Johann Christian Burgmann

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Johann Christian Burgmann (born April 25, 1697 in Rostock ; † January 18, 1775 there ) was a German Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Life

Johann Christian Burgmann was born in 1697 as the son of the Rostock theologian Jacob Burgmann and his wife Katharina Margaretha, b. Beselin (1670-1731). He received private tuition and attended the Rostock city school . Burgmann studied from 1711 to 1718 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Rostock and then from October 1718 at the University of Jena and then at the University of Wittenberg . On October 9, 1719 he was awarded a Magister Liber in Rostock . artium and received at the faculty. From 1720 he worked as a private lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty and later also at the Theological Faculty. In January 1724 he was appointed pastor at the church of the Rostock Holy Spirit Hospital , the introduction to the office took place on February 19. On September 10, 1726, he received his doctorate theol at the Theological Faculty.

In 1730 he was appointed councilor professor of physics and metaphysics at the philosophy faculty as the successor to Zacharias Grape . Peter Christian Kämper (1702–1755) in turn succeeded him when Burgmann moved to the Faculty of Theology in 1735 and was appointed as the successor of Johann Joachim Weidner to the Council Professor of Theology (Secundarius). During his work at the university he was its rector in 1736, 1742, 1748, 1754 and 1760 and also librarian of the academic library from 1746 to 1750. In addition, from 1756 he was director and senior of the Ministry of Spirituality . Burgmann was together with Ernst Johann Friedrich Mantzel from 1737 to 1748 editor of the series Etwas von Gelehrten Rostockschen. For good friends .

Johann Christian Burgmann was married to Margarethe Ilsabe Dörcks († 1776), the daughter of Rostock councilor Christoph Daniel Dörcks, since August 31, 1730.

In 1758, Burgmann protested alongside Johann Heinrich Becker and Bernhard Friedrich Quistorp against the entry of Christian Albrecht Döderlein, who had been appointed professor of theology and consistorial councilor at the university by Duke Friedrich zu Mecklenburg . The dispute culminated in a dispute between the Rostock magistrate and the duke, which ended in 1760 with the establishment of the ducal University of Bützow and the change of the professors appointed by the duke to there.

Fonts (selection)

  • Apologiam invidentiae adversus bibliothecam academicam Hallens. Dissertation, 1720
  • De Bene qedem filiis orientis, quorum sapientia laudatur. Dissertation, 1726
  • Something of scholarly Rostock things. For good friends. (Ed.), Warningck, Rostock 1737–1748 ( digitalized RosDok )

literature

  • Something of learned Rostock things, for good friends. First year, MDCCXXXVII. Warningck, Rostock 1737, pp. 114, 185, 794. ( Digitalized RosDok )
  • Johann Bernhard Krey : In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries. Volume 1, Adler, Rostock 1814, p. 21. ( digitized from Google Books )
  • Johann Bernhard Krey: Contributions to the Mecklenburg church and scholarly history. Volume 2, Adlers Erben, Rostock 1821, p. 143. ( Digitalized RosDok )
  • Paul Falkenberg : The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript, Rostock around 1900.
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. 3rd volume, Wismar 1925, p. 1455.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1639 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Christian Burgmann , entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ A b Paul Falkenberg: The professors of the University of Rostock ... see literature
  3. ↑ Burgmann, Jhn. Chn. Rostoch., Oct. 8, 1718. In: Reinhold Jauernig, Marga Steiger: Die Matrikel der Universität Jena, Volume 2, 1652 to 1723. Böhlau, Weimar 1977, p. 104. ( Digitalisat Universität Jena )
  4. ↑ Johann. Christian Burgmann, Rostochis, Megap. 1719 Michaelis, Mense Decembri, In: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Wittenberger Matrikel. Online edition 2017, p. [131] 64r. ( Digitized version of the ULB Saxony-Anhalt )
  5. ^ Entry on Johann Christian Burgmann in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
  6. ^ Julius Wiggers : Church history Mecklenburgs. Hinstorff, Parchim / Ludwigslust 1840, p. 216 f. ( Digitized by Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Burgmann, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1775
Place of death Rostock