Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Thym

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Thym (born September 6, 1768 in Berlin ; † May 21, 1803 there ) was a German Reformed theologian and pedagogue.

Life

After Thym had completed his theological studies and had become a candidate at the Berlin Cathedral, he devoted himself to training as a teacher with his brother-in-law Friedrich Gedike , who was then director of the Friedrichwerder Gymnasium . His "Attempt at a historical-critical presentation of the Jewish doctrine of persistence after death", published in 1795, falls during this period. This work gained great recognition for the thoroughness with which he had demonstrated the traces of that dogma in the Old Testament and made himself known in the literary world.

As early as 1796 he answered a call to Halle (Saale) . At the reformed grammar school there, he became professor of church history and biblical antiquities. The grief over the death of his wife led him back to his family in Berlin after just a few years. There he became a professor of education at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in 1801 . He found a second partner and was given the prospect of taking over a teaching institution himself. But he had only a very short time, as he died of a nervous attack.

Act

Early on, Thym had published individual theological treatises that he had published in Johann Gottfried Eichhorn's General Library of Biblical Literature and in Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henkes (1752–1809) Magazin für Religionsphilosophie . This includes a treatise on the rationality of the scriptural doctrine of world redemption and the ideas for a historical-critical presentation of the Jewish doctrine of the condition after death . In terms of content, his attempt at a historical-critical presentation of the Jewish doctrine of persistence after death, published in 1795, was related . Due to its understandable presentation, the two volumes recommended its historical development of the fate of the Christian church and religion . This work, intended for educated Christians, was printed between 1800 and 1801. His theological encyclopedia and methodology , published in 1798, and a historical-critical compendium of homiletics , which he published in 1800 , also contained some true and apt remarks .

Works

• Attempt of a historical-critical presentation of the Jewish doctrine of persistence after death, as far as traces of it can be found in the Old Testament. Berlin 1795
• Letters Concerning the Simplicity of the Preacher. Hall 1798
• Theological Encyclopedia and Methodology. Hall 1798
• Historical-critical textbook of homiletics. Hall 1800
• Historical development of the fate of the Christian church and religion, for educated Christians. Berlin 1801-1806, 2 vols.

literature

• Paul Tschackert :  Thym, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 235 f.
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 489 ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 5th ed., 1800, p. 62, ( online ); 1803, vol. 10, p. 744, ( online ), 1805, vol. 11, p. 721, ( online );