Johann Andreas Michael Nagel

Johann Andreas Michael Nagel (born September 29, 1710 in Sulzbach , † September 29, 1788 in Altdorf ) was a German Hebrew and Orientalist .

Life

Johann Andreas Michael Nagel was born on September 29, 1710 in Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate . His teacher was a cantor there and later a teacher at the St. Lorenz School in Nuremberg . His father taught Nagel first of all in the Latin language and in religious instruction. Other private tutors also devoted themselves to his training, initially with the aim of Nagel becoming a businessman . In the end, however, he decided on a theological career. Taught by a deacon in the Latin, Greek and Eastern languages , he went to high schoolto Nuremberg. There, too, he was taught the languages, but also attended geographic and moral lectures. In 1731 he finally moved to Altdorf University to study theology, but also heard lectures on philosophy and the history of literature , history and geography, mathematics and logic , the history of philosophy, the beautiful sciences and natural law .

In 1734 Nagel defended Spicilegium novum observationum ad panegryricum Plinii , in the following year he received the degree of Magister based on his inaugural - Disputation de fastorum Romanorum formula post consulatum . In that year he moved to Jena and then to Leipzig . At the University of Leipzig he heard asceticism and exegesis and from Johann Christoph Gottsched rhetoric and poetry. Nagel also supported Johann Erhard Kapp and Gottfried Mascov there , on whose advice Nagel wrote a description of the edition of Ptolemy's Geography, which was in the council library in Leipzig . The article was printed in Commentatione critico-litteraria de Claudii Ptolemaei geographia ejusque codicibus . Nagel also deepened his studies through the Leipzig library. In order to recover, after graduation he attended the performances of the Collegium Musicum under the direction of Johann Sebastian Bach .

He then went to the universities of Halle and Wittenberg , where he made friends with some scholars, and returned to Altdorf in 1736, where he wrote his dissertation Specimen academicum de modo disputandi, quo doctores Judaei quondam Noribergae in exercendis atque acuendis suis discipulis the following year usi sunt defended and was thereby habilitated and then gave lectures. In 1738 he became a school inspector and two years later a full professor of metaphysics and oriental literature. On taking office he gave a speech de auctoritate Talmudis hierosolymitani apud Judaeos recentiores . Shortly afterwards he became a university librarian, professor of rhetoric and programmatist.

Nagel was rector of the university three times and he was dean of his faculty 14 times . In 1762 he founded a Latin society and acted as its moderator, four years later he was senior faculty and in 1783 senior university. Finally he died on September 29, 1788 at the age of 78.

Work / work

Heinrich Döring described Nagel as an undemanding and modest person who had a thorough and extensive scholarship. He was considered an excellent orientalist, but was also familiar with the Greek and Latin languages, with philosophy and the arts. In addition, several scholars believed that he was the first German philologist and the first great German orientalist. According to his colleagues, he could have achieved a lot more if he had been less modest. Through his skillful use of the Latin language, he wrote many works. He wrote mostly doctoral theses, but some writings with an oriental content were still significant well into the 19th century, although oriental science had long since advanced. Especially Diss. De prima Alcorani Sura , Diss. De studio philosophiae graecae apud Arabs , Diss. De calendario veterum Ebraeorum (which, however, was out of date at the end of the 19th century) and Diss. De locis quibusdam Jobi, in quibus cel. Schultens majorem lucem desideravit were significant. Nagel also wrote articles for Johann Friedrich Hirt's oriental and exegetical library and other journals.

family

In 1747, Nagel married Maria Magdalena Riederer, daughter of the Nuremberg market manager. The marriage had 14 children. Three of his sons died immediately after their studies. Nagel's wife died on January 21, 1773. The following children are known:

• Maximilian Nagel , 1747–1772, theologian, died shortly after completing his studies
• Johann Christoph Nagel, died after completing his studies
• Michael Christoph Nagel, died after completing his studies
• Johann Bartholomäus Nagel, worked as the Hersbruck parish priest around 1806
• Ursula Jacobina Nagel, married to Konrad Mannert
• Johann Bernhard Nagel, worked in Windsheim

