Johann Conrad Dürr

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Johann Conrad Dürr (also Johann Konrad ; born November 26, 1625 in Nuremberg ; † July 4, 1677 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian , polyhistor and university professor .

Life

Dürr was the grandson of a pastor . He received his first lessons at the Nuremberg Sebaldus School under Rector Johannes Vogel . He then attended the city's Egidiengymnasium and in 1643 went to the University of Altdorf . In addition to philosophy and theology, he also studied philology with , among others, Theodor Hackspan and Johann Michael Dilherr . He is said to have been a diligent student and received a bachelor's degree after a year in 1644 . In 1648 he received his master's degree. Dürr then left the university for further studies. First he went to the University of Jena to hear philosophy and theology. He stayed there for almost a year and completed several disputations . He took another station at the University of Helmstedt . At the end of his stay, however, he turned down the offer to accept a professorship in metaphysics and logic there.

Dürr first went to Leipzig as court master . 1651 he received there a reputation as an inspector of Alumnat in Altdorf. In 1654 he took over the professorship of the philosophical ethics from Jacob Bruno at the Altdorf University . In 1655 he was also given the professorship of poetry . In 1657 he moved to the theological faculty while retaining the professorships in philosophy. At this he received a professorship in theology and moral philosophy . As a moral philosopher he was considered an authority in the Franconian area. During his time at the University of Altdorf, he was dean twelve times and rector three times .

In 1704, the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith placed his work Tractatus theologici tres ... , published in Nuremberg in 1675, on the index of forbidden books .

Works (selection)

A detailed list of works can be found with Georg Andreas Will in the Nürnbergisches Schehrten-Lexicon .

  • From Eo Olim Privatim Dictatum, Nunc vero Multorum rogatu cura cujusdam ejus discipuli luci publicae commissum , Sengenwald, Jena 1660.
  • Institutiones Ethicae: In Tres Partes Secundum Normam Ordinis Analytici Digestae , Hagen, Altdorf 1661.
  • Ethica Paradigmatica, Iuxta Ordinem Aristotelicum In Nicomachiis Observatum, Per Aphorismos Digesta , Societas, Jena 1670.
  • Disputatio Ethica De Iure Talionis , Schönnerstaedt, Altdorf 1672.
  • Christianismi Per Hypotheses Et Dogmata Socinianorum Eversio , Meyer, Altdorf 1673.
  • Compendium Theologiae Moralis , Meyer, Altdorf 1675.
  • Tractatus theologici tres:
    1. Brevis commentatio historico-theologica de religione christiana in Germaniam et singulatim in rempublicam noribergensem introducta et hucusque conservata.
    2. Isagogue in libros normales seu symbolicos ecclesiae noribergensis.
    3. Observationes ad textum Augustanae Confessionis.     Endter, Nuremberg 1675.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dürr, Johann Conrad. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 315 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Dürr, Johann Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dürr, Johann Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, polyhistor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1677
Place of death Altdorf near Nuremberg