Johann Conrad Klemm (theologian, 1655)

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Portrait from 1714 (by Johann Gottfried Schreiber )

Johann Conrad Klemm (born November 23, 1655 in Herrenberg ; † February 18, 1717 in Tübingen ) was a German, Protestant theologian , clergyman and university professor .

Life

Klemm was a son of the Herrenberg town clerk and Vogts Johann Conrad Klemm. Klemm received his first schooling in Herrenberg before he was admitted to the Hirsau monastery school in 1669 . In 1671 he moved to the monastery school in Bebenhausen and finally, with a princely scholarship, to the University of Tübingen , where he was able to obtain a master's degree in 1676 . He was later promoted to Dr. theol. PhD .

Klemm was initially a sub-preceptor at the Maulbronn monastery school . He then became a deacon in Metzingen in 1683 , and to St. Leonhard in Stuttgart in 1688 . There he went through various levels of diaconate. In 1699 he became very seriously ill.

On the bedside terminal in 1699 received the call to a professorship of Metaphysics at the Faculty of the University of Tuebingen. He was able to take up this position in 1700 and also became Ephorus of the Tübingen monastery . In 1704 he became an associate professor , then in 1711 a full professor of theology and parish priest in Tübingen. At the university he was both dean of the philosophical and theological faculties. He was also rector of the university in 1706/1707 and 1712/1713 . In 1715 he gave up the office of pastor.

Klemm was seen as a man of many different forms, who was also diligent in the fields of music and painting , as well as a popular, entertaining guest. He tried to bring the denominations together.

Works (selection)

  • Disputatio Physico-Philologica De Olea , Reisius, Tübingen 1679.
  • In Articulum Augustanae Confessionis: De Justificatione , Volume 4, Reisius, Tübingen 1685.
  • Natura entis finiti et infiniti , Graez, Tübingen 1702.
  • Disquisitio metaphys. de causa morali , Stuttgart 1702.

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SURNAME Klemm, Johann Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klemm, Johann Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1717
Place of death Tübingen