Gottfried Schütze

Gottfried Schütze, engraving by Christian Fritzsch (1764)

Gottfried Schütze (born May 7, 1719 in Wernigerode , † July 2, 1784 in Hamburg ) was a German educator, librarian and Protestant theologian.

Live and act

The son of Eustasius Friedrich Schütze began studying history and theology at the University of Halle in 1738 . In Halle, Joachim Lange , Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten , Christian Benedikt Michaelis , Johann Georg Knapp , Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and Johann Gottlob Krüger were his teachers. He continued his studies in 1740 at the University of Leipzig , where he received his bachelor's degree in the philosophy faculty in the same year and in 1741 the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences. In the same year his first writings, such as Das Gedächtniß des Andreas Proles, a witness of the truth before Luther , appeared in the 2nd edition in 1744 under the title: The life of Andreas Proles, a witness of the truth before Luther, to explain the churches and the history of scholars described in Leipzig.

In 1742 Gottfried Schütze became an adjunct of the Altona Spiritual Ministry , with which in 1743 the office of afternoon preacher in Ottensen was connected. In 1750 he became rector of the pedagogy , the preparatory school of the Christianeum in Altona , combined with the post of assessor at the consistory . In 1751 he also received the title of extraordinary professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen and in 1760 was appointed doctor of theology there. From October 22, 1761, Schütze was a professor of history and the Greek language at the Johanneum School of Academics in Hamburg . In the following year he moved back to Hamburg.

During his time in Hamburg, Schütze had studied the history of Hamburg and German antiquity. From this point on, a large number of writings dedicated to the city and its institutions appeared. In his time he was in contact with the luminaries of the scientific world and was a member of German and foreign learned societies. In 1746 he was accepted into the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, in 1750 in Copenhagen and in 1762 in Paris. He was also an honorary member of the Latin Society Jena, the German societies in Königsberg, Greifswald, Leipzig, Jena, Duisburg, Helmstedt and Erlangen. In 1767 the philosophical faculty of the University of Wittenberg appointed him Poeta Laureate . After having worked as an employee of the Hamburg City Library from 1770, he took over its management as the first librarian in 1778 and produced a real catalog there.

His marriage in 1755 to Christine Elisabeth, the daughter of Altona Johann Marquart Esmarch , had five children: Johann Friedrich Schütze (1758–1810), Christian Heinrich Schütze (born February 15, 1760, † 1820 in Kiel ; pastor) , Christina Magdalene Schütze (* December 26, 1762), Johann Joachim Schütze (* June 29, 1765 - October 7, 1765) and Franziska Elisabeth Schütze (* 1768 - 1792). Gottfried Schütze died on July 1, 1784 in Hamburg.

