Johann Balthasar Kölbele

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Johann Balthasar Kölbele (* 1722 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 1778 there ) was a lawyer and theologian during the Enlightenment . He was involved in the public correspondence between Johann Caspar Lavater and the enlightener Moses Mendelssohn by attacking Mendelssohn with pamphlets.

Live and act

Johann Balthasar Kölbele was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1726. He studied law from 1743 first in Giessen, from 1745 in Halle. Kölbele received his doctorate in 1748. He had his own practice in Frankfurt am Main before he gave up his profession and devoted himself to studying religion. He was able to do this because his parents left him a sufficient fortune.

As early as 1765, five years before his letter to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn , Kölbele tried in vain to discuss with Mendelssohn and to convince him of Christianity. Because Mendelssohn did not react to Kölbele, he decided to enter into the correspondence between Lavater and Mendelssohn. Kölbeles writings were strongly anti-Jewish . So he took up the prejudice of the unbelievable Jewish oath . He attacked Mendelssohn personally by asking about his livelihood, which could not be paid with Mendelssohn's income. He also accused Mendelssohn of proselytizing and accusing him of adhering to deism . With this, Kölbele endangered Mendelssohn's status as a so-called protective Jew and thus also his life. After Mendelssohn had rid himself of these accusations against Lavater and thus also with the public and the press reacted negatively to Kölbele's statements, Kölbele accused the journalists of having been bought by the Jews. Kölbele were then certified by an anonymous contemporary of passionate religious hatred and an addiction to disputation.

His convertible novel The Incidents of the Jungfer Meyern, a Jewish woman's room, is all about mission to the Jews . It Kölbele designs the Christian ideal of implementing the conversion from Judaism to Christianity , which is very different from that in autobiographies differs convert Jews depicted reality in which the negative consequences of religious conversion are described.

Fonts

  • The incidents of Jungfer Meyern, a Jewish woman . Frankfurt am Main 1765. 2nd and increased edition, Frankfurt am Main 1766. 3rd and very different edition, Andreä, Frankfurt am Mayn 1771.
  • The admissibility of the oath according to the principles of the new covenant, and according to the instructions of the Greek text . Andreä, Frankfurt am Mayn 1767 ( digitized in VD 18 Digital).
  • The incidents of the Philippine Damien, described by herself . Andreä, Frankfurt am Mayn 1769 ( digitized in VD 18 Digital).
  • Letter to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn about Lavaterische and Kölbelische matters against Mr. Moses Mendelssohn . Andreä, Frankfurt am Mayn 1770.
  • Second letter to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn, in particular about the former Mendelssohn deism, about the Mendelssohn mark of a revelation, and recently about the credibility of Evangelical history . Andreä, Frankfurt am Mayn 1770.
  • A small experiment on the miracles according to Houttevillian Bonnetic and Hollmannian guidelines with a few additions about the Mendelssohnian and Kölbelische religious disputes . Frankfurt am Mayn 1772.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moses Mendelssohn: Selected works. Study edition in two volumes . Ed .: Christoph Schulte. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-15872-0 , register of persons.
  2. ↑ 118th Chapter: Enlightenment and Berlin Jewish Spiritual Life in the 18th Century VI - Moses Mendelssohn . ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History of the Jews in Germany; Retrieved July 5, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zwst4you.de
  3. ↑ Christian F. Gellert; John F. Reynolds: Gellert's Correspondence, Vol. I (1740–1756) . Berlin u. a. 1983, p. 337.
  4. ↑ Johannes Graf: Baptism of Jews . P. 27 f .; Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  5. ↑ Johannes Graf: Baptism of Jews . P. 36 f .; Retrieved September 24, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kölbele, Johann Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 1778
Place of death Frankfurt am Main