Johann Peter Reusch

Johann Peter Reusch

Johann Peter Reusch (born August 15, 1691 in Almersbach , † June 5, 1758 in Jena ) was a German philosopher and Lutheran theologian.

Life

Johann Peter was the son of pastor Johann Anton Reusch (born October 3, 1648 in Daaden; † June 11, 1728 in Bendorf) and his first wife Maria Magdalena Demmer († January 21, 1695 in Almersbach). After initial training by private teachers, he attended the grammar school in Idstein from 1704 and moved to the University of Giessen in 1709 to study theology. Found in the household of Johann Christian Lange (1669-1756), he initially followed lectures at the philosophical faculty on physics with Michael Bernhard Valentini and Johann Melchior Verdries (born June 26, 1679 in Gießen; † July 25, 1735 ibid.) Johann Georg Liebknecht expanded his knowledge of mathematics and with Georg Christian Bürklin (* Durlach; † 1716 in Giessen) his knowledge of the oriental languages. Theologically he received the tools from Johann Christoph Bielenfeld (* December 25, 1664 in Wernigerode; † June 21, 1727 in Gießen), Johann Heinrich May the Younger and Johann Bartholomäus Rüdiger (* October 10, 1660 in Grünberg; † July 3, 1729 in Giessen). After continuing his studies at the University of Marburg in 1715 , he moved to the University of Halle on June 18, 1716 , where Christian Wolff in particular had a formative influence on him.

Following his father's request, he went to the University of Jena on September 9, 1716 . On January 30, 1717, he acquired the license to read aloud for universities and on March 18 of the same year the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. On November 27, 1719 he was introduced as the rector of the Jenaer Ratsschule, where he vigorously headed the educational institution and at the same time continued his lectures at the Jenaer Salana. On January 8, 1724, he became an adjunct of the philosophical faculty, in 1733 extraordinary professor of the same and in 1738 full professor of logic and metaphysics. With the latter position he resigned from his post as rector. As a Jena professor at the philosophical faculty, he was dean of the same several times and in the summer semesters of 1742 and 1752 he was rector of the University of Jena. In 1755 he moved to the theological faculty as a professor. After he had held his inaugural dissertation to the doctor of theology on January 20, 1758, he was awarded his doctorate on February 2 of the same year. However, he was not granted a long period of effectiveness.

Reusch was one of those who tried to combine theology with the philosophy of Christian Wolff and thus to bring it closer to reason. Despite the support of the ideas of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Wolffs, he was an opponent of the doctrine of pre-established harmony .

He was married to the widow of the Jena deacon Johann Gottlieb Musaeus (1700–1737). Children also come from marriage.

Works (selection)

• Via ad perfectiones intellectus compendiaria. Eisenach 1728
• Program inaug. quo professionem logicae ac metaphys. patronosque et fautores ad audiendam orationem de Spinozae atheismo habebitur invitat Jo. Pet. Reusch. Jena 1738 ( online )
• De religionis verae cum felicitate vera necessario arctissimoque nexu. Jena 1738
• Systema Logicum Antiquiorum Atque Recentiorum Item Propria Praecepta Exhibens. Jena 1734, Jena 1741 ( online ), Jena 1750, Jena 1760 ( online )
• Systema Metaphysicum: Antiquiorum Atque Recentiorum Item Propria Dogmata Et Hypotheses Exhibens. Jena 1734 ( online ), Jena 1743; Jena 1753 ( online )
• Introductio in JP Reuschii Systema logicum, cum consensu et approbatione ipsius, methodo tabularum conscripta a M. Jo. Gottlieb Waldin. Jena 1758
• Introductio in Theologiam revelatam, seu Theologiae revelatae Pars generalis, qua necessarius religionis verae ac felicitatis nexus, nec non dogmatum Christianae religionis concordia cum veritatibus naturaliter cognitis, in luce ponuntur, itemque libri canonici religionum, quae perhibentur recen revelatae,. Jena 1744; Jena 1762
• Theologia polemica. Pars I. Jena 1754 (remained unfinished)
• Annotations in b. Yo. Guil. Baieri Compendium Theologiae positivae. Jena 1757
• Diss. Inaug. de efficacia naturali sermonis generatim spectati, et speciatim, verbi divini. Jena 1758 (present Johann Georg Walch , online )
• Theologia moralis; edidit et praefatus est CG Müller. Jena 1760, ( online ); Preface to FS Zickler's detailed explanation of the Heil. Scripture in the dogmatic truth of God (Jen. 1753. 4), of the disadvantage of the philological Bible explanation by the mathematical method.

Accompanying disputations

• Exercitationis Academicæ De cognitione sui ipsius propaedeumatica partem priorem. Jena 1717 (Resp.Wilhelm Christian Ernst Höpffner, online )
• Vindicias certitudinis mathematum adversus ill. Thomasii cautelas. Jena 1718 (Resp.Johann Reusch (Bendorf), online )
• Dyas Philologica: I. De Naturali Fundamento Linguæ Ebræorum II. De Convenientia Ziphrarum Cum Decem Primis Ebræorum Litteris. Jena 1718 (Resp.Johann Conrad Schmidt (Iserlohn), online )
• Dissertatio Philosophica De Sana Illorum Doctrina Qui Emendationem Ab Intellectu Inchoandam Esse Statuunt. Jena 1721 (Resp.Johann Gerlach Eutenneuer, online )
• De eo, quod pulchrum est in eloquentia justque potissimum rationibus. Jena 1724 (Resp.Wilhelm Levin Severus)
• Via Ad Perfectiones Intellectvs Compendiaria. Eisenach 1728 ( online )
• Quo sensu hic mundus sit optimus. (whether and to what extent this world is the best?). Jena 1734 (Resp. Johann Friedrich Jacobi, online ); Jena 1739 2nd edition ( online ); Jena 1746, 3rd edition, ( online )
• Dissertation Moralis De Amore Erga Devm Puro. Jena 1739 (Resp.Johann Georg Leutwein, online ), Jena 1743 ( online )
• Diss. Philos. De obligatione circa observandas ceremonias. Jena 1739 (Resp. Friedrich Wilhelm von Wedel, online )
• Diss. Philos. De imperio voluntatis in intellectum, speciatim ratione emendationis ex natura animae deducto. Jena 1747 (Resp.Johann Gottlieb Zorn, online )

literature

• Johann Christoph Mühlius: Jena flourished in 1743. Georg Michael Marggraf, Jena 1743 ( online )
• Johann Matthias Schröckh : impartial church history of the Old and New Testaments. Johann Wilhelm Hartung, Jena, 1766, vol. 4, p. 495, ( online )
• Reusch (Johann Peter). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, column 958 f.
• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, vol. 3, p. 565 ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died between 1750 and 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1811, vol. 11, p. 232, ( online )
• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching , Johann Heinrich Martin Ernesti: Historischliterarisches Handbuch of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century. Verlag Schwickert, Leipzig, 1806, vol. 9, p. 105, ( online )
• Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen, 1819, Vol. 6, Sp. 1870 ( online )
• Carl Meusel, Ernst Haack, B. Lehmann, A. Hofstätter: Kirchliches Handlexikon. Justus Naumann, Leipzig, 1897, vol. 5, p. 607
• Carl von Prantl :  Reusch, Johann Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 296.

Web links

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• Works by and about Johann Peter Reusch  in the German Digital Library