Johann Andreas Sixt

Johann Andreas Sixt (born November 30, 1742 in Schweinfurt , † July 30, 1810 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a German Protestant theologian and philologist.

Life

The son of the preacher at the St. Salvators Church, Johann Lorenz Sixt, and his wife Johanna Barbara, the daughter of the pastor in Wainbernheim Johann Gerhard, had received their first training from their father. In 1750 he attended school in his hometown, in 1758 he moved to the grammar school in Schweinfurt and was also instructed by his father in church history and in the Hebrew language. In 1762 he began studying philosophical and theological sciences at the University of Jena .

In Jena he had lectures by Johann Georg Walch (1693–1775), Johann Christoph Köcher (1699–1772), Friedrich Samuel Zickler (1721–1779), Johann Friedrich Hirt , Friedrich Theodosius Müller (1714–1782), Joachim Georg Darjes (1714–1791), Christian Friedrich Polz (1714–1782) and Johann Ernst Basilius Wiedeburg (1733–1789) and others. He became a member of the Latin Society in Jena and received the academic degree of Magister in Philosophical Sciences in 1765 .

With the dissertation de morsibus conscientiae he qualified as a private lecturer, then gave philosophical and exegetical lectures and published some articles in the Jenaische schehrten Zeitung. In 1768 he became adjunct of the philosophical faculty, in 1769 extraordinary professor of philosophy and in 1771 took over the third full professorship of theology at the University of Altdorf . A diaconate at the Altdorf town church was associated with the professorship.

In 1772 he received his doctorate in Altdorf with the dissertation de loco Paulino ad Rome. 8, 19-25 to doctorate in theology and in the same year was promoted to second professor of theology, with which the archdeaconate at the city church was connected. In 1785 he became an assistant at the Altdorf Consistory and in 1787 he also took over the professorship of the Greek language. Sixt also participated in the organizational tasks of the Altdorf University. He was several times dean of the theological faculty and rector of the alma mater. In contrast to his current essays, writings and sermons, his theological works received little attention?

family

In 1773 he married Juliane Dorothea († January 20, 1806), the daughter of the professor of medicine in Altdorf Johann Nikolaus Weiß . The marriage resulted in five daughters and two sons, of which only three daughters lived to see their father's death. Are known:

• Johanna Maria Barbara Sixt (born February 7, 1774)
• Johanna Charlotta Juliana Sixt (* May 22, 1775 - † February 8, 1778)
• Isabella Christiana Katharina Sixt (born April 5, 1777)

Works

• Diss. De morsibus conscientiae. Jena 1765
• Diss. Quae in doctrina de praescientia futurorum conting. theologi vitare facereque prudenter soleant. Jena 1765 (Sixt translated this essay written by Bechthold into German)
• Diss. De sophismatibus in genere. Jena 1767
• Diss. De sophismatibus exegeticis. Jena 1768
• Progr. De ornatu philosophiae. Jena 1769
• Diss. De genio Socratis ex ita dicto sensu communi facile dijudicando. Jena 1770
• Duorum fragmentorum S. Codicis hebraei descriptio praemissis nonnullis de theologo critico religioso. Altdorf 1772
• Diss. Inaug. de loco Paulino ad Rome. 8, 19-25 Altdorf 1772
• Strong reasons to give thanks to God in a sermon. Altdorf 1775
• The cursoric reading of the Holy Scriptures, a hermeneutic teaching piece with mixed-in explanations of biblical passages. Altdorf 1775
• Funeral speech on the death of Mr. Hader from Augsburg. Altdorf 1777
• Specimen I et II recensionis. . . , quam praefatus est b. Yo. Saubertus in libello de variis lectionibus textus graeci Evangelii S. Matthaei. Altdorf, 1777–1778
• Of the ultimate purpose of the evangelical preaching office, a practical contribution for all for whom it is salutary to deliberately heed it. Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1778
• A thorough examination of the so-called system of pure philosophy or of Christianity's doctrine of happiness. Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1779–1780, 2nd piece
• Epistola gratulatoria de origine historiae creationis, quam Moses dedit, observationes selectae. Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1782
• Diss. De interpretatione universa b.Ernestii observata, notulis sucta et ad praelectiones publicas selecta. Jena, 1785
• Frank contribution to the more recent judgments on religion, church and state. Jena 1785
• German Carmen on the death of his father (which also contains a plan of the church reformation of the imperial city of Schweinfurt). Jena 1786
• Progr. De Methodio, Tyri quondam Episcopo. Jena 1787
• Collection of songs for use by the sick and the dying, including funerals , together with an appendix containing teachings and prayers for the sick and the dying. Jena 1789
• Memorial speech on Se. KK Majestät Joseph II, in addition to the funeral oration that was previously held on the death of the widowed KK Maria Theresia, both held in the town church in Altdorf. Altdorf and Nuremberg 1790
• Sermon on the 19th Sunday after Trinit. As on the prescribed thanksgiving feast, because of the most happy election of Leopold II as Roman king and emperor. Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1790
• Sermon on the gloriously decreed festival of thanksgiving on July 22nd, 1792 because of the happy election of a new head of the Roman-German Empire, Franz II. Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1792
• Progr. De privilegio, praeter alios consuetos et summos in theologia honores conferendi, in hac academia diu desiderato et feliciter demum impetrato. Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1797
• Theophrasti de Characteribus ethicis libellus; cujus textum graecum seorsum edidit etc. Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1802
• The right behavior in cases that concern us; delivered in a sermon on Sunday Cantate, May 12, 1805, in the town church in Altdorf. Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1805

literature

• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 240 ( online )
• Georg Ernst Waldau: Diptycha Continvata Ecclesiarvm In Oppidis Et Pagis Norimbergensibvs: or lists and biographies of all the clergymen in the rural towns and villages belonging to Nuremberg from 1756 to the end of 1779 continued. Verlag Johann Fleischmann, Nuremberg, 1780, p. 16, ( online ),
• Georg Andreas Will / Christian Conrad Nopitsch: Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, or, description of all Nuremberg scholars beyderley sex, according to their life, merit and writings, to expand the history of the study and to improve many mistakes made in it from the best sources in alphabetical order. PJ Besson, Altdorf, 1806, 7th part (3rd supplement volume) NR, p. 134, ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1798, Vol. 7, p. 516, ( online );
• Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried:  Sixt, Johann Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 438.