Johann Georg Palm

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Johann Georg Palm (born December 7, 1697 in Hanover , † February 17, 1743 in Hamburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Johann Georg Palm was the son of the Hanoverian lawyer Johann Palm (* 1661 (?); † February 19, 1733), who married Dorothea Hedwig Heise on November 22, 1693. He attended schools in Hanover. He then enrolled at the University of Jena in 1714 , where he turned to theology as well as the older and new languages .

Palm completed his studies in 1716 and was then accepted into the Riddagshausen monastery by Duke August Wilhelm . From September 1720 he officiated as the Duke's travel preacher and from June 1723 as his court chaplain to Wolfenbüttel .

On October 26, 1727, Palm was elected as the successor to Johann Theodor Heinson (1666-1726) as senior pastor at the main church of St. Peter . At the inauguration on December 15, he preached a sermon on 1 Corinth, 2, 1.2.

When Johann Friedrich Winckler died in 1738 , Palm was transferred to his senior position from Hamburg . Other candidates for office were the pastors Wolf and Neumeister.

Palm held both offices until 1743. He was succeeded in Sankt Petri by Ernst Friedrich Mylius , followed by Friedrich Wagner . The next year he died at the age of 45. One daughter married the Lübeck merchant and councilor Johann Wilhelm Rettich .

Act

Palm was considered a thoroughly learned theologian. This and his features, described as amiable, made him respected. Humanitarian attitude, he was tolerant of those who think differently.

During his time as court chaplain, Palm wrote his work The Pitfalls of Sin , an ascetic work that made him known in the field of theological literature.

From 1737 Palm delivered a literary feud with Johann Gustav Reinbeck . That year he wrote a treatise in which he argued that God was not to blame for the fact that evil entered the world through the fall .

Palm also published sermons in particular, including his four-volume evangelical speeches on the Sunday and feast day gospels . Most of his works are ascetic. Other works, such as a short story about the Augsburg Confession and a story of Martin Luther's translation of the Bible, are historical. The overview of the history of Luther's translation of the Bible was initially only available in handwritten form; it was not until many years after his death that the work was edited and printed by Johann Melchior Götze . Elisabeth Sophie Marie , Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, was able to acquire Palm's extensive and valuable biblical collection at a respectable price immediately after his death, thereby enriching her own collection set up in the Gray Court . Palm also wrote for magazines.

Works

  • The pitfalls of sin. 6 toes (Braunschweig 1725–1728)
  • Sermon on and off (Hanover 1728)
  • Two sermons on the indescribable misery of a sinner (Hamburg 1730)
  • Jubilant sermon on Ps. 100 (Hamburg 1730)
  • Introduction to the history of the Augsburg Confession (Hamburg 1730)
  • Evangelical speeches on Sunday and feast day gospels for the whole year (four parts, Wolfenbüttel 1731)
  • Jesus crucified, all of us; about 1 Corinth. 1, 30. 31 (Hamburg 1731)
  • Jesus and the true Messiah (Hamburg 1731)
  • The unrecognized sins of the world (two parts, Hamburg 1732–1733)
  • Model of Jacob's ladder to heaven (Hamburg 1732)
  • Model of the burning bush (Hamburg 1733)
  • Model of the Ruthe Aarons (Hamburg 1734)
  • Reflections on the seven words of Christ on the cross (Hamburg 1734)
  • De codicibus V. et NT quibus b. Lutherus in conficienda interpretatione germanica usus est (Hamburg 1735)
  • Reflections on the New Testament Parables
  • Divine devotions while contemplating Christ crucified (Hamburg 1736)
  • Treatise on the innocence of God in the admission of evil and the fall of our first parents (Hamburg 1737)
  • Continued treatise, etc. (Hamburg 1738)
  • Divine contemplation over all days of the year (two parts, Braunschweig 1738)
  • Glorification of the divine perfections in the suffering of Jesus
  • The unrecognized benefits of God, viewed from various scriptures
  • History of the Bible Translation Dr. Martin Luther's; from JG Palm's manuscripts published by JM Götze (Halle 1772)
Digitized

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Palm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Georg Palm: [...] History of the German Bible translation D. Martini Lutheri from the year 1517 to 1534 . Johann Melchior Goeze (Ed.), JJ Gebauer, Halle (Saale), 1772, p. 14
predecessor Office successor
Johann Theodor Heinson Chief Pastor to St. Petri in Hamburg
1727 - 1643 		Ernst Friedrich Mylius
personal data
SURNAME Palm, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1743
Place of death Hamburg