Johann Christian Seidel
Johann Christian Seidel (born February 13, 1699 in Hof (Saale) ; † June 18, 1773 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian and astronomer .
Life
The son of the hospital preacher Christian Philipp Seidel († 1709) received his first training from his father and private tutors . At the age of nine he went to the gymnasium in Hof and later learned in Heilsbronn . In 1718 he moved to the University of Halle , where he was a student of Christian Wolff , August Hermann Francke , Paul Anton , Johann Heinrich Michaelis and Joachim Lange . In 1712 he became a private tutor in Lichtenberg in Upper Franconia and in 1725 a teacher of rhetoric , poetics and physics at the high school in Bayreuth .
In 1731 he became pastor in Selb , where he built an observatory. In 1737 he became superintendent in Hof, and was associated with the grammar school professor of theology and inspector of the grammar school there. In that capacity he worked until the end of his life.
Works
- Diss. De temperamento Caroli XII, Suecorum Regis. Ansbach 171 ?.
- Progr. Adit de meritis Germanorum in rem litterariam. Bayreuth 1725.
- Progr. De contemplatione naturae. Bayreuth 1725.
- Progr. Prudentia nos tuto carere nunquara posse. Bayreuth 1726.
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Progr. De historia et fatis philosophiae Leibnitianae .
- Commentatio l de viribus corporum, vera notione substantiae legibusque motus ex mente Leibnitii . Bayreuth 1726.
- Commentatio II de usu et praestantia doctrinae de viribus corporum. Bayreuth 1726.
- Commentatio III de naturae legibus circa vires corporum et mutuas actiones. Bayreuth 1726.
- Commentatio IV quan. tum adeptus fuerit Leibnitius studiis suis ad causas rerum naturalium promte reddendas. Bayreuth 1727.
- Commentatio V de ratione inventionis, sententia et fatis harmoniae praestabilitae. Bayreuth 1728.
- Progr. De eloquentiae studio. Bayreuth 1726.
- Memoria Georgii Wilhelmi, Marchionis Brandenburgici. Bayreuth 1727.
- Progr. De Principis tilulo optimi. Bayreuth 1727.
- Progr. De feliciter auspicato imperio Georgii Friderici Caroli, March. Brandenb. excusum sermone ligato. Bayreuth 1727.
- Progr. De fatis Marchiae sub Principibus Brandeuburgicis. Bayreuth 1727.
- Progr. In obitum Christianae Eberhardinae, Reginao Poloniae, exaratum sermone ligato. Bayreuth 1727.
- Progr. Non omnes doctores scholasticos absurditatis damnandos esse. Bayreuth 1728.
- Progr. Ad natalitia Friderici, March. Brandenb. sermone ligato excusum. Bayreuth 1728.
- Progr. De fatis Astronomiae ejusque incrementis. Bayreuth 1728.
- Progr. Litterarum studia a nobililate non esse aliens. Bayreuth 1728.
- Diss. De mirabili conservatione ignis solaris ad suas causas revocata. Bayreuth 1729.
- Progr. De Principibus Christianis, inprimis Brandenburgicis, qui studio suo astronomiae decus conciliarunt. Bayreuth 1729.
- Diss, de regulis architecture generalibus, quibus Deus in formandis animalibus, praecipue hominibus, usus est. Bayreuth 1729.
- Progr. De Franconia, veritatis, praecipue religionis pet Lutherum repurgatae, cartridge. Bayreuth 1730.
- Progr. De fatis Augustanae Confessionis. Bayreuth 1730.
- Talk of the first confessors of the truth in the Burggrafenthum Nuremberg, in German-bound writing. Bayreuth 1730.
- Progr. De Georgio Friderico Carolo, Deo prospiciente, semper florente, deque virtute ac dignilate domuum Brandenburgicae et Curianae. Bayreuth 1731.
- Progr. De meritis Friderici, Burggravii Norimbergensis, in Sigismundum, Regem Hungariae. Bayreuth 1731.
- Diss. De telescopio fenestrali ejusque usu et conficiendi ratione. Bayreuth 1731.
- Progr. De utilitate ac jucunditate astronomiae. Bayreuth 1731.
- Progr. De cognitione Dei ex libro naturae. Bayreuth 1731.
- Funeral sermon at JL Langheinrichs, citizen at court, wife. Court 1739.
- Progr. De matura logicae cum rhetorica conjunctioae. Court 1740.
- Funeral sermon to JM Auerbach, Landkammerrath. Court 1744.
- Funeral sermon to J. Bayer, guarantor and white tanner, about Hebr. 13, 14th courtyard 1745.
- Sermon of jubilation when the Courtly Gymnasium celebrated its other jubilee, on Ps. 84, 1-8; along with the inauguration speech. Court 1746.
- Funeral sermon to GF Beuchold, cloth maker: Three reasons for consolation against the bitterness of death; via Joh. 3, 16. Hof 1747.
- Progr. De statu scholae Curianae saeculo XVI. Court 1751.
- Funeral sermon to Anna Elisabeth Wagner, on Ps. 90, 2.3. Court 1759.
- Seromone on loan to Maria Sophia Kapp, about book d. Know. 3, 1st courtyard 1761.
- Progr. De mira propagatione luminis et caloris per cometas ad culmina systematis planetarii. Court 1765.
literature
- Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1813, volume 13, p. 60 ( online )
- Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, Volume 4, p. 179 ( online ).
- Seidel, Johann Christian. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 36, Leipzig 1743, column 1408.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seidel, Johann Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hof (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1773 |
| Place of death | Hof (Saale) |