Johann Ludwig Schlosser (theologian, 1738)

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Johann Ludwig Schlosser (born October 18, 1738 in Hamburg , † January 9, 1815 in Bergedorf ) was a German writer and Lutheran theologian and one of the main actors in the second Hamburg theater dispute in 1768/69 .

Life

Schlosser was the son of the eponymous Hamburg chief pastor to St. Katharinen , Johann Ludwig Schlosser (1702–1754), and a great-grandson of Johann Winckler . He attended the Academic Gymnasium from 1754 to 1758 and then studied at the University of Jena . In 1766 he was appointed pastor of the St. Petri and Pauli Church in Bergedorf, which at that time was administered jointly by Hamburg and Lübeck . Here he stayed until his death.

Schlosser was devoted to enlightenment theology. He became known, however, because he had written some comedies and plays as a student and thus became the starting point of the second Hamburg theater dispute. In return for the assurance that his anonymity would be preserved, he had given the manuscripts to friends who performed at least two of the pieces on Ackermann's stage in Hamburg without maintaining the anonymity stipulated by Schlosser. These pieces were also published in print in 1767–68. They received pretty derogatory reviews. Since the reviewer took the fact that the pieces had been written by a clergyman as an occasion to ridicule the entire clergy , the senior Johann Melchior Goeze was prompted to respond ironically. That in turn led Schlosser to write a reply. His friend since his youth, Professor Johann Heinrich Vincent Nölting , like Schlosser, a Hamburg pastor's son, whom Goeze had indirectly addressed, now interfered in the dispute. His journalistic contribution reached three editions in a short time. After Goeze obtained an expert opinion from the Göttingen Theological Faculty, which proved him right and which was then the target of satires, a Senate decree of November 23, 1769 put an end to the dispute by imposing silence on the parties involved.

Little is known about Schlosser's later life. He was married on May 4, 1773 to Johanna Charlotte Hedwig, the daughter of the businessman Justus Carl Funck; she died in 1780. Of his three sons and one daughter, only one son survived. His youngest son, Johann Carl (born February 18, 1780), died in St. Thomas on July 14, 1799.

Works

  • Dissertatio philologico-exegetica exhibens spicilegium observationum de serpente aeneo servatoris cruci affixi typo, Num XXI. 6-9 Joh. III. 14. 15. Diss. Jena 1759
  • Disquisitio de discrimine eloquentiae sacrae et humanae. Jenae: Marggraf 1761
  • New comedies. Bremen: Cramer [approx. 1770]

in this:

  • The duel: a comedy in five acts
  • The comedians: a comedy in five acts
  • The misunderstanding: a comedy in one act
  • The masquerade: a comedy in one act
  • Message to the public regarding the Hamburg pastor and senior, Mr. Johann Melchior Goeze, theological investigation of the morality of the present-day German theater with some comments on the value of this work. Hamburg: Gleditsch, 1769
  • Free-spirited examination of a writing by the Hamburg senior Mr. Joh. Melchior Goeze. which has the title: Correct explanation of the words of Asaph Ps. 79,6 ... employed by a friend of reasonable worship [i. e. Johann Ludwig Schlosser] Hamburg: Bohn 1769

literature

  • Otto Beneke :  Schlosser, Johann Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 548.
  • Hans Bruhn: The candidates of the Hamburg Church from 1654 to 1825. Album candidatorum. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1963 (The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation, Volume III), p. 240, No. 974
  • Johannes Geffcken : The dispute over the morality of the theater in 1769 (Goeze, Schlosser, Nölting) , in: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 3 (1851), pp. 56-77 ( digitized version )
  • Wilhelm Leonhardt: Johann Ludwig Schlosser, the contentious and aesthetic pastor of Bergedorf . In: Lichtwark No. 23. Ed. Bergedorf District Office, Bergedorf, 1962. See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN  1862-3549 .
  • Hans Schröder, CRW Klose (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Developed on behalf of the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 6, Hamburg 1873, pp. 569-71. ( Digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so Geffcken, Lexikon and ADB; Bruhn (Lit.), p. 240: September 18
  2. ↑ So the GBV catalog entry, actually probably 1768
personal data
SURNAME Schlosser, Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and Lutheran theologian, main actor in the second Hamburg theater dispute
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1815
Place of death Bergedorf