Johann Augustin Köselitz

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Johann Augustin Köselitz (born October 1, 1721 in Wittenberg , † June 15, 1790 in Zerbst ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Johann Augustin Köselitz was born in Wittenberg in 1721 as the son of Gottfried Reinhold Köselitz and his first wife Catharina Juliane Ludwig. He attended grammar school in Zerbst, enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on May 24, 1784, continued his studies at the University of Leipzig , where he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in 1746 . After he had worked as a private lecturer in Leipzig, in 1747 he became court master of noble and middle-class families in Upper Lusatia .

In 1750 he returned to Zerbst, where he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry. In 1752 he became a subdeacon at the castle church in Zerbst and at the collegiate church of St. Bartholomäi. In 1755 he went to Köselitz as a pastor , where the parishes in Göritz and Pülzig were subordinate to him. In 1762 he became a deacon and preacher at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Zerbst, in 1765 first pastor and in 1762 high school professor for theology and metaphysics at the local high school Illustre . After he was admitted to the Zerbster consistory as an assessor in 1769 , he became consistorial and church councilor and superintendent Ephorus of the entire Zerbster dioceses.

Selection of works

  1. Oratio de utilitate et praestantia literarum ac scientiarum. Zerbst 1739.
  2. Talk of the most perfect splendor and prestige of the Anhalt-Zerbstian Princely House, in which it stands at all foreign courts, and with which it illuminates all of Germany, etc. Leipzig 1745.
  3. Diss. De successione momentorum in ipaa aeternitate. Leipzig 1746.
  4. Necessariam summi numinis infinito in spatio existentiain non nudam esse hypothesin, sed potius sana cum ratione et scriptura sacra omni ex parte convenire qualicunque scriptione demonstrat etc. Loebaviae 1749. 4. Editio altera, auctior et emendatior. Zerbst 1761.
  5. Sancta principis persona quasdam contra iniurias vindicata. Zerbst 1751.
  6. Brief evidence that natural or real influence is the most probable and correct relationship between body and soul. Wittenberg and Zerbst 1753.
  7. Exact and adequate answer to the untimely, hasty and completely unfounded judgments of Hamb. Correspondents on the above evidence. Wittenberg and Zerbst 1753.
  8. Collection of selected pulpit speeches. 4 parts, 1753-1759.
  9. Answer to Bucerus Veridicus letter in which the HMK's declaration that the souls of animals will cease to live at the same time as their bodies is judged. 1754.
  10. Letter to one of the most intimate of his friends in Leipzig, in which he discovers his thoughts on two judgments made from his evidence. Wittenberg u. Zerbst 1755.
  11. Diss. Epist. qua, probum ac bonum praeter virum in mortalibus neminem saustum ac sacrum inire atque servare posse coniugium probatur etc. Zerbst 1760
  12. Stand speech at the bar of Mr. Hofmarschall Erdm. Gottl. from Lattorf. Zerbst 1761.
  13. Diss. Epist. de magni aestimandis boni principis ex iudicio collatis honoribus. Zerbst 1763.
  14. Wedding speech at the marriage union of the Cabinet Councilor Hase with the maiden. Dolläus. Zerbst 1774.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3; Halle (Saale), 1966, p. 93

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1808, Vol. 7, p. 231.
  • Hermann Wiemann: History of the court and collegiate church of St. Bartholomäi. Zerbst, 1907, p. 100.
personal data
SURNAME Köselitz, Johann Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1790
Place of death Zerbst