Johann Heinrich Wepler

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Johann Heinrich Wepler (born July 27, 1755 in Kassel ; † November 30, 1792 , deviating: November 20, 1792 in Marburg ) was a German theologian and university professor.

Life

Johann Heinrich Wepler was born as the son of Heinrich Wepler, pusher at the Hofapotheke Kassel and his wife Marthe Anne, born. Lorenz, born.

From 1768 he attended the pedagogy in Kassel and from 1771 the Collegium Carolinum . In 1772 he began studying at the University of Marburg and heard lectures from Johann Franz Coing in logic, metaphysics and natural law, from Karl Franz Lubert Haas church history and from Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder in Greek, Chaldean and Syriac, but especially in Hebrew and Greek, from Johann Gottlieb Waldin (1728–1795) in philosophy, David Samuel Daniel Wyttenbach and Carl Wilhelm Robert in theology at the University of Marburg. In 1777 he passed his examination "pro ministerio" in Marburg and in the same year he received his doctorate. phil. at the University of Marburg.

From 1778 to 1779 he was a preacher at the breeding and spinning house in Kassel; at the same time he was teaching at the lyceum in Kassel; However, due to an illness caused by epilepsy , he had to give up this activity. On October 22, 1778 he was appointed professor of theology at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel, together with Ernst Gottfried Baldinger , Christian Friedrich Michaelis , Conrad Moench , Johann Wilhelm Christian Brühl , Johann Gottlieb Stegmann and Dietrich Tiedemann ; from 1779 to 1780 he was also a teacher in the first class of the Lyceum in Kassel for Latin and Hebrew.

In December 1785, on the orders of Landgrave Wilhelm IX. seven professors transferred from the Carolinum to the University of Marburg, here Johann Heinrich Wepler was among these seven; in Marburg he held his lectures as full professor of philosophy from December 9, 1785 and from February 8, 1786 as extraordinary professor of theology. As a theologian he lectured on the exegeticals of the New Testament and as an orientalist he taught Arabic , Chaldean , Hebrew and Jewish antiquities .

In 1785 he married Johanna Henriette, b. Bergi, they had four children together. His great-grandson was the mathematician Heinrich Schotten .

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In 1779 he became a member of the Society of Antiquities, which Landgrave Friedrich II had founded in Kassel.

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SURNAME Wepler, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weplerus, Joannes Henricus; Wepler, Joannes H .; Weppler, Johann Heinrich; Wepler, Joannes Henricus; Wepler, Johann Henrich; Weppler, Johann H .; Wepler, Johann H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1792 or November 30, 1792
Place of death Marburg