Johann Friedrich Gühling

Johann Friedrich Gühling (born March 5, 1702 in Chemnitz ; † May 12, 1772 there ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Johann Friedrich Gühling was born in Chemnitz in 1702 as the son of the shoemaker Johann Gühling. He graduated from school and attended high school in his hometown. Because of his good performance, Gühling received a scholarship from the City Council of Chemnitz to attend university. The further scholarship from the Saxon Elector August the Strong gave him the opportunity to enroll free of charge at the University of Wittenberg on April 25, 1720 . On October 17, 1722 he acquired the academic degree of a Magister in Philosophy and on February 1, 1723 he obtained permission to read for universities as Magister Legens.

Although he had been offered a school rector position in another city, Gühling applied for the position of vice rector in his hometown. He took up this position on August 26, 1726, but did not stay in that position long because it was believed to be a good preacher. Therefore, on February 19, 1730, the diaconate at the Jakobskirche was transferred to him , he became archdeacon there on July 21, 1738, and in 1755 he returned to Wittenberg. Here he obtained his licentiate in theology on September 24th , returned to his hometown and became superintendent in Chemnitz in March 1760 . As such, he received his doctorate in theology on August 9, 1770 in Wittenberg.

In addition to his official work, he was engaged in scientific work that extended not only to the theological but also to the philological field and which revealed the author's diverse interests. Among other things, he continued Sebastian Seydel's Exegetical Preacher Lexicon (Chemnitz 1731) in the second part. The Exegetical Preacher Lexicon, in turn, was a continuation of the biblical real lexicon that Johann Hamann in Chemnitz had published in four volumes from 1715 to 1724.

Selection of works

1. Diss. (Praes. JW Bergero) de Autographis Veterum. Wittenberg 1723
2. Diss. De Apographis Veterum. Wittenberg 1723
3. Diss. De barba Deorum, ex priscarum Graeciae et Latii maxime religionum monumentis. Wittenberg 1725
4. Diss. De caussis barbae Deorum. Wittenberg 1725
5. Diss. De Paulo Mercurio, from Lystrenis vocato, id Actor. XIV, 12. Wittenberg 1726
6. Diss. De lingua Lycaonica, a Pelasgis Graecis orta. Wittenberg 1726
7. Diss. De praeiudiciis. Wittenberg 1726
8. Diss. De Rustico in sermone, veteris exemplo Latii declarato. Wittenberg 1726
9. Diss. De locutionibus sacris ex Palaestra Graeeorum veterum repetitis. Wittenberg 1726
10. Program for the defense of school comedies, against an unnamed. Chemnitz 1727
11. Progr. That Jephtha did not butcher his daughter. Chemnitz 1727
12. Exegetical preacher lexicon, where the most important sayings and difficult passages are healed. Scripture to be explained. Part 2. Chemnitz 1732
13. Something about the history of those emigrants from Salzburg. Chemnitz 1732
14. The heavenly vocation blessed effect, a funeral sermon on Phil-3, 20. 21. Chemnitz 1734
15. The Schmalkaldic Articles, along with a preliminary report. Chemnitz 1737
16. Jacob's godly laying of a foundation stone for a house of God; a casual sermon on Genesis 28, 22. Chemnitz 1750
17. JFW Jerusalem's answer to the question: whether marriage with the sister daughter is permissible under divine law? Explained with notes. Chemnitz 1755

literature

• Paul Uhle : Festschrift for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Chemnitz History. IX. Yearbook of the Society for Chemnitz History. Commissioned by O. May's Buchhandlung, Chemnitz, 1897
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1804, Vol. 4, p. 407
• Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3 ; Halle (Saale), 1966, p. 197