Johann Franz Coing

Johann Franz Coing (born March 21, 1725 in Siegen , † July 19, 1792 in Marburg ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor.

Life

Johann Franz Coing was born as the son of the wealthy businessman Paul Coing and his wife Eleonore Gottliebe, geb. Weber, born. His siblings were:

• Adolph Coing (April 4, 1706; † 1740), Countish-Sayn-Kirchberg kitchen clerk and confectioner , married to Anna Katharina Hoffmann (* 1710; † unknown);
• Franziska Eleonora Coing (* May 2, 1707; † unknown);
• Sophia Margretha Coing (born January 14, 1709; † unknown), married to Johann Georg Schenk (born November 18, 1698; † unknown);
• Maria Margretha Coing (born February 5, 1711; † unknown);
• Amalia Luisa Coing (born February 27, 1713; † unknown);
• Elisabeth Coing (born April 28, 1714; † unknown);
• Anna Katharina Coing (born April 11, 1718; † unknown);
• Johann Friedrich Coing (born August 25, 1720; † unknown);
• Johannes Coing (born February 17, 1722; † unknown);
• Sophia Maria Coing (born May 14, 1731; † unknown).

He attended the pedagogy in Siegen (today: Gymnasium Am Löhrtor ) with Rector Scholl. After attending school, he wanted to study at the University of Marburg , but at that time an edict was issued by the sovereign stating that he had to complete his studies in Herborn .

In 1742 he began to study theology and philosophy at the High School in Herborn and heard lectures from Johann Matthias Florin (1680–1751) on rhetoric, history and the Greek language; with Johann Kasimir Mieg (1712–1764) on philosophy, with Johann Eberhard Rau and Jan Jacob Schultens on oriental languages ​​and theology and with Dieter Siegfried Clässen (1685–1743) and Johann Heinrich Schramm on theology. Originally he wanted to follow Professor Schultens to Leiden in Holland and study oriental studies there, but then rejected this plan due to the warlike development there. From Herborn he went to the University of Halle and heard lectures from Christian Wolff , Johann Gottlob Krüger , Georg Friedrich Meier and Andreas Weber . He graduated from the University of Jena , where he attended lectures by Joachim Georg Darjes , Johann Peter Reusch and Karl Gotthelf Müller .

On October 3, 1749, he began to hold lectures in philosophy and mathematics at the Herborn High School as a private lecturer. On March 25, 1750 he was appointed professor philosophiae extraordinarius and shortly thereafter on July 29, 1750, he was appointed associate professor of philosophy; he was appointed full professor on October 30, 1752. On January 10, 1753, however, he resigned of the high school and left Herborn on April 6, 1753.

In 1753 he became a full professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Marburg and held his inaugural lecture on May 1, 1753. From 1753 to 1778 he held lectures in logic and metaphysics, from 1753 to 1774 in natural law, from 1754 to 1765 in ethics, from 1758 to 1774 in Institutiones publicae and again in Ethics from 1774 to 1777. During this time he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty in 1761, 1770 and 1777 and in 1774 Vice Rector of the University.

In 1778 he switched to theology and was appointed fourth full professor of theology at the University of Marburg on January 13, 1778, his promotion to third full professor took place in autumn 1778 and second professor on June 9, 1789; on January 23, 1792 he became the first professor of theology in Marburg. As a theologian, he mainly gave lectures on dogmatics and moral theology, exegesis of the New Testament, theological encyclopedia (1777–1785) and pastoral theology (1779–1784). In 1783, 1786, 1788 and 1791 he was dean of the theological faculty and in both 1784 and 1790 again prorector of the university.

On July 11, 1758 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Marburg and was elected librarian of the university library that same month and appointed to this position on September 5, 1759; he held the office in 1778. Ephorus was a scholarship holder from 1778 to 1792 .

On September 13, 1781 his doctorate in theology took place in Marburg in the death room of Heinrich Otto Duysing (1719–1781), who died two days later.

