Hermann Andreas Pistorius

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Hermann Andreas Pistorius (born April 8, 1730 in Bergen auf Rügen ; † November 10, 1798 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman, philosopher, reviewer, translator and writer. During his lifetime he was considered the "most learned man on Rügen".

Life

The son of a Bergen deacon lost his father at an early age. His stepfather Brandanus Heinrich Gebhardi (1704–1784) promoted his scientific education. He attended school in Bergen, the Stralsund grammar school and the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig . He then studied at the Universities of Greifswald and Göttingen . He then spent two years as a private scholar in Hamburg and Altona . During this time he was busy translating works by David Hume .

In Greifswald he received his master's degree in 1756 . In 1757 he took over a position as pastor substitutus in Schaprode . On April 27, 1759 he became pastor and prepositor in Poseritz , where he worked until the end of his life. With the pastors Lorenz Stenzler and Joh. Eberhard Christian Krüger, he formed a learned circle who had good contacts with Ernst Moritz Arndt . The University of Greifswald received his doctorate in theology in 1790. In 1798 he died of pneumonia in Bergen .

reviewer

In addition to extensive theological knowledge, Hermann Andreas Pistorius had an excellent knowledge of old and new languages. He was particularly interested in philosophical studies and, among other things, dealt with the German and English philosophers of his time. He himself took a moderately skeptical position and was neither a supporter of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or Christian Wolff , nor of Immanuel Kant . Since visiting his brother-in-law Johann Joachim Spalding in Berlin in 1764 , he worked for the review magazine Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek . In 33 years he wrote more than a thousand reviews , mainly of philosophical but also theological new publications. This included almost all of Kant's works.

Known beyond the borders of Swedish Pomerania , Pistorius was mentioned in various descriptions of trips to Rügen. His guests seldom judged him cautiously, like Wilhelm von Humboldt , mostly more enthusiastic like the Kosegarten student Karl Nernst or the Berlin senior consistory councilor Johann Friedrich Zöllner .

family

Hermann Andreas Pistorius was married to Sophie Juliane Brunnemann, daughter of the Bergen preposition Christian Anton Brunnemann (1716–1774). From the marriage came:

Fonts (selection)

  • David Hume : Mixed writings about the act, the Manufacturen and about the other sources of the wealth and the power of the state. Translation from English, Grund and Holle, Hamburg and Leipzig 1754.
  • Joseph Priestley : Liturgy and Prayer Formulas for Public Worship for Christians of All Confessions. Translation from English, Nicolai, Berlin 1786.

literature

  • Erich Gülzow : Home letters Ernst Moritz Arndts. In: Rügisch-Pommerscher Geschichtsverein (ed.): Pommersche Jahrbücher 3rd supplementary volume, Julius Abel, Greifswald 1919, p. 230 f.
  • Adolf Häckermann :  Pistorius, Hermann Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 194-196. (partly different life dates)
  • Bernward Gesang (Ed.): Kant's forgotten reviewer. The criticism of the theoretical and practical philosophy of Kant in five early reviews by Hermann Andreas Pistorius. In: Kant research. Vol. 18, Felix Meiner, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7873-1823-0 , p. XI ( digitized version ).
  • Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Vol. 3, Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1833, pp. 326–328 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Gülzow: Home letters Ernst Moritz Arndt. P. 5.
  2. ↑ Bernward Gesang: Kant's Forgotten Reviewer. S. XI f.

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personal data
SURNAME Pistorius, Hermann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains on Rügen
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1798
Place of death Poseritz