Johann Philipp Pfeiffer

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Johann Philipp Pfeiffer (1689)

Johann Philipp Pfeiffer (born February 16, 1645 in Nuremberg , † September 10, 1695 in Guttstadt ) was a German philologist , librarian and theologian .

Life

Pfeiffer was a son of the Nuremberg notary and council secretary Heinrich Pfeiffer († 1669). After attending grammar school in his hometown , he began his academic studies in 1663 at the University of Altdorf and continued them in Regensburg, Erfurt, Jena, Leipzig, Wittenberg and Helmstedt. He studied Greek language and philosophy, law and theology, especially the Church Fathers. In 1665 he went to Königsberg , where he obtained his master’s degree in 1666 and gave philological and philosophical lectures. In 1671 he was appointed Professor of the Greek Language by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . During this time his main work Libri IV antiquitatum graecarum was created . In 1672 he married Dorothea geb. Landenberg († 1689). In 1673 he became head of the Wallenrodt library .

In 1680 the elector also appointed Pfeiffer professor of theology and in 1685 court preacher . The other professors of the theological faculty, who did not trust Pfeiffer's Lutheran orthodoxy , opposed the appointment of the chair . They prevented him from taking office for four years. Pfeiffer's PhD disputation in 1685 offered new material for conflict. His inclination towards Catholicism became increasingly evident . His visit to the abbot of Oliva monastery in 1692 caused a storm of indignation. At the table he said u. a. his approval of the papal primacy , the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist and purgatory . Samuel Pufendorf , Philipp Jacob Spener and Franz Julius Lütkens prepared a joint report on the following procedure . In 1694 Pfeiffer was relieved of all offices.

Pfeiffer accepted an earlier invitation from the Bishop of Warmia Johann Stanislaus Sbaski (1625-1697) to Heilsberg and was accepted into the Catholic Church on July 25, 1694 with his two daughters, his future son-in-law Christian Helwich and his son Christian Richard Pfeiffer . He accompanied the bishop, who would have liked to keep him in his vicinity, to visit King John III. Sobieski in Warsaw . At that time Pfeiffer's health was already weakened. He received the minor ordinations and was endowed with a country parish priest , then with a canonical at the Guttstadt monastery . He died there on September 10, 1695.

Publications (selection)

  • Libri IV. Antiquitatum graecarum gentilium sacrarum, politicarum, militarium & oeconomicarum . Königsberg and Leipzig 1689 ( digitized version )
  • D. Jo. Phil. Pfeiffer's dissertation on the sign of † H. Creutzes. Ex M [anu] S [crip] to. In: Continued collection of old and new theological matters . Leipzig 1723, pp. 880-904

A comprehensive bibliography is provided by the Prussian explained .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnoldt p. 628
  2. ^ Relatio because of D. Pfeiffers , edited and commented by Reimund B. Sdzuj and Dietrich Blaufuß in The University of Königsberg in the Early Modern Age , Cologne 2008, pp. 247–263; see. Arnoldt pp. 630-632
  3. ^ Arnoldt p. 637
  4. ↑ s. Literature, pp. 756-759
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Johann Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeifferus, Johannes Philippus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, librarian and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1645
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1695
Place of death Guttstadt