Johann Adam Loew

Johann Adam Löw (born September 25, 1710 in Großneuhausen , † January 19, 1775 in Gotha ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Johann Adam Löw was the son of his father of the same name, Johann Adam Löw, feudal director and bailiff of the Thuringian noble family von Werthern , and his wife Maria Apollonia (née Tscharner) from Regensburg .

He attended the Pforta State School from 1724 and was distinguished by the preparation of Latin poems, two of which were published in 1728 and 1729 and printed at the school's expense.

1730 enrolled him at the University of Leipzig and studied theology , mathematics , philosophy and eloquence ; in the last two subjects he heard, among other things, the lectures of Johann Christoph Gottsched . Under his leadership, he gave four speeches from 1731 to 1733, which were in the text Samples of Eloquence , published in Leipzig in 1738, which in a society of good friends under the supervision of Sr. Hochedl. Prof. Gottsched's have been discarded . These speeches apparently also explain his early vocation as pastor at the age of 24.

With the intention of embarking on an academic career, he took the position of respondent in 1733 and obtained his master's degree in 1734 . However, the imperial count Georg von Werthern appointed him in the same year as pastor to Eythra and Bösdorf near Leipzig . In 1740 he came to Weißenfels as archdeacon and in 1745 as senior pastor and later senior consistorial councilor to Gotha ; there he was appointed general superintendent in 1756 .

In his job as protephorus of the grammar school illustrious , he tried to help the dilapidated institution to a new reputation by trying to improve the inadequate teaching method and discipline. When all measures were unsuccessful, he recommended that the decrepit rector Johann Heinrich Stuss be replaced by a younger and more energetic scholar; Johann Gottfried Geißler, recommended by Johann August Ernesti , was introduced to his post as rector on September 19, 1768.

He declined the appointments as general superintendent in Weimar and as chief pastor in Hamburg , as well as the offer from Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf , who wanted to entrust him with the management of the Brethren of the Evangelical-Lutheran trope.

Johann Adam Löw was married to Dorothea Elisabeth (née Falke) († May 6, 1768) for the first time on July 31, 1736; together they had several children, of whom are known by name:

Johann Adam Löw (1741–1794), ducal Saxon official commissioner;
Adam Friedrich Löw († before 1775), ducal Saxon senior consistorial registrar;
Wilhelm Johnathan (1742 - after 1775).

On July 17, 1769 he married Anna Maria (née Happach, widowed Gundermann) († after 1775) in Coburg.

Memberships

Johann Adam Löw became a member of the German Society in Leipzig in 1735 and in the same year a member of the afternoon speakers society founded there by Gottsched.
During his stay in Weißenfels, he and six other people, including Johann Lorenz Holderrieder , Jonathan Heller (1716–1791) and Gottlob Carl Springsfeld, belonged to the branch of the Society of Truth-Lovers and in 1741 was a founding member.
In 1745 he became a member of the German Society in Göttingen .
In 1751 or 1752 he became a member of the German Society in Jena.
In 1752 he was accepted as a member of the Society of Freyen Künste in Leipzig, which Gottsched founded in 1751 after falling out with the German Society in Leipzig.

Fonts (selection)

Johann Adam Löw, Johann Friedrich Stiebritz : Dissertatio Philologica De Methodo Ebraici Stvdii . Ehrich, Ienae 1728.
Johann Caspar Posner, Johann Adam Löw: Jo. Casparis Posneri Eloqu. Quondam Prof. Ienae Celeb. De Stili Latini Cultura Commentatio . Buchius, Jenae 1731.
Johann Christoph Gottsched, Johann Adam Löw, Johann Traugott Hille, Karl Ludwig Jacobi: New samples of eloquence, which in a company of good friends under the supervision of Sr. Hochedl. of Mr. Prof. Gottscheds . Jacobi, Leipzig 1749.
The fear of God as the cause of true joy. Gotha 1754.
The tireless benefactor was introduced to Latare from the usual Gospel on Sunday for the glory of Jesus and his people's awakening, and was given in print on request . Mevius, Gotha 1755.
The earthly pleasure in God: was recited on the fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 1756 in the St. Margarethenkirche in Gotha from the ordained Gospel . Reyher, Gotha 1756.
Jesus the Savior from all fear . Gotha 1758.

