Johann Anton Trinius

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Johann Anton Trinius (born October 6, 1722 in Alterode ; † May 3, 1784 in Eisleben ) was a German Protestant pastor , theologian and writer .

Life

Johann Anton Trinius was born on October 6, 1722 in Alterode in what was then the county of Mansfeld as the son of the local preacher Bernhard Trinius and his wife Johanna Sohia Derling. After receiving careful training in his parents' house, Trinius began studying theology in 1740 at the request of his father at the University of Leipzig , which he continued in 1742 in Helmstedt and in 1749 in Halle (Saale) . In 1744 he took a trip through western northern Germany, where he broadened his horizons and met many scholars. In 1745 he continued his studies in Helmstedt. Then he practiced preaching and catechizing with his father in Altenroda. After a short stay in Göttingen , Trinius received the post of a parish substitute in Bräunrode and Walbeck in the county of Mansfeld from the Baron von Knigge in 1748 . In 1750 he succeeded the deceased pastor there. In addition, on April 3, 1760, he had acquired the academic degree of master's degree from the University of Wittenberg . Trinius died on May 3, 1784 after moving to Eisleben in the last years of his life . He has developed a not insignificant activity as a writer, dealing both with the history of scholars and with the moralistic contestation of freethinking .

family

Trinius was married twice. His first marriage was with Augusta Friederica, (died April 2, 1730 in Stade; † December 5, 1767 in Bräunrode). From this first marriage there are two sons and a daughter. He concluded his second marriage on August 19, 1771 with Charlotte Gerhardine Hahnemann (1752-1812), a sister of the well-known founder of homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann and the later wife of the general superintendent in Eisleben, Johann Andreas Müller. There are two sons from this marriage. It is known about the children:

  • Curt Trinius (* around 1752; † before 1806)
  • Anton Bernhard * October 3, 1754 in Bräunrode; † May 7, 1764 ibid
  • Augusta Friderika Sophia Dorotea (born December 19, 1758 in Bräunrode) married. with archdeacon at the ULF Halle Friedrich Gottlieb Pockels
  • Carl Bernhard Trinius , doctor, poet and botanist, as well as personal doctor and teacher of Tsar Alexander II
  • Johann Anton Bernhard (born July 23, 1773 in Eisleben) became a hussar corporal

Works

The Freydenkerlexicon 1759
  • Freydenker Lexicon or introduction to the history of the modern Freygeisters, their writings and their refutations. In addition to an addendum and addendum to Blessed Mr. Johann Albert Fabricius , Leipzig 1759
  • Contribution to a history of famous and deserving scholars of God in the country , Volume 1 published in Leipzig in 1751
  • Mixed preacher anecdotes , Halle 1784
  • The little old testament, or extract from it according to its most charitable content ... for the ignorant , Quedlinburg 1779
  • Mixed collection of strange incidents and examples from history for the glorification of God - promotion of virtue , Halle 1777
  • Some pulpit and altar speeches , Halle 1777
  • Old and new to expand and improve theological knowledge. Pieces 1-3 , hall 1771
  • Brief but thorough presentation of the teaching of differentiation of the Evangelical Lutheran. Religion of other religions customary in the world , Stolberg am Harze 1768
  • The combined contradictions of the Bible. Or explanation and salvation of those passages in the Holy Scriptures which contradict themselves or other known truths, or which seem to be otherwise offensive , Quedlinburg
  • Treatise on the transmigration of souls according to the doctrinal concept of Christians , Leipzig 1760
  • Reflections on some proverbs and their abuse , Leipzig 1750
  • Theological dictionary, in which the words and idioms occurring in theological sciences are recently explained , Frankfurt and Leipzig 1770

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis . Younger series part 3. Halle (Saale) 1966, p. 477
personal data
SURNAME Trinius, Johann Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Alterode
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1784
Place of death Eisleben