Johann Schmid (theologian)

Johann Schmid

Johann Schmid (born August 19, 1649 in Breslau ; † May 31, 1731 in Leipzig ) was a German rhetorician and Lutheran theologian .

Life

The son of the Wroclaw citizen and cloth maker Johann Schmid and his wife Eva (née Roth) had already shown a good grasp of things in their early youth, so that he was earmarked for an academic career. After attending the Elisabeth Gymnasium in his hometown, he received an eight-year scholarship from his hometown and began studying at the University of Leipzig on June 25, 1669.

As was customary at the time, he first completed his basic philosophical studies with Jakob Thomasius , Otto Mencke , Joachim Feller (1638–1691), Adam Rechenberg , Johannes Cyprian and Valentin Alberti . He had learned the Hebrew and the Oriental languages from Johann Benedict Carpzov II and Johannes Olearius (1639–1713) . On November 20, 1669, he acquired the Baccalaureat of Philosophy, improved his financial circumstances as a private tutor and on January 26, 1670 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree .

In 1671 he completed his habilitation at the philosophical faculty, turned to studying theology, where he attended the lectures of Hieronymus Kromayer , Georg Möbius (1616–1697), Friedrich Rappolt and Johann Adam Schertzer . After he had been accepted into various theological colleges, the philosophical faculty appointed him assessor in 1683 and he was appointed professor of rhetoric in 1684 , which he took up on January 23, 1685. Yet in 1685 he was awarded a licentiate in theology and a doctorate in 1699 for doctor of theology. In 1697 he became Ephorus of the electoral scholarship holders and on June 25, 1700 associate professor at the theological faculty of the Leipzig University.

In 1711 he was decemvir of the academy, in 1713 he became book commissioner, 1716 assessor at the Leipzig consistory , 1723 senior of the Polish nation and the entire Leipzig university. He also took part in the organizational tasks, was dean of the philosophical faculty nine times, procured chancellor four times and was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters of 1688, 1694, 1698, 1704, 1710, 1714, 1720 and 1728 .

Schmid is a typical representative of Lutheran orthodoxy who, however, largely kept out of the theological disputes of his time. Of his numerous writings (cf. Zedler and Jöcher), the oratorio Practium had received the most attention in the scholarly world of that time. He also edited Scherzer's Collegium anticalvinianum and dealt with it in his lectures.

In 1685 Schmid married Anne Salome († November 1, 1729), the daughter of the Leipzig councilor and builder Christoph Georg Schütze. The children Anna Elisabeth († young) and Johann Valentin Schmid are known from this marriage.

literature

• L .:  Schmid, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 670 f.
• Schmid, Johann, a Lutheran scholar of God. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 35, Leipzig 1743, column 384-390.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Compendioses learned lexicon: Therein the scholars of all classes as well as 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, death, writing, life and remarkable stories from the most credible scribes based on the design of Blessed D. Joh. Burckh. Menckens can be described in alphabetical order. Volume 4, Leipzig, p. 292.
• Michael Ranfft : Life and writings of all Chursächsischen divine scholars. Deer, Leipzig 1742.