Johann Joachim Bellermann

Johann Joachim Bellermann (1820)

Johann Joachim Bellermann (born September 23, 1754 in Erfurt , † October 25, 1842 in Berlin ) was a German theologian and Semitist .

Bellermann attended 1768-1772 the Evangelical Council Gymnasium in Erfurt and studied among others in Goettingen , habilitated himself in 1782 at the University of Erfurt , was in 1784 professor and in 1794 director of the council school in Erfurt and in 1804 director of the Berlinische Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster , after the founding of the local University also associate professor of theology and consistorial councilor . In 1833 he was accepted into the Leopoldina Academic Academy . He died on October 25, 1842, his grave was in the St. Marien and St. Nikolai Cemetery I in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg .

During a stay in Reval in 1778 he was accepted into the Masonic lodge there, Zur Bruderkette ; later he was a member of the lodges Carl to the three wheels in Erfurt and Zur Eintracht in Berlin as well as of the federal directorate of the large national mother lodge "To the three world balls" , which appointed him in 1839 honorary grandmaster.

His son Christian Friedrich was also a theologian.

Of his writings are to be emphasized:

Handbook of Biblical Literature, etc. (2nd edition, Erfurt 1796–1804, 4 vols.);
Historical news from antiquity about Essenes and therapists (Berlin 1821);
The Urim and Thummim , the oldest gems (Berlin 1824);
Comments on Phoenician and Punic coins (4 programs, Erfurt 1812–16.) And others

literature

Heinrich Bellermann : Bellermann, Johann Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 307-310.

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SURNAME	Bellermann, Johann Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 1842
Place of death	Berlin