Joachim Feller

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Joachim Feller (born November 30, 1638 in Zwickau , † April 15, 1691 in Leipzig ) was a German scholar and polyhistor . He was a professor at the University of Leipzig and since 1675 head of the university library .

Life

Joachim Feller studied theology and philology in Leipzig. He then taught at the Nikolaischule . In 1676 he became professor of poetry at the University of Leipzig and held the rectorate in 1680, 1684 and 1688.

In 1670 he married Anna Dorothea Rappolt (1653–1676), daughter of the rector of Leipzig University. In 1677 he married a sister of his pupil Christian Thomasius , the 25 years younger Johanna Thomasius, daughter of Jakob Thomasius . The marriage resulted in four children, one of whom married the mayor of Leipzig (Lange). His son Joachim Friedrich Feller (1673–1726) became a student and employee of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

Feller died in 1691 after a fall from a window caused by somnambulia .

He was also known in Leipzig for his extensive private library.

Create

He dealt with the interpretation and comprehensibility of historical texts and sources. He also reformed the university library. He created lockable cabinets and merged the holdings of the philosophical faculty and, by taking over those of the small and large prince colleges (1682), with those of the university library. He also created the library's first catalog of manuscripts and also planned a catalog of printed matter.

In 1682 he published a collection of poems and songs, Der reverendige Student .

Above all, however, he professed pietism . He wrote the world-famous definition of the term "Pietist", which was written on the death of the Leipzig theology student Martin Born (1666–1689) from Belgard in Pomerania in August 1689:

It is now known in the city that the Pietists took over;
What is a Pietist? Who studies God's word /
and also leads a holy life according to it. [...]


This was followed by Feller's confession in the sonnet about the Leipzig merchant Joachim Göring (1625–1689), who died on October 18, 1689:

I recently thought / the called Pietist / […]
I myself want to confess without hesitation /
That I am a Pietist without flattery and hypocrisy. [...]


Publications (selection)

  • The devout student (1682)
  • De Parodia (about the parody)
  • Catalogus codicum MSSCtorum Bibliothecae Paulinae in Academia Lipsiensi concinnatus. Leipzig 1686.

literature

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Remarks

  1. ^ Joachim Feller: Sonnet. In: Luctuosa desideria Quibus [...] Martinum Bornium prosequebantur Quidam Patroni, Praeceptores atque Amici. Lipsiae [1689], pp. [2] - [3]. - Facsimile in: Reinhard Breymayer (Ed.): Luctuosa desideria . Tübingen 2008, p. 24 f. - Cf. also (still without proof of copies) Martin Brecht: Geschichte des Pietismus , vol. 1, p. 4.
  2. ^ Joachim Feller: Sonnet. In: Last memorial of honor which Mr. Joachim Göring [...] erect [...] several noble patrons, patrons and friends in Leipzig [1689]. [First print missing.] Reprint: Sonnet. In: [Adelheid Sibylle Schwartz:] Gods Serious Revelation / Against D. August. Pfeiffer [... 2nd ed.] [O. O.] 1692, sheet B 2 b. - Cf. with the first precise description of the reprint Reinhard Breymayer (ed.): Luctuosa desideria [...] Tübingen 2008, p. 6; first Hans Leube: Orthodoxy and Pietism . [...] Ed. By D [ietrich] Blaufuß. Bielefeld 1975, p. 260; Martin Brecht: History of Pietism , vol. 1. Göttingen 1993, p. 4.
  3. ↑ On pp. 24–25 you can find the world-famous Feller sonnet by Martin Born in the facsimile of the Fraktur text of the first edition, which has been lost for centuries, pp. 12–13 in Roman romanization.
personal data
SURNAME Feller, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, librarian, polyhistor
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1691
Place of death Leipzig