Jacob Friedrich Reimmann

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Jacob Friedrich Reimmann

Jacob Friedrich Reimmann (born January 22, 1668 in Gröningen ; † February 1, 1743 in Hildesheim ) was a German Lutheran theologian , educator , historian and philosopher .

Life

Reimmann was born the son of a teacher. After attending high schools in Magdeburg , Eisleben and Altenburg , he began studying theology and philosophy in Jena in 1688 . From 1692 he worked as rector in Osterwiek and at the Martinischule in Halberstadt.

On February 14, 1693, he married Anna Margarethe Hävecker in the village church of St. Petri in Brumby .

In 1704 he moved to Ermsleben as a pastor. His former student Leonhard Christoph Rühl was his children's private tutor there from 1711. In 1717 Rühl published his Schediasma historico-litterarium de doctis Reimmannis ("Historical-bibliographical representation of the learned rhymers"), in which he dedicated the main part to Jacob Friedrich. In 1714 Reimmann went to Magdeburg as a deacon and cathedral preacher . In 1717 Reimmann was appointed superintendent to oversee the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim .

Reimmann achieved greater fame with the six volumes of his attempt to introduce an introduction to the Historiam Literariam , published between 1708 and 1713, both in general and in particular for those Germans . If Daniel Georg Morhof's Polyhistor was still published in Latin, Reimmann's collection was the first German-language Historia Literaria : a walk through all the most important writings in the sciences - literature in the literal sense of the time. Avoiding specialist criticism, Reimmann's work appeared to be tailored solely to his son. In the dialogue with the adolescent, the most important titles of each science are named and briefly discussed in terms of content - a book obviously uninteresting for children, but all the more interesting for students and scholars - it offered access to citable editions and, in extreme cases, saved going to libraries; With Reimmann's volumes one could put footnotes on all subject areas without further reading. Professional colleagues like Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz noted the tremendous amount of work - both exchanged letters. Gottlieb Stolles Kurtze's Guide to the History of Gelahrheit (Halle: Neue Buchhandlung, 1718) was to put Reimmann's work in the shade a little later with new editions and expansion volumes as the better structured and more modern work.

Reimmann's position remains difficult to classify. His explanations are often like a schoolmaster. In his historia literaria he took a negative attitude towards the education in the modern belles lettres - his evaluations of the novel, for example, were completely different from those of Stolles. Looking back, Reimmann's attempts to give more precise information about antediluvian scholarship to measure the state of science in the 1600 years between Adam and the fall of the civilization of that time are curious. In contrast, his attempt at a critique of the Dictionaire historique et critique by Mr. Bayle (1711) reads modern - the examination of Pierre Bayle's revolutionary work of criticism of the historical sciences. In 1727 he wrote the first Historia philosophie Sinensis on Chinese philosophy.

In later years Reimmann devoted himself emphatically to theological writings. His study of atheism , the Historia universalis atheismi et atheorum falso et merito suspectorum , appeared in 1725, and in 1731 his Catalogus Bibliothecae Theologicae systematico-criticus - writings that bring him today among the thinkers of the early enlightenment. He stood up against the pietism of the Jena theologian Johann Franz Buddeus . He also got into a denominational dispute with the Catholic cathedral preacher in Hildesheim, Jesuit father Winand Hesselmann, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Augsburg denomination .

Works (selection)

  • Critical history calendar from Logica . Frankfurt am Main 1699
  • Poesis Germanorum… known and unknown poetry of the Germans . Leipzig 1703
  • Attempt to introduce an introduction to the Historiam Literariam . 6 vols. Halle / Saale 1708–13
  • An attempt at an introduction to the history of theology. Magdeburg u. Leipzig 1717
  • Jakob Friedrich Reimmann: Historia universalis atheismi et atheorum falso et merito suspectorum (1725), with an introduction ed. by Winfried Schröder, frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart / Bad Cannstatt 1992.

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  1. ↑ Writings on the history of the Pabst family (PDF; 677 kB), p. 6, accessed on December 29, 2012
  2. ↑ pp. 21-42
personal data
SURNAME Reimmann, Jacob Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, educator, historian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Groeningen
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1743
Place of death Hildesheim