Works

• Specimen academicum de modo disputandi, quo doctores Judaei quondam Noribergae in exercendis atque acuendis suis discipulis usi sunt (Altdorf 1737)
• Diss. De lingua Aramaea (Altdorf 1739)
• Diss de argumentatione [...] (Altdorf 1739)
• Generaliores conjugationum Aramaearum characteres, grammaticae Danzianae accommodati (Altdorf 1739)
• Diss. De lingua adscita hominum orbis Babylonici, ad illustr. Esr. 4.18 (Altdorf 1740)
• Diss. De gradatione adscendente in quatuor summis principiis metaphysicis, quibus animus cultior in quaestionibus contradictoriis discernendis utitur (Altdorf 1740)
• Prolusio ad orat. inaug. de Caino ipso vultu perditos mores suos prodente (Altdorf 1740)
• Omne felicitatis genus a Deo tribus celsissimis domibus (Brandenburgicis) ex animo apprecatur Jehuda Loew, Arnhemiensis (Altdorf 1740/1741)
• Observationes in vers. I. Cap. I Geneseos (Altdorf 1741)
• Observationes in vers. II cap. I Geneseos (Altdorf 1742)
• Diss.philos. Soriten neque esse neque recte dici syllogismum (Altdorf 1742)
• Progr. Ad funus Catharinae Margarethae Schwarziae (Altdorf 1742/1743)
• Diss. De Iudis secularibus veterum Romanorum in Germara babylonica commemoratis (Altdorf 1743)
• Diss. De prima Alcorani Sura (Altdorf 1743)
• Diss. De Elia Levita Germano (Altdorf 1745)
• Diss. De studio philosophiae Graecae inter Arabes (Altdorf 1745)
• Diss. De generibus inferioribus et superioribus (Altdorf 1745)
• Diss. De Calendario veterum Ebraeorum (Altdorf 1746)
• Diss. De ordine naturali propositionum syllogismorum primae figurae (Altdorf 1746)
• Progr. Ad funus Doroth. Kirsteniae (Altdorf 1748/1749)
• Diss. De tribus codicibus msctis Ebraicis (Altdorf 1749)
• Diss. De locis quibusdam Jobi, in quibus cel. Schultens majorem lucem desideravit (Altdorf 1751)
• Diss. De Proselytis traetis (Altdorf 1751)
• Progr. Ad funus CG Schwarzii (Altdorf 1751/1752)
• Progr. Ad funus JC Bittneri (Altdorf 1752)
• Progr. Ad funus Annae Margarethae Beckiae (Altdorf 1751)
• Progr. Ad funus JM Dustavii (Altdorf 1752/1753)
• Progr. Ad funus JD Baieri (Altdorf 1752/1753)
• Progr. Ad funus Helenae Sibyllae Mulleriae (Altdorf 1752/1753)
• Diss. De contractu quodam Judaico emtionis et venditionis (Altdorf 1754)
• Progr.loca quaedam Censorini emendans etc. (Altdorf 1754)
• Progr. Ad funus Barbarae Sabinae Craussiae (Altdorf 1754/1755)
• Progr. Ad funus JG Neubaueri (Altdorf 1755/1756)
• Progr. Ad funus Appolloniae Spisiae (Altdorf 1755/1756)
• Progr. Ad funus CA Ziegleri (Altdorf 1755/1756)
• Diss. De usu loquendi (Altdorf 1755)
• Diss. De stilo Mosis (Altdorf 1755)
• Diss. De culpa uxoris Lothi ad Genes. 19, 26 (Altdorf 1755)
• Diss. In vers. 24. Cap. XLIX Geneseos. (Altdorf 1756)
• Diss. Contra vindicias juris naturae Christianorum (Altdorf 1756)
• Progr. Ad funus GD Bauneri (Altdorf 1756)
• Progr. Ad funus JG Boeneri (Altdorf 1756)
• Progr. Ad funus HA de Moll (Altdorf 1756)
• Progr. Ad funus EF Zobelii (Altdorf 1756)
• Progr. Ad funus JB Kranneckeri (Altdorf 1756)
• Progr. Jubilaeum Acad. Gryphis Forest. nomine rect. et Senatus indicens et gratulans (Altdorf 1756)
• Progr. Ad Orat. Panegyr. gloriosae memoriae Ser. Prine. Caroli Guil. Frid. Margravii Brandenb. Onold. (Altdorf 1757)
