Johann Christian Adami (theologian, 1662)

Johann Christian Adami

Johann Christian Adami the Elder (born January 13, 1662 in Luckau , † May 12, 1715 in Lübben ) was a German Lutheran Protestant theologian and hymn poet .

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Johann Christian Adami came from an old Niederlausitz family and was born as the son of the mayor and church leader Balthasar Adami and the councilor's daughter Anna Margaretha Lange. He received private tuition in his father's house and then attended the city school under Rector Christian Crucianus and the Vice Rectors Johann Zimmermann and Johann Samuel Schaper. In addition, the Luckau pastor David Grafunder taught him in Greek and Hebrew . At 15 he went to the grammar school in Altenburg under Rector Paul Martin Sagittarius , then to the school in Küstrin under Rector Martin Zücker. In 1679 he moved into the University of Wittenberg under the rectorate of Gottfried Strauss . He attended lectures in philological and philosophical sciences with professors Andreas Sennert , Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch , Christian Donati and Christian Röhrensee, among others . Then he studied Protestant theology with Abraham Calov , Johannes Meisner , Johann Andreas Quenstedt and Johann Deutschmann . In 1681 he acquired his master's degree . From 1684 to 1687 he worked as a deacon in Luckau, from 1687 to 1691 as archdeacon and from 1691 to 1711 as pastor and school inspector . In 1694 he became a licentiate of Scripture and on April 22, 1700 for Doctor Protestant theology doctorate . In 1701 he became an assessor in the Niederlausitz consistory. From 1711 until his death in 1715 he was general superintendent of Niederlausitz and senior pastor in Lübben. He was buried in Luckau.

A marriage with Maria Catharina Eysen in 1684 gave birth to four children. One child was stillborn, the youngest daughter (Juliana Christiana) died young. A daughter and a son survived the father. Maria Margaretha († April 30, 1733) first married the pastor of Lieberose Heinrich Gottlieb Schneider and after his death Johann Joachim Bömich. The son Johann Christian Adami (1689–1753) also became a theologian.

Works

Dissertations

• Johann Christian Adami ( respondent ), Nicolaus Christoph Remling (Praeses): De imputatione actionum moralium. Henckelius, Wittenberg 1681
• Johann Christian Pansa (Respondent), Johann Christian Adami (Praeses): Annuente Ente Independenter Necessario Discursum Transcendentalem De Gradibus Necessitatis. Henckelius, Wittenberg 1682
• Georg Krebs (Respondent), Johann Christian Adami (Praeses): Dissertationem Moralem De Oydenosofia Socratica Sive Scientia nihil Sciendi. Henckelius, Wittenberg 1682
• Johann Lubin (Respondent), Johann Christian Adami (Praeses): Podophilēmatos papaei mikroprepeian, seu quod osculum pedum, pontifici romano fixum, sit in decorum, demonstrabunt. Borckard, Witteberg 1684
• Johann Christian Adami (Respondent), Johann Deutschmann (Praeses): Symbolum Apostolicum Adami Protoplasti, hoc est, Catholica Christianorum Doctrina, Symbolo Apostolorum comprehensa, sed primis statim fidelibus Genes. III. Divinitus revelata, nunc solenni disputatione demonstrata. Schrödter, Wittenberg 1694

Sermons and literature for edification

• The screaming stag Or sighing heart of a Christian longing for Christ. Quenstedt and Wilcke, Wittenberg 1690
• The Ninivites' wickedness and penance, or Kurtze and the written explanation of the prophecy of the prophet Jonae. Weidmann and Köler, Leipzig 1691
• Of the blessed man of God D. Martini Lutheri Faithful warning to the Winckel preachers Bey opportunity to ask whether it is right to preach in the houses or in Winckeln? Scholvien, Leipzig 1693
• The bright, shining Biebel light in devout contemplation 58. Proverbs Heil. Script. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1699
• The refreshing Jesus In eight and thirty penitential and consolation devotions About the extremely agile and spirit-rich penance song O Jesus Christ you highest good. Quenstedt, Wittenberg 1700
• with Philipp Nicolai: The joyful access to God's grace bit the end of human life on the occasion of the question: Is the Divine grace door open to all human beings, including stubborn and stubborn sinners, bit at the end of life? Gleditsch, Leipzig 1701; Bittorf, Zwickau 1701
• The joyful approach to God's grace bit the end of human life. Bitteroff, Zwickau 1701; Gleditsch, Leipzig 1701
• Evangelical memorial and danish supper of divine goodness, or brief and written explanation of the regular Sunday and feast day gospels, of his Christian community shown in the early sermons. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1704
• Golden apples in silver bowls or divine reflections on the Song of Solomon. Leipzig 1708
• Three peculiar God-sanctified church speeches consisted of a trial sermon that he held in the Lübbenschen and Luckau churches in the year of Christ 1711. Leipzig 1713
• 33 hymns in Evangelical Zion, or newly improved and increased complete Lower Lusatian chant book. Lübben 1736

literature

• Michael Ranfft : Life and writings of all Chur-Saxon scholars. Deer, Leipzig 1742 (with catalog raisonné)
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon. Volume 1, Gleditsch, Leipzig 1750, column 86

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Christian Adami in VD 17 .