Johann Gottfried Zentgrav

Johann Gottfried Zentgrav (also Zentgraf, Zentgraff, Latinized Zentgravius; * October 1, 1722 in Strasbourg , † March 24, 1762 in Gießen ) was a German rhetorician, philologist and Protestant theologian.

Life

Zentgrav, son of Johann Joachim Zentgraf II (1688-1731), matriculated on April 3, 1736 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Strasbourg. In the summer semester of 1747 he studied at the University of Jena. He continued his studies at the University of Wittenberg , where he received his master's degree in philosophy on May 30, 1749 , and in 1750 became an adjunct of the philosophy faculty at the University of Jena . In the same year he became inspector of the "Collegium Wilhelmitanum" and Sunday midday preacher in Strasbourg. From July 21, 1753 until his death he was a full professor of eloquence and poetry ( eloquentiae et poesos ) at the University of Giessen , in the same year he was also adjunct professor of theology and in 1754 vespers at the Giessen city church .

Fonts

• De ritibus baptismalibus seculi secundi , Jena 1749

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer History , Volume 17, Kassel, Marburg 1819, p. 346
• Gustav C. Knod: The old registers of the University of Strasbourg 1621 to 1793 , Strasbourg 1897, p. 417
• Hermann Haupt, Georg Lehnert: Chronicle of the University of Giessen, 1607-1907 , Giessen 1907, p. 103
• Marie-Joseph Bopp: Evangelical Pastors and Theologians of Alsace and Lorraine from the Reformation to 1944 , Colmar 1944, p. 380

Individual evidence

1. ↑ after he had passed the necessary examination on May 28th (Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis , Younger Series Part 3; Halle (Saale) 1966, p. 65)
2. ↑ Register of the University of Jena