Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier
Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier (born April 29, 1673 in Wittenberg ; † August 7, 1759 in Wittenberg ) was a German philosopher, rhetorician and linguist.
Life
Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier was born as the son of the Greek professor at the Wittenberg University Georg Kaspar Kirchmaier . Kirchmaier attended the Saxon State School St. Afra in Meißen , enrolled at the Wittenberg University in the winter semester, and further studies took him to the University of Leipzig and the University of Altdorf .
When he returned to Wittenberg, he obtained his master's degree in philosophy in 1694. From 1698 he was an adjunct of the philosophical faculty and in 1700 he became associate professor of rhetoric. When his father died in the same year, his position as a full professor fell to Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch who resigned in 1701, making Kirchmaier full professor of the Greek language.
As a professor of Greek he put the New Testament at the center of his remarks. In doing so, he claimed the right, disputed by the theologians, to also go into the content of the writings to be explained, and ensured that he was allowed “on occasion to interpret any text with true understanding according to the theology of pure evangelical doctrine ". He spent a lot of time on linguistic problems and was concerned with proving that the language of the New Testament was free of Hebraisms .
He also followed the Latin and German translation literature and took action against recent attempts to improve the Lutheran Bible . Due to the enthusiastic admiration of the reformer, Kirchmaier often got lost in remote problems, so that this had an impact on his teaching. He continued this for almost half a century until his death on August 7, 1759.
literature
- Heinrich Kühne , Heinz Motel: Famous personalities and their connection to Wittenberg published by Druckhaus Göttinger Tageblatt 1990 ISBN 3-924781-17-6
- Walter Friedensburg "History of the University of Wittenberg" Verlag Max Niemeyer Halle (Saale) 1917
- Leucorea pictures on the history of the University of Wittenberg. published by the Leucorea Foundation in 1998 at the Elbe-Druckerei Wittenberg, ISBN 3-9804492-6-2
- Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
- Nikolaus Müller : The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg. Evangelical bookstore Ernst Holtermann , Magdeburg, 1912
Web links
- Works by and about Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier in the German Digital Library
- Gabriel Wilhelm Götten , Ernst Ludwig Rathlef : The now living learned Europe. 3 part, cell 1740 online at Google Book
- Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gehard butcher d. J., Leipzig, ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirchmaier, Georg Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher, rhetorician and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1673 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1759 |
| Place of death | Wittenberg |