Johann Georg Weber

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Johann George Weber

Johann Georg Weber (born July 10, 1687 in Herwigsdorf / Zittau , † November 24, 1753 in Weimar ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

The son of the mathematician and mechanic Martin Weber, who also worked as a clerk, organist and school teacher in his place of birth, had received his first training at the educational institutions of his place of birth. After attending the grammar school in Zittau , where he acquired thorough previous knowledge, especially in the older languages, Weber devoted himself to theological studies at the University of Leipzig . At the jubilee of the local university in 1709, he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy and acquired the right to hold public lectures.

After he had worked for a while as a private tutor in Ruppersdorf , in 1718 he was given the post of Vespers preacher at the University Church in Leipzig . The next year took him to Weimar, where he became a deacon at the main church and, in 1720, court preacher . With the dignity of general superintendent and pastor to St. Peter and Paul, which he received in 1730, he also became inspector of the Weimar grammar school. Until his death he held the office of a Sachsen-Weimar senior church councilor and was assessor at the senior consistory from 1728.

Act

Weber recommended himself to his contemporaries because of his talent as a pulpit speaker and several ascetic writings. In addition to his “edifying preacher of life” (1720), the doctrinal and prayers that he had printed under the title Jesus, the crucified love (1742) and his Pentecost contemplations , which he wrote under the heading The Mystery of the Kingdom of Christ in the Holy Spirit (1743) united. With several funeral and casual sermons he showed himself to be a capable homilet . In some of his writings he touched on dogmatic subjects, including his treatise on the doctrine of Christ's descent into hell , published in 1731 .

In 1734 he explained the original meaning and meaning of the word Amen as an evangelical formula from ancient Hebrew and ecclesiastical antiquities . In addition, he became known as the editor of several Weimar hymn books, the first of which appeared under the title: Holy Exercises of Divine Bliss in Singing and Prayer or the newly established Weimar hymn and prayer book, etc. (contains a total of 531 songs). Another with the title The singing faith of the Weimar Zion or newly established Weimar Chant Book etc., 1739 (contains a total of 1058 songs).

Works

  • Diss. De sacris nocturnis. Leipzig 1718
  • The edifying preacher of life, in seven different devotions to eternal life. Leipzig 1720
  • Ordo ecclesiasticus in Augustana Confessions triumphant. Weimar 1730
  • Doctrina tutior de descensu Christi ad inferos ad ductum Scripturae divinae et ex consensu ecclesiastico pariter ac symbolico, in compendium redacta. Weimar 1731
  • Evangelical monument, on the occasion of the Salzburg emigrants. Weimar 1732
  • Ο ΑΜΗΝ χαι το ΑΜΗΝ , hoc est, commentatio exegetico - theoloica in Amen Evangelicum, vel veritatem doctrinae evangelicae jurejurando Christ confirmatam, qua vocis Amen sensum genuinura et usum ex antiquitatibus sacris et ecclesiasticis in feliciorem laboris suscepti transactionem evolvit etc. Jena 1734
  • Childlike monument to the father's tomb. In it the holy hunger and thirst for the heavenly satisfaction in eternal life to his lovable old father, according to the proverbs Matt. 5, 6. Rom. 5, 1. Ps. 17, 15. Weimar 1736 is designed in response to diverse requests for holy readiness to die, etc.
  • The true self-knowledge in Christianity, designed edifyingly on a high occasion, and together with a corresponding sermon by people who deceive themselves in Christianity, put in the light, etc. Weimar 1739
  • The last the best, the best the last, a parentation. Weimar 1741
  • The right luck for the new year. Eisenach 1742
  • Jesus, crucified love, on the mountains of myrrh and incense hill, in a hundred edifying teachings and contemplations, shown benevolently for the holy application of the seven weeks of fasting. Jena 1742
  • The mystery of the Kingdom of Christ in the Holy Spirit; or five edifying Pentecostal contemplations. Jena 1743
  • Weimar New School of Catechism. 17 ??

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Herwigsdorf / Zittau
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1753
Place of death Weimar