Johann Benedikt Carpzov IV.
Johann Benedikt Carpzov IV (born May 20, 1720 in Leipzig , † April 28, 1803 in Helmstedt ) was a German theologian and philologist .
Life
Johann Benedikt Carpzov IV was a member of the well-known Saxon family of scholars Carpzov . He was born in Leipzig in 1720 as the son of the pastor and associate professor of the local university Johann Benedict Carpzov (1670–1733), who in turn was a son of the famous theologian Johann Benedict Carpzov II . First he attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig under the rectors Johann Matthias Gesner and Johann August Ernesti . Then he studied theology and philology at the University of Leipzig, where he finally completed his habilitation . In 1747 he became an associate professor in Leipzig. In 1748 he was appointed full professor of ancient Greek at the University of Helmstedt , where he was additionally entrusted with the theology professorship the following year. In 1759 he became abbot in Königslutter am Elm . Carpzov is considered to be one of the last representatives of Lutheran orthodoxy , whose doctrine he laid down on behalf of his sovereign, Duke Karl I Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, in the form of a Liber doctrinalis theologiae purioris (1768).
He received the family-owned Greek manuscript Minuskel 78 from his uncle Johann Gottlob Carpzov .
On September 21, 1756 Carpzov married the daughter of his Helmstedt colleague Johann Konrad Sigismund Topp , Hedwig Christine Charlotte Topp. The marriage had two daughters and one son: Charlotte Justine (born 1757), Wilhelmine Benedicta (1760-1835) and Johann Benedict (born 1764). Wilhelmina Benedicta Carpzov married a student of her father's, the theologian Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke .
literature
- Anonymous: Johann Benedict Carpzov. In: Messages from famous people and families in Lower Saxony. Edited by Johann Dietrich Winckler . Zweyter Volume, Wörmer, Hamburg 1769, pp. 202–232 ( digitized version )
- Sabine Ahrens: The teaching staff of the University of Helmstedt (1576-1810) (= publications of the district lakes Helmstedt . No. 7 ). District of Helmstedt, Kreismuseen, Helmstedt 2004, ISBN 3-937733-70-1 , p. 45 f .
- Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . First volume. Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1831, pp. 234–238 ( digitized version )
- Klaus Jürgens: Carpzow, Johann Benedict, Prof. Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 119-120 .
- Georg Müller, August Tholuck : Carpzov, Johann Benedict V . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 3, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1897, p. 731 ( digitized version of the Greifswald University Library )
- Vincenz Alois Seback: Johann Benedict Carpzov. In: Wetzer and Welte's Church Lexicon. 2nd Edition. Vol. 2, Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1883, Sp. 1981 f. ( Digitized version )
- Carl Siegfried: Carpzov, Johann Benedict . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 22 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carpzov, Johann Benedikt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1720 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1803 |
| Place of death | Helmstedt |