Johann Kahler (theologian)

Johann Kahler , also Johannes Kahler , Johannis Calerus (born January 18, 1649 in Wollmar ; † May 17, 1729 in Pyrmont ) was a German mathematician and Lutheran theologian and university professor in Rinteln .

Life

Johann Kahler was born as the son of the farmer Johann Hermann Kahler (* 1611 in Wollmar; † 1704 ibid.) And his wife Catharina Johanna Wacker (* Münchhausen), who also acted as judge. He first attended the village school there, received additional private lessons in Fronhausen and finally attended the Latin schools in Battenberg and Münchhausen .

From around 1660 he attended the Pedagogy of Marburg and from 1664 the University of Marburg . His formative teachers were Abraham Boots (born September 27, 1628 in Bremen; † October 11, 1673 in Marburg) in metaphysics, Johannes Magirus (born November 27, 1615 in Frankfurt / Oder; † February 11, 1697 in Marburg) in mathematics , Cyriakus Lentulus (also Lentz; * 1609 in Elbingen / Prussia; † September 27, 1678 in Marburg) in poetics, Greek, as well as church history and by Johann Engelhard Steuber the Elder (* June 11, 1618 in Gießen; † February 26 1683 in Marburg) he received his theological tools.

In April 1668 he moved to the University of Gießen where Kilian Rudrauff (* July 17, 1627 in Schotten; † September 15, 1690 in Gießen) in logic and metaphysics, Peter Haberkorn in theology, Philipp Ludwig Hanneken in rhetoric and Hebrew, as well as Michael Siricus (* December 2, 1628 in Lübeck, † August 24, 1685 in Güstrow) and Johann Nikolaus Misler in theology and Hebrew language were among his teachers. On June 29, 1670 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in Giessen and then taught as a private lecturer.

House at Klosterstrasse No. 31 and Kahlergasse

As an academic tutor he supervised a young Count of Gorizia and four Swedish noblemen and gave philosophical lectures. In these he was one of the first to represent the positions of Cartesian philosophy at a German university in the face of astute criticism of the foundations of the previous school philosophy. Among his initially numerous opponents, the Giessen professor of theology, Peter Haberkorn, was the most resolute, while others were increasingly open-minded.

On May 3, 1677, Kahler became an associate professor for metaphysics and on December 1 of the same year he received the chair of logic at the University of Rinteln . On February 26, 1678 he was also a full professor of mathematics and on January 4, 1683 for theology . After receiving his doctorate there on September 20, 1683 theol. After receiving his doctorate , he was appointed Primarius (1st professor) for theology and honorary university librarian in 1697 . On May 17, 1729 he died as Rector Maginificus during a stay on his estate in Pyrmont, where he was also buried.

Johann Kahler was an outstanding personality at the university in the times after the Thirty Years' War . He taught in Rinteln for more than 52 years, was known, among other things, for his phenomenal memory and lived in the corner house at Klosterstrasse 31. The "Kahlergasse" in Rinteln still reminds of him today.

family

Kahler married Anna Margaretha Judenherzog (born February 25, 1668; 1734 in Pyrmont), daughter of the Waldeck rentmaster Bernhard Judenherzog. The marriage resulted in ten children, of which four daughters and two sons survived the father. From the children we know:

• Georg Ludwig Kahler, doctor and theologian
• Bernhard Christian Kahler († February 24, 1736 in Schlangen)
• Anna Margarethe Kahler († 1732 Pyrmont)
• Maria Elisabeth Kahler
• Catharina Magdalena Kahler married Bodener and Groeling
• Sophia Dorothea Kahler
• Johann Samuel Kahler († August 10, 1771 Detmold), postal secretary in Herford

Works (selection)

