Johann Heinrich Vincent Nölting

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Johann Heinrich Vincent Nölting (born February 23, 1736 in Schwarzenbek ; † August 2, 1806 in Hamburg ) was a German theologian and philosopher and professor at the Hamburg Academic Gymnasium .

Life

Nölting was the son of Johann Andreas Nölting (1704–1764), who was pastor in Schwarzenbek at the time of his birth . His mother Anna Gertrud, b. Elers was the daughter of Albertus Elers (* December 11, 1618, † May 3, 1680), the general superintendent of Lower Saxony based in Lauenburg on the Elbe. After his father was called to the Michaeliskirche in Hamburg in 1742, he grew up here and attended the Johanneum and the academic high school , where Hermann Samuel Reimarus was his teacher.

From 1755 to 1759 he studied theology and philosophy at the University of Jena . He graduated with a master's degree and became an adjunct in the philosophy faculty. On his return to Hamburg, he was candidate of the ministry, while the Mitvorsteher on Esdras Edzardus declining Proselytenanstalt ( Society for the conversion of the Jews ).

In 1761, the scholarchate gave the then 25-year-old a professorship in philosophy at the Academic Gymnasium. He exercised the associated teaching position for logic , metaphysics and rhetoric throughout his life and thus shaped generations of students, including Johann Georg Rist .

Nölting published a large number of writings and sermons in the spirit of Enlightenment theology . He was considered a popular pulpit speaker with whom the churches were always full. When in 1769 he defended his childhood friend, Bergdorf pastor Johann Ludwig Schlosser , who had written a number of plays and was therefore criticized by senior Johann Melchior Goeze , he became one of the main characters in a public dispute that went down in history as the 2nd Hamburg theater dispute .

In 1761 he married Ernestine Catharina Tympe, a daughter of the theology professor in Jena, Johann Georg Tympe. When she died the following year, he married for the second time in 1770 with his cousin Johanna Elisabeth Hedwig, daughter of Johann Heinrich Lokewitz and Anna Ludovica, nee. Nölting. She died in 1806. Of the children, two daughters and two sons survived.

Nölting was buried in the family crypt in the crypt of Michaeliskirche. The pedagogue and classical philologist Theodor Nölting was his grandson.

Fonts

  • Collection of some speeches that were given in the lecture hall of the Hamburg Gymnasium. Hamburg 1767
  • Collection of some sermons. Hamburg: Harmsen 1768
  • Defense of Mr. Pastor Schlossers another attack which happened to him in the piece of the Hamburg News from the Realm of Scholarship from last year. Hamburg: Harmsen 1769
  • Second defense of Mr. Past. Schlosser's, in which Mr. Goeze's investigation of the morality of today's German stage is accompanied with comments. Hamburg: Harmsen 1769
  • On Preparing For A Happy Marriage: An Attempt. 2nd edition - Hamburg: Reuss 1777
  • Complete Ciceronian Chrestomathy arranged according to a natural sequence of materials. 2 volumes; Hamburg: Printed by Gottlieb Friedrich Schniebes in 1780 ( digitized copy from the Duchess Anna Amalia Library )
  • Joh. Hinr. Vinc. Nölting's worldly wisdom and professor's eloquence attempt in sacred songs. Hamburg: Knauf 1786
  • Feelings of a husband and father after a serious illness. Hamburg: Knauf 1786
  • Sensations of a widow: a song by the righteous wife of the noble Christoph Christian Sturm on his funeral day / dedicated by his friend Johann Hinrich Vincent Nölting. Hamburg: Knauf 1786
  • The wise conduct of a righteous preacher. Hamburg 1803
  • Lübek and Hamburg: On the occasion of June 30, 1803, on which of Mr. Friederich Daniel Behn ... forty-year public teaching post ... from me. . was celebrated. Hamburg: Bohn 1804

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Klenz :  Nölting, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 646.
personal data
SURNAME Nölting, Johann Heinrich Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION High school professor in Hamburg for philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenbek
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1806
Place of death Hamburg