Thank God Samuel Nicolai

Gottlob Samuel Nicolai (born October 25, 1725 in Berlin , † March 26, 1765 in Zerbst ) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher .

Life

Gottlob Samuel Nicolai, an older brother of Friedrich Nicolai , was born in Berlin and trained there by private teachers . He then attended schools in his hometown and then studied theology in particular, but also philosophy and philology at the University of Halle . In 1747 he defended his dissertation de elegantiori eruditione facultates animae superiores egregie emendendet at the theological faculty , with which he became a master's degree and was allowed to give lectures in the following years. He also wrote some theological treatises. In it he gave help to interpret the Bible and added his own interpretations of difficult Bible passages. Since these works he was known as a good writer.

In 1749 Nicolai became an adjunct at the philosophical faculty . Finally, three years later, the university appointed him extraordinary professor of philosophy . The next year, 1753, he went to the University of Frankfurt an der Oder as a full professor of philosophy . He also became pastor at the Trinity Church in Zerbst in 1760 . Associated with this, he became a full professor of theology and metaphysics at the Francisceum Zerbst .

The University of Tübingen appointed Nicolai a doctorate in theology in 1761 . He died on March 26, 1765 at the age of 39. He held his offices until death.

Nicolai wrote some magazine articles. His independent works mostly deal with theology and philosophy.

Works

• Diss. De aedificatione spirituali ejusque mediis legitimis et illegitimis (Hall 1747)
• Diss. Inaug. de elegantiori eruditione facultates animae superiores egregie emendante (Hall 1747)
• Congratulations on Mr. D. Baumgarten's birthdays (Hall 1748)
• Diss. De explicatione cognitionis poeseos et affectuum in disquirendo sensu codicis sacri (Hall 1749)
• Diss. Qua difficultatem interpretationis codicis sacri cognitione elegantiorum literarum minui, ex exemplis demonstratur (Halle 1749)
• On the improvement of sensual knowledge as a means of interpretation
• Theoria accentuationis Hebraicae
• Defense of some challenged truths of modern world wisdom (Berlin 1750)
• Attempt to interpret various passages from the scriptures; while at the same time the beauties of the same are displayed (Berlin 1750)
• Diss. De submissione mentis, vulgo humilitate (Hall 1750)
• Diss. De quibusdam ad cultum Dei externum pertinentibus (Hall 1750)
• Notes and additions to the explanation and proof of all rules of the Hebrew grammar of Professor Danz (Berlin 1751)
• Diss.Meditationes de quibusdam cultum Dei externum concernentibus (Hall 1751)
• Attempt to criticize the examples (Berlin 1752)
• Progr. De theoria in genere (Frankfurt an der Oder 1753)
• Diss. De nimia curiositate theologica (Frankfurt an der Oder 1753)
• Diss. De cautelis in dijudicandis aliis (Frankfurt an der Oder 1753)
• Letter to Mr. M. Lange in the dispute with Mr. M. Lessing, about the translation from Horace
• Wolfii Institutiones juris naturae et gentium translated into German
• Notes and additions to Wolf's German logic (Frankfurt an der Oder 1756)
• Diss. I et II de philologica cognitione religionis supernaturalis (Frankfurt an der Oder 1756)
• Diss. De collisione officiorum muneris cum religione (Frankfurt an der Oder 1756)
• Diss. De partibus mundi optimi non optimis (Frankfurt an der Oder)
• Poetic translation of Te Deum laudamus, set to music by the Capellmeister Graun
• Diss. De augmento certidudinis ex diversitate ingeniorum (Zerbst 1760)
• Four first sermons at Zerbst, and the speech by the coffin of Major v. Kleist held in Frankfurt on the Oder (Zerbst 1760)
• Introduction to the Enlightenment of the Mind of the Little Catechism Lutheri (Zerbst 1761)
• Investigation of some causes of the decline in scholarship (Wittenberg 1761)
• Defense against the professor AG Baumgarten and the gentlemen authors of the treatises and judgments on the latest from graceful erudition (Zerbst 1761)
• The preacher, from a philosophical point of view (Wittenberg / Zerbst 1761)
• Letter to his beloved community after his illness (Zerbst 1763)
• Thoughts of the best kind of repeating collegia (Wittenberg / Zerbst 1764)
• Verses to help you learn the order of the Old and New Testaments

literature

• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, Vol. 3, pp. 66–68 ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 (Vol. 10 1810, pp. 98-101; online )

Web links

• Entry on Gottlob Samuel Nicolai in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis