Johann Adam Tresenreuter

Johann Adam Tresenreuter (born November 3, 1676 in Neustadt am Kulm , † 1754 in Nuremberg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

His father was the Neustadt cantor Johann Tresenreuter. He attended the high schools at Hof in Vogtland and Gera . He then stayed in Leimberg and from 1701 in Altdorf. He was appointed pastor of Etzelwang and Kirchenreinbach in October 1708. From 1717 he lived permanently in Nuremberg. There he worked as a deacon in St. Sebald . In 1739 he was promoted to chief deacon. He married his wife Margaretha Magdalena, daughter of the trader Daniel Kurz from Ulm , in 1708. They had 9 children together. His son Johann Ulrich Tresenreuter was also a Protestant theologian as well as an educator, philologist and philosopher.

Tresenreuter was a contemporary of the Protestant theologian Christoph Sonntag and the Hungarian-born German polymath Daniel Wilhelm Moller . He worked and published with both of them in Altdorf near Nuremberg.

Fonts (selection)

• De Supereminentia Magistratus Christiani: ex Dicto Rom. XIII, 1–4 (together with Christoph Sonntag). Altdorf 1702; OCLC: 753190926
• Disp. inaug. de mempsimoeria (together with Daniel Wilhelm Moller). Altdorf 1702; OCLC: 165104276

literature

• Georg Andreas Will : Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, or, description of all Nuremberg scholars, beyderley sex, according to their life, merit and writings, to expand the history of learning and to improve many mistakes made in it from the best sources in alphabetical order. Lorenz Schüpfel, Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1758, p. 48 ( books.google.com )
• Andreas Würfel , Karl Christian Hirsch , Christoph Melchior Roth: Life descriptions of all the clergymen who served in the imperial city of Nuremberg, Lutheri since the Reformation: along with a description of all the churches and chapels there. Diptycha Ecclesiae Sebaldinae that is: directories and biographies of Messrs. Preachers, Messrs. Schaffer and Messrs. Diaconorum, who have served at the main and parish church at St. Sebald in Nuremberg since the blessed Reformation . Roth 1756, Volume 1, p. 76 ( books.google.de )