• Progr. Quo codes Ms. Gualteri de Castellione recensetur (Altdorf 1757)
• Diss. In Amosi 2, 11, num Nasaraei potuerint accensere beneficiis divinis (Altdorf 1757)
• Spicilegium vitae Eliae Levitae Germ. cum particula libri ejus Masoret Hammasoret complectens (Altdorf 1757)
• Diss.de diebus Aegyptiacis (Altdorf 1757)
• Progr. Ad exsequias C. Steigeri, LL Lect. (Altdorf 1757/1758)
• Progr. Ad celebr. fun. DGF Deinlini (Altdorf 1757/1758)
• Diss. Contra praefationem secundam in libr. Masoret Hammasoret Eliae Levitae Germ. (Altdorf 1758)
• Progr. Ad funus G. Lipp, Stud. (Altdorf 1758)
• Progr. Ad funus JM Zellii, Stud. (Altdorf 1758)
• Progr. Jubilaeum Acad. Jenensis indicens et gratulans (Altdorf 1758/1759)
• Progr. Ad funus CJ nat de Olshausen, conjugis DJB Bernholdi (Altdorf 1759/1760)
• Progr. Ad funus JJ Loedelii, Stud. (Altdorf 1760/1761)
• Memoria Jo. Heumanni de Teutschenbrunn JCti etc. civibus posterisque commendata (Altdorf 1760/1761)
• Diss. Parten primam praef. tertiae libri Masoret Hammasoret Eliae Levitae complectens (Altdorf 1762)
• Diss. De Plejadibus Graecorum (Altdorf 1762)
• R. Benj. Tudelani itinerarium (Altdorf 1762)
• Progr. Ad funus AB maritae A. Muslonii, LL Lectoris (Altdorf 1762/1763)
• Progr. Ad funus Th. Demian, Stud. (Altdorf 1762/1763)
• Epistola ultima honori AC Nageliae et consolatione unici fratris sui GJ Nagelii praematuram mortem conjugis suae deplorantis, dicata (Altdorf 1763/1764)
• Diss. Partem secundam praef. tert. libri Masoret Hammasoret Eliae Levitae continens (Altdorf 1763)
• Recensio Codicis MS. Martyrologii Rome. Biblioth. acad. (Altdorf 1763)
• Progr. Ad funus DC viduae DGH Linckii, PP (Altdorf 1763/1764)
• Progr. Ad funus CA Solgeri (Altdorf 1763/1764)
• Placita Societatis Latinae Altdorfinae (Altdorf 1764)
• Progr. Quo ad celebrationem secundi diei natalis sui invitat Societas Latina (Altdorf 1764/1765)
• Commentatio de dissensione veterum Graecorum et Latinorum in finienda periodo brevissima (Altdorf 1764)
• Observationes et emendationes nonnullae in GH Nieuporti ritus Romanorum (Altdorf 1764)
• Commentatio de Cod. MS. Bibliothecae acad. Altdorf. Constantiui Africani de febribus (Altdorf 1764)
• Progr. Ad funus JC Schindleri, Ministri et Bibliopegi acad. (Altdorf 1764)
• Progr. Ad funus CR orta Deinlinae, conjugis JG Bernholdi (Altdorf 1764/1765)
• Progr. Ad funus viduae DEG Rinckii, PP (Altdorf 1764/1765)
• Diss. Partem tertiam praef. tertiae libri Masoret Hammasoret Eliae Levitae complectens (Altdorf 1765)
• Diss. In vers. 15 et ssq. Cap. II Malachiae (Altdorf 1765)
• Diss. In vers. 14 1 Reg. XX. (Altdorf 1766)
• Progr. Ad funus DJ Kirstenii, PP (Altdorf 1765/1766)
• Progr. De obitu augustiss. Imp. Francisci, luctu deservando etc. (Altdorf 1755/1766)
• Argumenta quaedam calliditatis interpretum Alexandrinorum VT (Altdorf 1766)
• Commentatio de Cod. MS. Membrane Horatii Bibliothecae acad. Altdorf. cum specimine varietatis lectionum. (Particulae quatuor.) (Altdorf 1766/1767)
• Progr. Ad funus JG Bernholdi (Altdorf 1766/1767)
• Progr. Ad funus BJ Beckii, Stud. (Altdorf 1766/1767)
• Progr. Ad funus Ortelii, a litteris publicis et commentariis praefecturae (Altdorf 1766/1767)
