Johann Konrad Spörl

Johann Konrad Spörl (born January 3, 1701 in Nuremberg ; † May 20, 1773 there ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the teacher Johann Ludwig Spörl and his wife Maria Sabina, daughter of the pastor in Graevenberg Christoph Löner, came from a well-respected Franconian pastor family. He had attended the Aegidianum from 1706 to 1716 and received his first training from private tutors. With a knowledge of logic, rhetoric and especially Hebrew, he moved to Altdorf University in 1718 . There Christian Gottlieb Schwarz (1675–1751), Johann David Köhler , Johann Heinrich Müller , Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein and Gustav Georg Zeltner were his main teachers in the fields of theological and philosophical knowledge. In 1719 he gave his unprinted speech in the memoriam saecularem Curiae Norimb. Splendidius renovatae et amplificatae and in 1720 he obtained under Koehler's chairmanship with the defended treatise de Gerberto, postea Silvestro II PM eximio medii aevi philosopho the degree of philosophical master's degree .

In that year he went to the University of Jena , where Michael Förtsch , Johann Franz Buddeus , Johann Andreas Danz , Jesajas Friedrich Weissenborn (1673–1750), Johann Reinhard Rus and Johann Jakob Syrbius , in whose house he lived, continued his training . In 1722 he found further theological training at the University of Halle with Joachim Justus Breithaupt , Paul Anton , August Hermann Francke , Johann Heinrich Michaelis and Joachim Lange . The pursuit of a versatile education also led him to some legal lectures by Christian Thomasius , Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling and Justus Henning Böhmer .

When Spörl returned to Jena in 1722 after a few small trips that he had to undertake because of his poor health, he defended his dissertation there as present tense: de imagine Die in homine, which refute the Demonstratio immortalitatis animae ex intima ejus natura deducta published by Thümmig should. Returned to Nuremberg in 1723, he stayed for some time in Altdorf, where he attended especially Zeltner's and Johann Jacob Pfitzer's lectures. In 1726 he became early preacher at St. Martha Church in Nuremberg and in 1730 a deacon at St. Aegidien Church .

In 1736 he was a deacon at St. Sebalds Church and in 1749 Antistes and preacher at St. Aegidien. At the same time he received a professorship in theology and philosophical morality at the Aegidianum. Later he was still an inspector and co-executor of the Rösler school for the poor in Nuremberg. In 1759, with a preaching position at the St. Lorenz Church, he also received the associated inspection of the candidates for the preaching office. He died of a heart attack after becoming the first preacher at St. Sebald's Church three years earlier. As a scholar of his time, Spörl made a name for himself primarily through his ascetic writings.

family

From his marriage to Luica, the daughter of the deacon of the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg Johann Ulrich Stör and his wife Johanna Maria (née Hornässer) on November 14, 1730, three sons and a daughter emerged. We know of these:

• Johann Ludwig Spörl (born August 8, 1731 in Nuremberg; † June 3, 1793 in Nuremberg) was also a theologian
• Johann Jacob Spörl (born August 16, 1732 in Nuremberg; † June 3, 1769) was regimental quartermaster in the Franconian district
• Volkmar Daniel Spörl (born December 26, 1733 in Nuremberg; † January 21, 1807) also became a theologian
• Maria Hedwig Spörl (born April 5, 1735 in Nuremberg) married. June 3, 1769 with the teacher and later pastor in Mögeldorf M. Wolfgang Friedrich Lochner

Works

• Diss. De imagine Dei in homine. Jena 1722
• Introductio in notitiam insignium typographicorum, collectione horum insignium Rothscholzianae praemissa, et dissertatione epislolica ad F. Rothscholzium proposita. Nuremberg and Altdorf 1730
• Cantata in the church of the little town of Velden after the main building was completed and the decoration was carried out throughout the Solennia, which was committed on June 29, 1730 because of the inauguration celebrated 200 years ago Augsburg Confession. Nuremberg 1730
• The gospel of Moses, or the testimonies of Christ's sufferings and death, contained in the books of Moses; explained in fifteen sermons of the passion. Nuremberg 1732
• Reflections on the words: I am the God of Abraham, Isaac etc. presented at a baptism of Jews. Nuremberg 1733
• Leichseremon and curriculum vitae of the blessed woman turner, b. Niedererin. Nuremberg 1739
• The actually true cause of Jesus Christ's death on the cross, indicated by the scriptures themselves. Nuremberg 1744
• Program inaug. de Norimberga pacifica, praemissum Orationi de Theologia pacifica, ipso anno restitutae Pacis Westphalicae Jubilaeo, habita. Nuremberg 1748

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1813, 13th vol., P. 242, ( online )
• Acta historico-ecclesiastica nostri temporis or collected news and documents on the church history of our time. Verlag Carl Ludolf Hoffmann, Weimar, 1775, Part 9, p. 222, ( online )
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 274 ( online )
• Georg Andreas Will : Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, or description of all Nuremberg scholars beyderley sex according to your life, merit and writings, to expand the history of the learned and improve many errors that have occurred in it from the best sources in alphabetical order. Verlag Lorenz Schüpfel, Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1757, 3rd volume, p. 753, ( online )
• Paul Tschackert :  Spörl, Johann Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 273 f.