Johann Ernst Schulz

Johann Ernst Schulz ( silhouette )

Johann Ernst Schulz (born December 20, 1742 in Dreysee in East Prussia , † April 9, 1806 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German Lutheran theologian and from 1778 general superintendent in Königsberg.

Life

At the age of ten he came to Königsberg, where he attended the old town school and in 1759 began studying at the University of Königsberg . His formative teacher was Theodor Christoph Lilienthal (1717–1781), with whom he became a private tutor in 1760. In 1767 he became a teacher at the orphanage in Königsberg and in 1771 received a preaching position there. After publishing some writings theological content, he became a doctor of theology and full professor of theology at the Königsberg University in 1778 . In connection with this, he was appointed royal Prussian consistorial councilor, court preacher and general superintendent in Königsberg for East Prussia as the successor to the resigned Johann August von Starck . As a general superintendent, he presided over the Lutheran Prussian Consistory in Königsberg, the regional church authority of the Lutheran Upper Consistory in Berlin , which was responsible for the entire monarchy. In 1783 he rose to the second theological professorship and in 1799 to the first theological professorship, which he held until the end of his life.

Works

• Symbola ad theologiam typicam . Konigsberg 1771
• Observationum theologica Fasciculus primus . Königsberg and Leipzig 1772
• Commentatio theologica de naevis nonnullis Socianorum in Hermeneutica sacra . Koenigsberg 1776
• Progr. II de nexu religionis christianae cum libris Judaeorum sacris in Matth. 5, 17-19 . Koenigsberg 1778-1779
• Homage sermon when Friedrich Wilhelm II. King of Prussia took office , held in the castle church in Königsberg . Koenigsberg 1786
• Progr. De mortuis per peccata cum Christo vivificatis, ad locum Ephes. 2, 1-5 . Koenigsberg 1787
• Draft of the non-profit epistemology of Christianity . Koenigsberg 1788
• Elementa theologiae popularis theoreticae, in usum auditorum tabulis comprehensa . Koenigsberg 1791
• Collection of some sermons. Koenigsberg 1791
• Progr. II. De systemate in libris Christianorum sacris obvio . Königsberg 1792–1793
• Progr. De prunis in caput adversarii ad Proverb. 25, 21:22 and Rome. 12, 19-21 conservatis . Koenigsberg 1802

literature

• Heinrich Doering: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1835, Volume 4, p. 74 ( books.google.com )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1798, Volume 7, p. 372, ( online ); 1803, Volume 10, p. 639 ( books.google.com ); 1812, Volume 16, p. 378 ( online )
• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching: Historical literary handbook of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century. Verlag Schwickert, Leipzig 1808, Volume 11, p. 336, ( books.google.com )

Web link

• Index Königsberg Professors (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson : History of the sources of the evangelical canon law of the provinces of Prussia and Posen, with documents and registers . Gebrüder Bornträger, Königsberg in Pr. 1839, p. 134 (= history of the sources of canon law of the Prussian state, with documents and registers; Part 1, Volume 2).

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann August von Starck	General superintendent in Königsberg for the Lutheran Upper Consistory of Prussia 1778–1806	Ludwig Ernst von Borowski ( from 1812, previously vacant )