Gottlieb Lebrecht Spohn

Gottlieb Lebrecht Spohn (also erroneously: Gottlob Lebrecht Spohn ; * May 15, 1756 in Eisleben , † June 2, 1794 in Wittenberg ) was a German educator, philologist and Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the linen weaver Johann Balthasar Spohn and his wife Christina Elisabeth (née Dietzschkau) had attended high school in his hometown in 1765 and began studying theology at the University of Leipzig in 1775 . There were Christian Gottlieb Seydlitz in philosophy, Johann Gottfried Scharfenberg (1743–1786) in Syriac and Chaldean, Johann August Dathe in Hebrew and Arabic, Johann August Ernesti , Christian August Crusius , Christian Friedrich Petzold and Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More in exegesis and dogmatics Teacher. In 1783 he completed his theological exam at the senior consistory in Dresden and became a candidate for the ministry. In 1784 he acquired his master's degree in philosophy and a respected name in theological literature after he had received his master's degree in Leipzig .

He made himself known through his translation of the preacher Solomon, accompanied by critical comments. In 1784 he became a catechist and afternoon preacher at the Peterskirche in Leipzig . By defending his philosophical treatise: de ratione textus biblici in Ephraemi Syri commentariis obvii ejusque usu critico , he completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1786, but found no interest as a lecturer, so that two years later he took over the position of prorector at the Archigymnasium in Dortmund . At the same time he held a full professorship in philosophy.

The long-felt wish to return to his Saxon fatherland came true when he accepted an appointment at the University of Wittenberg in 1794 . There he became a full professor of theology, provost at the castle church and consistorial assessor. Although he had already prepared for his doctorate and his entry into the service, he did not appear in this office because he fell ill with biliary fever and died soon after his arrival in Wittenberg.

Spohn left the fame of a thorough knowledge of the oriental languages ​​and their literature. He was extremely well versed in the Syriac language. His main work is the Lexici graeco-latini in novum Testamentum , which remained unfinished.

family

From his four and a half year marriage to Christiane Rosine Wilhelmine (born January 13, 1758 in Gatterstädt), the daughter of the preacher in Gatterstädt near Eisleben M. Johann Peter Netto (born June 27, 1713 in Leipzig; † September 2, 1766 in Gatterstädt) and his wife Maria Gabriela Rebhan († September 28, 1780 in Querfurt), his only child, Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn , who also acquired scientific reputation. After his death on January 4, 1801, his wife married Friedrich Wilhelm Dresde .

Works

• The preacher Solomon, translated anew from the Hebrew and accompanied with critical comments; together with a supplement which contains variants on the preacher in the LXX from two manuscripts and Olympiador. Leipzig, 1784
• Collatio versionis Syriacae, quam Peschito vocant, cum fragmentis in commentariis Ephraemi Syri obviis. Specimen I, quod priora XXII capita Esaiae continet. Leipzig 1785, Specimen IL Leipzig 1794
• Diss, philosophica de ratione textus biblici in Ephraemi Syri commentariis obvii, ejusque usu critico. Leipzig, 1786
• CG Woidii Notitia Codicis Alexandrini, cum variis ejus lectionibus omnibus, recudendurn curavit notasque adjecit. Leipzig, 1789
• Brief reflection on God's righteousness. Dortmund 1789
• Something about the difference of place in the future life. Dortmund 1790
• Novum Lexicon Graeco-Latinum in Novum Testamentum, congessit et annotationibus philologicis in usum scholarum illustravlt Chr. Shoettgenius, nunc post JT Krebsium recensuit, auxit et variis observationibus philologicis et criticis locupletavit MGS Spohn etc. Leipzig 1790
• How does the soul work after a person's death? Dortmund 1791
• Reply to an advertisement in the Jenaische Allgemeine. Literary newspaper, a program. Dortmund 1792
• About the evidence of the immortality of the human soul. Dortmund 1793
• On the first chapter of the letter to the Hebrews. Dortmund 1794
• Jeremias Vates, e versione Judaeorum Alexandrinorum ac reliquorum interpretum Graecorum emendatus notisque criticis illustratus. Leipzig 1794
• Diss. Qua examinatur S. Rev. Staeudlini interpretatio loci Jes. 52, 13. 14. 15. et 53 dead. Leipzig 1794
• Collationis verss. Syriacae, quam Peschito vocant, cum fragm. In Ephraemi Syri commet. Obuiis, Spec. II Progr. Ad aud. Orationem. Leipzig 1794

literature

• 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. 281, ( online )
• Johann Christoph Erdmann : Biography of all proves at the castle and university church in Wittenberg. Wittenberg, 1802, p. 43
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1813, vol. 13, p. 244, ( online )
• Wittenberger Wochenblatt. 1794, p. 407,
• Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried :  Spohn, Gottlob Lebrecht . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 238 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to the church book Wittenberg, died 38 years and 18 days old
2. ↑ had the Thomasschule in Leipzig and the gym. Visited in Altenburg, 1728 he moved to the university. Leipzig, completed his theol. Examination 1741 in Dresden, Mag.phil. Leipzig 1736, ord. Leipzig 1743, Diac. Poxdorf / Thür., 1752 Pastor Gatterstädt (Source: Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastor's Book of the Church Province of Saxony. Evangelical Publishing House , Leipzig, 2007, ISBN 9783374021383 , Vol. 6, p. 283)