Johann Daniel Arcularius

Johann Daniel Arcularius (born March 3, 1650 in Darmstadt ; † December 31, 1710 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German logician and Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the city preacher and definitor in Darmstadt Bartholomäus Arcularius (January 14, 1612 in Cleyburg / Nassau; † March 30, 1653 in Darmstadt) and his wife Marie Judith, daughter of the Frankfurt preacher and senior Johann Götze, came from a Protestant family of preachers. Initially he attended school and grammar school in Darmstadt. In 1666 he began studying at the University of Giessen and acquired the academic degree of Master of Science in Philosophy on March 19, 1670 . In 1672 he became the tutor of Princes Ludwig VII and Friedrich von Hessen-Darmstadt .

Through his relationship with the royal court, on September 6, 1676, he was given the full professorship of logic and metaphysics at the Giessen University. On June 26, 1684, he obtained a licentiate in theology and became an associate professor at the theological faculty. After taking part in the university's organizational tasks as the prorector of the Alma Mater, he went to Frankfurt am Main to succeed Philipp Jacob Spener as pastor of the Katharinenkirche and senior minister of preachers . In order to acquire the necessary qualifications, he received his doctorate in theology on September 9, 1686 in Giessen . In Frankfurt Arcularius was a moderate representative of Lutheran orthodoxy . His successor as a senior was Johann Georg Pritius .

On February 5, 1678, he married Elisabeth Dorothea , the daughter of Darmstadt's privy councilor and Chancellor Johann Peter Melchior . The marriage resulted in three sons and three daughters. From the children we know:

• Lucretie Marie married the lawyer, Hessian Darmstadt councilor and court attorney Georg Andreas Geibel
• Christine Barbara married her first marriage to the French pastor Friedrich Holzhausen , her second marriage to the Frankfurt theologian Jakob Seelig
• Johann Peter († June 1703)

Selection of works

• Diss. De independia. Casting 1678
• Diss. Metaph. De Supposito. Giessen 1683
• Diss. Inaug. De ... peccaudi renatorum ex I. Joh. III 9. Giessen 1684
• Unity in spirit. Frankfurt 1694
• Ladder to heaven.
• Ultima Arcularinana.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Göttingen, 1781, volume 1, p. 133 ( online )
• Arcularius (Joan. Daniel). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 2, Leipzig 1732, column 1266.
• Arcularius, Johann Daniel. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 2, Leipzig 1751, column 202.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon. 1750, vol. 1, p. 513 ( online )
• Hermann Haupt, Georg Lehnert: Chronicle of the University of Giessen, 1607–1907. Alfred Tölpelmann Gießen, 1907, p. 51

Web link

• Publications by and about Johann Daniel Arcularius in VD 17 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Philipp Jakob Spener	Senior of the Ministry of Preachers in Frankfurt am Main 1686–1710	Johann Georg Pritius