Johann Georg Bechtold

Johann Georg Bechtold (born July 24, 1732 in Darmstadt ; † October 15, 1805 in Gießen ) was a German philosopher , literary scholar , rhetorician and Lutheran theologian .

Life

The son of a provisions commissioner attended the education department in his hometown and studied from 1748 to 1756 at the University of Giessen and Jena . On July 12, 1755 he was awarded a major in Giessen. On October 19, 1757 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences and in 1759 he became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Giessen. After he became Ephorus of the princely scholarship holder in 1760, he became castle preacher in Gießen on April 16, 1761, took over the full professorship of philosophy in 1662 and immediately afterwards the professorship of rhetoric and poetry. On August 19, 1765 he received his doctorate in theology.

At the end of 1765 he became a full fourth professor of theology, rose the following year to consistorial assessor, and in 1768 became third professor and associated superintendent of the Alsfeld diocese. After he had become third professor and associated superintendent of the Marburg diocese in 1771, he was appointed first superintendent of Giessen in 1786, preacher at the Giessen town church and first professor of theology. For his services to the school system, he was appointed church and school council in 1803.

Bechtold was an enlightened theologian who was Lutheran Orthodox in his literary publications , while he was open to the Age of Enlightenment . The controversial theologian at the time had, among other things, carried out the appointment of Karl Friedrich Bahrdt to Gießen, where he used his not insignificant influence on the Darmstadt government. Bechtold has also appeared as a hymn poet and composer of sacred songs. Recognizing the growing importance of the German language, he founded a "Teutsche Gesellschaft" in 1763.

Works

• Oratio de iis, quae circa constituendam linguam perfectissimam S. philos.Sunt observanda. Casting 1760
• Progr. The just claims of worthy rulers and the humble praise of their subjects. Casting 1764
• Diss. Quae in doctrina de praescientia futorum contingentium theologi vitare facereque prudenter soleant. Casting 1765
• Progress of some major obstacles to spiritual eloquence in our day. Casting 1765
• Reformatorum Deus, peccatores indurans, a sana ratione abhorrens, et sacro codici ignotus. Partes III. Giessen 1767–1772
• Talk about the marriage of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Prussen with Princess Fridericke Luise von Hessen Darmstadt. Casting 1769
• Progr. Examen sententiae Taylorianae de Christi piaculo pro hominibus lapsis justitiae divinae, ecclesiae nostrae recens commendatae. Casting 1774
• Meletema acad. Veram ecclesiae nostrae de supernaturalibus gratiae auxiliis sententiam Juckhemianis a depravationibus vindicans. Casting 1776
• Progr. Ad Eph. IV, 7-10. Casting 1777
• D. Luther de divinae gratiae auxiliis etiam ratione modi operandi supernatualibus, doctrina fundamento biblico minime destituta. Casting 1777
• Progr. Que sensu lex de inimicis diligendis Matth. 5, 44 nova nominari Christi praescriptio posit? Casting 1777
• Melementa acad. To actor. IV, 24. Spiritus S. dicatur universi creator. Casting 1780
• Progr. Vindicationem orculi 1. Joh. II, 1.2. a comment Telleriane sistens. Casting 1780
• Progr. III vim fidei mortalium ad salutem comparatam contra b. Toellnerum sistens. Giessen 1780, 1781
• Dilucidationes theologicae, Ven. Lessii quibusdam propositionibus moralibus nuper aspersam labem fortassis abstersurae. Casting 1781
• Repeated apology of Lessian morality concerning teachers of Christian worship and some other material, in part related to it. Frankfurt 1781
• Inaugural sermon on Sunday Estomihi 1786 about Rom. I, 16 held in the town church of Giessen. Casting 1786
• Funeral speech for the death of Louis IX. Landgrave of Hesse. Casting 1790
• Materials for promoting purely biblical and practical folk instruction in Christian doctrine for preachers and catechists. 3rd vol. Lemgo 1798-1801
• Ancient and Modern Biblical History; a reader for aspiring Christians to establish and promote their faith in God, providence and revealed religion. 4th vol. Giessen 1789–1792
• Collection of religious songs. Lemgo 1799 (mostly written by himself, with an appendix to his materials for the biblical-practical folk lessons in the Christian doctrine of the first part)

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Göttingen, 1781, vol. 1, p. 314 ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers . Verlag Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1796, vol. 1, p. 185 ( online ); 1801, Vol. 9, p. 66, ( [1] ); 1801, Vol. 11, p. 51 ( online );