Johann Christian Schöttgen

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Johann Christian Schöttgen

Johann Christian Schöttgen (born March 14, 1687 in Wurzen , † December 16, 1751 in Dresden ) was a German high school teacher , theologian and historian .

Life

After the death of his father, the shoemaker Jeremias Schöttgen, Schöttgen was accepted as a scholarship holder at the Princely School in Pforta . In 1707 he began studying theology at the University of Leipzig . At the same time, he soon worked as an editor with the Leipzig booksellers Thomas Fritsch and Johann Friedrich Gleditsch and wrote articles for Acta eruditorum and the German Acta eruditorum , two early scientific journals in which mainly book reviews were published. In 1709 he acquired the degree of master's degree . Initially holding philological lectures, he began to write scientific treatises early on. Between 1716 and 1719 he was rector of the Lyceum in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1717 he married Dorothea Charlotte Knobloch, the daughter of a royal Prussian personal physician, with whom he lived in a very happy marriage with several children. From 1719 to 1727 he headed the city school in Stargard in Pomerania and was also a professor at the Collegium Groeningianum there . During this time he was particularly interested in the history of Pomerania , on which he wrote several essays. From 1728 until his death he headed the Dresden High School for the Holy Cross . Schöttgen died in Dresden in 1751 and was buried in the Elias cemetery.

In 1723 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .

In addition to numerous theological works, u. a. also on Judaism, he appeared primarily as a historian with a wide range of interests. He was co-editor of the series of publications detailed reports of all kinds of new books and other things so part of today's history of learning (1708-1710).

Works (selection)

  • De secta flagellantium commentatio , 1711.
  • History of the Chur-Saxon town of Wurtzen . Leipzig 1717 ( e-copy ).
  • Old and new Pomeranian country, or collected news from various pieces belonging to Pomeranian history . Stargard i. Pom. 1721-1722.
    • Volume 1, Stargard 1721 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 2, Stargard 1721 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 3, Stargard 1721 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 4, Stargard 1722 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 5, 1727
  • History of booksellers like those in ancient and middle ages , 1722.
  • The preludes of the Stargardian Reformation are testimonies to the truth, which are recognized by some in the middle of the papacy and are brought to light, from the documents of the Stargardian church history, on the occasion of the other peculiar jubilee festival, which took place on December 26th. Celebrated in 1724, searched together, and brought to light for the glory of the holy God, also some building of his churches . Stargard 1724 ( e-copy ).
  • Diplomatic and curious review of the history of Upper Saxony , by Christian Schöttgen and Georg Christoph Kreysig , 6 parts, 1730 and 1731.
    • Parts 1–6 in one volume, E-copy
  • Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae in universum Novum Testamentum . 2 volumes, 1733–1742
  • Diplomatarii et Scriptores Historicæ Germanicæ , by Christian Schöttgen and Georg Christoph Kreysig, Altenburg, 3 volumes, Dresden and Leipzig 1753–1760.
    • therein in Volume II, Chapter VIII. Codex diplomaticus monasterii book . 1755, p. 171 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • History of Conrad the Great, Count von Wettin , Regensburg 1745.
  • History of the famous hero, Count Wiprecht von Gröitzsch , Regensburg 1749.
  • Inventarium Diplomaticum historiae Saxoniae Superioris , collection of documents from Upper Saxony from 500 to 1747, Halle 1747.
  • Opuscula minora, historiam Saxonicam illustrantia , 1767 (published posthumously).

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Heinrich Döring, The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Volume 3, Neustadt an der Orla 1833, p. 884, limited preview in the Google book search
  2. ^ Heinrich Gottlieb Francke : Vita Christiani Schoettgenii. In: Christian Schöttgen, Georg Christoph Kreysig: Diplomataria Et Scriptores Historiae Germanicae Medii Aevi. Volume 3. Richter, Altenburg 1760, p. XIII ( digitized version ); Karl Gautsch: The Saxon historian and rector at the Kreuzschule in Dresden M. Johann Christian Schöttgen. In: Archives for Saxon History. 1878, p. 348 ( digitized version ); Reinhardt Eigenwill: Johann Christian Schöttgen - an important Saxon historian. In: Yearbook on the history of Dresden. 1987, p. 71; There is no corresponding entry in the burial books from 1860, which are in the archives of the Arar of the Elias, Trinity and Johannis cemeteries in Dresden.
personal data
SURNAME Schöttgen, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1751
Place of death Dresden