Joachim Lange

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Joachimus Lange, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth (1743)
Joachim Lange, engraving by Johann Georg Mentzel (1716)

Joachim Lange (born October 26, 1670 in Gardelegen , † May 7, 1744 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Mosaisches Licht und Recht , 2nd edition 1733, title page

The son of the councilor Mauritius Lange and his wife Maria (née Lange) initially attended schools in his hometown. Due to the great fire in Gardelegen in 1685, his father lost all property. With the help of the bailiff von Osterwieck, he was able to attend the high school in Quedlinburg in 1687 and the old town high school in Magdeburg in 1689 . He began his studies in 1689 at the University of Leipzig , where he was accepted into August Hermann Francke's house . This promoted the young student and made him a private tutor with Christian Thomasius . Long later continued his studies at the University of Erfurt and in the spring of 1693 at the University of Halle .

In Halle he continued to attend the lectures of Francke and Joachim Justus Breithaupt . He trained in the Hebrew language, developing exceptional skills. At the end of 1693 he went to Berlin as court master of Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz (1654–1699), where he studied oriental literature and met Philipp Jacob Spener . He also let him preach occasionally. In the meantime he had been awarded the academic degree of a master's degree by the Halle University in absentia , became rector of the school in Köslin in 1696 , returned to Berlin in 1698 as rector of the Friedrichwerder Gymnasium and in 1699 took over a pastor's position at the church in Friedrichswerder .

After nine years in these offices, he moved back to the University of Halle as an adjunct from Breithaupt. When Breithaupt resigned from his professorship as abbot of the Bergen monastery in 1709 , Lange became a professor at the theological faculty , received his doctorate in theology in 1717 and, despite other offers, remained in Halle until his death. Lange also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was its prorector in 1721/22 and 1730/31 .

Lange was one of the leading theologians of controversy on the part of Pietism in the 18th century. He mainly dealt with Christian Wolff . He was buried in Halle's Stadtgottesacker . His grave is in crypt arch 72, grave inscriptions are no longer preserved.

family

Lange was married twice. His first marriage was in September 1698 with Johanna Elisabeth († February 25, 1715 in Halle), the daughter of the Perleberg archdeacon and later inspector in Werben Joachim Rau (Raue). From this marriage there were seven sons and two daughters. Two of these children died at a young age. After Christian Wolff's expulsion from the University of Halle in 1723, the eldest son Johann Joachim became his successor as Professor of Mathematics. Christian Polycarp (1702–1762) became pastor in Zehden / Neumark in 1728 and inspector in Loburg in 1735 . Theophilus Nathanel (* 1704) became mayor and syndic of Landsberg / Warthe . Samuel Gotthold Lange became a pastor in Laublingen . Timotheus Justus became a doctor of medicine and physics in Burg (near Magdeburg) . The daughter Johanna Elisabeth (1706–1730) married Johann Jakob Rambach in 1724 . The daughter Christiana Sophia (1707–1733) married the pastor of Marlishausen Polycarp Adelbert Brömel.

After the death of his first wife, Lange married a great-granddaughter of Polycarp Leyser the elder . Her name was Charlotte Elisabeth, née Leyser (1672–1749), and she was the widow of Hallens council chamberlain and trader Johann Dreyssig. From this marriage comes a son, August Joachim, who became a lawyer and died in The Hague in 1750.

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SURNAME Lange, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Johann Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Guards
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1744
Place of death Halle (Saale)