• Progr. Ad funus JA Spiesii, D. et PP (Altdorf 1766/1767)
• Memoria DJ Treusenreuteri de Teutschenbrunn Ser. March. Brandenb. Culmb. a Consiliis Justitiae Erlang. (Altdorf 1766/1767)
• Diss. De Schilo Messia, non Schilunte urbe, Genes. 49, 10 praedicto (Altdorf 1767)
• Progr. Ad funus AC ortu Hambergerianae, DJD Baieri, PP viduae (Altdorf 1767/1768)
• Comentatio de recto usu concinnitatis (Altdorf 1768)
• Progr. Ad funus DJJ Jantke, PP (Altdorf 1768/1769)
• Progr. Ad funus PP Mayeri, Stud. (Altdorf 1768/1769)
• Progr. Ad funus B. conjugis DJN Weissii, PP (Altdorf 1768/1769)
• Diss. De duobus Codd. MSS. Bibliothecae publ. Norimbergensis (Altdorf 1769)
• Monumentum insigni munificentiae atque immortali gloriae viri ill. Dom. CJ Trewii, grati memorisque animi et perpetui cultus sui testandi causa, factum ad Acad. Altdorf (Altdorf 1769/1770)
• Prisca narratio Graece, Latine et Talmudice superstes (Altdorf 1769)
• Recensio Codicis MS. chart. Biblioth. acad. Altdorf. Horatii carmina aliaque complectentis, cum specimine var. Ejusd. Bibl. Lect. Horatii hujus Cod. Et spicilegio var. Lect. Cod. Membr. Horatii Particulae quinque (Altdorf 1769–1780)
• Progr. Ad funus MA Baueri, Stud. (Altdorf 1769/1770)
• Progr. Ad funus DJB Bernholdi, PP (Altdorf 1769/1770)
• Progr. Ad funus SJ Fichtneri, JUD et Consil. Justice. Onold. (Altdorf 1769/1770)
• Progr. Ad funus JG Mayeri acad. typographi (Altdorf 1769)
• Progr. Ad orationem encomiasticam merito debitoque honori Viri ill. DCJ Trewii cras habendam (Altdorf 1770/1771)
• Noun laudesque matronae CHS Heumanniae de Teutschenbrunn viduae etc. perpetuae memoriae consecrans (Altdorf 1770/1771)
• Progr. Ad funus DJ Linkciae (Altdorf 1770/1771)
• Progr. Ad funus JB Viatis de Schoppershof, Stud. (Altdorf 1770/1771)
• Progr. Ad funus JB Viatis de Schoppershof, Stud. (Altdorf 1770/1771)
• Observationes nonnullas in Scholia graeca Nubium Aristophanis (Altdorf 1771)
• Diss. Continens partem quartam eamque ultimam praef. tertiae libri Masoret Hammasoret Eliae Levitae (Altdorf 1771)
• Progr. Ad funus DJF Adolph, PP (Altdorf 1771/1772)
• Progr. Ad funus RC filiae DJA Dietelmair, PP (Altdorf 1771/1772)
• Diss. Contin. varias lect. XXV Capp. priorum Jeremiae ex duobus Codd. MSS. Hebrew desumtae (Altdorf 1772)
• Diss. De Blityri et Scindapso (Altdorf 1772)
• Diss. In vers. 8 cap. VII Nehemiae (Altdorf 1772)
• Diss. Contin. theses philosophicas (Altdorf 1772)
• Diss. In judicium Longini de Apostolo Paulo (Altdorf 1772)
• Progr. Ad funus MB nat. Wachaviae, DM Adelbulneri, PP maritae (Altdorf 1773/1774)
• Progr. Ad funus MB viduae DJJ Jantkii, PP (Altdorf 1773/1774)
• Progr. Ad funus AA Seidelii, Stud. (Altdorf 1773/1774)
• Progr. Ad funus SM nat Tucheriae de Simmelsdorf, Car. Ge. de Woelckern in Kalchreut, Opp. et agri Altdorf. Praefecti, conjugis (Altdorf 1773/1774)
• Programmata (XIV) ad recordationem annuam muneris magnifici a Viro ill. JC Trew, Academiae Altdorf. dati, notas in Benj. Tudelensis itinearium continentia (Altdorf 1774–1787)
• Progr. De disciplina academica, praesertim variis signis et generibus Pennalismi (Altdorf 1774/1775)
