Johann Reinhard Rus

Johann Reinhard Rus

Johann Reinhard Rus also: Russ, Rusius, (* February 24, 1679 in Rod am Berg , † April 18, 1738 in Jena ) was a German oriental philologist, Graecist and Protestant theologian.

Life

Johann Reinhard was born the son of the teacher Johann Philipp Rus and his wife Katharina Hedwig Eberhard. After initial instruction from his father, he attended school in Usingen in 1688 and began studying at the University of Giessen on April 8, 1695 . Here Johann Heinrich May the Elder , Johann Christoph Bielenfeld (1664-1727), Johann Reinhard Hedinger and Georg Christian Bürcklin (* Durlach; † 1716 in Giessen) were his formative teachers. On May 6, 1698, he moved to the University of Jena , where Johann Andreas Danz , Johann Paul Hebenstreit (1660–1718), Johann Phillip Treuner (1666–1722), Georg Albrecht Hamberger (1662–1716), Burkhard Gotthelf Struve and Johann Franz Buddeus exerted a significant influence on the young student.

On September 20, 1699, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy, completed his habilitation, and on July 11, 1708, he became an adjunct in the philosophy faculty of the Salana. After he had received an appointment as associate professor of philology on March 8, 1715, he took up this chair on August 2, 1713 and on March 8, 1715 became full professor of oriental languages. In addition, he received a professorship in the Greek language in 1721 and became a full professor of theology in 1729, where he resigned from the professorship of oriental languages. On March 31, 1733 he became a doctor of theology. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Jena University and was Rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters 1716, 1724 and in the winter semester 1734 .

Rus was married twice. His first marriage was with Johanna Maria Probst († April 30, 1722 in Jena), the daughter of Johannes Probst and Sophia Chemnitz († June 19, 1722 in Jena). He went into his second marriage in May 1723 to Susanne Maria Judel, with a stepdaughter of the Jena theology professor Michael Förtsch , from his first marriage. Five children survived the father.

Works (selection)

• De chaldaicae linguae ejusque accenluntionis neecssitate et utililate. Casting 1695
• De somnio pibtorum ex Genes. XL, 16-20. 22. Jena 1701
• De linguae syriacae usu in NT Jena 1702
• De usu accentuationis hebraicae in pentade dictorum Vet. Test. commonstrato. Jena 1704, 1732
• To Zacharias, Joannis baptistae pater fuerit summus pontifex ad illustr. loc. Luc. I, 5-80. Jena 1708
• De lapidatione Stephani. Jena 1709
• De harmonia vitae Davidis. Jena 1710
• Exercit. philol. de serpente seduetore non naturali, sed solo diabolo ad Genesin III, 1-15. Jena 1713
• Dissertatio promissionem davidicam 2 Sam. 7, 14 et Paralip. XVII (al. XVIII) 13 descriptam soli Messiae vindicans. Jena 1713
• Diss. De Abrahami vocatione ex Ur. Jena 1718
• Harmonia evangelistarurn. Jena 1727-1730. 3 vol.
• De descensu Christi ad inferos. Jena 1730
• Introductio in N. Test. Jena 1735
• Meditatio natalitia exhibens breves in pentateuchum Werthemiensem depravatum stricturas, et praecipuorum quorundam locorum de Messia vindicatis. Jena 1735

literature

• Biographies of some deceased Theologorum and Philologorum. & Review of the biography of Blessed Mr. D. Rusens. In: Acta Historico Ecclesiastica. Or collected news from the latest church stories. Siegmund Heinrich Hoffmann, Weimar, 1738, 3rd volume, 13th part, p. 105, ( online ) & p. 267 ( online )
• Rus or soot (Johann Reinhard). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 32, Leipzig 1742, column 1871–1873.
• Johannes Günther: Life sketches of the professors at the University of Jena from 1558 to 1858. Friedrich Mauke, Jena, 1858, p. 190, ( online )
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, 3rd vol. Sp. 2317 ( online )
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, 3rd vol., P. 671 ( online )
• Gottlieb Stolle: Instructions for the history of theological truth. Johann Meyers Erben, Jena, 1739, p. 836 ( online )
• Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten : The now living learned Europe. Ludolph Schröder, Braunschweig and Hildesheim, 1736, vol. 2, p. 606 ( online )
• Friedrich Otto:  Rus, Johann Reinhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 753 f.