Johann David Slater

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Johann David Schieferdecker (born November 9, 1672 in Weißenfels ; † June 11, 1721 there ) was a German theologian , orientalist and hymn poet.

Marienkirche in Weißenfels

Life

Schieferdecker's father was a teacher at the Illustre Augusteum grammar school in Weißenfels and later a superintendent . He was the uncle of the only slightly younger organist and composer Johann Christian Schieferdecker .

From 1690 Johann David studied theology and oriental studies at the University of Leipzig . After receiving his master's degree in 1692, he gave lectures here, for which he also published an Arabic-Turkish grammar.

In 1698 he received his doctorate in theology from the University of Jena and was appointed professor at the Illustre Augusteum grammar school in Weißenfels as the successor to his father; here he worked until his death in 1721. At the same time he was pastor primarius at the Marienkirche, the town church of Weißenfels. In 1703 he published a commemorative publication to mark its anniversary, which contained the Weißenfels menu , which was later quoted again and again . It allegedly reproduced the menu of the feast for the inauguration on September 15, 1303 and was therefore long considered the oldest German menu, but was recognized in 2012 as a modern fake.

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He was best known as a poet of cantatas and hymns. He wrote six years of cantatas for the Hofkirche in Neu-Augustusburg Palace and the Palace Chapel in Sangerhausen , the first of which appeared with a dedication to Duke Christian in 1713, the others from 1716 to 1720. Liebhold set many of his cantatas to music.

Some of his hymns remained in use into the 19th century, including Oh, dearest God! how wonderful ; Come, bless your people in time and with all our hearts we believe and want to hold onto it .

Selection of works

  • Fructus linguae Arabicae, inclutae facultatis philosophicae. 1692, 1695
  • Nucleus institutionum Arabicarum enucleatus. Grammatica Turcica. 1695
  • De triumphis et ovationibus Romanorum. 1695
  • Rite Convocandi Ad Sacra, Maxime Apud Veteres. Zeitz: Hucho 1701
  • Renewed memory of the Weissenfelsian Zion, or actual description of the parish church to our dear women in Weissenfelß, which was so well at the first inauguration of the same, the XV. p. Trin. AM MCCCIII. When things worth remembering also go afterwards, Bey dem, after the flow of 400 years, employed Solennen Danck festivals, cathedral. XV. p. Trin. A. M DCC III. / Designed by Joh. Dav. Slaters, the salvation. Schrifft D. and PP .. Weißenfels: Wohlfart 1703 ( digital copy of the copy from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt )
  • (Ed.) Hoch-Fürstliches Sachsen-Weissenfelsisches Complete song and church book. Weißenfels 1714
  • Selected Princely Speeches derived from Princely Thoughts and arranged after the lord's clarified speech, That various high heads are Christian Symbola, Auff the Most Serene Prince and Lord, Mr. Christiani, Hertzog of Saxony ... Most gracious command, According to the order of the Sundays and Feasts Gospels, written in spiritual cantatas, and so well in the ... Castle Church in Weissenfels, As also in the ... Castle Chapel ... in Sangerhausen, ... in 1715 and 1716 made music. Eißleben: Legischen writings, [approx. 1716] ( digitized copy from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archivalia , accessed April 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Slater, Johann David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiefferdecker, Johann David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, orientalist and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1721
Place of death Weissenfels