Johann Nikolaus Seip

Johann Nikolaus Seip (* December 20, 1724 in Marburg ; † September 24, 1789 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the businessman Heinrich Daniel Seip and his wife Anne Elisabeth, a daughter of the Mayor of Marburg, Johann Nikolaus Rabe, received training in Wittelsberg . On November 25, 1738 he left the pedagogy in Marburg and on December 18, 1741 he moved to the University of Marburg . Here he attended the lectures of Johann Joachim Schröder , Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder , Andreas Böhm and Johann Konrad Spangenberg . From 1745 he continued his studies at the University of Rinteln with Johann Nicolaus Funck , Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling and Wigand Kahler .

In 1747 he went to the University of Jena to continue his theological studies with Johann Georg Walch , Friedrich Andreas Hallbauer , Joachim Georg Darjes , Georg Erhard Hamberger , Johann Rudolph Engau and Christian Gottlieb Buder . In 1748 he returned to his homeland via Leipzig , Halle (Saale) , Erfurt and Göttingen , where on April 17, 1749 he obtained the academic degree of Master of Philosophy.

He then gave private lectures at the Marburg University, became a member of the German Society in Göttingen in 1752 and pastor in Betziesdorf in 1753 . In 1754 he moved to Marburg as a subdeacon, continued his academic ambitions during that time and became superintendent on January 7, 1760 and associated consistorial councilor. In Marburg he built an orphanage and remained the highest Protestant employer in the city until the end of his life.

Fonts

• Diss. Inaug. de pathologia divina sive de affectibus divinis. Marburg 1749
• Diss. Moralis de conversione hominis philosophica. Sectio I. Marburg 1749
• Diss. De conversionis hominis philosophicae mediis, eorum inprimis praerequisita status, explorationem et poenitentiam sistens Sectio II. Marburg 1751
• De cultu Dei mechanico. Marburg 1752
• The power of examples. Marburg 1754 (a speech)
• Of the necessary loyalty of an evangelical preacher; An inaugural address at the takeover of the pasture over the flock of Jesus Christ, 1. Petri 4, 11. Marburg 1754
• Theory of the predictions and predictions of the human soul, together with a practical application of them. Marburg 1755
• Drafts of holy speeches on the Sunday and Festival Epistles. Marburg 1759
• News of an Evangelical Lutheran orphanage to be rebuilt in Marburg. Marburg 1766
• Second message from the newly built Evangelical-Lutheran orphanage in Marburg. Marburg 1767
• A young Christian woman on her deathbed. Marburg 1778 (a standard speech)

literature

• Bernhard Beß:  Seip, Johann Nikolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 651-653.
• 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.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Verlag Gerisbach, Kassel, 1804, vol. 14, p. 170, ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J. Leipzig, 1813, vol. 13, p. 70, ( online )
• Robert Sommer: Goethe in the light of heredity. Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1908, p. 77