Johann Joachim Weidner

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Johann Joachim Weidner , also Weidener (born August 11, 1672 in Rostock , † October 17, 1732 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Life

Johann Joachim Weidner was the son of the head of the monastery of the same name of the Rostock Monastery of the Holy Cross Johann Joachim Weidner and his wife Clara Maria, née. New wreath. After the early death of her father, she was married to Nicolaus Ockel, who was also the successor in the office of head of the monastery. Weidner attended the large city school in Rostock under the rector Georg Niehenck and vice rector Jacob Burgmann , the school in Parchim, the grammar school in Magdeburg and the Katharineum in Lübeck . From August 1690 he completed a degree in philosophy and theology at the University of Rostock . His teachers were u. a. Justus Christoph Schomer and Andreas Habichhorst . In 1692 he interrupted his studies in order to teach his future brothers-in-law Hermann Christoph and Heinrich Askan Engelken as private tutor in Jennewitz for four years .

Back in his hometown, he received his Magister artium lib on May 25, 1696 . doctorate and then worked as a private lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty. 1699 followed the doctorate to the bachelor of theology. On July 7, 1699, Weidner married Sophia Elisabeth Engelcken, daughter of the landlord Christian Peter Engelken from Jennewitz near Kröpelin and sister of the aforementioned Engelken brothers. On the 12th of the month he was introduced as the fourth deacon at the Marienkirche in Rostock .

On March 3, 1707, Weidner received his doctorate in theology at the Rostock University under Johann Peter Grünenberg with the text De divina sancti ministerii constitutione . He continued his activity as a private lecturer, now for the theological faculty. In 1715 Weidner was appointed pastor at the Marienkirche.

In 1716 he was appointed by the Rostock Senate at the Theological Faculty as a full council professor as the successor to the late Johann Nikolaus Quistorp . From 1721 he was senior of the faculty and also from 1727 superintendent and director of the Ministry of Spirituality . During his tenure at the university, he performed numerous administrative functions. Between 1718 and 1725 he was dean of the faculty seven times, prorector in 1720 and rector of the university in 1718, 1724 and 1730 . In addition, he was in charge of the academic library as a librarian from 1729 to 1731.

Johann Joachim Weidner died a few weeks after his 60th birthday in Rostock. The funeral speech of the university was given by the rector Christoph Martin Burchard , that of the theological faculty by Hermann Christoph Engelke, his brother-in-law. One son, Heinrich Johann Peter Weidner, became Dr. jur. utr. and worked as a lawyer in Rostock.

“His character is portrayed as that of an honest, amiable man, to whom the gift of eloquence was in great measure; his quarrel was only about the opponents of the Lutheran orthodoxy of his time. "

- Paul Tschackert : ADB

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  1. ↑ Registration of Johann Joachim Weidener , summer semester 1689, no. 100, in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Doctoral degree from Johann Joachim Weidener , winter semester 1695/1696, dean's book, Philosophical Faculty, No. 15, in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Paul Falkenberg: The professors of the University of Rostock ... see literature.
  4. ↑ Doctorate to Doctor of Iohannem Ioachimum Weidnerum , winter semester 1706/1707, Dean's book Theological Faculty, No. 1, in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ↑ Entries on Heinrich Johann Peter Weidner in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Weidner, Johann Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weidener, Johann Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1732
Place of death Rostock