Johann Gustav Reinbeck

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Johann Gustav Reinbeck (1683–1741)

Johann Gustav Reinbeck (born January 25, 1683 in Blumlage near Celle ; † August 21, 1741 in Schönwalde near Berlin ) was a Lutheran theologian , consistorial councilor and provost .

Life

Reinbeck grew up in Celle and Lüchow , where his father Andreas Reinbeck was provost from 1693. He studied in Halle , became assistant preacher in 1709 and first preacher in the Friedrichswerder and Dorotheenstadt parishes in 1714 . In 1717 he became provost at the Petrikirche in Cölln on the Spree and in 1728 consistorial councilor in Berlin. At times he also exercised the influential office of confessor of the Prussian kings and queens.

He worked significantly on Enlightenment theology and was an important Wolffian . He was very committed to the recall of Christian Wolff to Halle. In addition, Reinbeck held the office of curator of the Prussian universities. In 1720 he was elected a full member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .

Johann Gustav Reinbeck married his childhood friend Nympha Margaretha Scott (1683–1763) in 1710. Her father was Robert Scott (1646–1714), the Braunschweig-Lüneburg court and personal medic in Celle. The marriage resulted in six sons and three daughters. One of the sons was the Berlin archdeacon Otto Sigmund Reinbeck (1727–1805). His son, the writer and high school professor Georg Reinbeck , published a biography of his grandfather in 1842.

Works

  • The nature of the marital status and the reprehensibility of the concubinate contending against it, from which salvation. Schrifft, and other reasonable reasons shown, and contradicts the secret counsel Thomasii dissertation (De Concubinatu) of holding concubines. Johann Andreas Rüdiger, Berlin 1714 ( digital copy of the first edition from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt , digital copy of the 2nd edition from 1715 from the Saxon State and University Library Dresden ).
  • Considerations about the Divine Truths contained in the Augspurgic Conference and connected with it, which are partly derived for reasonable reasons, but all of which are derived from Divine Holy Scriptures, and are used for practice in true godliness. (9 parts, continued from part 5, by Israel Gottlieb Canz ). Ambrosius Haude, Berlin and Leipzig 1731–1747.
  • News of Gichtel's life course and teachings, since the latter has been drawn from his own letters, but these have been checked according to the Holy Scriptures, previously given in the so-called Berlin Heb-Victims, but now reprinted for moving reasons. Johann Andreas Rüdiger, Berlin 1732 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Cumbersome news of the terrible fire in the Königl. Resident city of Berlin, through which in the night between the second and third day of Pentecost of this 1730th year not only the Hohe Thurm, which was newly built at the St. Petri Church and soon finished, but still provided with its complete scaffolding, after the lightning hit him had stirred and ignited three times in a row, but also the church, the grammar school, 2 preacher's houses and more than 40 other houses, within 4 hours, were turned into a pile of stones and ashes. Along with a description of imaginary churches. Johann Andreas Rüdiger, Berlin 1732 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Philosophical thoughts about the reasonable soul and the same immortality, together with some comments about a French letter, which claims that matter thinks. Ambrosius Haude, Berlin 1739 ( digitized in the Google book search).
    • French translation by Jean Henri Samuel Formey with a preface by Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel : Reflexions philosophiques sur l'immortalité de l'ame raisonnable. Avec quelques remarques sur une lettre dans laquelle on soutient que la matière pense. Arkstée & Merkus, Amsterdam and Leipzig 1744 ( digitized in the Google book search).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendland-Lexikon , Volume 2, Lüchow 2008, p. 287.
  2. ↑ #Reinbeck 1842 , pp. 36–37.
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Johann Gustav Reinbeck. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 4, 2015 .
  4. ↑ #Reinbeck 1842 , pages 10-13, 105, #Gerlach 1910 .
  5. ↑ #Reinbeck 1842 .

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personal data
SURNAME Reinbeck, Johann Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and provost
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Blumlage near Celle
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1741
Place of death Schönwalde near Berlin