1784
  • News of the life of JS Pfauser, Maximilian's evangelical court preacher, later Roman emperor. Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1785
  • Life and Writings Simonis Lemnii. Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1792, ( online )
  • About Melanchthon's call to France and his concerns about the Reformation sent there in 1535. Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1794, ( online )
  • Life, writings and teachings of Thomä Müntzer: the author of the peasant uprising in Thuringia. Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1795 ( online )

literature

personal data
SURNAME Strobel, Georg Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Hersbruck
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1794
Place of death Woehrd