Jacob Georg Christian Adler

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Jakob Georg Christian Adler with General Superintendent's Cross on ribbon, Grand Cross of the Dannebrog Order and Cross of the Daneborg Men (detail of a painting, today in Schleswig Cathedral )

Jacob Georg Christian Adler (also Jakob Georg Christian Adler ; * December 8, 1756 in Arnis near Kappeln , Schleswig ; † August 22, 1834 in Giekau near Lütjenburg ) was a Danish-German general superintendent for Holstein and Schleswig , orientalist , professor of the Syrian language at the University of Copenhagen , Protestant theologian , senior consistorial councilor , writer , educator , coin collector and chairman of the board of the Schleswig-Holstein Bible Society .

biography

Among other things, Adler received private lessons from his father, who was pastor in Arnis from 1755 to 1758 and in Altona from 1759 . In Altona he attended the Christianeum , then he studied theology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and Orientalia with Oluf Gerhard Tychsen at the University of Bützow (Mecklenburg) and Rostock . From 1780 to 1782 he traveled to Italy, France, Holland and Belgium. On this trip he stayed in Rome for 15 months and received lessons from Egyptian monks in Coptic and learned Arabic ; At large European libraries , especially in Rome, he devoted himself to researching Greek and Oriental, especially Syrian, Bible manuscripts . He wrote two books about his travels and stays.

After his return, Adler became professor of Syriac in Copenhagen in 1783, preacher at the German Friedrichskirche in Copenhagen in 1785 , professor of theology in 1788 and German court preacher in 1789. He then worked as General Superintendent of Schleswig from 1792 and, after the death of his colleague Johann Leonhard Callisen in 1806, also of Holstein. In this function he wrote the Schleswig-Holstein Church Agende, published in 1797 and shaped by the theology of the Enlightenment .

Adler wrote numerous scientific works, including on the ancient Syriac and ancient Arabic script. He was a doctor of philosophy and from 1833 of (Protestant) theology. One of his most important achievements was the school reform in Schleswig-Holstein.

family

Jacob Georg Christian Adler was the son of the theologian, archaeologist, archaeologist and author Georg Christian Adler (1724-1804) and his wife Johanna Elisa Schultze (1729-1806). In addition to Jacob Georg Christian, the couple had five other children.

Jacob Georg Christian Adler was married twice: on December 8, 1787, he married his confirmation candidate Dorothea Maria Lorck (* July 12, 1772; † March 18, 1804), the daughter of his predecessor, who died in 1785 as a German preacher in Copenhagen, the Bible collector Josias Lorck . She was related to both Caspar Aquila and to Matthias Claudius through her grandmother Birte / Brigitta von Lutten . Her ancestor Maria Lorck, born in 1566, was also an ancestor of Johannes Brahms and Theodor Storm . He had nine children with her, including:

On July 16, 1805, Adler entered into a second marriage with Luise Dorothea Lederer (1775-1844). The son Karl Ferdinand (born August 24, 1808) comes from the second marriage.

Works

Book title Travel Notes on a Trip to Rome
  • Collection of judicial Jewish contracts. Hamburg / Bützow 1773; 2nd edition Altona 1792.
  • JVDAEORVUM CODICIS SACRI RITE SCRIBENDI LEGES E LIBELLO THALMVDICO MASSECHET SOPHERIM IN LAT. CONVERSAS. Hamburg 1779.
  • Facsimilia of Kufic Koran manuscripts of the Kgl. Library in Copenhagen with a study of the development of Arabic writing. Copenhagen 1780.
  • MVSEVM CVFICUM BORGIANVM VELTINA , vol. I. Rome 1787, vol. II, Copenhagen 1792.
  • NOVI TESTAMENTI VERSIONES SYRIACAE, SIMPLEX PHILOXENIANA ET HIEROSOLYMITANA. Copenhagen 1789.
  • Annals of Abu l-Fida - editor of the edited by JJ Reiske a. translated work (5 vols.), Copenhagen 1789–1795.
  • (Detailed) description of the city of Rome (4 volumes). Carl Ernst Bohn, Kiel 1781.
  • Travel notes on a trip to Rome (363 pages), edited by his brother Johann Christoph Georg Adler. Altona 1783.

Secondary literature

  • Veronika Janssen: "Eh, Mr. Pastor, that is a completely new religion!" The Adler church agendas of 1797 between parishes, preachers and authorities . Kiel 2017

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ See the entry of Jacob Georg Christian Adler's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Chr. Sharp: Description and history of the island and the patch of Arnis. Schleswig 1838, p. 156.
  3. ↑ Werner Aquila: The descendants of Leonhard Adler later Aquila from Augsburg . Special edition of the Genealogical Yearbook. Published by the Central Office for Personal and Family History, Vol. 44. Degener & Co., Neustadt / Aisch 2004, pp. 91f.
  4. ^ Review by JB Köhler in General German Library. First piece of volume eight and fifty . Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin / Stettin 1784, pp. 165–172 (retro digitization).
predecessor Office successor
Adam Struensee General superintendent for Schleswig
1792–1834 		Christian Friedrich Callisen
Johann Leonhard Callisen General Superintendent i. V. for Holstein
1806-1834
(interim) 		Johann Carl Julius Herzbruch
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Jacob Georg Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adler, Jakob Georg Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-German Protestant theologian, educator and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnis near Kappeln , Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1834
Place of death Giekau near Lütjenburg