Johann Friedrich Burscher

Johann Friedrich Burscher

Johann Friedrich Burscher

Johann Friedrich Burscher (born February 16, 1732 in Kamenz , † September 10, 1805 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of a theologian had initially taken private lessons and attended school in his hometown in 1743. There he was taught the basics of the seven liberal arts . At Easter 1749 he moved to the University of Leipzig , where, as a theology student, he attended lectures by Johann August Ernesti , Johann Friedrich Christ , Johann Christian Hebenstreit , Ernst Friedrich Wernsdorf and Christian Gottlieb Jöcher . After he had acquired an extensive education in all subject areas, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on August 9, 1752 . On September 5th he was elected first secretary of the then emerging Society of Sciences and Liberal Arts in Leipzig.

After further studies, he completed his habilitation on February 15, 1755 with an introduction to Ezekiel as a Magister legens. In the same year his sponsor Johann Christoph Gottsched got him a position as librarian and secretary to Count Heinrich von Bünau . When he died, he followed his widow to Weimar, where he met the Duchess Anna Amalia and the court there. After the Treaty of Hubertusburg , the Bünau library was moved to Nöthnitz Castle , where Burscher followed it. There he received an appointment as associate professor of philosophy in Leipzig at Easter 1764 , where he found a friend in Christian Fürchtegott Gellert .

In January 1765 he was accepted as a baccalaureate in theology, soon an early preacher at the Pauline Church and on December 15, 1766 as a member of the great college of princes. He did not accept a call from 1767 as professor of theology at the University of Jena . Instead, he was 1,768 ordinary fifth professor of theology in Leipzig and received his doctorate for this reason, in April 1768 to the doctor of theology. Burscher, who married Amande Charlotte Wilhelmine Zöllner in 1771, became canon at Meißner Dom in 1776 and in 1781 became a senior in the theological faculty. In addition, he had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University. In the winter semesters of 1776, 1782, 1788, 1792, 1796, 1798 and 1802 he was elected rector of the Alma Mater .

Act

Burscher was a supporter of Lutheran orthodoxy who did not deviate from the older doctrinal concept of the Evangelical Church and who often showed himself to be intolerant of those who thought differently. His lectures spanned the whole field of theology and also included philosophy and universal history. But above all he was well versed in church history, exegesis and symbolism. His literary activity is also quite rich. It includes mainly printed speeches and dissertations. Nevertheless, Burscher was revered in his time and was popular with his followers, as can be seen in the obituaries, poems and the funeral ceremonies at his death.

Fonts

author

• Speech against Mr Rousseau . Leipzig 1752.
• About the solemn wedding customs of today's Greek or Eastern Christians . Jacobeans, Leipzig 1754.
• Attempt to explain the prophets Hosea and Joel . Breitkopf Leipzig 1767 (EA Leipzig 1757).
• Commemorative speech and life of Heinrich, Count von Bünau . Jena 1762.
• Four sermons, which were held on the Purification and Reformation festivals and the first Sunday of Advent in 1765, also on New Year's Day 1766 in the University Church of Leipzig . Leipzig 1766.
• Three sermons, which were held on the 7th and 14th Sunday after the Trinity Festival and on the Reformation Festival in 1767 in the University Church of Leipzig . Saalbach, Leipzig 1766.
• Four sermons held in the University Church in Leipzig . Leipzig 1767.
• Three sermons delivered in 1776 . Leipzig 1767.
• Five sermons . Leipzig 1768.
• CV of Count Heinrich von Bünau . Leipzig 1768.
• Program, part 2: Christ, divinae Mosis et Pentateuchi auctoritatis vindex contra omnes Mosis adversarios . Leipzig 1774 (A Leipzig 1768).
• Four sermons given in the University Church in Leipzig . Leipzig 1771.
• Letter to Probst Teller in Berlin about his New Testament dictionary . Leipzig 1773.
• Program: De vera orginne praecipuorum dogmatum et institutorum sacrorum, quae tempore sacrorum emendationis repudiata et abrogata sunt from Ecclesia Evangelico Lutherana . Leipzig 1774.
• Dr. Joh. Friedr. Burscher, shown in a short biography . In: Rudolph Gottlieb Beyer (Ed.): General magazine for preachers according to the needs of our time , 1794.
• Five speeches on the 10th Sunday after Trinit. Held in the university church, along with a memorial speech from 1780 on the widowed Electress of Saxony . Leipzig 1797.
• Seven speeches, given in different years at the Reformation Festival in the University Church in Leipzig and given to print on request . Leipzig 1798.
• Truths to think about and as a warning for all Christians of this time and every party, in ten speeches which were given in the University Church in Leipzig and which were left to print on request, etc. Leipzig 1802.
• The unchangeable, literal truth of the evangelical story of Jesus, and of his divine works and miracles, from whose sources de history and otherwise shown, together with their right use and benefit, for reflection and warning of all Christians, especially their scholars, in six speeches, which are kept in the University Church in Leipzig and left for printing on request, etc. With notes in which the sources of the story are indicated in detail . Leipzig 1803.
• An old man in his youth, with the splendor and noise of the court, made evening and night songs and other night thoughts . Leipzig 1803

editor

• Collection of the most distinguished memorial writings on the Count of Bünau . Leipzig 1763.
• Mr. Heinrichs, Count von Bünau, reflections on religion and its decline. Leipzig 1769 ( online ).
• Ecclesiae Christianae post Apostolos scripto rum antiqiuissi morum doctrina publico de Deo trinuno et de Jesu Christi persona, ex scriptis duntaxat optimorum, omnium criticorum confessione genuinis, ipsorumque verbis proposita . Leipzig 1780.
• The oldest Christian church writers doctrine of the triune God and the person of Jesus Christ . Leipzig 1781.
• Index et argumentum Epistolarum ad Erasmum Roterodamum autographarum, quas from anno 1520 usque ad annum 1535 Cardinales, Episcopi, alii Ecclesiae Antistitem item Aularum Papae, Caesaris, Regum, Electorum Principum Proceres, viri fama et doctrina illustres atquees quae enarripso familiar etarripso Erasmo sepositae ac reconditae post obitum ejus latueriunt in Helvetia, Belgio, Anglia . Leipzig 1784.
• Martin Luther ’s last serious confession of some generally Christian teachings, from the original editions of his last writings, to the heart of Mr. Cannabich and his Jenaic reviewers, also to defend our symbolic books with the intention of these generally Christian teachings . Leipzig 1799.

As President

• Johann Christian Barth: Introductio in Ezekiel's librum . Jacobeans, Leipzig 1755.
• Christian August Crusius: An attempt at a brief explanation of the prophet Jeremiä . Jacobi, Leipzig 1757.
• Augustin Maurenbrecher: De Stephano Byzantino . Leipzig 1767.
• Maximilian Tucher: De Gaza derelicta futura, ad illustrandum locum Zephan. 2, 4 . Leipzig 1768.

literature

• Clemens Brockhaus :  Burscher, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 630-632.
• Heinrich Döring: The scholars theologians in Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Vol. 1: A-K . Verlag Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1831. pp. 211–215 ( Google books )
• Johann G. Schmidt: D. Johann Friedrich Burscher, the high and freyen Meissen prelate and canon, theology first public full professor at the University of Leipzig, the electoral Saxon scholarship holder first Ephorus ... self-published, Leipzig 1794.
• Friedrich L. Schönemann: Johann Friedrich Burscher's life and death fiery from the University of Leipzig . Self-published, Leipzig 1805 ( funeral sermon )

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Friedrich Burscher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johann Friedrich Burscher in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig