Johann Georg Friedrich Pope

Johann Georg Friedrich Papst (born October 21, 1754 in Ludwigsstadt ; † June 7, 1821 ) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher .

Life

Johann Georg Friedrich Papst was the son of a blacksmith and later Ludwigsstadt mayor. The father wanted to prepare him first to become a blacksmith later; Pope, however, was so successful at school that the rector Engelhard advised him to study. Since 1766 Pope attended a grammar school . There he felt the desire to become a preacher , but his parents could no longer support him at that time. Yet his diligence did not slacken. His teachers made it possible for him to teach at a nearby orphanage.

After serving as an orphanage teacher for three and a half years, Pope left high school. In 1774 he gave his farewell speech entitled Unde quantum commodum redundet in urbem schola publica instructam and moved to the University of Leipzig . He studied philosophy with Crusius and Platner, but history and theology with Böhm, Johann Heinrich Ernesti , Johann Gottfried Körner and More. The latter had a special influence on the Pope.

Since 1777 Pope studied at the University of Erlangen . Later that year he defended his positiones miscellany. In 1779 he defended a treatise de authentia Capitis XXI Johannis , whereupon he was promoted to master's degree , and left the university.

After his studies, Pope initially worked as a teacher. He planned to continue his academic career. He initially rejected this plan in order to become tutor of the two imperial counts of Castell-Remlingen. He held this office for three years. In the summer of 1780 he traveled to Holstein with the family . Since he enjoyed the favor of the counts, he hoped for a promotion soon.

Pope held this position until 1782. That year he received a call to be a minister in Smirna. However, he was Johann Zacharias Leonhard Junkheim and further a philosophy professorship offered in Erlangen. He decided on the professorship. In 1783 he defended a treatise de populorum incultorum vindicta there .

In 1783, Pope accepted an extraordinary professorship in Erlangen. From July 1786 he lectured philosophy and theology, later adding history to his subjects. From 1790 he held the full professorship and from 1791 also the political professorship . In 1794 he was appointed full professor of theology at the university, but he refused.

Until 1796 Pope also served as Vice Rector , then as Vice Dean and became a pastor in Zirndorf . In 1801 he was appointed the real dean.

In 1817 Pope became dean and school inspector in Cadolzburg . He was then appointed a doctor of theology.

Pope died in 1821 at the age of 66. He held his offices in Cadolzburg until his death.

Pope was described as an unassuming, righteous, and benevolent person. He wrote a two-volume commentary on Christian church history , which is considered to be his main merit as a theological writer. The history of the Christian church, according to the needs of our time of 1787, however, was never completed.

Works

• Diss. Inaug. de autentia capitis XXI Joannis (Erlangen 1779)
• The discoveries of the fifth part of the world, or journeys around the world; a reader for young people (five volumes; Nuremberg 1783–1790)
• Character of the most noble Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Baireuth; Translated from a Latin speech by JP Reinhard (Nürnberg / Altdorf 1783)
• Diss. De populorum incultorum vindicta (Erlangen 1783)
• Sermon on the Value of the Formation of the Spirit (Nuremberg 1784)
• Progr. De faustis Christianae religionis initiis, ad loc. Actor. 2, 1–4 (Erlangen 1786)
• History of the Christian Church, according to the needs of our time (Volume 1 Erlangen 1787)
• Life of Friedrich II, King of Prussia, edited for young German men (Nuremberg 1788–1789)
• The travelers for country and ethnology edited by two scholars (five volumes, Nuremberg 1788–1791)
• Progr. I – III de ipsorum Christianorum culpa in vexationibus motis a Romanis (Erlangen 1789–1790)
• Progr. De apostolicae ecclesiae exemplo caute adhibendo (Erlangen 1790)
• Publisher: Natural and international law, drafted by a great Minister of State (Freiherrn v. Bartenstein) for the teaching of Emperor Joseph II (Erlangen / Vienna 1790)
• Progr. Commentatio de agriculturae initiis in Germania historico-philosophica (Erlangen 1791)
• Current state of the Friedrich-Alexanders-University in Erlangen (Erlangen 1791)
• Commentary on the history of the Christian church, based on Schröck's textbook (volume 1 Nuremberg 1792–1794, second volume Nuremberg 1795–1801)

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland , Volume 6, 1798, pp. 29–31, online
• Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland , Volume 10, 1803, p. 397, online
• Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland , Volume 11, 1805, p. 601, online
• Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland , Volume 15, 1811, p. 8, online
• Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland , Volume 19, 1823, p. 61, online
• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, Vol. 3, pp. 213-216, online