Johann Conrad Creiling

Johann Conrad Creiling (* July 9, 1673 in Löchgau ; † September 13, 1752 in Tübingen ) was professor of mathematical sciences and natural philosophy in Tübingen, miracle doctor and alchemist.

He studied in Basel with the famous Jakob I Bernoulli . In France he met the fortress builder Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban . He brought the then new mathematical science to Tübingen, where he was professor of mathematical sciences and natural philosophy (Professor Matheseos) from 1701 to 1745.

Johann Albrecht Bengel , Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , Friedrich Christoph Steinhofer and Johann Conrad Haas (1719–1769), posthumously (1791) the first father-in-law of the famous publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta , were among Creiling's students. For Bengel's theology of salvation history, mathematics and astronomy were important, and for Bengel's younger friend Oetinger, suggestions from the field of alchemy were also important.

Creiling's laboratory was located at 8 Collegiumsgasse. As an alchemist, he apparently researched and experimented all his life without success. In 1730 and 1739 he lamented his own deception by the Kiel professor of medicine and alchemist Johann Ludwig Hannemann (1640–1724), whom he had previously admired. Creiling's unsuccessfulness as an alchemist probably explains that his student Oetinger, as far as is currently known, does not mention him anywhere.

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. on Creiling in detail Reinhard Breymayer : "Excursion 76. Philosophy of the Old I-II (1762)". In: The works of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. Chronological-systematic bibliography 1707–2014 (= bibliography on the history of Pietism , volume 3). Edited by Martin Weyer-Menkhoff and Reinhard Breymayer. de Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-041461-5 , pp. 398-409; here p. 400–409 (especially p. 404–409: "On Johann Conrad Creiling's importance for Friedrich Christoph Oetinger"). See also ibid., P. 406 on Johann Conrad Haas, 1748-1769 pastor in Kilchberg near Tübingen, and on his daughter Wilhelmine Ernestine Philippine Cotta von Cottendorf, b. Haas (1769-1821), the first wife of the publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta Freiherrn von Cottendorf.

Web links

Moritz Cantor : Creiling, Johann Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 583 f.
Mathesis, natural philosophy and arcane science in the circle of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702-1782) ( Memento from February 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 91 kB) International conference from October 9 to 11, 2002 in Tübingen (AHF-Information No. 111 of December 10, 2002)
Vladimír Karpenko: THE EDELGEBORNE YOUNG ALCHYMIA: THE FINAL STAGE OF EUROPEAN ALCHEMY (PDF file; 392 kB) In: Bull. Hist. Chem., VOLUME 25, Number 1 (2000)
Baden-Württemberg State Archives Johann Konrad Creiling (A 275 Bü 38)

literature

Gerhard Betsch: Johann Conrad Creiling and his school, in: Mathesis, natural philosophy and arcane science in the area of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702–1782), Stuttgart 2005
Karl Frick: The Tübingen alchemist and professor of mathematics Johann Conrad Creiling (1673–1752), in: SudArch 44, 1960, p. 223
Karl Frick: The rediscovered original MS 'Ehrenrettung der Alchymie' of the Tübingen alchemist Johann Conrad Creiling, Oct 1959
Sabine Holtz, Gerhard Betsch, Eberhard Zwink: Mathesis, natural philosophy and arcane science in the Friedrich area , University of Tübingen, p. 43

personal data
SURNAME	Creiling, Johann Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician, natural philosopher, miracle doctor and alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH	Löchgau
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 1752
Place of death	Tübingen

[1] Cf. on Creiling in detail Reinhard Breymayer : "Excursion 76. Philosophy of the Old I-II (1762)". In: The works of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. Chronological-systematic bibliography 1707–2014 (= bibliography on the history of Pietism , volume 3). Edited by Martin Weyer-Menkhoff and Reinhard Breymayer. de Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-041461-5 , pp. 398-409; here p. 400–409 (especially p. 404–409: "On Johann Conrad Creiling's importance for Friedrich Christoph Oetinger"). See also ibid., P. 406 on Johann Conrad Haas, 1748-1769 pastor in Kilchberg near Tübingen, and on his daughter Wilhelmine Ernestine Philippine Cotta von Cottendorf, b. Haas (1769-1821), the first wife of the publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta Freiherrn von Cottendorf.