Johann Benjamin Koppe
Johann Benjamin Koppe (born August 19, 1750 in Danzig ; † February 12, 1791 in Hanover ) was a German Lutheran theologian.
Life
Koppe attended high school in Danzig and began studying philology and theology in Leipzig in 1769 , which he continued in Göttingen from 1772 . In 1774 he became professor of Greek at the Academia Petrina in Mitau , in 1775 professor at the University of Göttingen, from 1777 at the same time university preacher and from 1778 also director of the seminary . The focus of his lectures was on Old and New Testament exegesis.
The most important publication was an adaptation of the New Testament under the title “NT graec. perpetua annotatione illustratum ”(1778), which was continued after his death by Thomas Christian Tychsen , Christoph Ammon , Johann Heinrich Heinrichs and David Julius Pott and was only completed in the 19th century. He also published several Latin programs, arranged for the publication of a German translation of the English commentary on Isaiah by Robert Lowth (1779–81) and published a hymn book for use in the university church .
In 1784 Koppe went to Gotha as pastor, senior consistorial councilor and general superintendent . In 1788 he was appointed court preacher at the palace church in Hanover, consistorial councilor and general superintendent for the general diocese of Hoya-Diepholz , but died three years later at the age of 40. During the short time he worked in Hanover, his tasks included the reorganization and expansion of the Hanoverian school teacher seminar and the collaboration in the publication of the Hanoverian state catechism ("Catechism of Christian doctrine, for use in the Protestant churches and schools of the royal Braunschweig-Lüneburg Kurlande" , Hanover 1790).
Johann Benjamin Koppe was on the garden cemetery buried where today be listed tomb with the grave symbols of a Tränenkrügleins and a butterfly found.
In the east garden of the Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha there is an Ionic column crowned by a vase with an inscription plaque reminiscent of Koppe. After the death of his friend Koppe in 1791, Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg had commissioned it from the Gotha court sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll . After 1926 the column was moved from its original location in the park near the art mill (destroyed in 1945) to the east garden of the palace. The text of the inscription on the column reads:
IO. BENED. KOPPIO DR. THEOL. / AMICO OPTIMO. / NAT. GEDANI AD XVIII. AVG. 1750 / DEN. HANNOVERAE AD XII. FEBR 1791 / HMP
Works
- More precise definition of the edifying in preaching: to the announcement of the by Sr. Königl. Your Majesty at the Georg Augustus University graciously endowed Preacher Seminar. Göttingen: Verlag Johann Christian Dieterich, 1778
- Directory of a collection of theological, historical, philosophical, philological and legal books of the Consistorialrath Koppe. 1791
- About the court preacher Johann Benjamin Koppe. 1791
- Sermons: Issued after his death. : 2nd collection. Göttingen: Verlag Johann Christian Dieterich, 1793
- Translation by: Robert Lowth: Jesaias: new translation together with an introduction and critical philological and explanatory notes; from the English original: Isaias (Propheta.) , four volumes, Weidmann, 1779–1781
- A hymn book
literature
- Julius August Wagenmann : Koppe, Johann Benjamin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 692 f.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers, Volume 2, Bremen 1823 , Pp. 615f.
- Rudolf Steinmetz: The general superintendents from Hoya-Diepholz. In: Journal of the Society for Lower Saxony History , Issue 16 (1911), pp. 188–201
- Hans Otte : Koppe, Johann Benjamin. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 208f. u.ö., online via Google books
- Hans Otte: Koppe, Johann Benjamin. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 365.
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ a b City of Hanover: The Garden Cemetery , free brochure from the Hanover Green Space Office in cooperation with the Hanover Press Office, December 1997,
- or online as a PDF document
- ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: garden church and garden cemetery. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 65f., As well as Annex Mitte. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3f.
- ↑ Journal für Prediger, Volume 24. Kümmel 1791, p. 175.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koppe, Johann Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1791 |
| Place of death | Hanover |