Johann Esgers

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Johann Esgers

Johann Esgers (born November 30, 1696 in Amsterdam , † May 28, 1755 in Leiden ) was a Reformed Dutch theologian .

Life

Esgers had received his first training at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam . On September 12, 1714 he enrolled at the University of Leiden, where he studied theology and especially the ancient and oriental languages ​​with Johannes Wessel and Johannes a Marck . After a short time as a theological candidate, on September 18, 1718, he took over a pastorate in the villages of Ooster- and Westerblokker. In the same capacity he changed on August 12, 1725 as pastor to Naarden , on May 14, 1730 as pastor to Middelburg and on February 26, 1736 as pastor of his hometown to Amsterdam. In his pastoral work he gained such a reputation that the curators of the Leiden University appointed him professor of theology on July 12, 1740.

For this purpose he was appointed doctor of theology by the senate of the university on October 6, 1740 and he entered the chair assigned to him on October 10, 1740 with the introductory speech De supremo ecclesiae Doctore, et ab eo edoctorum felicissimo statu . He was also appointed Professor of Hebrew Antiquities on December 21, 1750, which he took over on October 18, 1751 with the speech De fontibus unde theologo pernecessaria antiquitatum hebraicarum notitia haurienda sit . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1752/53 , which task he resigned with the speech De rivulis ex fontibus antiquitatum hebraicarum subinde deductis (February 8, 1753).

Works

  • Inwijdings-talkvoeringe about the Oppersten Empty the Kerke en den zeer successful state van die van hem empty zijn .... Amsterdam 1741
  • Lijkrede op C. van den Bogaerden. Amsterdam 1740
  • De regimine ecclesiae non monarchico. Leiden 1741

literature

  • Johann Christoph Strodtmann: The new learned Europe. Johann Christoph Meißner, 1755, vol. 7, p. 598, ( online in Google book search) and 1757, vol. 11, p. 770 ( online in Google book search)
  • Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel : Historical-critical news from deceased scholars and their writings. Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Dessau and Köthen, 1757, 3rd vol. P. 46 ( online ) and p. 1055 ( online )
  • Hendrik Gerardsz Croese: Kerkelyk register of the predicants who cedert de Kerkhervorming, de Gereformeerde Nederduitsche Gemeente te Amsterdam dead the Jaare in 1759. Hendrik Dideriks, Amsterdam, 1778, p. 231 ( online )
  • Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Muller Brothers, 's-Hertogenbosch 1851, Vol. 1, p. 444, ( online , Dutch)
  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1859, vol. 5, p. 226, ( online , Dutch)
  • Frederik Samuel Knipscheer: ESGERS (Johannes) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 8. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 506 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1930, reprinted unchanged).
  • CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugdono-Batavae MDLXXV-MCMXL. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941, p. 47

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ different dates of birth January 2nd, December 1st, December 2nd
  2. ^ G. du Rieu: Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae 1575-1875. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, col. 837
  3. ↑ Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen: Album Promotorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae 1675-1812. The Hague, 1913-1924, p. 250
personal data
SURNAME Esgers, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1755
Place of death Suffer