Johann Christoph Wolf
Johann Christoph Wolf (born February 21, 1683 in Wernigerode ; † July 25, 1739 in Hamburg ) was a German theologian and polyhistor .
Life
Wolf visited the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg, where his father Johann Wolf had been appointed as senior pastor at the Nikolaikirche . In 1703 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg and specialized in oriental languages and literature. A year later he passed the master’s examination. A time followed in which Wolf frequently changed residence. He initially held lectures in Wittenberg, but then returned to Hamburg and accepted the post of vice rectorate at the Latin school in Flensburg . In between he traveled to the Netherlands, England and Denmark. In 1710 Wolf, who had earned a good name as an orientalist, was again appointed to Wittenberg as an adjunct and later as an associate professor of philosophy. Two years later he accepted the professorship for oriental languages at the grammar school in his hometown, and in 1716 he finally moved to the Katharinenkirche as chief pastor . In this position, too, he found time for his scientific work. Wolf built a large library of 25,000 volumes, books and oriental manuscripts. Among other things, he acquired the collection of the Frankfurt councilor Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach .
He bequeathed his library to the Hamburg City Library , which doubled its holdings. His collection of scholarly letters, which his brother, the philologist Johann Christian Wolf , added to, also ended up in the city library. It comprises 40,000 letters in 200 volumes.
His most important work is the Bibliotheca Hebraea , Hamburg 1715–33, on Hebrew literature. His statements about the Talmud remain authoritative for a century and a half.
Since 1712 he was a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .
After the brother's death, the Hamburg Senate erected a cenotaph for both scholars in the city library based on a design by the Swedish sculptor Johann Wilhelm Manstadt .
Works
- Bibliotheca hebraica. Hamburg 1683. Adult in 4 volumes. 1715-23. Forts, by Hermann Friedrich Köcher: Nova Bibliotheca hebraica. 2 vols. Jena 1783–84.
- De mythica moralia tradendi ratione nov-antiqua. Diss. 1 u. 2 Wittenberg 1704.
- Manichaeismus ante Manichaeos, et in Christianismo redivivus. Hamburg 1707.1710. Repr. Leipzig 1970.
- Absurda Hallensia, or the erroneous and inconsistent opinions which Messrs Theologi in Halle hold in their heart, sl 1707
- Ed .: Casauboniana. Hamburg 1710.
- Carcerem cruditorum museum. Diss. Wittenberg 1710, 1718
- De atheismo falso suspectis. Diss. Wittenberg 1710.1717
- Anecdota Graeca, sacra et profana. 4 vols. Hamburg 1722–24. Forts, by Johann Christoph Köcher: Analecta philotogica et exegetica. Altenburg 1766
- Curae philologicae et criticae 4 vols. Vol. 1. in IV SS. Evangelia et Actus Apostolicos. Vol. 2. in IV. Priori S. Pauli Epistolas Vol. 3. in X. posteriores S. Pauli Epistolas Vol. 4. in SS. Apostolorum Jacobi Petri Judae et Joannis Epistolas huiusque Apocal. Hamburg 1725–35. In 5 vols. Basel 1741.
- Conspectus supellectilis epistolicae et literariac manu exaratae quae exstat apud J. Ch. Wolfium. Hamburg 1736 [catalog of the publisher u. of Uffenbach's letter corpus in Wolf's library]
- Supellex epistolica Uffcnbachii et Wolfiorum: Catalog of the Uffenbach-Wolfschen Briefsa. 2 vol. Ed. N. Kruger. Hamburg 1978 (catalogs of the Hss. Of the StUB Hamburg, VIII)
literature
- Carl Bertheau : Wolf, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 545-548.
- Wolf, Johann Christoph, pastor of St. Catharines. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 58, Leipzig 1748, column 752-764.
- Moritz Steinschneider : Bibliographical manual on the theoretical and practical literature for Hebrew language studies , Leipzig 1859 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Moritz Steinschneider: Catalog of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Hamburg City Library and the subsequent ones in other languages. O. Meissner, Hamburg 1878, p. 2730.
- Julius Fürst : Bibliotheca Judaica - Bibliographical handbook comprising the printed works of Jewish literature including the writings published on Jews and Judaism . W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1863, part III, p. 528.
- Herbert Jaumann: Handbook of scholarly culture in the early modern period. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-016069-2 , ISBN 978-3-11-016069-7 , p. 708.
- Johann Heinrich Höck: Pictures from the history of the Hamburg Church since the Reformation. Hamburg 1900.
- Robert Naumann (Ed.), Friedrich Lorenz Hoffmann , Serapeum : Journal for Library Science, Manuscript Studies and Older Literature , 24th year, Verlag CP Melzer, Leipzig 1863, p. 321 ff. ( Online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Autograph collections of the Hamburg State and University Library ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , via HANS catalog ( Memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Crawford Howell Toy, Joseph Jacobs: Wolf, Johann Christoph . In: Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Johann Christoph Wolf. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 29, 2015 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Volckmar |
Chief Pastor to St. Katharinen in Hamburg 1716 - 1739 |
Johann Ludwig Schlosser |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Johann Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian and polyhistor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1683 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wernigerode |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1739 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |