Johann Philipp Juncker

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Johann Philipp Juncker , also Junker , (* in Waltershausen ; † 1706 in Oldisleben ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Johann Philipp Juncker was born in Waltershausen as the son of the civil servant Johann Matthaeus Juncker , who was the son of the mayor Johann Juncker and who died in 1703. Having trained at a grammar school in Gotha , he moved to the University of Jena to study theology, then the University of Leipzig . This appointed him on January 29, 1685 to the Magister . He came to Römhild the following year as rector and court deacon . In 1687 in Koblenz he became professor of the Greek language and poetry. In 1692 he received a call to Molsdorf as pastor . Finally he was adjunct parish priest and assessor of the spiritual court in Oldisleben . There he died of a stroke in 1706 .

Juncker published with others the hymn book of the city of Nordhausen . From 1703 he also published a collection of his and his father's sacred poems. His brother was the lawyer Johann Georg Juncker .

Works

  • Spiritual house songs (first edition 1703, second 1704, third 1705; he died when the fourth was published)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Juncker, Johann Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Junker, Johann Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltershausen
DATE OF DEATH 1706
Place of death Oldis life