• Diss. De intelligentiis. Giessen 1669 (President Mag. Thomas Theodor Cruse)
• Diss. De praedicatione personali. Giessen 1672 (Resp.Johann Peter Moss)
• Diss. Philos. De motu terrae. Giessen 1672 (Resp.Johann Justus Neander)
• Diss. De paradoxa Cartesii philosophia. Giessen 1673 (Resp.Johann Joel Milchsack)
• Diss. De astromantia. Giessen 1674 (Resp.Johann Daniel Köppel)
• Diss. De daimonioleptois. Giessen 1675; ibid. 1710 (Resp. Johann Christoph Hoffbauer; online )
• Diss. De divinationibus. Giessen 1676 (Resp.Jeremias Feiner)
• Diss. De dictamine redtae rationis, indeque deducto jure hominis in se ipsum. Giessen 1676 (Resp. Justus Simon Helffmann)
• Diss. De caussa morali. Rinteln 1679 (Resp. Justus Hermann Alberti)
• Diss. De intelligentiis. Rinteln 1679 (Resp.Anton Heinrich Keizer)
• Diss. De Oceano, ejus proprietatibus & motibus. Rinteln 1679 (Resp. Johann Henrich Steuber)
• Quaestiones quaedam miscellaneae. Rinteln 1679 (Resp.Georg Heinrich Heilmann)
• Variae ex Mathesi aliisque Philosophiae partibus depromtae quaestiones. Rinteln 1680 (Resp. Christian Albrecht Wilhelmi)
• Diss. De cometis, eorumque generatione, figura, motu Lumine et prognosticis. Rinteln 1681 (Resp. Hermann Barckhausen, online )
• Diss. De deodorant. Rinteln 1681, ibid. 1712
• Diss. De libertate Dei. Rinteln 1681
• Diss. Geogr. de terra ejusque figura, magnitudine, motu et loco in universo, interiori structura, divisione ac quibusdam in ea occurrentibus phoenomensis. Rinteln 1682 (Resp. Henrich Ludwig Benthius)
• Diss. Catoptrica, de reflexione luminis ejusque effectu. Rinteln 1682 (Resp.Johann Ludwig a Baumbach)
• Progr. In funere Johann Otto Henckelii etc. Rinteln 1683
• Diss. De blasphemia in Spiritum S. Rinteln 1684
• Diss. De immutabilitate electionis. Rinteln 1685
• Diss. De statu damnatorum. Rinteln 1686
• Diss. De signis consummationem seculi praecedentibus. Rinteln 1687
• Illuminare s. diss. solennis pro consequendo gr. Magist. Henningi Hardingii, Rector. Scholae Hamelens, & Jo. Dan. Prange, Buckeb. Rinteln 1688
• Diss. Theol. de injuriis non retaliandis. Rinteln 1689, ibid. 1714
• Augustana confessio, XX. dissertationibus publicis in academia Rintheliana proposita. Rinteln 1694 ( online )
• Altera pars Augustanae confessionis de abusibus mutatis. Rinteln 1696 ( online )
• Augustana Confessio XX dissertation. proposita. Rinteln 1694, ibid. 1715
• Dissertatio Tertia Super old. Part. Aug. Confess. Ex. Artic. Ill. De Missa. Rinteln 1695 (Resp. Hermann Adolph Müller; online )
• Aug. Conf. P. altera, VII Dissertation. proposita. Rinteln 1696
• Pentas dissertationum theologg. de imputatione peccati alieni et speciatim adamitici. Rinteln 1696
• Diss. De gradibus prohibitis, ad Levit, XVIII, 6-18. Rinteln 1700 (Resp. David Dieter Schirre)
• Diss. Theol. de polygamia. Rinteln 1700 (Resp. Conrad Christoph Neuburg; online )
• Diss. De praedicatione evangelii universali. Rinteln 1700
• Diss. Hist theol solenn. de haeresi enthusiastarum abominabili. Rinteln 1703 (Resp.Johannes Jacob Fenner; Online )
• Diss. De perfectione renatorum. Rinteln 1704 (Resp. Anton Friedrich Steding)
• Diss de moralitate sabbati christiani. Rinteln 1704
• Collegium theologicum, christianae fidei approx. Pita summatim tradens et XV dissertatt. publicis propositum. Rinteln 1688, ibid. 1704 (Resp. Michael Müller (Mellendorf))
• Dissertatio Theologica, De Reqvisitis Ministrorum Ecclesiæ. Rinteln 1710 (Resp. Mag. Johann Christian von Mithoffen; online )
• Articuli Smalcaldici XVII dissertatt, propositi. Rinteln 1710
• Articuli Augustanae Confessionis de mutatis abusibus, VII Dissertat. publicis propositi. Rinteln 1711
• Diss. De gratia conversionis omnibus hominibus oblata ex Actor. XVII, 30. Rinteln 1712 (Resp. Ludolph. Henr. Witter)
• Diss. De transfiguratione Satanae in angelum lucis, ad 2 Cor .. XI, 14. Rinteln 1713 (Resp. Otto Ludwig Leisemann)
• Diss. I de definitione geoggraphiae ejusque divisione et globo terraqueo. Rinteln 1713 (Resp.Wigand Kahler)
• Diss. II de telluris structura, magnitudine et praecognitis quibusdam geometricis in geographia necessariis. Rinteln 1714 (Resp.Wigand Kahler)
• Diss. Theol. inaug. de consequentiis theologicis. Rinteln 1714 (Resp. Christian Ebeling; online )
• Diss. De anima humana corpori superstite, ex Eccles. XII, 7. Rinteln 1715 (Resp.Johann Friedrich Bödicker)
• Theologum docentem, qua nomen, officium, docendique rationem. Rinteln 1715 (Resp.Johann Georg Leigh (Weißenfels); online )
• Diss. De circulis in sphaera et mappis geographicis, item de Zonis, parallelis et climatibuus antiquorum, nec non de habitatoribus diversarum zonarum eorumque appellationibus. Giessen 1719 (Resp.Wigand Kahler)
• Theologus docens, diss. qua nomen, officum, docendique ratio delineatur. Rinteln 1715 (Resp.Johann Christian Hopff)
• Dissertatio Philo-Theosophica de linguis et scientiis, theologiae ancillantibus. Rinteln 1720 (Resp.Johann Christian Hopff; online )
• Dissertatio Theologica De Obligatione Ordinationum Ecclesiasticarum: Cum Apparatu Agendorum. Rinteln 1721 (Resp. Hermann Caspar König; online )
• Diss. De jure Dei puniendi posteros ob delicta majorum. Rinteln 1728 (Resp.Anton Ulrich Liesdorff)

literature

• Julius August Wagenmann :  Kahler, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 795 f.
• Bernhard Koerner: German gender book. Genealogical handbook of civil families. CA Starke, Görlitz, 1916, vol. 29, p. 171 ( online )
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. From the Reformation to the present day. Cramer, Kassel, 1786, vol. 6, p. 458 ( online )

Web links

• Post-Reformation Digital Library with 24 titles and their digital copies (PDF format)
• Kahler in the German Digital Library