Johann Samuel Wiesner

Johann Samuel Wiesner (born April 1, 1723 in Markt Taschendorf ; † April 21, 1780 in Baiersdorf ) was a German Protestant theologian , educator and orientalist .

Life

Wiesner had attended the school in his hometown and the high school in Bayreuth. Equipped with the necessary prior knowledge, especially in the ancient languages, he began his academic career at the University of Jena in order to devote himself to theological and philosophical studies. He later moved to the University of Erlangen . In 1745 Wiesner was an employee at the grammar school in Erlangen and in 1749 vice rector of the institution. With these offices he also administered the diaconate in the old town. In 1752 he obtained his master's degree and in 1755, after defending two treatises de profanatione nominis divini , appeared as a private lecturer.

After he had been appointed adjunct of the philosophy faculty of the Erlangen University in 1756 , he took over the rectorate of the Erlangen grammar school in 1758 and became in-house counsel for Neustadt. In 1762 the Erlangen University gave him an extraordinary professorship in philosophy and in 1769 he was a full professor of oriental languages. 1775 took him to Baiersdorf, where he worked as superintendent until the end of his life.

Wiesner was considered a thorough knowledge of the oriental languages, which he used especially for the exegesis of the Old Testament . Too much modesty prevented him from publishing a grammatical analysis of the books of the Old Testament which he had spent many years composing. A greatly increased edition by Johann Buxtorf the Elder Hebrew Abbreviations and the Supplementa et annotata ad Chaldaicam Danzianam in compendio grammaticae ebraeae also remained unprinted .

Works

• Diss. Historico- philosophica (Praes. JS Kripnero) de anima mundi secundum Platonem ex essentiae divinae partícula et rerum elementis composita. Erlangen 1745
• Diss. Philological I et II de profanatione nominis divini, a syntaxi Ebraeorum depulsa, ad interpretis Danziani §14. No. 6. Erlangen 1755–1756 (He continued this subject in 2 programs. Erlangen 1757–1758)
• Progr. De mediatore generis humani, propheta sicut Mose, ad Deuteron. 18, 15. 18. Erlangen 1756
• Progr. Pentas dictorum Veteris Testamenti, in quibus nomen divinum. . . caussa non adesse osiendit. Erlangen 1758
• Progr. R. Lipmanni dîsputationis super Nachumi 1, 11 recensio. Erlangen 1760
• Progr. Stellam e Jacob orituram et sceptrum ex Israel surrecturum, non Davidem, sed Messiam, ad Numer. 24, 17. Erlangen 1762
• Progr. Locus Genes. 1, 26. a Lipmanni detorioníbus vindicatus. Erlangen 1762
• Progr. De graeculorum appellatione probrosa apud scriptores latinos obvia. Erlangen 1763
• Progr. De Messiae morte in medio dierum sacrum nihil in se habente incongrui; Commentatio Anti-Lipmanniana. Erlangen 1764
• Progr. De deliberatione Genes. 11, 7 obvia in divinas tantum personas conveniente; Commentatio Anti-Lipmanniana. Erlangen 1767

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1815, vol. 15, p. 126, ( 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. 715, ( online )