Johann Daniel Kluge (theologian)

Johann Daniel Kluge (born June 6, 1701 in Weißenfels , † July 5, 1768 in Zerbst ) was a German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet.

Life

Kluge had attended high school in Weißenfels from the age of 11, which he left on March 21, 1718 to switch to the Weißenfels high school . Financial imponderables only made it possible to move into Leipzig University in 1722 . There he was promoted by Johann Gottlob Carpzov , and in the following year he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on October 17, 1725. He returned to Leipzig, became a private tutor, and moved to Hamburg with his pupil in 1728, where he was accepted as a candidate in the ministry on November 26 of the same year.

He maintained particularly friendly contact with the pastor of the main church Sankt Jacobi , Erdmann Neumeister , whose daughter Ernestine Marianne he married in 1731. He had worked as an author in Hamburg. In 1730 he was appointed high school professor for theology at Dortmund high school . Therefore he went to the University of Rostock and received his doctorate in theology there . In Dortmund he got into a theological dispute with the local pastor Johann David Brügmann about the need for certain good works for justification.

After having worked in Dortmund for 15 years, he followed a call to Zerbst as consistorial advisor , court preacher and superintendent in 1745 . There he was involved in the construction of the orphanage, introduced the confirmation celebrations and in 1753 published the edited Zerbster hymn book, which also contained works by him. The exertions he was subjected to during the Seven Years' War left marks on his health. So he became unilaterally blind and the physical decline resulted in his death.

Selection of works

• Schediasma Philosophico-philologico-sacrum de Somnio Uxoris Pilati… 1720.
• Spiritus Erroris in Recentissimo Berlenburgensium Bibliorum opere duce… 1734.
• Mr. d. Bernhard Walther Marperger's court preacher, church councilor and ... 1729.

literature

• Wilhelm Schubert, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: Johann Daniel Kluge: Superintendent of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst. A picture of life from the church of the eighteenth century . Kummer, Zerbst 1848.
• Unknown author:  Kluge, Johann Daniel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 250.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bauks : The Protestant pastors in Westphalia from the Reformation to 1945 (= contributions to the Westphalian church history, vol. 4). Bielefeld 1980, No. 3267 ( full text ).
• Susanne Siebert:  Kluge, Johann Daniel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 103-104.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Daniel Kluge  in the German Digital Library