Johann Ludwig Spörl

Johann Ludwig Spörl (born August 8, 1731 in Nuremberg ; † June 3, 1793 there ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of Johann Konrad Spörl attended the Aegidianum of his hometown from 1731 to 1747 and the University of Altdorf in 1748 . Emulating his father, he studied theology and older languages, with Johann Balthasar Bernhold (1687–1769), Johann Wilhelm Baier , Johann Augustin Dietelmair , Christian Gottlieb Schwarz (1675–1751), Johann Andreas Michael Nagel and Michael Adelbulner as his teachers . With Johann Heumann von Teutschenbrunn he heard natural law. After a three-year stay, he left Altdorf, where he received his master's degree in 1750 through his unprinted Inaugural dissertation de figuris patheticis ex divino vate Esaia illustratis .

In that year he went to the University of Jena , where Johann Georg Walch and Johann Gottfried Tympe (1699–1768) had a formative influence on his theological education. At the University of Leipzig from 1752 he especially attended the lectures of Christian August Crusius , Johann Christian Stemler and Salomo Deyling . On the trip to his homeland, he visited several neighboring universities and stayed in Dresden for some time . In 1767 Spörl became the lowest deacon in Hersbruck after the Latin Society in Jena had made him an honorary member two years earlier.

In 1766 he was a deacon and in the same year city pastor in Hersbruck. In 1773 he became a preacher at the Marienkirche in Nuremberg and in 1782 professor of logic and metaphysics at the Aegidianum. He opened this teaching post with his unpublished speech de Philosophiae studio, Theologiae cultoribus, nostris praesertim temporibus, maxime commendando . In 1787 Spörl was a preacher at the St. Aegidien Church and inspector of the Aegidianum, in 1791 he moved to the St. Lorenz Church in the same capacity and was associated with the inspector of the candidates for the ministry. In 1792 he became a preacher at the St. Sebaldus Church , member of the Nuremberg consistory and city librarian, which he remained until the end of his life.

Works

• Congratulations to Epistola. de S. Aegidio Norbonensi, pristino templi Norimbergensis patrono. Nuremberg 1749
• Progr. De philosophiae fatis et abusu. Nuremberg 1782
• Sermon on Sundays Reminiscere 1784 in St. Mary's Church. Nuremberg 1784
• Funeral sermon at the deathly ride of the most glorious Emperor Leopold II Nuremberg in 1792, to everyone's dismay
• De Abrahamo, ad videndum Christi diem admisso, ad illustr. loc. Joh. 8, 56. In: Novis Miscellaneis Lipsiensibus Vol. IX P. III

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1813, 13th vol., P. 243, ( online )
• Georg Andreas Will / Christian Conrad Nopitzsch: Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, or description of all Nuremberg scholars beyderley sexes according to their life, merits and writings, to expand the history of learning and to improve many mistakes made in it from the best sources in alphabetical order. Verlag Lorenz Schüpfel, Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1757, 3rd volume, p. 756, ( online ), 1806, 7th volume, p. 274, ( 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. 277, ( online )
• Paul Tschackert:  Spörl, Johann Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 274.