Johann Melchior Kraft

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Johann Melchior Kraft, also: Krafft , (born June 11, 1673 in Wetzlar ; † July 22, 1751 in Husum ) was a German Lutheran theologian and a representative of early Pietism .

Life

The son of a lay judge and councilor attended the school in his hometown and in Gießen in 1688 the pedagogy. In 1690 he returned home and prepared for university studies, moved to the University of Wittenberg in 1691 , where he acquired the degree of master's degree in 1693. He then went on an educational trip that took him to Hamburg , where he familiarized himself with the Hebrew language with Esdras Edzardus . Submitted from there, he accepted a position as a private tutor in Barlt . Soon afterwards he worked in the same position in Hamburg-Altenwerder and accompanied his protégés to Kiel University .

After he had attended other lectures in Kiel and was made aware of the writings of Philipp Jacob Spener , which made a great impression on him, he returned to Hamburg via Putlos in 1697. Here he became court master of a nobleman with whom he lived for a short time in Lübeck . The suggestion was made to Kraft to accept a pastorate in Süderstapel . He consented to this suggestion, and he was introduced and ordained in this office by General Superintendent Heinrich Muhlius . In 1705 he became a preacher in Sandesneben . In 1709 Muhlius, whom Krafft had previously defended in two books, succeeded in having him called to Husum, where he took over the office of archdeacon ; In 1712 he became school inspector and soon afterwards chief pastor.

In 1736 he was promoted to consistorial councilor and member of the senior consistory at Gottorf Castle , which he held until the end of his life. Kraft had made a name for himself as a learned theologian during his time. He also published some of his works under the pseudonym Krato .

Selection of works

  • The saved innocence ... of the soul. Cas. Herm. Sandhagens and Henr. Muhlii, again the wrong accusations… Jos. Schwartzens. Schleswig 1702 ( digitized version ).
  • Historical report of the Schleswig-Holstein church disputes and divisions etc. also against D. Schwarzen. Schleswig 1705.
  • Emendanda et Corrigenda. quaedara in historia versionis Germanicae Bibliorum, a D. Joh. Frid. Mayero editae. Schleswig 1705, reprinted Leipzig 1705.
  • Comments on the concerns of an unnamed distinguished theologian in the innocent news, about the Bible printed at Stuttgard A. 1640, to save the Lutheri interpreting, and the so harshly accused Württemberg award-worthy Bible. Hamburg 1708.
  • Prodromus historiae versionis Germanicae Biblioruni, that is, display and treatise of the history of the Bible translated into the German language; wobey appears at the same time:
    1. A description of the Latin version of the Bible, Lutheran A. 1529.
    2. A concern about the German Bible, edited by M. Christian Reineccio zu Leipzig A. 1708.
    3. An answer to the excuses of the authors of the innocent news, etc., Leipzig 1714.
  • Prodromus continuatus historiae versionis Bibliorum Hamburg 1714.
  • The other centenary year of jubilee of the Evangelical Church, from the An. Reformation started in 1517, with the presentation of the history of Lutheri psalter interpreting, and how its Germanization was often mistreated with very shameful manipulations by the Roman Catholics, but also scribbled and Bibles defended by such religious relatives; along with a special salvation of the Lutheri version against the Jesuit Petr. Raestium, and a preface from the Roman Catholic Church's own behavior regarding the translation and reading of the Bible in common languages, up to the present day. Hamburg 1721.
  • A two-fold two-hundred-year memory of jubilation, the first of which in a sermon held on the feast day of All Saints in 1722 introduces the Reformation, for example through God's blessing in 1522, first and foremost in these duchies, Schleswig u. Holstein, started by Hermanne Keys in this town of Husum; the other, however, is a complete history of the New Testament, which was translated into German by Luthero and printed twice in 1522 at Wittenberg. Attached to this is I. A two-hundred-year history of Churches and schools in Husum, II. A detailed description of the life of General Superintendent Jacobi Fabriecii , as the other reformer of the church situation challenged by Philippo Caesare ; brought to light everything from and with its evidence, letters and mostly never-before-printed documents. Hamburg 1723.
  • Detailed history of the exorcismo . Hamburg 1750.

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SURNAME Kraft, Johann Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann Melchior Krafft
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1751
Place of death Husum