Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein

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Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein

Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein (born March 13 . Jul / 23 March 1689 greg. In Nuremberg , † March 10 / Mai 1766 in Goettingen ) was a German Lutheran theologian. There are contradicting information about his life data.

Life

Family origin

Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein came from the old Franconian bourgeoisie Feuerlein . He was a grandson of the eminent Lutheran theologian , poet and composer of Geistlicher Lieder Konrad Feuerlein . Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein's father was the theologian Johann Konrad Feuerlein (1656–1718). Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein's brother was the physician Georg Christoph Feuerlein (1694–1756), who in 1734 became personal physician and garrison physician at Ansbach .

education

Feuerlein attended the Aegidianum grammar school in Nuremberg and from 1706 studied theology at the University of Altdorf , where he obtained his master's degree in 1709 . From 1710 he studied at the University of Jena , among others with Johann Andreas Danz , Michael Förtsch , Burkhard Gotthelf Struve and Johann Franz Buddeus , and in 1711 became a private lecturer there. From 1712, Feuerlein studied at the University of Leipzig , where he lived in Adam Rechenberg's house and achieved the dignity of a Magister noster .

Career history

After returning to Nuremberg in 1713, Feuerlein became inspector of the alumni institute at the University of Altdorf. On August 19, 1715, he was appointed professor of logic and, a little later, that of metaphysics. In 1723 and 1736 he was rector and in 1730 he took over a chair for oriental languages and the third theological professorship. On this occasion he was also named Dr. theol. PhD.

In 1736 he was appointed to the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen , which had just opened . In 1737 he took up his position, which was also connected with that of general superintendent . In 1746 he was appointed real royal consistorial councilor . In 1750 he was Vice Rector in charge of the university. In 1760 he also took over the scholarchate of the Göttingen city school .

Feuerlein mainly published on church history , but also dealt critically with Christian Wolff's philosophy . He corresponded with the Italian cardinal and church historian Angelo Maria Quirini .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Wolfes:  Feuerlein, Jakob Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 377-382.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ Jakob Franck:  Little Fire, Jakob Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 753 f.
personal data
SURNAME Feuerlein, Jakob Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1689 or March 24, 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1766 or May 10, 1766
Place of death Goettingen