Johann Jakob Pfeiffer

Johann Jakob Pfeiffer (born October 6, 1740 in Kassel , † November 26, 1791 in Marburg ) was a German Protestant theologian . He taught at the University of Marburg .

Life

The son of the Kassel dyer Hieronymus (December 1714 – July 1774) and his wife Anne Elisabeth, née Schaumbergin, (1718 – March 1779) attended the pedagogy of his hometown and from 1755 the Collegium Carolinum . In 1757 he began studying at the University of Marburg . In addition to theological lectures, he also attended mathematical, logical and metaphysical lectures. In 1760 he moved to the University of Göttingen and continued to study theology. The next year he returned to Kassel and was a candidate for preacher . Another year later he was given a preaching position. In his free time he devoted himself to theological training and taught the youth in Old and New Testament exegesis .

In 1765 Pfeiffer received the parish in Langenschwalbach . As he later stated himself, he lived there happiest in his life. In 1769 he succeeded the preacher Kraft, who had been called to Frankfurt am Main , at the Karlskirche .

The University of Marburg appointed Pfeiffer in 1779 for their second theology professor . In 1784 he received his theological doctorate and was able to take the first professorship in 1789. In addition, he was consistorial councilor and inspector of the Reformed community in the Upper Principality of Hesse.

On 2 October 1791 took place Pfeiffer, the confirmation of the Elector Wilhelm II. Of Hesse . Shortly afterwards Pfeiffer died of mastitis from which he had suffered for a long time.

Act

Friedrich Schlichtegroll judged that Pfeiffer possessed undisputed religiosity, had advocated the good and the conscientious and had a gentle, benevolent, cautious and careful character. He was described as sometimes too fearful of new theological views of which he himself was convinced.

Pfeiffer published a collection of sermons in 1776. Schlichtegroll judged these and his other works to be well thought out and full of light. Pfeiffer also wrote articles in the journal.

family

On March 24, 1772, Pfeiffer married Lucie Rebecka, born on October 12, 1752, the daughter of the consistorial councilor and dean Johannes Rüppel in Kassel. He had the following children with her:

Anne Catharine Elisabeth, born December 13, 1772; † May 28, 1777
Johanne Lucie Corneli, born May 3, 1774; † after 1797
Conradine, born September 15, 1775; † after 1797
Burkhard Wilhelm, May 7, 1777; † after 1797
Johann Georg Henrich, born December 19, 1780; † after 1797

She died when she gave birth to twins Franz Georg and Christian Hartmann on January 11, 1784.

On April 16, 1785, he married Sophie Christine Waitz, daughter of the Schwarzenfels Council and inspector Johann August Waitz, for the second time . From this marriage come:

Charlotte, born February 16, 1788; † after 1797
Caroline, born March 18, 1790; † after 1797

Works

Sermons (Kassel 1776)
Draft for teaching Christianity (Minden 1778, second edition Kassel 1783, third edition Kassel 1785, fourth edition Kassel 1791)
Progr. De praemiis virtutis christianae (two parts, Marburg 1787–1788)
Instruction for preachers, and those who wish to become one, to conduct their ministry faithfully; along with interspersed historical and literary remarks (Marburg 1789)

Remarks

↑ Johannes Rüppel was born in 1709. In 1747/1748 he was a staff preacher, then a preacher, in 1755 with the Brethren, in 1758 dean and consistorial councilor there. He married Anne Catharine, née Deneckin (1721–24 October 1771) and died on November 24, 1770.

literature

Friedrich Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog on the year 1791: Containing news of the life of strange deceased persons , year 1791, volume 2, 1793, p. 353 f., Online
Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer history from the Reformation to the present day , Volume 11, 1797, pp. 13-20, online
Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 10, 1810, p. 390 f., Online
Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, Vol. 3, pp. 281-283, online

personal data
SURNAME	Pfeiffer, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH	kassel
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1791
Place of death	Marburg

[1] Johannes Rüppel was born in 1709. In 1747/1748 he was a staff preacher, then a preacher, in 1755 with the Brethren, in 1758 dean and consistorial councilor there. He married Anne Catharine, née Deneckin (1721–24 October 1771) and died on November 24, 1770.