• Progr. Cont. pacti et conventi formulam cum ill. Universitate Friderico-Alexandrina (Altdorf 1775/1776)
• Progr. Ad celebr. fun. GJL Vogelii, Prof. halensis (Altdorf 1776/1777)
• Monumentum grati animi a Rectore et Collegio Professorum Acadamiae Altdorf. memoriae MM Metzgeriae, natae Storiae matronae multa laude dignissimae, statutum (Altdorf 1777)
• Progr. Ad funus SM Baieriae, viduae DJG Baieri, PP (Altdorf 1777/1778)
• Progr. Ad funus JG Harderi, Jur. Cand. (Altdorf 1777/1778)
• Progr. Ad Jubilaeum Universitatis Tubingensis indicens et gratulans (Altdorf 1777/1778)
• Progr. Ad solemnitatem condedarum exuviarum Magnis Academ. Rectoris. DWA Spiesii (Altdorf 1778/1779)
• Progr. Ad funus DM Adelbulneri, PP (Altdorf 1779/1780)
• Progr. Inaugurationem Universitatis Stuttgardiensis indicens (Altdorf 1782/1783)
• Progr.Sacra saecularia Universitatis Wirceburgensis indicens et congratulans (Altdorf 1782/1783)
• Progr. Ad funus JG de Fabrice (Altdorf 1783/1784)
• Progr. Ad funus CD Mayeri, polygram file Altdorfi (Altdorf 1783/1784)
• Progr. Ad officium concionis funebris DJN Wiess, PP et Acad. Senioris (Altdorf 1783/1784)
• Oratio in memoriam conditi et absoluti abhinc […] (Altdorf 1783)
• Progr. Ad funus JL Stadleri […] (Altdorf 1785)
• Progr. Ad funus JA Hesselii, PLC et acad. [...] (Altdorf 1785/1786)
• Progr. Ad funus JC Hoffmanni, Magistri palaestrae (Altdorf 1785/1786)
• Progr. Ad funus DJA Dietelmair, PP (Altdorf 1785/1786)
• Progr. Sacra Saecularia Universitatis Heidelbergensis in ingens et congratulans (Altdorf 1786/1787)
• Progr. Ad funus CA Füreri from Haimendorf (Altdorf 1786/1787)
• Progr. Ad funus MB viduae DJA Dietelmair (Altdorf 1787/1788)
• Progr. Ad funus JEF maritae DC Th. Hoffmann, PPA (Altdorf 1787/1788)
• Progr. Ad festivitatem semisaecularem Academiae […] indicens et congratulans (Altdorf 1787/1788)
• Progr. Ministrum academicum intactum semper inviolatumque esse oportere mandans (Altdorf 1788/1789)
• Progr. Ad record. annuam muneris magnifici a viro Trew, Acad. Altdorf. dati [...] (Altdorf 1788)

literature

• Nagel, Johann Andreas Michael. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 23, Leipzig 1740, column 432.
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Neustadt an der Orla 1833, 3rd vol., Pp. 9–16, ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1810, vol. 10, p. 4, ( online )
• Georg Andreas Will , Christian Conrad Nopitzsch : Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, or, description of all Nuremberg scholars beyderley sex, according to their life, merit and writings, to expand the history of the learned history and improve many mistakes made in it from the best sources in alphabetical order. Altdorf 1806, Supplement 3, p. 3 ( online )
• Karl Joseph Bouginé: Handbook of the general Litterar history after Heumann's plan. Orell-Geßner-Füßli & Comp., Zurich 1791, vol. 4, p. 527 ( online )
• Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried :  Nagel, Johann Andreas Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 214 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Andreas Michael Nagel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Johann Andreas Michael Nagel  in the German Digital Library