Johann Franz Coing was married to Elisabeth Christina Lubecca (* unknown; † 1791), a daughter of Justin Gerhard Duysing (1705–1761), doctor and professor at the University of Marburg. Together they had several children, of whom we know by name:

• Lubecca Coing died at a young age;
• Justin Gerhard Coing died at a young age;
• Elisabeth Coing ("Elise, Liesgen") Coing (born May 9, 1755 in Marburg; † March 22, 1817 in Karlsruhe ) was married to Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling ;
• Amalie Coing (born December 1, 1759 in Marburg; † 1812 in Rastatt), married to Peter Jakob Helmann Jung (born April 26, 1774 in Elberfeld ; † 1846), real judicial advisor to Karl Friedrich von Baden in Mannheim , 1816 court judge in Rastatt , Senior Court Judge in Mannheim, President of the Evangelical Mission Association in the Grand Duchy of Baden ;
• Elisabeth Margarethe Coing (* 1766; † unknown), married to Dietrich Christoph Knieriem (* December 2, 1738 in Marburg; † unknown), city councilor;
• Justus Coing (born February 7, 1771; † 1818), pastor in Marburg and Braach .

Fonts (selection)

• Diss de veritate religionis christianae adleges certitudinis moralis evicta ; Resp. Joh. Herrm. Pagenstecher, Herbornae 1752.
• Diss de principio rationis sufficientis ac libertate hujusque cumillo et divina praescientia con sensu ; Resp. Hug. Grau et Jac. Henr. Leather pants. Marburg 1756.
• Diss de fonte essentiarum ; Resp, Henr. Phil. Riesner. Marburg 1759.
• Diss de existentia Dei ex hujus mundicon tingentia ejusque sapiente ordine demonstrata, adversus Premontvallium ; Resp. Joh. Juft. Gottschalck, Fridr. Car. Collmann, Geo. Lud. Schiricke, Herrm. Christ. Wigand & Jo. Conr. Cnyriem. Marburg 1759.
• Diss Theses XII. de veritate continens ; Resp. A. Geo. Lud. Schiricke, Hofgeismar. Marburg 1759.
• Institutiones philos de Deo, anima humana, mundo et primis humanae cognitionis principiis . Marburg 1765.
• Institutiones logicae . Marburg 1767.
• Progr de divinae revelationis nostrae praecipue religionis christianae utilitate, necessitate atque veritate . Marburg 1774.
• Doctrine of the deity of Christ, viewed critically, along with the doctrine of the Holy Trinity . Marburg 1778.
• Program fun. in obit . HO Duysingii Th. D. et Prof. Prim. Marburg 1781.
• Progr. De fine adventus Christi in mundum, mortisque ejus . Marburg 1781.
• Diss. Inaug in qua argumenta pro Dei existentia et natura animae immateriali, tum quae ratio, cum quae S. LL. suppeditant, exponuntur, et priora ab Humii obiectionibus et Tulmini impiis effatis liberantur . Marburg 1782.
• Compendium Theologiae moralis, in the usum praelectionum . Frankfurt 1783.
• Progr. Quo ad obiectiones contra argumenta quaedam pro Dei existentia respondetur . Marburg 1785.
• Invitatio ad audiendam orationem Memoriae Landgravii Friderici II sacram . Marburg 1785.
• Progr. Continuatum de Deo ex natura etsacris litteris . Marburg 1786.
• The refined truths of natural religion, presented and defended against new objections by ENDERW (A World Wise Man who travels to Eternity.) Leipz. 1783.
• Explicatio loci vexatissimi Genes. XLIX . Marburgi 1791.

literature

• Eduard Alberti:  Coing, Johann Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 396 f.
• Johann Franz Coing in Friedrich Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog for the year 1792 containing news of the life of strange Germans who died in that year , 2. Gotha 1794. pp. 235–237.
• Johann Franz Coing in the basis of a Hessian scholar and writer history, 2nd volume. Göttingen 1782. P. 240 f.

Web links

• Coing, Johann Franz. Hessian biography. (As of June 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).