Works

• De cruentis Germanorum gentilium victimis humanis commentatio. Leipzig 1741, Edito auctior. Leipzig 1743
• The memory of Andreas Proles, a witness to the truth before Luther. Hamburg 1741, 2nd edition (described under the title: The life of Andreas Proles, a witness to the truth before Luther, to explain the churches and the history of scholars, etc. ) Leipzig 1744
• Letter from the old Germans' hatred of the lawyers, about a passage in Florus in the 4th book and its 12th chapter. Altona 1742 (additions to these treatises can be found in the Danish Correspondents. 1742, st95)
• Proof that the doctrine of angels was not unknown to the ancient Nordic and German peoples. Altona 1742
• Vota solemnia Deo O. M circa dedicationem templi Evangelico-Lutherani Altonae solvenda. Altona 1743
• De vita M. Henning Brosenii, inferioris quondam Saxoniae Theologi et Abbatis Michaelsteinensis, Commentarius, quo Jacobo Delio de filii sui summis in Medicina honoribus gatulatur. Altona 1744
• Latin poem at the inauguration of the high school in Altona. Altona 1744
• Letter from the wise schools of the old Germans. Altona 1744
• Three little protective letters for the old Germans. Leipzig 1746–1757, 2nd vol. (Each containing three collections); 2nd edition Altona 1773–1776 2nd vol.
• Three reflections on selected words of the suffering Jesus. Copenhagen 1746
• Treatise of the free thinkers or so-called strong spirits, Esprite forts, among the ancient Germans and Nordic peoples. Leipzig 1748
• Exercitationum ad Germaniam sacram gentilem facientium sylloge. Leipzig 1750
• The doctrinal concept of the ancient Germans and Nordic peoples of the state of souls after death in general, and of heaven and hell in particular. Leipzig 1750
• Two farewell sermons, which were given when the teaching office was mixed up. Altona 1750
• Proof that the ancient Germans and Nordic peoples had far more sensible principles in religion than the Greeks and Romans, a protective script. Altona 1751
• Proof that the reason for the bliss of the ancient Celts is by no means to be sought in the lack of science; a protective script for the ancient Nordic and German peoples. Altona 1752
• From the doctrines of the ancient Nordic and German peoples of reconciliation with God, a program. Altona 1754
• Assessment of some German words which are wrongly suppressed from Luther's German translation of the Bible, a program. Altona 1755
• Of an unnatural cruelty to their children, ascribed to the ancient Nordic and German peoples; a program. Altona 1756
• Publication of the Bible based on the German translation DMLuther with a preface, 1756
• From the Nordic peoples ?????? Attention to lunar eclipses, a program. Altona 1757
• Thoughts on the different ways of thinking of the ancient Greek and Roman, and of the ancient Nordic and German poets, a program. Altona 1758
• Memoria Jac. Lampadii ICti, de rebus ad doctrinam sanctionem pertinentibus sobrie ac modeste differentis, ex autographo renovata. Altona 1758
• Thoughts on the different ways of thinking of the ancient Greek and Roman, and the ancient Nordic and German poets, a program. Altona 1758
• Memoria Jac. Lampadii ICti, de rebus ad doctrinam sanctionem paertinentibus sorbie ac modeste differentis, ex autographo renovata. Altona 1758
• Disquisitio historica de cultu Saxorum religioso, priscis Dania et Germanis familiari, limitibus arctioribus circumscribendo. Altona 1760
• Disquisitio historica de cultu Saxorum religioso, priscis Dania et Germanis familiari, limitibus arctioribus circumscribendo. Altona 1760
• Judgment on Luther's violent writing style; a program. Altona 1760
• From the sublime terms that the Danes from time immemorial associated with the names of their rulers. Altona 1760
• Soterion augustiss. Danorum Regi Friderico V d. 31st Mart. 1761 dictum. Altona 1761
• Enoomium florentissimae reipublicae Hamburgensis, e suggesta Gymnasii Hamburgensis dictum. Hamburg 1762
• Judgment on the malicious and immoral accusation that Luther lost all strength of faith in the last years of his life and that what he had started in the spirit and completed in the flesh. Hamburg 1763
• Memoria L. Corthum, ICti et reipublicae Hamburgensis consulis. Hamburg 1765, German Hamburg 1765
• Public announcement of nonprofit historical lectures for those who have dedicated themselves to the plot. Hamburg 1767
• History of the constitution of the Hamburgisches Gymnasii and the public city library. Hamburg 1768
• Germany's learned contrasts. 1. St. Copenhagen 1771
• Rebuke of conscience for the sinner. Hamburg 1772
• Register of all 12 parts of the collection of Hamburg Laws and Constitution, with historical introductions, together with a consideration of the content of the entire work. Hamburg 1774
• The history of Hamburg for lovers of patriotic history. 1st part Hamburg 1775
• Praise to the women of the old German and Nordic peoples. Hamburg 1776
• The historical books of the Old Testament, the book of Joshua, the Judges, Ruth, and the 1st; Book of Samuelis as drafted in a rhymed translation on the orders of the Roman King Conrad IV in the middle of the 13th century; communicated from a simultaneous manuscript in the public library in Hamburg. Hamburg 1779–1781 2 parts
• Collection of previously unprinted evidence and explanatory notes on Hamburg's history , 1780
• From the Hamburg City Library, a program. Hamburg 1781
• D. Martin Luther's previously unprinted letters, taken from manuscripts from the public city library in Hamburg. 1st volume which contains letters and documents from the period 1541–1546, some German letters and documents and instead of an introduction the protective writings for Luther. Leipzig 1780 2nd volume which includes Latin and some German letters and messages. Leipzig 1781 3rd volume of letters from the period 1536–1540, a review of unprinted letters, letters without specifying the time when they were written, and instead of an appendix a list of Autographis Lutheri in the collection of Bishop Hatboe at Copenhagen , together with a double register over all three volumes. Leipzig 1781

literature

• Carsten Erich Carstens :  Sagittarius, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 142 f.
• Heinrich Doering: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 55, ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Publisher Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1812, vol. 12, p. 510 ( online )
• Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Verlag W. Mancke, Hamburg, 1879, 7th volume, p. 68 ( online )
• Christian Friedrich Kesslin: News from writers and artists in the county of Wernigerode from 1074 to 1855. Verlag Bänsch, Magdeburg, 1856 ( online )
• Johann Dietrich Winckler: News from Lower Saxony famous people and families. Verlag Nicolaus Conrad Wörmer, Hamburg, 1768 ( online )
• Jahann Anselm Steiger (Hrsg.): The academic high school in Hamburg in the context of early history of science and education. De Gruyter Verlag Berlin, Boston, 2017.
• Johann Christoph Strodtmann: History of scholars living now. Verlag Joachim Andreas Deetz, cell 1746, vol. 11, p. 178 ( online )

Web links

• Works by and about Gottfried Schütze  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Carstens, biography about Gottfried Schütze, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 1891 in: http://www.deutsche.Biographie.de/.html