Johann Diecmann

Johann Diecmann (born June 30, 1647 in Stade ; † July 4, 1720 there ) was a German educator and Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of pastor Jacob Diecmann and his wife Katharina (née Hinze) studied at the universities of Giessen , Jena and Wittenberg . After he had acquired the academic degree of a master’s degree on April 28, 1671 , he was rector of the grammar school in Stade in 1674 and general superintendent of the Duchy of Bremen and Verden on February 14, 1683 . In this function he was also a clerical member of the consistory in Stade.

He then earned his doctorate at the University of Kiel to the doctor of theology. In Stade he experienced the siege by Lüneburg and Münster troops in 1676 and fled to Bremen from the Danes in the Great Northern War in 1712 . Until 1715 he was without office, but was re-confirmed in his office as general superintendent by the Hanover government.

Strictly anti-Catholic, he developed sympathy for the Reformed Church and was therefore attacked as a cryptocalvinist . He was open to the new endeavors of his time, so that he was defamed as a pietist . He was also active as an orientalist and is considered a pioneer of German philology.

Selection of works

• Specimen Glossarii Msti. Latino Theotisci, quod Rhabano Mauro etc. Inscribitur, illustrati. Stade 1721.
• De naturalisimo. Kiel 1683, Leipzig 1684.
• De naturalismo tum aliorum, tum maxime Bodini…. Jena 1700.
• Historia naturalisimi de Adam Tibbechovius.
• Inquisitio in genuios naturales vocis Church, qua eos non in Graecia send Germania constituendos esse probatur. Stade 1718.

literature

• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Diecmann, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 118 f.
• Hans Wohltmann :  Diecmann, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 636 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Diecmann, Joan. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 7, Leipzig 1734, column 817.
• Rudolf Steinmetz: D. Johann Diecmann, 1683 to 1720. In: ders .: The general superintendents in the duchies of Bremen-Verden. Bacheratz, Stade 1907, pp. 45-60 (digitized version) .

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Diecmann  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Johann Diecmann in VD 17 .
• Ersch , Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Vol. 25, p. 27 .