Johann Christoph Dommerich

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Johann Christoph Dommerich (copperplate engraving by Johanna Dorothea Sysang )

Johann Christoph Dommerich (born December 25, 1723 in Bückeburg , † May 28, 1767 in Helmstedt ) was a German philosopher , Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor .

Life

Johann Christoph Dommerich was born in Bückeburg in 1723 as the son of the consistorial secretary of the same name and his wife Hedwig Ottilia Sophie, née Heislinger. He attended the Latin school in Bückeburg and then studied from 1740 Protestant theology , philosophy, mathematics and oriental languages ​​in Halle (Saale) , where Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten , Johann Georg Knapp , Johann David Michaelis and Georg Friedrich Meier were among his academic teachers. During and after his studies he worked as a teacher at the orphanage and the associated pedagogy of the Francke Foundations . In 1744 he went back to Bückeburg to work as a private tutor for the family of the office director Wolf Carl von Lehenner. He was an honorary member of the Latin Society in Jena since 1746 and of the German Society in Göttingen since 1747 . In 1747 he was appointed early preacher in Bückeburg. In 1748 he moved to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Helmstedt as an adjunct , where he received his doctorate in the same year. Dommerich was from 1749 to 1759 as the successor of Johann Daniel Coordes rector of the ducal high school large school in Wolfenbüttel . In 1754 he was appointed subprior in Riddagshausen and in 1759 full professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Helmstedt.

Dommerich married Christiane Gertrud Breitspach, the Magdeburg preacher's daughter, who died in 1751. He entered into a second marriage in 1752, with the 19-year-old widow Sophie Eleonore Schaeffer. Dommerich died in May 1767 at the age of 43 in Helmstedt, where he was buried in the St. Stephani cemetery.

Dommerich had extensive knowledge of theology, philosophy, philology and literature, which were the subject of numerous writings. During his tenure in Wolfenbüttel he wrote a history of the Great School published in 1750 and 1751 . The annual reports of the Great School , which appeared intermittently until 1978, go back to his initiative . At the University of Helmstedt he gave lectures on teaching science and published a Didactics in 1762 , the first corresponding publication in the state of Braunschweig.

Fonts (selection)

  • Logica . 1749
  • Historia scholae ducalis Wolfenbuttelensis, Diatribe I – III . 1750 and 1751.
  • Notes on Scripture: Religion of Reason . 1753.
  • Draft of a German poetry for use in schools . Orphanage bookshop, Braunschweig 1758. ( digitized version )
  • Sphaerologica, or short lessons, as the celestial and earth spheres are procured and properly used, set up for the benefit of schools . 1761.
  • The mnemonics and heuristics . Hemmerde publishing house, Halle and Helmstedt 1765.
  • De vera constitutione fidei in Salvatorem

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfram Reifenstein: Johann Christoph Dommerich - a picture of life . In: Braunschweigische Heimat . Vol. 78, Braunschweig 1992, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Wolfram Reifenstein: Johann Christoph Dommerich - a picture of life . In: Braunschweigische Heimat . Vol. 78, Braunschweig 1992, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Wolfram Reifenstein: Johann Christoph Dommerich - a picture of life . In: Braunschweigische Heimat . Vol. 78, Braunschweig 1992, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Dommerich, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1767
Place of death Helmstedt