Johann Andreas Tafinger

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Johann Andreas Tafinger (born May 18, 1728 in Ludwigsburg , † August 2, 1804 in Stuttgart ) was a German educator and Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

Tafinger came from the Württemberg family Tafinger . The son of the doctor of theology, Wuerttemberg consistorial councilor, general superintendent, abbot in Adelberg, monastery preacher in Stuttgart and visitor to the University of Tübingen Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger and his wife Regina Barbara, daughter of the Tübingen theologian Andreas Adam Hochstetter , was trained and had private teachers in his home town attended grammar school in Stuttgart. In 1744 he was accepted into the theological seminar at the University of Tübingen, where he attended philosophical lectures with Daniel Maichel , Israel Gottlieb Canz , Johann Adam Osiander , Paul Biberstein and Georg Wolfgang Kraft (1701–1754).

In 1746 Tafinger obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy and then turned to theological studies, which he completed with Christoph Matthäus Pfaff , Christian Eberhard Weißmann , Heinrich Wilhelm Clemm and Johann Friedrich Cotta . In 1748, under Pfaff's chairmanship, he defended his diss. Theol. casualem de inuocatione S. Christopheri ad lagiendos numos . In 1749, after having passed the theological examination, he received a theological repetition position in Stuttgart, completed his habilitation as a master's degree at the University of Tübingen and in 1752 completed a scholar's journey that took him through a large part of Germany, France, England and the Netherlands. This trip brought him into contact with scholars and other influential people of his time, especially with the Minister of State Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen in Hanover.

Having arrived in his homeland, Tafinger became associate professor of theology and oriental languages ​​at the grammar school in Stuttgart in 1753, took over the full professorship in 1755 and the rectorate of the educational institution in 1783. With that he became supervisor ( pedagogical arch ) of the Latin schools under the Staig , in 1796 he became electoral Württemberg councilor and abbot in Hirsau. In 1765 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin. The Latin Society in Jena and the Royal German Society of Göttingen had made him an honorary member in 1752 and the German Society of Helmstedt awarded him this award in 1755.

Works

  • Tractus de nuptis Batavorum. Goettingen 1752
  • Reflexions sur le charactere sacre d'un Ministre etranger. Goettingen 1752
  • Diss. De sacramentis generatim spectatis. Hall 1753
  • De utilitate peregrinationum eruditorum. . . . 1754
  • Poëmata latina Societ. Latin. Jenensi consecrata. Stuttgart 1756
  • De praestantia institutorum scholasticorum ia Würtembergia. Stuttgart 1759
  • Oratio natalitia de harmonia Collegiorom Anglicanorum cum Seminario theologico Tubingensi. Tuebingen 1759
  • De cautelis ia itiueribus litteratis observandis. Tuebingen 1766
  • De solemni apud veteres natalium celebratione. Stuttgart 1772
  • De incomparabilissimo patriae patre in incendiia Würtembergicis. Stuttgart 1772
  • De salutari temperamentorum moderatione. Stuttgart 1781
  • O ratio metrica, cum Rectoris officia valediceret. Stuttgart 1796

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not October as Döring writes
  2. ^ Johann Jacob Moser: Genealogical news, of his own, also many other respected Würtemberg families, some of them also foreign families. Johann Heinrich Philipp Schramm, Tübingen, 1756, 2nd edition, p. 319, ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Tafinger, Johann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1804
Place of death Stuttgart