Johann Kaspar Haferung

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Johann Kaspar Haferung (also: Johann Caspar Haferung; * February 14, 1669 in Kraja ; † May 17, 1744 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Johann Kaspar Haferung was born in Kraja in 1669 as the son of pastor Johann Kaspar Haferung. He studied from May 28, 1690 at the University of Wittenberg . After he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in the philosophical faculty there on April 28, 1692 , he went to Sweden as court master of Herr von Boy , where he took part in disputations at the University of Uppsala , among other places . Via Amsterdam he returned to Wittenberg in 1696, where he became an adjunct at the philosophical faculty.

He continued to occupy himself with theological studies, was able to obtain a licentiate in theology on April 26, 1702 and went to Greussen as pastor , in which function he was also adjunct Ephorie Sondershausen and assessor of the consistory there. After he received his doctorate on October 2, 1711 in Wittenberg, he was appointed archdeacon of the city ​​church of Wittenberg in 1713 . In Wittenberg he was initially an associate professor and from 1726 until the end of his life a full professor at the theological faculty. Haferung took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg Academy and held the rectorate of the university in the winter semesters of 1736 and 1742 .

Haferung, however, placed less value on Lutheran orthodoxy than - following Johann Arndt and Philipp Jacob Spener - on inner life and active piety. As a result, he also drew criticism from his counterparts.

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personal data
SURNAME Haferung, Johann Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1669
PLACE OF BIRTH Kraja
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1744
Place of death Wittenberg