Johann Friedrich Gregorius

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Johann Friedrich Gregorius (born March 19, 1697 in Kamenz , † September 28, 1761 in Rothenburg in Upper Lusatia ) was a Protestant theologian and hymn poet .

Live and act

Gregorius was born the son of a citizen and saddler of the same name. He attended school in his hometown and in 1716 moved to the grammar school in Zittau . There Gregorius obtained his higher education entrance qualification and moved to the University of Wittenberg on May 17, 1720 , where he obtained the academic degree of Master of Philosophy on April 30, 1722 . He then attended private lectures and devoted himself to studying theology. From 1726 Gregorius was consistorial councilor in Kamenz, in 1727 he became court master of Count Johann Casimir the Elder. Elder from Dallwitz and received a substitute for the school principal in his hometown that same year .

After he died in 1730, Gregorius took over the vice rectorate of the school, was given a pastor's position in Taubenheim / Spree in 1733 and switched to Rothenburg in Upper Lusatia as senior pastor on August 16, 1735. In addition to some writings theological content, he wrote some hymns for the church hymn book of Kamenz. His son Immanuel Friedrich Gregorius also gained importance as a theological author and historian.

Works

  • The happiest birthday party on the day of death; a funeral speech. Wittenberg 1722
  • The rainbow, as a divine sign of grace over Camenz. Wittenberg 1725
  • Program inaug. de scholarum necessitate et antiquitate. Dresden 1727
  • Camenz, as an air mountain of God, etc. Kamenz 1728
  • Oratio de divino in Musica. Kamenz 1728
  • The joyful death Sunday of the believers; a funeral speech. Kamenz 1728
  • Progr. Studia humaniora, iurisprudentiae studioso maxime necessaria. Kamenz 1728
  • Progr. Lusatia greening under the treasure of God and the Saxon diamond. Peter 1729
  • Progr. De senum apud veteres honore. Kamenz 1730
  • Progr. Of the three capitals praise in honor of God - thanksgiving and celebration. Kamenz 1730
  • A Latin elegy on the death of Rector Hartmann. Kamenz 1730
  • A German poem on the same death: The heavenly joy chosen for the earthly. Kamenz 1730
  • Progr. Ebenezer Camentianum, in memoria seculari Augustanae Confessiones. Kamenz 1730
  • Progr. The schools, as Seminaria ecclesiae. Kamenz 1730
  • The jubilant Camenzifche Zion, or short message of the Camenzian jubilation. Kamenz 1730
  • Progr. De magna campana Camentiana. Kamenz 1730
  • The year of jubilee happily passed by God, as a nice premonition of all the well-being that Camenz wished for. Kamenz 1730
  • Progr. The desired peace post in Europe. Kamenz 1731
  • God's wing of grace over Camenz, from the Camenz coat of arms. Kamenz 1731
  • Progr. De nomine urbis Camenz. Kamenz 1732
  • Progr. Plus ultra - on the Otiten birthday of the king! in Poland Friedrich Auguft's. Kamenz 1732
  • That Camenzian shamrock of bliss under the wings of grace of God etc Kamenz 1732
  • Consolation under the cross, on the death of Prim., M. Gottfried Feller's. Kamenz 1733

literature

  • Ludwig August Theodor Holscher: Brief topography and history of the district town of Rothenburg in the Preuss. Ober-Lausitz ..., Verlag Gocksch & Hentschel, Rothenburg / OL, 1844, p. 55 ( digitized on Wikisource )
  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1804, Vol. 4, p. 346 ( online )
  • Ed - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts 1st Section Part 90 p. 45
  • Reinhold Grünberg (edit.): Saxon Pastors' Book. Freiberg 1940, p. 262

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3; Halle (Saale), 1966 p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Gregorius, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamenz
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1761
Place of death Rothenburg in Upper Lusatia