Johann David Kypke

Johann David Kypke (born February 19, 1692 in Neukirchen (Pomerania), † December 10, 1758 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German logician and Lutheran theologian of Pietism .

Life

The son of a pastor attended high school in Stettin and on August 30, 1712, he moved to the University of Königsberg . In 1718 he became a teacher at the Collegium Fridericianum grammar school there , held the afternoon sermons as such, and on April 2, 1723 acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy. In 1723 he became an associate professor of logic at the philosophical faculty of Königsberg University and in 1727 a full professor of logic and metaphysics.

In addition, he was appointed sixth professor in the theological faculty in 1732. He received his doctorate in theology in 1733, became fifth full professor in the same year and, from 1745, fourth professor of theology.

He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters 1738, 1746 and 1754. Kypke was a representative of Pietism at the Königsberg University, with Georg Friedrich Rogall , Christoph Langhansen , Daniel Salthenius and Franz Albert Schultz acting. His most important students were Immanuel Kant and Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt . After his death, Kant took over his professorship in logic and metaphysics and developed into one of the most important scholars in Germany.

Works

• Meletemata philosophica de dono docendi. Koenigsberg 1723
• Positiones logico-philosophicae. Koenigsberg 1725
• Dissertatio metaphysica inauguralis, de theologiae naturalis defectibus, ex natura noscibilibus. Koenigsberg, 1727
• Diss. In Joh. I, 17. Königsberg, 1727
• Brevissima delineatio scientarum dialecticae et analyticae ad mentem philosophi. Königsberg, 1729 (anonymous)
• Instructions for the easy and thorough information of the children, so dedicated to the study, which can do useful service to the studios who are in condition and want to step, as well as to the docentibus at the schools in small towns, also to those who hold informatores. Koenigsberg, 1731
• Dissertatio inauguralis theologica posterior. De aletheia dia Christou genomene [Greek] ex Joh. 1. v. 17. Koenigsberg 1733
• Primae lineae theologiae dogmaticae, in publicis lectionibus ulterius discendae. Koenigsberg 1750
• Progr. Mundi Redemtor gregis sui, qui militat. . . ex genes. III, 15 propositus. Koenigsberg 1754

Works that appear in literature but cannot be proven.

• Oratio Jubilaea de cosmologia Paullina ex. Corinth. VII, 31. Koenigsberg
• Logices Synopticae prima eiusdem elementa in usum incipientium exhibentes. Koenigsberg
• Progr. De spiritu veritatis a mundo nec cognito nec comprehenso, ex Joh. XIV, 17. Königsberg
• Progr. In Joh. III, 8. Königsberg
• Progr. In 1 Joh. V, 20. Königsberg
• Progr. In Coloss. III, 2. 3. 4. Koenigsberg
• Logical tables. Koenigsberg

literature

• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt: Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, pp. 190, 192, 387, line 36, FZ 17
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1808, vol. 7, p. 438 ( online )
• Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten : The now-living learned Europe, or news of the most noble living conditions and writings of now-living European scholars, which has been diligently collected and impartially put on. Verlag Ludolph Schröder, Braunschweig 1735, p. 268 ( online )
• Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, pp. 490, 531 f., 577
• Johann Christoph Adelung : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico. Georg Jöntzen, Delmenhorst, 1810, vol. 3, col. 998 ( online )

Web links

• Index Königsberg Professors (English)

• Derivative of the Königsberg Professors Index
• Research Center for Cultural Studies Engi