Johann Peter Snell

Johann Peter Snell (born January 25, 1720 in Braubach in Hessian, † April 1, 1797 in Klingelbach ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the then parish clerk Michael Snell and his wife Johanne Marie, the daughter of the Metropolitan in Braubach Johann Heinrich Vietor, had received their first training from their father. He was enrolled at the University of Giessen , where he was only able to study philosophical and theological sciences in 1741 due to his poor health. Guided by professors Johann Ludwig Alefeld , Heinrich Daniel Müller (1712–1797), Ernst Friedrich Neubauer , Reinhard Heinrich Roll (1683–1768) and other teachers, he acquired the degree of master's degree on December 22, 1745 .

After completing his academic career, he was a private tutor in Staden (Florstadt) and returned to Gießen, where in 1746, as a Magister legens, he obtained permission to read for universities. After some time involved in academic reading, he went to Gemmerich to support his father in his official duties and in 1749 became a deacon in Nassau (Lahn) . In 1750 he followed a call to Dachsenhausen as a preacher . In 1765 he was given the office of metropolitan and in 1777 he was inspector of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen in Hessen-Darmstadt.

In spite of frequent physical activity, an almost uninterrupted health, on which even a broken leg in 1769 had no negative influence, several hard blows of fate met him in later years of life. 1795–1796 he experienced two pillages by roaming French troops. The only way to avoid personal abuse was by fleeing to a nearby forest. After his death he was buried in Dachsenhausen at his personal request.

family

From his marriage to Johanne Elisabeth Louise († June 3, 1791), the youngest daughter of the former pastor in Niederwiesen Johann Wilhelm Fresenius, he had eight children. One son died in childhood, the others are known:

• Karl Philipp Michael Snell
• Christian Wilhelm Snell
• Dorothea Christine Snell (born February 22, 1757)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Daniel Snell
• Johann Peter Ludwig Snell
• Catherine Susanne Louise Snell (born August 30, 1766)
• Ludwig Immanuel Snell

Works

• Diss. Inaug. de conscientia cauterio notata, ad denominationem divi Apostoli 1 Timoth. 4, 2 ex antiquitatibus illustrum. Casting 1745
• Diss. De emendandae vitae studio mature suscipiendo. Casting 1746
• Expert opinion on the use of a certain remedy against the bite of angry dogs. . .. 1752
• Attempt to calculate the apocalyptic time from the time of revelation to the end of the world. (Offenbach) 1773
• Treatise on the Right Use and Abuse of the Oaths, for Preachers and the Common Man. Casting 1775
• New attempt at teaching German, according to the most valued reasons for schools and their teachers. Offenbach 1790, 1799
• Ground plan for a complete religious instruction, for catechetical use when instructing the Confirmands. Frankfurt am Main 1791
• Sophocles, or the most correct and understandable way of representing a rational moral system. Bremen 1796

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Verlag Griesbach, Kassel, 1806, vol. 15, p. 34, ( 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. 244 ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1813, vol. 13, p. 192 ( online )