literature

Albert Schumann: Löw, Johann Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 296 f.
Johann Gottfried Geißler: The memory of the weyl. Magnifici Mr. Johann Adam Löw . Gotha 1775.
Johann Adam Loew. In: Acta historico ecclesiastica nostri temporis, or collected news and documents on the church history of our time, part 9 . Weimar 1775.

Web links

Digitized writings by Johann Adam Löw in: Göttinger Digitization Center ( online ).
Johann Adam Loew . In: Digital portrait index .

Individual evidence

↑ MDZ reader | Band | Rehearsals of eloquence, which in a company of good friends, under the supervision of Sr. Hochedl. Prof. Gottscheds, have been dropped / Gottsched, Johann Christoph. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
^ Andres Strassberger: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the "philosophical" sermon: studies on the enlightenment transformation of Protestant homiletics in the field of tension between theology, philosophy, rhetoric and politics . Mohr Siebeck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150014-5 , pp. 317 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2019]).
↑ Since 1744 the Brethren have been organized in three tropes (from Greek tropos paideias - "way of teaching"), the Moravian, Lutheran and Reformed tropus, each with its own head ( Christian Ferdinand Schulze : Von der emerigen undeinrichtung of the Evangelical Brethren Congregation , Leipzig 1822, p. 112 ).

↑ Caroline Köhler, Franziska Menzel, Rüdiger Otto, Michael Schlott: Johann Christoph Gottsched - Correspondence: October 1745 to September 1746 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-053276-0 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2019]).

^ Johann Christoph Gottsched: Smaller writings. Part two . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-086350-5 , p. 685 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2019]).

^ Andres Strassberger: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the "philosophical" sermon: studies on the enlightenment transformation of Protestant homiletics in the field of tension between theology, philosophy, rhetoric and politics . Mohr Siebeck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150014-5 , pp. 319 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Löw, Johann Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Loew, Johann Adam; Loew, Johannes Adamus; Loew, Joannes Adamus; Leo, Johann Adam; Loewe, Johann Adam; Loewe, Johannes Adamus; Loewius, Johannes Adamus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH	Großneuhausen
DATE OF DEATH	January 19, 1775
Place of death	Gotha

[1] MDZ reader | Band | Rehearsals of eloquence, which in a company of good friends, under the supervision of Sr. Hochedl. Prof. Gottscheds, have been dropped / Gottsched, Johann Christoph. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .

[2] Andres Strassberger: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the "philosophical" sermon: studies on the enlightenment transformation of Protestant homiletics in the field of tension between theology, philosophy, rhetoric and politics . Mohr Siebeck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150014-5 , pp. 317 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2019]).

[3] Since 1744 the Brethren have been organized in three tropes (from Greek tropos paideias - "way of teaching"), the Moravian, Lutheran and Reformed tropus, each with its own head ( Christian Ferdinand Schulze : Von der emerigen undeinrichtung of the Evangelical Brethren Congregation , Leipzig 1822, p. 112 ).

[4] Caroline Köhler, Franziska Menzel, Rüdiger Otto, Michael Schlott: Johann Christoph Gottsched - Correspondence: October 1745 to September 1746 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-053276-0 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2019]).

[5] Johann Christoph Gottsched: Smaller writings. Part two . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-086350-5 , p. 685 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2019]).

[6] Andres Strassberger: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the "philosophical" sermon: studies on the enlightenment transformation of Protestant homiletics in the field of tension between theology, philosophy, rhetoric and politics . Mohr Siebeck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150014-5 , pp. 319 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2019]).