Johann Andreas Hochstetter

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Johann Andreas Hochstetter (born March 15, 1637 in Kirchheim unter Teck ; † November 8, 1720 in Bebenhausen , today part of Tübingen ) was a Lutheran theologian and professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

life and work

The son of the special superintendent and pastor Johann Conrad Hochstetter (* 1583 in Gerhausen, † 1661 in Kirchheim unter Teck) became a deacon in Tübingen in 1659 , pastor in Walheim near Besigheim in 1668 , dean in Böblingen in 1672 , ephorus monastery and professor of Greek in 1680 and professor of theology in 1680 in Tübingen.

In 1659 he married Elisabeth Barbara Cuhorst, who died early. In his second marriage, Hochstetter was married to Anna Katharina Linde (* 1647 in Tübingen, † 1697 in Bebenhausen) from September 1666. From the first marriage there was a son Gottfried Konrad, from the second marriage six other sons and a daughter: Andreas Adam (* 1668), Georg Friedrich (* 1670), Augustin (* 1671), Christian (* 1672), Wilhelm Friedrich (* 1674), Christina Sara (* 1677) and David (* 1681).

In 1681 Hochstetter was appointed prelate ( general superintendent ) and abbot in Maulbronn monastery , and in 1689 was appointed prelate of Bebenhausen . For the next 15 years he was one of the leading clerics in Württemberg. He wanted to make the reform efforts of the pietism formulated by Philipp Jacob Spener accessible to the Württemberg church and to enforce the catechetical method in religious teaching under the influence of August Hermann Francke's educational writings. In 1692 he added pieces from Luther's catechism to the catechism of Johannes Brenz - this is how the Württemberg catechism came into being . As early as 1692 he advocated the introduction of confirmation , which, however, did not take place until 1721.

Instigated by August Hermann Francke, Professor Johann Heinrich Callenberg founded the Institutum Judaicum et Muhammedicum in Halle , which - encouraged by Hochstetter - was to train “Jewish missionaries”. His ideas about the introduction of house visits and the construction of presbyteries failed; he emphatically defended the repetition lesson introduced in Tübingen in 1703 . This resulted in the Württemberg pietistic edification circles.

The Tübingen university chancellor Johann Wolfgang Jäger , an opponent of pietism, succeeded in eliminating him in 1715. Nevertheless, it is thanks to Hochstetter that there was no return to sectarianism .

In 1720, Hochstetter, as prelate of Bebenhausen, set up a family foundation for the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. As the “ Hochstettersches Legat ”, it is united with the “ Hochmann Foundation ”.

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SURNAME Hochstetter, Johann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1720
Place of death Bebenhausen , now part of Tübingen