Johann Gottlob Carpzov
Johann Gottlob Carpzov (born September 26, 1679 in Dresden , † April 7, 1767 in Lübeck ) was a German Lutheran theologian who worked mainly in Leipzig and Lübeck.
Life
Johann Gottlob Carpzov was a son of Samuel Benedict Carpzov from the Saxon family of scholars Carpzov . From 1696 he studied theology at the University of Wittenberg , moved to the University of Leipzig in 1698 and from 1700 to the University of Altdorf . There he completed his studies with the treatise " De synagoga cum honore sepulta ". Then he accompanied the Polish-Electoral Saxon envoy DE Bose to England and Holland as an embassy preacher. Returned to Dresden in 1704, he was appointed as a deacon at the Kreuzkirche .
In 1708 he went to Leipzig , where he became a deacon at the St. Thomas Church and one year later gave lectures at the University of Leipzig. From 1713 he taught as an associate professor of oriental languages in Leipzig. After acquiring the academic doctorate in 1724, he was appointed superintendent in Lübeck in 1730 , where he died after a long service at the age of 87. He was buried in a burial chapel in the castle church that he had acquired . His bust above the chapel, painted by Nicolaus Georg Geve in 1747 , came to the museum after the church was demolished.
On September 26, 1706 he married Christina Benedicta, born in Dresden. Dornblüth, the daughter of the Mayor of Dresden Marcus Dornblüth . The couple had eight children, of which the daughters Sophia Benedicta (married to the Lübeck Council Secretary Hermann Adolf le Févre ) and Johanna Friderica survived the parents.
A portrait of Carpzov in oil by the Lübeck painter Jürgen Matthias von der Hude in 1731 is in the collection of the Leipzig University Library .
Act
As an opponent of Pietism , he vehemently defended the standpoint of Lutheran orthodoxy . As a colleague of Valentin Ernst Löscher , he dealt with the Moravian Brethren and published a pamphlet against them in 1742.
In 1754 he published the Lübeck Church Handbook on behalf of the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry , which laid down the structure of church services and official acts in the city churches through a kind of lesson and agende .
He became known throughout Europe as a representative of the orthodox doctrine of verbal inspiration of the Old Testament. He defended this against the incipient criticism of the Bible by Richard Simon , Jean Leclerc and William Whiston .
Works
- Introductio in libros canonicos bibliorum Veteris Testamenti Omnes , 3 parts, Leipzig 1714-21, 1731, 1741, 1757.
- Evangelical pulpits as mercy chairs, provided when a newly built pulpit was first used and consecrated in 1732. Dedicated to consecration for anew pulpit in the castle church donatedby Magdalena Elisabeth Haase (she previously donated the Haasenhof ). (Digitized by SLUB Dresden)
- Critica sacra veteris testamenti , parte I. circa textum originalem, II. Circa versiones, III. circa pseudo-criticam Guil. Whistoni , solicita. 3 parts, Jo. Christian Martinus, Leipzig 1728. Published in English in 1748: A defense of the hebrew bible, with some remarks of Moses Marcus , London 1729. (Digitized of the German version, Leipzig 1748, the SLUB Dresden)
- Apparatus historico-criticus Antiquitatum Veteris Testamenti , Leipzig 1748.
- Religious study of the Bohemian and Moravian brothers from the beginning of their communities up to the present day. Attached to this is Iohannis Hederici's proof that the so-called Bohemian and Moravian brothers are neither publicly nor, in particular, unanimous with the commons of the Augspurgic Conference. Completely newly translated from the Latin orig. , Breitkopf, Leipzig 1742.
literature
- Johann Dietrich Winckler : Article Johann Gottlob Carpzov , in: ders .: Messages from famous people and families of Lower Saxony , Volume 1, Hamburg 1768, pp. 124–152.
- Samuel Baur : Article Carpzov , in: Johann Samuelansch and Johann Gottfried Gruber (eds.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , Volume 15, Leipzig 1826, pp. 215–218, here p. 216 f.
- Heinrich Döring : Article Johann Gottlob Carpzov , in: ders .: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Vol. 1, Neustadt an der Orla 1831, pp. 239–242.
- Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 21 ( digitized version )
- C. Siegfried: Carpzov, Johann Gottlob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 23-25.
- G. Müller, Tholuck: Carpzov, family . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 3, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1897, pp. 725-731. Here p. 730 f. for Johann Gottlieb Carpzov . (Digitized version of the Greifswald University Library)
- Theodor Wotschke: Letters from Lübeck superintendent Johann Gottlieb [correct: Gottlob] Carpzov , in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History (ZSHG) 55, 1926, p. 414.
- Otto Achelis: Carpzov, Johann Gottlob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 157 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Carpzov, Johann Gottlob. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 938.
Web links
- Johann Gottlob Carpzov in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Portraits Carpzovs in the digital portrait index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vaterstädtische Blätter 1933 of January 23, 1933, pp. 34/35
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Georg Heinrich Gotze |
Superintendent of the Lübeck Church 1730–1767 |
Johann Andreas Cramer |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carpzov, Johann Gottlob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carpzov, Johann Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1679 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1767 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |