Johann Christoph Martini

Johann Christoph Martini (born October 14, 1732 in Nuremberg , † May 5, 1804 in Kerkhofen ) was a German Protestant clergyman and church historian .

Life

Johann Christoph Martini was the son of Johann August Martini, a teacher at the Egydisches Gymnasium and his wife (née Bittner) from Graefenberg .

From 1738 to 1748 he attended grammar school, where his father took him into his class and he received nine hours of lessons a day; his father taught him Latin and Greek, his other teachers were Lobherr, Gahn, Johann Paul Röder (1704–1766), Nicolaus Schwebel and Jobst Wilhelm Munker (1709–1787).

He then enrolled at the University of Göttingen and then defended his dissertation de locis quibusdam NT, obscuritate insignibus under Christoph August Heumann , after which he undertook a trip through the Upper Rhine region . During his study stay, he found accommodation in the house of the general superintendent Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein , who also made his library available to him and provided him with a free table in the seminar philologico.

In 1751 he went to the University of Altdorf and heard lectures there . In 1753 he became a master of philosophy with the dissertation de Jacobello, primo eucharistici calicis per ecclesias Behemicas vindice with Johann Gottfried Bernhold (1720–1766).

In 1754, with his habilitation De vita, fatisque Palladii Helenopolitani, Origenismi et Pelagianismi in iuste accusati, he received permission to hold private lectures at the University of Altdorf.

In 1756 he became the first secretary of the German society in Altdorf, newly founded by Georg Andreas Will , and later its second overseer.

In 1769 he was appointed pastor in Ebenried and in 1798 in Kerkhofen; He later passed this position on to his son-in-law, Johann Leonhard Horn, but stayed in the rectory.

The abbot of the Premonstratensian Monastery Hradisch near Olomouc , Paul Ferdinand Václavík (1700–1784), with whom he was in correspondence, appointed him in 1769, despite his Protestant religious affiliation, to the board of trustees and syndic of the monastery.

Writing

Johann Christoph Martini dealt with issues of church history and wrote and published various works on this. Together with the Catholic theologian Johann Conrad Füßli (1704–1775), he revised his three-volume text New, impartial Church and Heretic History of the Middle Ages . In addition, he published various papers and articles in various newspapers.

Memberships

• Johann Christoph Martini was a member of the German society in Altdorf.
• He was a member of the Imperial Franciscan Academy of Fine Arts and Sciences in Augsburg and the Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati .
• He belonged to the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .
• The agricultural-moral society in Burghausen , the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences and the learned societies in Helmstedt and Bernburg appointed him to their members.

Fonts (selection)

• Diss. Inaug. de Jacobo de Misa, primo evcharistici calicis per ecclesias Bohem-vindice . Altdorf 1753.
• Johann Christoph Martini; Bernhard Gottfried Chapuset; Christoph Theophil Hofmann; Jodocus Wilhelm Regenfus: Dissertatio Historico-Ecclesiastica De Vita Fatisque Palladii Helenopolitani, Origenismi et Pelagianismi Inivste Accvsati . Altorfii: Meyerus 1754.
• History of the most noble empires and states before the birth of Christ, in outline for the use of lectures in high and low schools, as well as for the better understanding of the ancient Greek and Latin writers . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1760–1762.
• Treatise of a special kind of crown, with which the Romans were used to present, partly as a sign of submission, partly as a token of respect, gratitude and friendship . Altdorf 1762.
• Historical geographical description of the former famous Engelthal convent in the Nuremberg area; Compiled from documents and secure messages with the greatest possible diligence . Nuremberg and Altdorf 1762.
• Brief message from the rich hospital at S. Leonhard in Lauf: which the Altdorfische Deutsche Gesellschaft ascribes to Mr. Ludwig Miller, from Augspurg, when he said goodbye to the local high school . Altdorf, 1763.
• Sincere judgment and thorough refutation of the ridiculous and malicious story that Blainville made in his travels from Nuremberg . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1765.
• Introduction to the ancient description of the earth: arranged for the better understanding of Greek and Latin writers and for the use of grammar schools and schools .
  • First part, which Europe receives . Leipzig 1766.
• Johann Conrad Füssli; Johann Christoph Martini: New impartial church and heretic history of the middle ages .
  • Volume 1 . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1770.
  • Volume 2 . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1772.
  • Volume 3 . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1774.
• Johann Conrad Füssli; Johann Christoph Martini; Sébastien Châteillon : Sebastian Castellio public teacher of the Greek language at the University of Basel Life history: to explain the Reformation and scholarly history . Frankfurt, Leipzig, Nuremberg: Felßecker 1775.

literature

• Johann Christoph Martini . In: Clemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Baierischer writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , 1st volume, 2nd part. Augsburg and Leipzig 1824. p. 3 f.
• Johann Christoph Martini . In: Continuations and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jochers Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon , 4th volume. Bremen 1813. p. 856.
• Johann Christoph Martini . In: Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon , 5th part. Altdorf 1802. p. 372 f.