Johann Gabriel Bacon

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Johann Gabriel Speck, also Jean Gabriel Speck and Gabriel Johannes Speck (born November 22, 1720 in Treysa ; † September 7, 1792 in Marburg ) was a Swiss-German French Reformed preacher in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel and professor of “French eloquence “At the University of Marburg .

Life

family

Speck was a son of Johann Valentin Speck (* approx. 1675; † 1754 in Kassel), a preacher of the French Reformed parishes of Treysa and who later worked in Kassel, who came to Treysa from Frankenthal in 1716 , was born in Appenzell and was probably born in Paris Frankenhain . Johann Gabriel was married to Anne Gertrud Charlotte († 1801 in Kassel, 79 years old), daughter of the Metropolitan Dietrich Kersting in Treysa. The couple had two sons who died early and their daughter Anne Elisabeth Dieterike Charlotte († 1768), who became the wife of the French preacher (and Freemason ) Jean Ebrard in Schwabendorf in 1765 .

Professional career

After attending school in Heidelberg , Speck studied philosophy and theology at the University of Marburg with the historian Johann Adolf Hartmann (1680–1744), the enlightener Christian Wolff , the orientalist and church historian Johann Joachim Schröder and the logician and metaphysician Johann Siegmund Kirchmeier (1679–1749 ). A first dissertation with disputation by Speck has been handed down in writing from 1738, a more extensive second comes from 1740, both of which were written under Hartmann's supervision (see publications). He received his master's degree from the University of Marburg in 1740.

After a short study visit to the Reformed theologians Christian Brüning (1702–1763) and Johann Heinrich Hottinger the Younger (1681–1750) at the University of Heidelberg , Speck became a preacher in the Waldensian community of Todenhausen with Wiesenfeld north of Marburg and in 1743 1744 also in the French community of his native Treysa. In 1753 he took up the post of French preacher in Marburg, the congregation in Todenhausen was attached to the Marburg congregation. He moved from Todenhausen to Marburg in 1756.

In 1764, Johann Gabriel Speck was also appointed associate professor of "French eloquence" (i.e. French rhetoric) at the University of Marburg. His efforts to gain a professorship at the theological faculty in 1780 were unsuccessful.

Others

Speck was a supporter of Freemasonry and a member of the Lodge Zu den drey Löwen in Marburg, founded in 1743 . In 1769 he was a co-founder of the only short time existing competing Marburg Lodge to the three roses , which also included Hans Caspar von Knoblauch zu Hatzbach , Friedrich Joseph Wilhelm Schröder and his son-in-law Jean Ebrard.

Although Speck, unlike his father, who studied in Basel , probably never stayed in Switzerland for a long time, he felt connected to his family's canton of origin. In the title of his first disputation from 1738 he describes himself as Abbatiscellanus origine, nascendi vero sorte Treysa - Hassus (the origin after Appenzeller , but born by Los in Treysa - Hesse). “On the grounds that“ there is nothing more pleasant than being able to live in the fatherland of your ancestors ”, Pastor Jean Gabriel Speck in Treysa (Hesse) asked about vacant professorial positions in Ausserrhod in 1744.“

Fonts

  • De officiis circa peregrinos; resp. Gabriel Johannes Bacon. Müller, Marburg 1738. ( digitized version )
  • Consubstantiatio nullo modo sit haeretica; resp. Gabriel Johannes Bacon. Müller, Marburg 1740. ( digitized version )
  • Thorough guidance on the French language, in questions and answers, from the Restauts, as well as from other enueren language teachings and writers, together with a very useful appendix. Frankfurt 1749, presumably edition 1756, with considerable improvements and additions 1769.
  • Les psaumes de David & les Cantiques sacres. Marburg 1755.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian history of scholars and writers. From the Reformation to the present day. Fifteenth volume. Griesbach, Kassel 1806, pp. 172-173. ( Digitized version )
  • Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. 13th volume. Fleischer, Leipzig 183, p. 219 f. ( Digitized version )
  • Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1527 to 1910. Edited by Franz Gundlach. Elwert, Marburg 1927 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 15, 1), p. 400.
  • Jochen Desel, Walter Mogk: Huguenots and Waldensians in Hessen-Kassel. Images and pamphlets. Verlag Evangelischer Presseverband Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel 1978.
  • Stefan Redies: Freemasons, Knights Templar and Rosicrucians. On the history of the secret societies in Marburg in the 18th century. Tectum, Marburg 1998. ( partially digitized )
  • Herbert Brekle, Edeltraud Dobnig-Jülch (Hrsg.): Bio-bibliographical lexicon on linguistics of the 18th century. Volume 8. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, p. 104 ( partial digitization )

Individual evidence

  1. Strieder (see literature, p. 172) incorrectly gives the first name Lorenz, which has been taken over from the bio-bibliographical lexicon (see literature; p. 104) and should be corrected there.
  2. More details: Max Triet: Appenzell-Ausserrhoder students at high schools 1600–1800. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 104 (1976), p. 28.
  3. ^ Peter Witschi: Appenzeller all over the world. History of emigration and life fates. Schläpfer, Herisau 1994.

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