Johann Jacob Zimmermann

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Johann Jacob Zimmermann also Johann Jakob Zimmermann ; Ambrosius Sehmann (born December 25, 1642 in Vaihingen an der Enz , Württemberg; † August or September 1693 in Rotterdam , Netherlands) was a German astronomer , mathematician and writer .

Life

Scriptura S. Copernizans , incipit

Little is known about Zimmermann's youth in Vaihingen. Apparently he lived temporarily in Nürtingen and studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , where he obtained his master's hat in 1664 at the age of twenty. His first position as a Lutheran pastor was in Bietigheim in 1671 , where he also expanded his astronomical and astrological knowledge and published the first of his curious publications. It was only the scriptura Sacra Copernizans, which proved the correctness of the Copernican world system, that made him suspicious of Lutheran orthodoxy. He was therefore removed from office in 1685.

In 1686 Zimmermann went to Frankfurt am Main , where he made contact with other religious enthusiasts . As a follower of Jakob Böhme , he was unable to find a new pastorate and had to try to earn a living with smaller mathematical and astronomical publications, which gradually earned him a reputation as a serious scholar.

On behalf of a Hamburg group of religious enthusiasts, he finally initiated negotiations with William Penn in order to initiate the emigration to America. The Hamburg group of eleven families actually set out on the voyage in 1693, but Zimmermann suddenly died on embarkation in Rotterdam, and his widow traveled on with the group under the leadership of Johannes Kelpius without him. In the chiliastic text Probable Time Determination , published a decade earlier , he had predicted the end of the world for 1693 , not realizing that he had thus determined the year of his own death.

See also

Fonts

  • Fundamental tasks of the sun and lunar eclipses applicable to all and every hypotheses. Hamburg 1691
  • Coniglobium… a beneficial celestial sphere set up according to the… Hevelian star register. Hamburg 1704
  • Presumed time determination ... Divine judgments on the European Babel ... o. O. 1684
  • Scriptura S. Copernizans… Astronomical evidence of the Copernican world building . Hamburg 1690

literature

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Johann Jacob Zimmermann (1644–1693)", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 6. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1993, pp. 4344–55. ISBN 3-7772-9305-9
  • Siegmund Günther :  Zimmermann, Johann Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 270 f.
  • Gudrun Aker: Johann Jakob Zimmermann (1642-1693). A prophet of the millennial kingdom . In: Vaihinger heads. Biographical portraits from five centuries (series of publications by the city of Vaihingen an der Enz, Volume 8). Vaihingen an der Enz 1993. pp. 71-88.
  • Martin H [erbert] Jung: Universalism of salvation in early Pietism. Johann Jakob Zimmermann's rediscovered "Presentation of common love , in: Blätter für Württembergische Kirchengeschichte 114 (2014). Stuttgart [2015], pp. 283–292.
  • Matthias Wolfes :  carpenter, Johann Jakob. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1587–1597.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Kindermann: Man unknown to himself, p. 139 ff
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Johann Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Johann Jakob; Sehmann, Ambrosius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer, mathematician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaihingen an der Enz , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH August 1693 or September 1693
Place of death Rotterdam , Netherlands